I just randomly thought of
Rigoletto (the movie) today. I want to watch it again. That was one of my favorite movies... It was a big part of my childhood before I discovered Star Wars.
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Rigoletto, set in Depression-era America, stars Joseph Paur as Ribaldi/Rigoletto and Ivey Lloyd as Bonnie, a young girl who is gifted with a beautiful singing voice.
When a mysterious man arrives in town and buys the mortgage on Bonnie's house, threatening her family with eviction, Bonnie agrees to work for him as a servant in exchange for allowing her family to keep their home. At first, Bonnie believes the man, Ribaldi, is a monster due to his physical deformity (his face is badly scarred and he is forced to use a cane) and his cold, angry demeanor. When Bonnie finds Ribaldi giving a beautiful young woman music lessons, she realizes that he is a gifted musician and a kind, misunderstood person. Meanwhile, many townspeople are being evicted from their homes, and suspect the mysterious Ribaldi of ruining their lives. The angry villagers begin to spread rumors about Ribaldi and believe that he is a monster. The village children, on the other hand, are drawn to Ribaldi, and he delights in playing with them and giving them presents.
Throughout the film, the sick and handicapped people of the village are miraculously healed, and farmers receive large amounts of money from an anonymous donor. Porter, a young boy with a stutter, is healed after visiting Ribaldi and looking into his "magic mirror", which Ribaldi claims will help him with his problems.
The townspeople threaten to keep Bonnie from singing in the state singing competition unless she stops visiting Ribaldi. Bonnie tells Ribaldi she will not leave him, but he tells her that to abandon the competition would waste all their hard work, and insists that Bonnie forget about him and follow her dream. Ribaldi's butler, Hans, on hearing how devoted to Ribaldi Bonnie is, asks his master if she is "the one". Ribaldi confesses that he believes she is.
In the climax of the film, while Bonnie is singing in the competition, Ribaldi is visited by Georgie, a young girl from the village, and he offers to walk her home. Along the way, Georgie falls into a river, and Ribaldi saves her. When he tries to bring the unconscious girl into town, he is attacked by the townspeople, who believe he has harmed Georgie. Afterward they destroy Ribaldi's home in search of evidence that he has been taking their homes and land. Instead of this proof, however, they find lists of people Ribaldi has helped by secretly paying for their medical treatments and paying off their farms.
Bonnie wins the singing competition, and returns home to find that Ribaldi has died from the injuries incured by the townspeople.
I just random scenes from that movie play in my head at work today, and I was like, "What?" I seriously haven't seen it since I was six at the oldest. I freaking loved that movie when I was 4-5, though. Not surprised I turned out the way I did, considering that.

Also,
Beauty and the Beast (which has been my favorite Disney movie ever since I saw it lol) is a rip off of the folktale that that movie is also a rip off of;
Rigoletto is not a rip off of
Beauty and the Beast.

lol I just ordered the DVD. Finding a place online that sells it new was DIFFICULT. Apparently it's discontinued WHAT. It's got a five-star rating on Amazon fah cryin' out loud. Wanted to save a gift card/credit card an uncle gave me for Christmas, which I just received two days ago, and buy food and other lame necessary crap with it, but I don't think he'd like that very much, so I bought that and proceeded to get rid of the rest of the money on it.
Finding this post again was almost as difficult as finding the DVD. "Doo doo doo go through pages, stop scrolling when hit a long post de mi."