okay but NO DISNEY VILLAIN SONG has EVER gone or WILL ever go as fucking hard as Hellfire.
the fucking LATIN CHANTING IN THE BACKGROUND?
It was the gypsy girl, the witch who sent this flame!
the fucking LATIN CHANTING of the PENITENTIAL RITE the taken DIRECTLY from the ROMAN MISSAL? the STANDARD EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE professed aloud by all the members of the congregation during the ENTRANCE RITE of the CELEBRATION OF MASS???
I confess to almighty God
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault (mea culpa), through my fault (mea cupla),
through my most grievous fault (mea maxima cupla);
therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.
A prayer meant to be IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED by absolution by the priest??????
May almighty God have mercy on us,
and bring us to everlasting life.
Because the maxima cupla? The most grievous fault??? Is referring to Original Sin. A flaw passed down to humanity that we as individuals have never been able to control, that we are not expected to control on our own. It’s our job to try to do the right thing! But when we mess it up! We can just ask for forgiveness! Ask for help! And try again! Come back next Sunday! Say the same prayer! “Hey I fucked up and I’m real sorry and I don’t want to anymore! Please help!”
But! And this is critical! Frollo literally spends this entire song (and tbh the whole movie) rejecting the idea that he has ever done anything wrong ever, and so if he did, CLEARLY it MUST BE someone else’s fault.
He made the Devil so much stronger than a man!
(Fun fact, follows the same kind of finger-pointing as in the OG sin in Genesis 3 - Adam blames Eve (and also God - “the woman who you put here with me gave it to me, and so I ate”), and then Eve blames the Serpent “The serpent tricked me, and so I ate it.”)
It’s someone else’s fault, anyone else’s fault, but not Frollo’s. The prayer Frollo is parroting is a request for mercy (for wrongs done) and grace (to avoid wrongs in the future). It is a prayer that is built upon the understanding that the maxima cupla is yours, but you are not to blame. You need help to overcome it.
And so while Frollo may be praying the words of the Penitential Rite, he is fundamentally misunderstanding the function and meaning of the prayer. He is not asking for forgiveness. After all, his conscience is clear. He is a righteous man. It is what has been placed before him (“the woman whom you put here”) and the power of the Devil (“the serpent tricked me”) that have led him to this place.
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