The Boner that Burned Down Paris

Most people are familiar with the Disney's version of the movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This is the only movie that has overtly sexualized scenes. This is also the only movie the has expressly religious ties, which makes this song even more dirty. In the Song “Beata Maria/Hellfire” the judge Claude Frollo sings into a fire out of frustration of the desire and temptation that he feels for the gypsy Esmeralda. . During this song, Disney is explaining that women are to blame for male temptations, especially those of male figures of authority. Not coincidentally, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” came out in 1996, the same year that Lewinsky scandal involving Bill Clinton happened.  Disney is siding with the former president, that as a man in power he was constantly tempted by women, that it was the woman’s fault. In the movie, Frollo desires Esmeralda and after she escapes her somewhat arrest within the cathedral, Frollo decides to burn down Paris trying to find her. He was not necessarily looking for her to arrest her for criminal charges, but to try and get her to sleep with him.