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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The gargoyles used for drainage are supposed to be hollow, but when Frollo breaks them they are solid.
  
  
• Continuity: The grapes on Quasimodo's plate change from scene to scene.
  
  
• Continuity: The lead that Quasimodo pours soon disappears.
  
  

• Continuity: The surface of the table on which Quasimodo has built his model village continually changes from wood to a cloth to miniature cobbles.
  
  
• Continuity: Quasimodo swings down from the top of the bell tower to the ground on a rope that was previously only about 15 feet long.
  
  
• Continuity: When Esmeralda sings "God Help the Outcasts" while passing people in Notre Dame, the gold coins from her sash are missing.
  
  
• Continuity: When Phoebus is shot the arrow strikes him in the back. Later the wound is seen to be in the front, with no wound visible in the back.
  
  
• Continuity: The bugs crawling on the block that Frollo holds while talking to Phoebus about the Court of Miracles.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Festival of Fools takes place at Twelfth Night, on January 6 - the song "Topsy Turvy" mentions "the sixth of 'Januervy'". But in a later scene, Frollo brings Quasimodo fresh grapes. Grapes are not ripe in January in France.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Out There" number, when Quasimodo sings "If I was in their skin", he is standing over a wall completely in shadow. When he slides down the flying buttress in the very next shot, the wall is brightly lit.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Quasimodo turns to talk to the baby pigeon, the nest is empty. In the very next shot, the pigeon is clearly visible in the nest, even before it wakes up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Esmeralda and Quasimodo are about to jump off the top of Notre Dame, Esmeralda ties a kerchief around Djali's eyes and it wraps around the top of his head. In the next shot, however, the kerchief is wrapped vertically, from top to bottom, and it looks much larger.
  
  
• Continuity: When Frollo gets angry with Quasimodo for helping Esmeralda escape Notre Dame he slams the sculpture of her down on the table close to and on the left side of a candle. In the next shot the sculpture is on the right side and is farther away from the candle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Quasimodo is desperate to hide Phoebus beneath his table he knocks over the small sculpture of Frollo. In the next shot it is Esmeralda's sculpture that has been knocked over.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Quasimodo is seen singing "Out There" on the cathedral's roof we can see a set of copper green statues - the 12 apostles - around the central needle. These statues were not added until the XIX century during a general restoration directed by Viollet-le-Duc, a French architect who had read Victor Hugo's novel and was concerned about the possibility of Notre Dame being demolished, as some authorities of the time had considered. Consequently, it would have been impossible to see those statues at the time the movie is set.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the movie, Notre Dame is seen with a wide square in front of it. However, during the time the movie is set (XV-XVI century) this square did not exist. It was occupied by the Hotel Dieu, a medieval hospital which was not demolished until the XIX century.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: At the time of the movie, the use of digital technology to create large crowds of people was fairly new. Thus in many places if you watch the crowds instead of the main characters, you can clearly see how the crowd members all have simple, almost undefined faces and move in very computerized ways. This is especially easy to see at the end of the movie when the little girl pulls Quasimodo into the crowd - watch the crowd that parts for them. Other good examples are just after that when the crowd carries Quasimodo across the square (watch individual crowd members), at the Festival of Fools, and in the shot during the final battle where the gypsies and villagers, moving en mass towards the cathedral, are seen from above.
  
  
• Continuity: When Frollo picks up a piece of the rail, to make his point about the gypsies, the curved edges of the rail are facing towards him, but in the next shot, when he slams it down, the rail fragment is facing the other way.
  
  
• Continuity: During the song "Bells of Notre Dame," the Archdeacon's eyebrows change from gray to black.
  
  
• Continuity: While Frollo is singing "Hellfire", he pulls out Esmeralda's sash. At various points throughout the song, the sash disappears and reappears in his hands.
  
  
• Continuity: The helmet Esmeralda tosses (that Phoebus ducks at) stops directly over his shoulder past his head, rather than continuing past him to fall to the ground.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Phoebus is arriving in Paris and looking for the Palace of Justice, Achilles sits on one of the soldiers and Phoebus cuts off half of his mustache with his sword. However, in the scene where Quasimodo is being tormented at the festival, the focus goes back to the same soldier. In some scenes he has his entire mustache, in other scenes only half.
  
  
• Anachronisms: All the exterior sculptures on the Cathedral are shown as plain, natural-colored stone. At the time the story is set, they were polychromatic - painted in colors.
  
  
• Continuity: Frollo does not age at all over the course of the film, even though twenty years have passed from his opening scene.
  
  

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