![]() ![]() “She’s definitely the smartest person in the room,” Palicki tells us. Both leaders hire the same man, the deformed torturer Quasi (Lemme), to assassinate each other, while Catherine and Quasi developing an affection for each other. Katherine is the (still beautiful) new Queen of 13th century France and she is both amused by and way ahead of everyone else around her, including her husband King Guy (Chandrasekhar) and the Pope Cornelius (Soter). ![]() ![]() Directed by Broken Lizard’s Kevin Heffernan and written by him and the rest of the team-Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske-the film dispenses with the tragic Esmeralda in favor of Catherine (Adrianne Palicki). Quasi, a satirical new take on the story from the Broken Lizard crew ( Super Troopers), has a decidedly different view of its female lead. For all her kindness and compassion, Esmeralda is basically treated terribly throughout the story and finally ends up hanged for a crime she didn’t commit, just as she reunites with her long-lost birth mother. (She’s also only 16 in the novel-a book from over 200 years ago). ![]() In most versions of the classic 1831 Victor Hugo tale, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the female protagonist is Esmeralda, a French Romani girl who is so beautiful that every major male character in the story either wants to marry her or seduce her. ![]()
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