abstract:The Hunchback is a 1997 television film based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Peter Medak and produced by Stephane Reichel. It stars Richard Harris as Claude Frollo, Salma Hayek as Esmeralda and Mandy Patinkin as Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame.
In the 1920s Homo erectus distorted himself a bit, and took to swinging round church towers or chandeliers as the Phantom of the Opera and theHunchback of Notre Dame.
Like theHunchback of Notre-Dame or the Phantom of the Opera, Hugo lives a secret life in a public place a rubbishy room up in the clockworks, where he tinkers with inventions old and new.
Although not as pronounced as Shakespeare's portrayal of the king as a hunchback, the condition would have given the adult male the appearance of having one shoulder higher than the other.