Disney movies are known for their kid-friendly plots and happy endings, but it's not all rainbows, mermaids, and 24-hour engagements in the land of Cinderella and Snow White. In fact, even those most starry-eyed of Disney classics contain a few references and even outright confrontations of weirder, often darker realities.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame has some well-known issues with its extremely inconsistent tone, but there's one thing you have to give it: "Hellfire" is undoubtedly one of the greatest Disney villain songs of all time. In a tirade against Esmeralda, God, and his own sinful urges, Frollo veers wildly between desperate desire, pitiful fear, and towering rage. He reaches the height of his considerable cruelty in this sequence, with his pitiful lust curdling into a twisted hatred for the innocent woman who caused it. Between the haunting lyrics and the terrifyingly infernal animation, it is a stone-cold masterpiece of the animated canon.
It's also somehow even creepier than you realized. The faceless priests chanting beneath Frollo's impassioned pleas for mercy and vengeance, are, in fact, begging God for absolution. The song opens with a selection from the Catholic Penitential Rite, and continues as Frollo descends further into his figurative hell. The latter half of the song finds the monks chanting "mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" repeatedly, directly translated into "through my fault, through my most grievous fault." They end with a plea for mercy: Frollo begs for divine kindness as the monks sing "Kyrie eleison," or, "Lord, have mercy." Unfortunately, he has no such kindness in his heart for Esmeralda, demanding that she "taste the fires of Hell." Pretty intense, especially for Disney.
Like most of the Disney classics, Aladdin is rooted in classic stories. The specific source material here is, of course, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, a Middle Eastern folktale brought to European audiences as part of One Thousand and One Nights. But that's the easy stuff. What's a little more difficult to spot is that it's not the only influence brought to bear on Disney's version of this ancient story. Keep watching the video to see all the lines in Disney movies that mean more than you realized.
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Frollo's plea | 0:19
Aladdin nods to another classic thief | 1:45
Rapunzel's growing pains | 2:55
The real conflict in Arendelle | 4:42
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