The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Paul Kandel: Clopin
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Quotes
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[describing the bells]
Clopin : Listen. They're beautiful, no? So many colors of sound, so many changing moods. Because, you know, they do not ring all by themselves.
Puppet : They don't?
Clopin : No, you silly boy. Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower, lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?
Puppet : Who?
Clopin : What is he?
Puppet : What?
Clopin : How did he come to be there?
Puppet : How?
Clopin : Hush!
Puppet : Ow!
Clopin : Clopin will tell you. It is a tale, a tale of a man, and a monster.
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Clopin : [singing] Now here is a riddle / To guess if you can / Sing the bells of Notre Dame / Who is the monster / And who is the man?/ Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells / Bells of Notre Dame
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Clopin : [singing] So, here is a riddle to guess if you can, sing the bells of Notre Dame: What makes a monster and what makes a man? Whatever their pitch, you feel them bewitch you, the rich and the ritual knells of the bells of Notre Dame.
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Clopin : And Frollo gave the child a cruel name, a name that means "half-formed" - Quasimodo.
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Man In Crowd : That's no mask.
Woman In Crowd : It's his face! He's hideous!
Man In Crowd : It's the bellringer from Notre Dame!
[the crowd gasps in fright]
Quasimodo : Oh! Oh! Oh!
[buries his face in his hands]
Clopin : [appearing onstage reassuring the audience, then soon crowning Quasi] Ladies and gentlemen, don't panic. We asked for the ugliest face in Paris, and here he is! Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame!
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Clopin : Three cheers for Quasimodo!
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Clopin : [to Quasimodo and Phoebus] Don't interrupt me! You're very clever to have found our hideaway. Unfortunately, you won't live to tell the tale.
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Clopin : [singing] Once a year we throw a party here in town / Once a year we turn all Paris upside-down / Every man's a king and every king's a clown / Once again it's Topsy-turvy Day!
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Clopin : [singing] Justice is swift in the Court of Miracles / I am the lawyers and judge all in one / We like to get the trial over with quickly / Because it's the sentence that's really the fun!
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[Opening lines]
Clopin : [singing] Morning in Paris, the city awakes / To the bells of Notre Dame / The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes / To the bells of Notre Dame / To the big bells as loud as the thunder / To the little bells soft as a psalm / And some say the soul of the city's the toll of the bells / The bells of Notre Dame.
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Crowd : [sings] Come one, come all! / Leave your looms and milking stools / Coop the hens and pen the mules. / Come one, come all! / Close the churches and the schools / It's the day for breaking rules / Come and join the feast of...
Clopin : [sings] Fools!
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Clopin : [after Esmeralda's dance at the Festival of Fools] And now, ladies and gentlemen, the pi-ece de resistance!
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[Quasimodo and Phoebus are bound, gagged and about to be hung]
Esmeralda : Stop!
[Clopin turns as Esmeralda bursts through the crowd]
Quasimodo , Phoebus : [muffled] Esmeralda!
Esmeralda : These men aren't spies. They're our friends.
Clopin : Why didn't they say so?
[Esmeralda removes their gags]
Quasimodo , Phoebus : We *did* say so!
Esmeralda : [unties them] This is the soldier who saved the miller's family, and Quasimodo helped me escape the cathedral.
Phoebus : We came to warn you! Frollo's coming!
[crowd gasps]
Phoebus : He says he knows where you're hiding, and he's attacking at dawn with a thousand men!
[crowd panics]
Esmeralda : Then let's waste no time! We must leave immediately!
