For the first time in the history of the Walt Disney Co., Christian faith is a pervasive theme in a full-length, animated feature.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame opens nationwide today, less than 10 days after Disney came under fire from the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Family values activists are reacting favorably but cautiously lớn the film, which may take some steam out of a boycott threat.
“We would certainly applaud any effort by Disney to reaffirm its long-standing, pro-family values, pro-traditional values, family-friendly atmosphere,” said Richard Land, president of the Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The denomination voted last week khổng lồ boycott the entertainment giant if it does not respond within the next year to lớn complaints about controversial Disney policies toward homosexual employees and patrons, và the distribution of objectionable films & books through company subsidiaries.
Land, who has been assigned to monitor Disney’s policies, said, “Southern Baptists are going to respond favorably whenever there is an accurate và sympathetic portrayal of Christian values in an entertainment medium.”
Disney officials would not bình luận on the motivation for Hunchback’s religious nội dung beyond comments on the subject included in the film’s press kit.
“The movie speaks for itself,” said Disney vice president John Dreyer.
Ted Baehr, chairman of the Atlanta-based Christian Film and Television Commission, cautioned against misinterpreting the film’s content as a response to lớn family values critics because production of Hunchback began in the summer of 1993 – before the protests against Disney gained momentum.
Baehr, who has extensive contacts within the film industry, said he expects more pro-family films from Disney as a result of the protests, although company officials “will never admit it.”
“They certainly wouldn’t tell us if we were a factor,” said Paul Hetrick, vice president of Colorado Springs, Colo.- based Focus on the Family. The positive portrayal of religion simply may be an “occasional sop in the direction of religionists lớn keep everyone happy. That’s not going lớn wash.”
Regardless of Disney’s motivation for making Hunchback, critics of the company agree that the movie represents a dramatic departure in Disney’s animated features.
In Hunchback, evil emanates from the secular villain Frollo while Notre Dame’s archdeacon represents good. Khổng lồ make this dynamic work, Disney screenwriters transformed Frollo from a church deacon, as he is in Victor Hugo’s novel, lớn a bigoted judge. Frollo grapples for control of his immortal soul, unsuccessfully.
Parents at Aloma Baptist Church of Winter Park said they would decide whether khổng lồ see the movie based on word-of-mouth rather than by guidance from leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention.
“If the SBC says to boycott something, that doesn’t mean I’ll boycott it,” said Deborah Wassel, a mother of three from Winter Park. “I have khổng lồ find out for myself. If they actually have something in the movie that’s good, as Christians we have to praise them.”
When characters in the film appeal to lớn a higher nguồn for intervention, they pray khổng lồ God, rather than looking to lớn the magical for deliverance, as is common in previous Disney animated features.
Sharon Ward, another Aloma Baptist Church member, said, “I had a problem with all the Disney movies in the past, the magic things that the church was against.”
But Ward of Casselberry said Hunchback’s Christian content “would be a departure” for Disney. She plans khổng lồ take her 5-year-old daughter khổng lồ see the movie.
Images of crosses abound in Hunchback, along with the sounds of chants và church bells. Two musical numbers – “God Help the Outcasts” & “Heaven’s Light/Hellfire” – contain more mentions of “God” and “Lord” than all of Disney’s 33 full-length animated features combined.
In Hunchback, there is “no fairy godmother, no spell lớn be broken,” said Don Hahn, the film’s producer known for his Christian beliefs. In “God Help the Outcasts,” the gypsy Esmeralda prays before a statue of Mary & the Baby Jesus.
Three other numbers, “And He Shall Smite the Wicked,” “Sanctuary!” & “Humiliation,” are Catholic prayers adapted from Latin, with hellfire và damnation warnings that would be at home in many fundamentalist pulpits today.
The Rev. Lou Sheldon, head of the Anaheim, Calif.-based Traditional Values Coalition, said that two months ago a Disney vice president predicted – correctly – that he would be pleased with the film’s view of religion.
“I am thrilled at what I hear about Hunchback, that Disney is seeking lớn honor Christianity và its role in Western civilization,” Sheldon said. “I only pray that it will accomplish much good in the minds và hearts of its viewers.”
Some praise of Hunchback from social & religious conservatives was qualified.
“This is not a film that is going lớn be reassuring to lớn the religious community,” said Michael Medved, co-host of PBS’ Sneak Previews, downplaying the significance of the religious songs and sequences.
Medved, the tác giả of Hollywood Versus America and a favorite of Christian conservatives, was critical of the film’s darkness và what Medved said were its anti-Catholic undertones.
“If Disney is as smart at marketing as it gets credit for, then inclusion of positive religious elements would be a natural kinh doanh strategy even if the Disney management does not comprehend the importance of those elements,” said Robert Knight, director of cultural studies for the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council.
Nội dung phim
Thằng gù nhà thời thánh Đức Bà (tiếng Anh: The Hunchback of Notre Dame) là một trong những phim hoạt hình thứ 34 của hãng phim hoạt hình Walt Disney vào khoảng thời gian 1996, được công chiếu vào ngày 21 mon 6 năm 1996, lấy ý tưởng từ đái thuyết thánh địa Đức Bà Paris của Victor Hugo. Đạo diễn của tập phim này là Kirk Wise cùng Gary Trousdale, từng đạo diễn cho bộ phim truyền hình Người đẹp cùng quái vật. Câu chuyện lộ diện vào năm 1482 nghỉ ngơi Paris cùng Clopin, một người du mục làm nghề diễn rối, kể mang đến nhóm con nít nghe về thằng gù trong thánh địa Đức Bà: Một đêm tối nọ, bốn bạn dân du mục tìm bí quyết vào vào Paris tuy nhiên bị quan toà Claude Frollo ngăn lại. Một người đàn bà du mục trong team đang mang trong mình một cái bọc đã chạy trốn ngoài Frollo, tín đồ nghĩ rằng bà đang sở hữu theo đồ đạc và vật dụng ăn cắp. Đuổi theo người phụ nữ tới tận nhà thờ Đức Bà, Frollo lag cái quấn khỏi tay bà và đạp bà, khiến cho những người phụ chị em đập đầu xuống lan can đá trong phòng thờ. Frollo phát chỉ ra rằng trong bọc là một trong đứa bé dị dạng và cũng định nhấn chết luôn đứa bé, nhưng bị ông phó giám mục ngăn sự và nói rằng Frollo bắt buộc nuôi đứa nhỏ xíu để bù lại việc tôi đã giết bị tiêu diệt một người thiếu phụ vô tội. Hắn đồng ý với điều kiện phải nhằm đứa nhỏ bé sống trong nhà thờ. Frollo đặt tên đến đứa bé nhỏ là Quasimodo, tức là “Quái dị”.
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