The Lunchback Of Notre Dame Analysis

The score, or the background music of the scenes, subtly set the tone of the movie. It fit the mood of each scene perfectly, played in such a way that the viewer would not mind it. The intensity of the background music would match the intensity of the scene perfectly. During the peaceful, happy scenes, the music would be calm and quiet. In the heavy scenes, however, like when Frollo burns down the house and Phoebus defies him, or during the scenes when Frollo attacked the cathedral, the background music was loud and heavy, furthering the tense atmosphere.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, being a hand drawn animated movie, has visual art that contributes to how excellent the movie is. A well-drawn movie has consistent styles, is detailed and realistic, including nothing unnecessary and leaving no empty spaces. This movie exemplifies all of these descriptions. The art of the backgrounds and the characters are consistent throughout the entire movie, following the color scheme of green, purple and red. The art is well detailed, such that you can see the texture of each material that you can imagine what it might feel like. It shows how imperfect the roads were, how rugged the building bricks were, how rough the wood of a table was, and how silky Esmerelda’s dress was.

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His face, however, was always in the light, and he was rarely covered by a shadow. This detailed symbolized how difficult it was for him to blend in, how difficult it was for him to stay in the shadows. In the next scene, when Quasimodo was shamed in the Festival of Fools, the camera angle was against the light. The viewers could clearly notice the contrast between the light in the corners of the scene and the darkness that Quasimodo was in. This shows us how far away he was from the light, how the very thing that he thought was good, or the “light” in his world, was against