《《》》Storyline
Quasimodo, ruler of fools we bow.All you rabble, scum and scavengers of France.Mark you the fool with crown upon his ugly brow.Hail to the idiot king.Shout and sing Quasimodo, Quasimodo.King of the Fools is Quasimodo.Hail to the king.King of the Fools.Cock-a-doodle-doo.Cock-a-doodle-doo.Quasimodo.Cock-a-doodle-doo, hey.."Gringoire tried to dissuade the crowd: "I am the true King of Fools.I battle for beauty, and the ugly gets crowned.What greater fool can there be than I?"After he crowning, as Quasimodo was made a public spectacle hrough the streets of Paris, Frollo - who was Quasimodo""s guardian and adoptive father figure, intervened and rode up on horseback.The script for this new version, by Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris, substituted capitalists (an enigmatic, big-business, multi-national corporation called Manchurian Global, represented, according to Demme, by the giant 21st century companies of Halliburton, Bechtel or the Carlyle Group) as the villains.Happily, Bilbo spotted a stairway (built into the side of a massive Dwarf-guard statue) to a high entry point where they hoped that he ebbing light would reveal a secret keyhole on the rock""s surface.However, when he mistakenly picked up a Red Phone, he voice immediately chided him: "No, the White Phone!" When another announcement repeated the original instruction to pick up the White Phone, the Captain angrily shouted back: "I""ve got it!" The call was from the Mayo Clinic (in Minneapolis) about a heart transplant patient on his upcoming flight.The film had many ties to Dickens and specifically o hisA Tale of Two CitiesandOliver Twistnovels -- references o the French Revolution (and the mob pillaging homes of the rich), pickpocket opportunist Selina Kyle similar to the cunning Artful Dodger, a portrait of Napoleon in Catwoman""s house, the character named Stryver, Gordon""s eulogy reading from the leather-boundTale of Two Citiesbook at Bruce Wayne""s burial, and the existence of orphans (Wayne, Blake).