In 1482, the city of Paris, under the rule of King Louis XI, was immersed in the carnival atmosphere of "April Fools' Day". On the square in front of Notre Dame, Esmeralda, a gypsy girl from Egypt, danced in a beautiful and graceful manner and was warmly applauded by the people. She took the money they gave her and gave it to the poor children, saying to them, "Take all this money and go to your festival!" The children asked her, "What about you?" She said, "Leave me alone, I have a festival every day."
Amid the throng of spectators, a pale, middle-aged man, dressed in black clerical robes, hid behind a glass window and peeked in to watch Esmeralda dance, too. He was Claude Frollo, the vice-priest and alchemist of Notre Dame de Paris. When he saw the colorful gypsy girl singing and dancing, her brisk steps and exquisite dance suddenly awakened the lust he had buried in his heart for more than ten years. He was unable to control himself, unable to cast away the devil that had captured his soul. In order to get rid of the boredom in his heart, he went to the square to drive away the vendors who were hawking, claiming that they were not allowed to fool around in front of the church. The vendors did not take him seriously and attacked him. At that moment, from inside the church rushed out a man of ugly appearance, tall stature and great strength, who pushed away the crowd and saved the priest. The man's name was Quasimodo. It turned out that he was a deformed child abandoned by his parents in front of Notre Dame, and Frollo raised him out of pity, deafened by his daily bell ringing. The revelers were looking for a "Pope of Fools", and Esmeralda spotted Quasimodo, the deaf and ugly bell-tower monster. He was crowned, robed, and whistled, and was paraded through the streets on a high palanquin. Quasimodo was whistling happily when he suddenly saw the grim-faced Frollo standing in front of the palanquin. The priest knocked off his crown and dragged him back to Notre Dame.
But Frollo could not sleep in his lust, for Esmeralda, who was leading the little goat, was still singing in the square before the church door. He said aloud to himself, "In the world of men I have nothing but pain. Is it my fault that she looks so beautiful? Is it my fault that she dances so well? Is it my fault that she can drive people crazy?" He couldn't contain himself, "Go!" He ordered Quasimodo, "Go get her!" The clock tower monster ran quickly to Esmeralda, picked her up and ran towards Notre Dame. Esmeralda fought back and cried out, "Help!" The captain of the guards, Phoebus, who was on patrol, heard the shouts and rode his horse to the rescue of the gypsy girl and captured Quasimodo. Phoebus took Esmeralda to an inn, asked for a room, and was about to molest her, when the alert girl got away from him and ran back to the "Dynasty of Miracles", where Parisian vagabonds and beggars gathered.
In this "miracle dynasty" under the rule of the "kingdom of black words", the beggar king Klauban is trying to understand the incision and mistakenly into the "kingdom territory" of the poor poet dry Goa. According to the rules of the dynasty, he has only two choices: to be paired with a noose, or to get married to one of the women of the kingdom. But none of the older women want him because they think he is too thin. Thus, Gangua is left to hang. In the nick of time, Esmeralda stepped forward and cried out, "I want him". Thus, the two were married on the spot. The kind-hearted maiden agreed to marry him, but only to save his life by taking him back to her home, where she fed him and sheltered him, but did not share her room with him.
Casimodo, who was guilty of forcibly robbing the people's women, was taken to the square for a public flogging after a cursory trial. Kneeling under the scorching sun on behalf of the people to suffer, the clock tower monster thirst, he shouted to the soldiers and the crowd of onlookers for water, answered him but a tease and abuse. At this point, the beautiful Esmeralda, who had been a part of the crowd, brought the water to Quasimodo's mouth. Heart full of gratitude of Quasimodo full of tears, could not help saying: "beauty ...... beauty ...... beauty"
Plaza, the poor poet to help Esmeralda staged a little goat program of word recognition. The little goat picked up the name of the sun god Faubus in a pile of Latin letters. At this time, Faubus is pandering to the queen and her daughter for favor in the palace next to the square. Princess Lily told Faubus to go to the square and drive Esmeralda away to confirm his love for her. Faubus rode to the square, loudly booming out the entertainers who were performing, and whispering to the girl to book a rendezvous to meet at the usual place tonight.
The distraught Frollo was furious and angry when he heard that the dried goa'uld and the girl were married, and then turned sad when he learned that they were only husband and wife in name only. He met the drunken captain of the guards in the street, listening to him say that he was going to go and the girl, and immediately said to discourage the girl is already married, but Fubis retorted: "Why do you confuse love and marriage." He headed straight for the inn, with Frollo following like a shadow.
Fubis arrived at the small upstairs of the inn, where Esmeralda was sitting on the edge of the bed waiting for him. As they kissed and embraced passionately, Faubus handed the girl the dagger he had strapped to his body, and the girl threw it out the window in a smooth motion. It so happened that the dagger landed in front of the eyes of Frollo, who was eavesdropping outside the window. As the lovers embraced again in a passionate embrace, Frollo picked up the dagger and stabbed it through the window into the back of Fubis.
In the courtroom at Esmeralda's trial, the gnome proprietor of the inn testified to seeing a black-clad man who smelled of sulfur and, like the devil, turned silver coins into dried leaves. Frollo, who sat on the judgment seat, said, "It was the devil, not the girl, who stabbed the captain of the guard." Innocent Esmeralda cares only for the life or death of the captain of the guard, for Furbis can prove that she stilled the dagger out of the window. But the court told her that the captain of the guard was not only alive, but knew nothing of the murder. He refused to exonerate the girl, much to Esmeralda's dismay. Under torture, the girl confessed that she had used magic to drive the devil in black to assassinate the captain of the guard. The court sentenced the girl to death by hanging, to be carried out the following day.
After Quasimodo had rung the bell, he saw Frollo in the tower gazing nervously at the square in front of Notre Dame. Esmeralda, dressed in a white condemned man's robe, stood under the gallows, hastily erected during the night, the noose around her neck, calmly awaiting the moment of execution. Quasimodo rushed recklessly through the door and snatched the girl into Notre Dame de Paris. The soldiers at the execution were shocked and dumbfounded as they watched the belles alone hijack the phalanx. The soldiers dared not trespass because of Notre Dame's right of asylum.
Cassimodo hid the girl in his own housing, where he slept like a patron saint at the door. He gave the girl the whistle he had gotten on April Fool's Day and told her that when she was in distress, she should blow the whistle and he would come to her rescue.
Frollo went out into the countryside and ran amok like a madman before returning to Notre Dame. He found that not only had Esmeralda not been executed, but that she was close by. He follows her into Quasimodo's room, and Esmeralda is furious when she realizes that this man is the man in black who assassinated Faubus. As Frollo is about to rape her, she blows a whistle. Quasimodo arrived at the sound of the whistle, chased away his former benefactor, and told the girl that the robbery of her on that occasion had also been his idea.
Casimodo felt infinite gratitude and pure adoration for Esmeralda. He looked fastidiously at the sleeping beauty, and the girl who suddenly awoke was frightened by his ugly face. Quasimodo makes haste to escape, and runs to the belfry and bangs his head desperately against the great bell, which chimes low as a sob. Esmeralda came to him, and Quasimodo, covering his face with his hands, murmured, "My face is ugly and always frightens people." To comfort him, the girl dances for him with a cheerful rhythm. Quasimodo, who was so excited, rang the bell of Notre Dame for the girl with the weight of his body as if he were on a swing. His hearty laughter fills the entire bell tower. Quasimodo flew around the bell tower on a rope, picking blooming flowers for Esmeralda. Suddenly the girl spots the captain of the guards in the square, and she calls his name, but he does not look up at her. She asked Quasimodo to go to him, but he ignored the girl's request and galloped away in order to get the princess's rich dowry and his domain in St. Paul. Kind-hearted Quasimodo feels he has dishonored the girl's mission.
Floreo, who harbored a grudge against the girl's unsuccessful imposition, knelt before the king and asked for advice on how to resolve the issue of Notre Dame's right of refuge. The king consults an old scholar still in prison and finally decides that he can force his way into Notre Dame to capture the witch, despite the right of asylum. Quasimodo closed the doors of the church tightly while Frollo was out.
Clauban, the King of Beggars, hears that the right of asylum in Notre Dame is coming to an end, and leads thousands of Parisian vagabonds and beggars to attack Notre Dame in Paris and rescue the sisters in great distress. Unknown to Quasimodo how to allow these people rushed into the church, he threw from the roof of the building of huge stones and rocks, pouring hot metal liquid, trying to disperse the crowd. The brave beggar finally broke through the doors and rescued Esmeralda. Unexpectedly, the king's soldiers who were waiting in the back door had already entered the church, raining arrows on Esmeralda and the vagabonds. The beggar king was also killed in the melee. Quasimodo stands on the roof of the building and watches in pain as his beloved girl is hung on the gallows again. When he found Frollo grinning at Esmeralda from the bell tower, he lifted the moralizing beast over his head and threw him down.
Esmeralda's body, unwrapped from the gallows, was placed in the great grave grotto of Monfougon, where Quasimodo lay quietly beside her when he found her.
Two years later, two corpses were found clinging to each other. When people tried to separate them, the bones turned to dust.
Movie "Notre Dame de Paris"
Directed by:
Jean Delannoy
Starring:
Anthony GannAnthony Quinn
Gina Lollobrigida
Genre: Drama/... Horror
More Chinese titles:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
More foreign titles:
GobbodiNotreDame, Il
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Length: 115 mins
Country/region: France/ Italy
Dialogue: French
Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Release Date: December 19, 1956 France
Synopsis: The beautiful and kind-hearted Gypsy girl Esmeralda dances and sells her art by day, and then spends her evenings with a group of people who call themselves the "Kingdom of Beggars". "Beggar's Kingdom", a group of poor people living together. Esmeralda's beauty of the country, but to her to attract the murder.
The captain of the king's guards, Faubus, had a fiancée, but he coveted Esmeralda's beauty and tricked her. While Faubus and Esmeralda were having a rendezvous at an inn, suddenly Faubus was stabbed by a mysterious man in black. As the man in black was never found, and the innkeeper's confession was very unfavorable to Esmeralda, Esmeralda was tortured and forced to confess in court that she had tried to kill Phoebus. Esmeralda was therefore sentenced to be hanged.
In fact, the man in black hiding in a dark corner is Father Flora, the priest of Notre Dame in Paris. He was withdrawn and mean, outwardly a devoted religious man who was a misogynist, but inside he was always burning with a burning desire for the beautiful Esmeralda, and it was he who could not control his jealousy when he saw Esmeralda and Faubus dating and stabbed Faubus.
On Esmeralda's way to the gallows, Quasimodo, the bell-ringer of Notre Dame de Paris, saves her and takes her to Notre Dame for refuge. Quasimodo, ugly in appearance, was adopted as a child by Father Flora. But he was kind-hearted and loved Esmeralda with all his heart. In Notre Dame, Quasimodo is Esmeralda's patron saint.
When the king's guards began to attack Notre Dame to capture Esmeralda, Quasimodo swore to protect her. But his strength alone is limited, and Esmeralda is killed by a hail of arrows. Quasimodo was so grief-stricken to see her body pulled away that he threw the real murderer, Father Flora, from the top floor of Notre Dame.
Casimodo found the place where Esmeralda's body had been placed and held his beloved girl close. Years later, two entwined bones were found, and when people tried to separate them, the bones suddenly turned to dust and disappeared without a trace.
This movie is based on the famous book "Notre Dame de Paris" by the great French writer Victor Ergo. The ugly deaf man Quasimodo was adopted by the Notre Dame's Father Claude as a bell ringer. The decent-looking Father Claude was seduced by the beauty of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda since he met her and instructed Quasimodo to forcibly take Esmeralda captive, who was rescued by Captain Fubis of the cavalry on the way, and Esmeralda thus fell in love with Fubis. But Faubus was a womanizer and was assassinated by Crowder, who had a grudge against him. And framed on Esmeralda, so that she was sentenced to death by hanging, execution, Quasimodo will Esmeralda saved and hide in Notre Dame, the beggar crowd for the rescue of Esmeralda and rushed into Notre Dame, mistakenly with Quasimodo battle, Esmeralda was led by Crowder's army rushed into Notre Dame killed, Quasimodo indignation Crowder from the top floor of the church to the ground, and finally Quasimodo embraced the Esmeralda's body to martyrdom! .
This Hugo masterpiece has been brought to the screen many times, with the 1939 American version widely regarded as the best, and the German Expressionist sets are particularly noteworthy. Esmeralda, a pure and beautiful gypsy girl, goes around begging with the people of the "Kingdom of Beggars". Once, in order to save the wandering poet, she was forced to marry him. The king's captain of the guards, Faubus, was a playboy who tricked Esmeralda into falling in love with him. Just as they were dating, a man in black stabbed Faubis. Esmeralda was brought to court as a suspect and sentenced to be hanged. She is rescued and taken into refuge in Notre Dame by the strangely ugly Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame de Paris, who has always been y in love with her. During a chaotic incident, Esmeralda was killed by a hail of arrows from the king's guards, and a grief-stricken Quasimodo turned around and threw the real murderer, also known as Father Frollo, off the top floor of Notre Dame. Afterward, he clung to Esmeralda's body and together they turned to dust.
After reading Notre Dame de Paris
In the star-studded French literary world of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo is arguably the most brilliant writer of all time. Hugo can be said to be one of the brightest stars. He is a great poet, famous playwright, novelist, and the flag bearer and leader of the French Romantic literary movement. This great work "Notre Dame de Paris" is his first caused a sensational effect of the Romantic novel, its literary value and profound significance to society, so that it after nearly two centuries of time, or in today's reprinted over and over again, reprinted, so as to come to my hands.
As I read the book, I felt a strong "contrast of beauty and ugliness". The characters and events in the book, even if they are derived from real life, have been greatly exaggerated and intensified, and under the writer's heavy ink and color, they form a gorgeous and strange picture, forming a sharp, even unbelievable contrast between good and evil, beauty and ugliness.
The plot of Notre Dame de Paris always centers on three people: the kind and beautiful young girl Esmeralda, the cruel and hypocritical vice bishop of Notre Dame, Claude? Frollo and the bell-ringer, Quasimodo, who is ugly on the outside but noble on the inside.
The Bohemian maiden Esmeralda is the darling of the Parisian vagabonds and earns her living as a street vendor. She is innocent and pure, compassionate and happy to help people. Because she could not bear to see an innocent man put to death, she accepted the poet Gamgoire as her nominal husband to save his life; and seeing Gazimodo whipped under the scorching sun, she alone would sympathize with compassion and bring water to the lips of the bell-ringer who cried out from thirst. Such a noble-hearted girl was slandered by the church and the court as a "witch" and a "murderer" and sentenced to death by hanging. The author molded this character into the embodiment of beauty and goodness, so that the beauty of her heart and external beauty are completely unified, in order to arouse the reader's infinite sympathy for her, thus generating a strong resentment against the feudal church and the king's power.
As for Claude, the deputy bishop, and Quasimodo, the bell-ringer, these are two completely opposite images. Claude is outwardly moralistic, leading a life of puritanical and ascetic practice, while inwardly he craves for lustful pleasures and is envious of worldly pleasures. Selfish, sinister and unscrupulous. And Quasimodo, the hunchbacked, one-eyed, deaf and lame deformed man, was discriminated and bullied by the world from a young age. In Esmeralda, he experienced for the first time the warmth of the human heart, this vulgar and savage appearance of the freak, since then, all his life and passion in Esmeralda, can be for her to go through fire, can be for the sake of her happiness to sacrifice their own everything.
This kind of push to the extreme contrast between beauty and ugliness, the absolute sublime and evil opposition, so that the novel has a kind of shocking power, can be rolled away all our thoughts and feelings. This may be the charm of the romantic novel.
In Notre Dame de Paris, the author depicts the lowest class of Parisian people, vagabonds and beggars with great sympathy. They are ragged and rough in their manners, but possess virtues far superior to those of the so-called educated and civilized world. The virtues of mutual love, integrity, courage and self-sacrifice. The scene in the novel in which the Parisian vagabonds attack Notre Dame to rescue Esmeralda is tragic, intense, generous and thrilling, and obviously incorporates to some extent the bravery shown by the people of Paris in the July Revolution and the destruction by the people of Paris of the Church of St. Germain and the Archbishop's Palace in Paris. When the novel was written, it also predicted, through the mouths of the characters, that the people would rise up and destroy the Bastille, hinting at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789