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What would Victor Hugo make of this?

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19960616
Author:JIM RITTER

In his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo decried the "numberless degradations and mutilations" the Notre Dame cathedral had suffered at the hands of remodelers.

If Hugo were alive today, he might have a similar opinion about what Disney has done to his classic work.

Disney's cartoon version, which opens in theaters Friday, is a sanitized, politically correct retelling of Hugo's grim tale.

In the studio's hands, Hugo's grotesque hunchback becomes cute and endearing, and the novel's gruesome ending turns happy and uplifting. Disney changed the villain, Frollo, from a priest ...

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