Yet another case of Hollywood sending the wrong message of "just be nice and you'll get tons of true love and attraction". Lots of kids will be quite puzzled when they grow up and find theselves stuck in the friendzone over and over again while thinking "But, even Quasi-effing-modo got a girlfriend! What's so terribly wrong with me?"
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I think it's movies like this that are trying to change that. It doesn't really work (and it's not a good movie) but you can't blame them for trying!
I call movies that are considered 'bad' hated movies.
I wish he had gotten an average or even ugly girlfriend. It's okay when males are ugly as long as you value what's on the inside, like Quasimodo or the Beast. But Heaven forbid a girl ever be less than attractive in one of these movies. A reversed movie - where a hideous but kind woman falls in love with an attractive male who returns her feelings - probably wouldn't fly. (Not saying it hasn't been done, but it's definitely not common.)
Quasimodo was a good person, so he gets to be rewarded with a stunning woman, as if she were a trophy. I actually liked that in the first movie he didn't get the girl.
I wish he had gotten an average or even ugly girlfriend. It's okay when males are ugly as long as you value what's on the inside, like Quasimodo or the Beast. But Heaven forbid a girl ever be less than attractive in one of these movies. A reversed movie - where a hideous but kind woman falls in love with an attractive male who returns her feelings - probably wouldn't fly. (Not saying it hasn't been done, but it's definitely not common.)
Quasimodo was a good person, so he gets to be rewarded with a stunning woman, as if she were a trophy. I actually liked that in the first movie he didn't get the girl.
But why can't we let people fall in love with whomever they want without calling them "trophies"?
You make it sound like you're only allowed to be with people with the same degree of attractiveness as yours.
That is not how the real world necessarily works though.
But I must confess that it helps that while Madellaine is pretty, she is cute rather than sexy like Esmeralda.
That makes it more realistic that she would fall in love with Quasimodo than if Esmeralda had fallen for him.
Lots of guys who are "friend zoned" aren't as nice as they think, or they will just focus on the wrong kind of girls.
Quasi found the key to his success ("be nice, and someone will perhaps like you one day") without knowing it.