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The Hunchback is a film based on Victor Hugo's novel Hunchback of Notre Dame. It stars Salma Hayek as Esmeralda. The film was made in 1997. The year after the more famous Disney version. It seems that the filmmakers were inspired by the Disney version for the film shares a lot similarities to it. The scene where Igor saves Esmeralda was especially similar to the Disney version. The film is more true to the novel than the Disney film e.g phobeus is more of minor character in this film and the book but in the Disney version phobeous dominate a lot of he movie. In The Disney version, Igor is not deaf in this he is deaf and The ending is a lot sadder than the happy Disney version. The same actor that played Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) in the Princess Bride also was the lead role Igor in this version of the notre dame de Paris. The Hunchback was aired on television in the early nineties. The hunchback's deformity was a more realistic looking deformity than the Anthony Hopkins and Charles Laughton version. The film for some reason changed Griengore into a public speaker instead of a poet. Another difference from the Disney version was that the Disney movie didn't even have Griengore. Clopin in the movie was a more silly clown-like person who was influenced by Disney's jester like Clopin. Phoebus was only in two scenes off the movie and his lust for Esmeralda was deleted. Making him a non important background character with only about three lines of dialogue.
