#paul kandel

[mikyapixie]

𝟑𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬!!!

[witzbold]

Do you see it?

[oghond2112]

Okay, Disney? Disney. Hear me out.

Notre Dame de Paris just reopened. The 30th anniversary of HOND is approaching. Paul Kandel (the Clopin VA) may or may not be still alive; god knows where he is. The Muppets are gradually losing relevance under Disney’s name with MuppetVision3D closing. Disney doesn’t know what to do with them.

…I’m just saying, so long as Kandel is A) alive and B) has no allegations to his name, there’s a collab desperately waiting to happen.

[chatteringfox]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) is so good it makes me mad; honestly, what a triumph. I've seen it so many times and I still can't get over it

Paul Kandel, Tom Hulce and Tony Jay are phenomenal and I can't believe none of them won any awards for their singing and voice acting in this film. "The Bells of Notre Dame", "Out There" and "Hellfire" are some of the best songs in any musical and it's largely due to their magnificent respective performances, and also bc Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz absolutely knocked it out of the park – one of the best Disney songwriting teams, up there with Menken & Howard Ashman and the Sherman Brothers, and I wish they'd got to work together on more WDAS projects.

Yes it's got flaws but for me, they're far outweighed by the soaring successes. My personal favourite WDAS movie, the MVP

[music-in-my-veins14]

[roskirambles]

Animated Movie of the Day: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, a building witness to countless stories. The most famous, however, involves two men (one young and malformed, the other old and in power) who fell in love with a Roma girl. While the young one let her go once he saw her heart belonged to another, the older one decided to have her whatever the cost. Or in the words of the street performer Clopin, the story of a man and a monster.

The house of the mouse is no stranger to toning down their literary inspirations to appeal to a general audience. Problem is, with an author as cynnical as Victor Hugo you can only tone down so much before the story loses it's point. So taking a gamble, the end result is a shockingly dark movie that explores authoritarianism, psychological abuse, systemic discrimination, lust, posessiveness and objectification, with some theological unpacking about the nature of sin and virtue at that. Seriously, it says a lot this movie's take on Claude Frollo is the most disturbing villain in the entire Disney canon by a landslide (with some people even having drawn paralels to characters like Griffith from Berserk… and having a point at that).

At least, that's when they don't try to get cute. Either as a genuine but misguided attempt to bring some levity into a movie that can genuinely get intense or a compromise to get the thing greenlit, the addition of the comic relief gargoyles and slapstick gags stick out like a sore thumb. And that's not getting into their depiction of the Roma people still potentially falling into stereotypes, but that's a whole separate can of worms.

It's an imperfect package, but a bold move that only could've happened in the Disney Renaissance. Whether it's the powerful human drama, a fantastic central cast of heroes, a breathtaking visual rendition of the Notre Dame Cathedral or the majestic score by Alan Menken. its strengths do outweight its weaknesses.

And do not misunderstand my words. The movie IS drastically different from the book as most of the cast was given a more sympathetic and audience appropriate portrayal(the way Phoebus is portrayed is night and day compared to the novel). Still, in contrast to many of the Disney adaptations they still had to bite the bullet when it comes to some of the thematic content.

[princesssarisa]

When A Christmas Carol: The Musical was staged annually at Madison Square Garden, every year except one, the role of Marley's Ghost was played by Paul Kandel, the voice of Clopin from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.

In the 2004 TV adaptation of the musical, the role is played by Jason Alexander, the voice of Hugo the gargoyle in the same movie.

I guess it makes sense, since Alan Menken was the composer of both, but it's kind of funny that the role of Marley seems inextricably linked (no pun intended) to voice actors from Disney's Hunchback.

Learning about the stage casting makes me wish all the more that the stage production had been filmed for TV. I would have liked to see what Paul Kandel did with that role, since his vocal performance as Clopin is one of the highlights of Hunchback. Jason Alexander's casting in the TV version isn't unforgivable... it's no more against type than Statler and Waldorf are in the Muppet version, and less against type than Goofy in the Mickey Mouse version... but still...

[auditory-margarine]

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