Have you seen the Czech version?

@@Kaspleen yep, love it

Non

You know he's gay right?

@@marienmorand Bisexual, actually.

1940s French parisienne accent white a lot of milking because they acting

Right now it's on the Criterion Channel! Though if you want to own it permanently I'd recommend waiting for the upcoming Criterion sale and buying their release!

Cocteau actually intended for the Beast's transformation to be disappointing so that the audience would want him back instead of the Prince. Yes, they're supposed to be the same person but the visage you've grown accustomed to is the one you prefer.

I guess we were all disappointed together with La Belle that it wasn't the person we fell in love with

@@yippedoodah there's not such a thing. Don't justify the failure of the ending. Cocteau never intented to disappointing ending to blah blah blah. In fact this film get praised just because it's french and foreign. If this same film produced in Hollywood, they would called it trash. Hollywood, Disney at particular, will do it million times better in about 50 years.

@@plutoshearer3650 “My aim would be to make the Beast so human, so sympathetic, so superior to men, that his transformation into Prince Charming would come as a terrible blow to Beauty, condemning her to a humdrum marriage and a future that I summed up in that last sentence of all fairy tales: ‘And they had many children.'” -Jean Cocteau I didn't say the ending was a failure, just that this was the intent of Cocteau.

@@plutoshearer3650 Wanna fight?

moi

N'oublions pas Jean Piat, tout de même.

Just a guess but maybe they wanted a hot French movie star to play the Beast but he wanted more screen time than just wearing a fursuit for most of the film? They may have thought it was clever or that he was up to playing each role differently enough to make it work, but a lot of us were pretty disappointed even though he's a cute guy and way more likable as the Beast. Seeing this clip now after years without watching the whole film first, I can say that he looks way better. But when you've seen him as a jerk the whole film it is a bit of a let down for that to be the face of the good guy.

Bee Whistler I see that now.

Alex Bryson I see that now.

@@BeeWhistler Not really, it's only suppositions from French critics but it might have to do with Cocteau's vision to show the Beast and Avenant (which inspired Gaston) as the two faces of a human, kindness under a disgusting appearance and vilainess under a charming one. After all the novel he adapted from Marie Leprince de Beaumont and Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve was a tale to teach little noblegirls to see behind the mask of their husband in arranged marriages. Plus Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais (the actor) were lovers at the time - if Marais were a girl we would call it a muse.

Jean Cocteau did it because he wanted to say, with this, that with exactly the same beautiful face, you can be either loved or hated. Because what is important is the personality. That is why Avenant (in French, it means : Handsome) turns to a beast when he dies : because he was the real beast. If you don't speak French, you won't understand but there is a funny moment when the Prince (after his transformation) is facing la Belle and doesn't understand why she looks at him the way she does : it is just the moment she is realizing that she fell in love with the exact same guy she despised few minutes ago (Avenant). it is very funny. And of course, she doesn't confess the truth to la Bête 🙂

The irony is that Disney is a copy cat that steals others films that were already made.

@@willlyon7129 and the villain of the sequel was supposed to be called Avenant (Gaston's little brother who seeks revenge on Belle and The Beast/Prince) before there was Forte (the organ voiced by Tim Curry)