The Plot: Dingo Pictures Hunchback of NotreDame

                                  "The Most Beautiful Cathedral in Paris"

Claude Frollo

The grandiose epic begins with the colorful streets of medieval Paris. Two Nuns discover a screaming baby. They say that it should be burned in a "Great big fire."Claude Frollo, the sniveling Abbot of Notre Dame, decides to adopt the baby, viewing the creature as a "Challenging project."

The child, named Quasimodo, grows up sad and lonely. He takes solace only in ringing the bells of Notre Dame. These very bells rendered Quasimodo deaf, but apparently this "Wasn't too bad," as "Quasimodo never really talked to anyone anyway."

When Quasimodo turns twenty, a Pentecost festival is being celebrated. Pierre Gringoire is reciting poetry, but is heckled by his audience, for being"dumb."

A barret clad spectator proclaims that "Highlight of today's festival" will be the "Vote for the Pope of Fools." The ugliest person shall be the winner.

Quasimodo

Several contestants appear, including one "So cross eyed that you could get dizzy."

Quasimodo is ultimately chosen, and when he is given his tiara and papal staff he goes apeshit celebrates.

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Esmeralda appears and begins to dance. (Sort of.) Esmeralda preforms a trick with her goat Djali, an imitation of the local bishop. The two nuns tell Frollo about her blasphemy, and Frollo is outraged. Frollo attempts to stop Esmeralda, but Esmeralda just ignores him. A "Crazy Old Lady" curses at Esmeralda. Gringoire is eager to explain that, because the old lady had her daughter taken by gypsies, she has a prejudice against the entire race. Quasimodo, dressed still as the Pope pf Fools, arrives. He asks Esmeralda for her name. It appears the hunchback is fond of her. Abbot Frollo then denounces Quasimodo, accusing him of insulting the "Pope in Rrrrrome." 

Quasimodo being whipped

Gringoire follows Esmeralda during the night. He has the delusional thought that she is in love with him. He is instead captured by beggars, and threatened to be hanged unless someone offers to marry him. Esmeralda takes the opportunity, but Gringoire is disheartened to know that Esmeralda has not "fallen in love with (him) a little bit."

The goat cries at society's injustice

Quasimodo looks in search of Esmeralda.  While politely asking strangers, he is accused of "molest(ing) honest ladies" and is sentenced to be whipped. The people laugh as Quasimodo endures torture. The exceptions prove to be Esmeralda and Gringoire, who feel that he is innocent. Esmeralda gives Quasimodo water, making a 'friend for life.'

Frollo goes to the judge of Paris, who allows Esmeralda to be arrested just for the heck of it.

Esmeralda is put on trial and is accused of being a witch and Djali, the goat, is accused of being a devil. The two are sentenced to death. Until the execution is to be carried out, the gypsy and the goat are put into a dark cell together. The two of them awkwardly sob.

When the day comes, Esmeralda is brought before Notre dame to do penance. Frollo asks Esmeralda to "Forsake all evillll," but she refuses.

Quasimodo heroically appears and carries Esmeralda off, calling for "Asylum."

"Sanctuary!"... I mean..."Asylum?"

In the sanctuary, Quasimodo tells Esmeralda not to talk to him because he won't hear her anywhere. He offers Esmeralda a whistle in case she ever needs him. Conveniently, Abbot Frollo arrives, attempting to bring Esmeralda back to the gallows. Quasimodo stops him from doing so. Esmeralda feels completely unsafe.

Frollo goes to his fellow clergymen, and orders one of them to tell the beggars from the court of miracles to attack the church. He hypothesis that this will distract Quasimodo long enough for him to reach Esmeralda.

The plan seems to work. Quasimodo fights off the mob of beggars with stone bricks, and Frollo drags Esmeralda out of Notre Dame. Before he can give her to the soldiers, he gives her to the old woman for earlier to pass the time. The old woman is glad that Esmeralda will be killed, seeing as she is a gypsy. Esmeralda discovers that the old woman is actually her mother. The two of them are delighted, and the old woman sets Esmeralda free.

Esmeralda

Frollo goes to the balcony of Notre Dame. Quasimodo pushes Frollo off of the cathedral, telling his adoptive father that "You killed her!" Frollo scales in size until he falls to his death.

 Esmeralda, as it turns out, was not executed after all. All of that murder for nothing.

For murdering Frollo, Quasimodo is arrested. While in prison, a guard hands Quasimodo the whistle he gave Esmeralda.  He smiles, knowing that Esmeralda is still alive and thinking of him.

Quasimodo is executed, and Pierre and Esmeralda live happily ever after.

Quasimodo, smiling, awaiting execution

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