Best Disney movie and villain EVER!!!

Hi guys~

Here comes a late night blog (yeah, midnight is late night for me)!


I just had to do this one after thinking "oh what could I blog next?" and "I've got so many ideas but don't know where to start!". So I made up my mind for a short blog entry about my favorite Disney villain and generally movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Watch this incredible intro. And the music. THE MUSIC!!!

It doesn't happen too often that someone calls this movie a good Disney movie or a good movie in general. Many people critisise it because of the "restricted" themes and it's creepiness. It isn't creepy in a paranormal way like for example the Sleeping Beauty with the creepy villain Maleficent (the one with green skin and strange...horns...on her head...). The Hunchback will give you the most uncomfortable goosebumps a Disney movie could ever give you. I wouldn't necessarily recommend to show this movie to children under 8 years. Or even 10. Even though I watched it when I was much younger...

Frollo forcing Quasimodo to stay in the tower and not to go outside. You can see how he's using him...

The main story evolves around a very ugly and deformed guy called Quasimodo, who was raised by a crazy judge, Frollo (who actually killed the kid's gypsy mother just because of racism). Quasimodo is a latin word and means "half formed" or "half done". I'll make this one short because you probably know the story anyway. Quasi is locked inside the bell tower of Notre Dame and sneaks out one day. He gets bullied but finds a gypsy friend named Esmeralda (his first friend ever). Quasi falls in love but Esmeralda already has a guy she likes, Phoebus. Blonde and pretty of course. So Quasi helps the girl escape and hides her from Frollo, who wants to track down every single gypsy in Paris because of his insane racism. Problem is: Frollo has the hots for Esmeralda so he needs her and ONLY her to be found. So he burns down the whole city, finds the gypsy and the hideaway of her people and wants to burn Esmeralda on a stake. Quasi saves her and the boss battle starts, in which Frollo falls down the cathedral into the fire and dies. Esmeralda and Phoebus come together and the poor Quasimodo is left alone. Well at least he can leave Notre Dame now.

THIS is why I wouldn't recommend little people to watch this movie. Even if it's a Disney movie it doesn't necessarily mean that it's adressed to kids. Did you see him threaten Esmeralda?! This is so crazy!!

As I already mentioned I would write a bit about Frollo as well, being the best villain in the whole history of Disney (in my opinion). His character is the most complex one I've ever seen in a movie. Seriously, not just Disney movie, ANY movie. But maybe I just don't know enough really good movies with antagonists like this. He combines almost everything one shouldn't have in one own's soul. Let's see...Frollo is a veeery much conservative judge (and very religious too...), who is racist in a very extreme way. He even reminds me of a certain dictator when it comes to hunting down innocent people. Frollo almost commited a child murder when he took up Quasimodo. His first thought was to drown the kid in a well because firstly it was a gypsy's kid and secondly it was deformed. He kept the boy only because he thought he might be of use to him someday. He also lied to him, telling his mother just abandoned him when he was a baby when she actually died protecting him (oh yeah, did I mention he killed the baby's mother?..). And well if this isn't enough for anyone to hate this guy, he becomes literally obsessed with Esmeralda, letting her choose whether she wants to burn on a stake or be his alone for the rest of her life (as you can see in the video above). He even sings a song about his passion to her, blaming her of witchcraft and praying to god to save his poor soul. Frollo gave me goosebumps...


Frollo's villain song and one of the best in Disney's history (not just my opinion, it is proved). This one is really...SO GOOD!!! But so scary...

Now what I find is the most creepy part about this, Frollo isn't a magician, a king or a genie. He is a totally realistic person, which isn't usual for Disney movies. He doesn't cast spells on someone or doesn't want to gain power like most of the Disney villains do. He does this all for fun. He could be just any person out there in our real world, going around, being racist and wanting to rape some gypsys. This is the most scary part about this whole story. I don't even know how I could handle watching this movie when I was a kid, I guess I was tough.

I understand people saying this is the worst Disney movie and they never enjoyed watching it. Well, this movie wasn't made to ENJOY it. It was made after a book written by Victor Hugo (who wrote really dark books) and the movie is even soft compared to the novel. I didn't have the guts to read it yet.

So I would really suggest to watch this movie just because of the incredible detail, the beautiful drawings, one of the best soundtracks in the history of Disney, and the deep personalities in the characters which you don't encounter in Disney movies so often. Please. Give it a thought and a bit of your time. You won't regret it!!!

BYE BYE ~

PS: this entry didn't turn out as short as I expected it to be...sorry! :P

PPS: Oh I just noticed it could be a perfect halloween post. So this is gonna be my halloween post.

My hometown! YAY!

Hi guys~

I want to introduce my hometown to you, Charkow (or Charkiw, depends on the language).
Charkow is located in the north-eastern part of Ukraine. The official language is Ukrainian but most of the people speak Russian better. It is a literally huge city and often referred to as the biggest industrial city of Ukraine. It even was the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic until 1934. 1 730 000 people reside in this city so you can imagine how immensely huge it actually is (even I never saw all of it).

 

 

The town itself is beautiful, with lots of pretty parks, zoos, museums and theatres. It is also known as the "student city" because of the amount of universities available to visit. The most buildings are not so much skyscrapers but still a house with 10 floors is completely normal and even a bit low in the resident's opinion (believe me, I know). As Ukrainians are very religious there are lots of curches and a few cathedrals in the city, which are stunningly beautiful and I'd really recommend to visit some of them even if you're not a firm believer.

As you can see, the Ukrainians love beautiful lights and they also love to show off their money even if they don't have any. The town is very pretty and it seems that the people are doing well too but it's more complicated than it looks like. The people often complain about the low wages and the low state budget. The subway trains, busses, trams and cars in the city didn't change for minimum 20 - 30 years. Sometimes when I visit my family I wonder how there aren't more accidents with all the old stuff in town. The streets are a mess, if you drive for a longer period of time you feel like you've been to a roller coaster because of all the holes in them.
The gap between rich and poor is really big and there's nothing in between. The rich people invest into the beauty of the city and the poor ones complain that the rich ones spend too much money the city actually needs on unimportant stuff. But I guess every city is like this.

Nevertheless Charkow is beautiful and has a great meaning for Ukraine. Every time I go there I enjoy my stay because I always discover new stuff in it. It is really hard to know all of it because, as I said, it's immensely huge!!!

And now I show you some beautiful pictures to impress you and maybe, sometimes, you'd like to visit this city and experience all the beautiful (and not so beautiful) stuff yourself. If you're interested.

So I hope I gave you an impression about the town and if you have any questions, may it be cultural or social or whatever, just comment!

BYE BYE~

This is me.

Good day, dear reader!

I want to introduce myself in my first real blog entry. My name is Valeriya (personally, I write myself without the "y" so feel free to choose your own writing method). I am a girl from Ukraine and have been living in Austria for 10 years already.

I speak three languages almost fluently: Russian, German and English. Well you could say by speaking I mean understanding the languages because it often happens that I mix up words and so it seems I can't form proper sentences while speaking. I am actually not that dumb, just confused when it comes to speaking properly. I learned other languages as well, for example Ukrainian (which actually shoud be my mother tongue...SHOULD...), French, and Latin. I still tell people I can speak them but I actually don't. So if you try speaking French with me you won't hear a word from my side.

I am actually more shy in real life than I look like. I barely talk to people and start conversations on my own but if I know someone I really loosen up and am usually a great girl to hang out with.

What I can tell about my goals in life is that I want to finish studying transcultural communication and become a translator. NOT an interpreter. I can't understand how people interprete without their brains exploding. My goal is to translate whole movies or video games, at least just subtitles. I like to translate stuff since I started playing video games in russian and noticed how miserable the translation was. I felt a pain in my soul because some people don't take translating seriously enough, especially when the text is a part of a whole gaming or watching experience. That's why I choose to study transcultural communication with the languages English and Russian. And of course because I am really interested in getting to know both cultures better.

My other goals would be to become a famous astronomer or game programmer but that's a dream of every little nerd girl.

I was raised in a family of musicians (my mother and my former step father are both conductors), so I grew up with a lot of classical music. As you might imagine I was forced to start playing piano when I was approximately 5 or 6 years old but I quit when I moved to Austria.

As I already mentioned I am a nerd girl, loving video games, anime, classical music, astronomy, the band Depeche Mode, horror and some more strange stuff I would confuse you with. And I know this post wasn't really meaningful so I promise to try and be more informative on the next blogs. If you are interested in anything just let me know, comment or something, I don't know how blogger works (yet). And if you would, please tell me what you'd be interested to read about. Whether you want something informative or just blogs about my everyday life, I don't really care as long as YOU read it ;)

See ya next time!
BYE BYE ~

 PS: Here's a song for you.  Gotta love the refrain.