Green Day! <3

Green Day still rocks! Here are their two music videos from their new album, 21st Century Breakdown. I get to see them in concert in August, too!!! YAY!!!

Oh, and Billie Joe is still hot :)

Know Your Enemy

Green Day - "21 Guns" - HD

Rachel Weisz?

Today I was told for the sixth time (Yes, I'm keeping count!!) that I looked like Rachel Weisz from The Mummy!! It's so flattering, and I think I can see some resemblance, but I'm so surprised that so many people have said it to me! What do you think? :)

Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame...WHY?!

This is just a random thought I was thinking about today....

Why did Disney create an animated film out of The Hunchback of Notre Dame???!!!

I read the actual book a couple years ago, and a few nights ago I decided to watch the Disney movie of it again.

First of all, the animated movie is NOTHING, and I repeat, NOTHING like the novel!! The whole storyline is completely out of whack!! Yes, I know that every Disney movie changes every single story it makes a movie out of (Pocahontas, for example) but this movie was ridiculous. 

Only the setting, the characters' names, a few general events, and only certain characteristics of each character are correct. Disney just used the book, Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo as a general template to create THEIR own story.

What bugs me most is how out of untrue the characters are in the movie compared to the book.

How the characters really are:

Quasimodo, the Hunchback--He's deaf. He doesn't express any earnest desire to live among the people. Overall, he's just fine in his belltower. He's not smart and doesn't know any better. All he knows is his loyalty to Frollo. But, he really does love Esmeralda and saves her from death (at one point).

Phoebus--He doesn't even love Esmeralda. He's engaged to another woman but thinks Esmeralda is "hot" and figures he can just fool around with her before he's married.

Esmeralda--Probably the most precise character in the movie...She is kind to Quasimodo, but not especially. She's kind of rude to him at times but is only playing along with him because she knows he can save her from Frollo. I was disappointed by her in the book, because she's not the strongheaded woman she is protrayed as in the movie, but is instead more of a whiney little 16 year old who happens to be very attractive. I think her attractiveness has gone to her head a little.

Frollo--Yes, Frollo is creepily obsessed with Esmeralda, in both the movie and book. However, he does not kill Quasimodo's mom on the steps of Notre Dame nor does he try to kill Quasimodo as an infant. I don't know WHY Disney would add in those gruesome details!! That's awful! Instead, he takes Quasimodo in voluntarily and keeping him in the belltower wasn't as much of a cruelty as it was just kind of sensible, given the shape Quasimodo's in. Bottom Line: Frollo isn't evil, he is just severely torn between his rigid religious beliefs and how they are faltering due to his desire for Esmeralda (but that's still gross).

So if they had to skew SO much to create this story, why even do it in the first place?

First of all, Victor Hugo wrote this! THIS IS NOT A HAPPY STORY!

So yes, change it around so that it's a happy story. But WHY in the world would you keep in the detail of Frollo's obsession with Esmeralda?? That's CREEPY and just WRONG! They should have just justified Frollo's hatred towards Esmeralda due to the fact that he just hates gypsies. The end. Growing up, that's just what I figured was Frollo's reason for hating her. Six year olds are NOT thinking about what Frollo's real intentions were!

Sorry for this rant, but this movie seriously does not make sense. They left in all the wrong details, and totally RUINED the book. The animation and the soundtrack are FANTASTIC, don't get me wrong...I really loved this movie growing up. But this is not exactly material for a children's movie!

Good grief!