I feel like Kevin Kline just likes to let loose in voice acting. Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Road to El Dorado, Bob’s Burgers.
I randomly say that I love the feel of the fog under my cape.
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Looking back, Esmeralda may be the blandest Romani street dancer ever put on screen. She’s basically Cinderella in a colorful skirt: beautiful, compassionate, morally upright, and equipped with thoroughly upper-middle-class American values. Disney seemed determined to sand away anything that might make her genuinely dangerous, unpredictable, or difficult.
A more memorable version might have had a sharp temper, a distrust of outsiders, reckless instincts, or a tendency to start fights she couldn’t finish. Maybe a rasp in her voice and a knife in her boot. Quasimodo and Frollo are defined by their contradictions; Esmeralda mostly arrives fully formed. Admirable, certainly. Interesting? Not nearly as much.
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I miss 90s Disney
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2:42 Bro called her the G world
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The voice performances in this film were seriously underrated.
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Uncontested. One of Disney’s best.
1996 is not 30 years ago bud
I feel like Kevin Kline just likes to let loose in voice acting. Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Road to El Dorado, Bob’s Burgers.
I randomly say that I love the feel of the fog under my cape.
Looking back, Esmeralda may be the blandest Romani street dancer ever put on screen. She’s basically Cinderella in a colorful skirt: beautiful, compassionate, morally upright, and equipped with thoroughly upper-middle-class American values. Disney seemed determined to sand away anything that might make her genuinely dangerous, unpredictable, or difficult.
A more memorable version might have had a sharp temper, a distrust of outsiders, reckless instincts, or a tendency to start fights she couldn’t finish. Maybe a rasp in her voice and a knife in her boot. Quasimodo and Frollo are defined by their contradictions; Esmeralda mostly arrives fully formed. Admirable, certainly. Interesting? Not nearly as much.
I miss 90s Disney
2:42 Bro called her the G world
The voice performances in this film were seriously underrated.
I just watched this video last night!
Didn’t realize anniversary was today.