That Time Disney Remade Beauty and the Beast

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[@ocek2744]

At least this film had one redeeming feature: it's a great comparison to show why the original worked.

[@kitkatboard]

Same with all Disney remakes. Lion King 2019 made me realize how perfect the direction was for Mufasa's death in the original.

[@alepolait8951]

Suzette C. I literally forgot they did a “live action” lion king. I read your comment and didn’t register that I saw that movie.

[@erezcrestfallen1383]

@TexMechs You guys would probably want to kill me but I loved the 2019 more than the original ^^;

[@ashleysmashley9723]

Hi

[@JC-wr9fx]

Erez CrestFallen gasp. but whyyyy. i wanted to like it so bad too but got all confused and quiet after i watched it bc i just felt..empty inside.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

I actually really like the idea of a fairy cursing an eleven-year-old boy and his innocent servants, because fairies were sort of . . . well . . . fickle and malevolent.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Fickle? All the time. Malevolent? Occasionally. My reading on them was they were mostly alien. They came from an older world, the world that came before ours that had radically different rules. I like to think that more often than not, they just saw the world in such a different way from the rest of us that sometimes they just straight up did not understand what they were doing. Even when they were trying to be nice, they often caused real trouble for people. I think the idea behind fairies was that sometimes, life just can't be explained and there are some things that are just inherently dangerous, even if they're not evil. You get too close to them and they will destroy you.

[@dreamyanon5151]

@@cheezemonkeyeater I think the OC aligns with what most people think of as "fae".

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

@@dreamyanon5151 See, that's not an unfair reading by any means, but as I said, even when they're trying to be nice, that often goes wrong. Malevolent or not, danger is the more important point. It's best not to get involved with them.

[@fexbio]

Yep! In no point in the animation they state the sorcerer was good or fair. You're totally free to think she's hypocritical or just a piece of garbage.

[@nekochan6353]

Uhmmm... Did someone forget Aurora was cursed when she was still an infant...

[@hothotheat3000]

I HATE that Beast doesn't even say "because I love her" when Belle leaves. Why TF did they give that crucial line to the goddamn teapot?!

[@BrightWulph]

Because the Beast is male and therefor isn't "brave" enough to say it out loud.

[@itsbritneybisch8552]

Coz she's a woman and the Beast is a man so is inherently stoooopid.

[@moviemaniac2159]

He doesn't say it in the Broadway show either.

[@Singuy888]

Because the beast doesn't know what love is?

[@pinkwings8036]

In the Broadway version he at least sings about how miserable he feels, which fits into the medium.

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

Sympathising Gaston totally ruined the point of the character. Gaston was supposed to be the antithesis of the Beast; where the Beast is unappealing and monstrous on the outside but kind-hearted and generous on the inside, Gaston is the opposite; attractive and charismatic on the outside, but monstrous on the inside. Making him sympathetic ruins that mirroring.

[@crab2195]

yeah but that’s modern Disney for you. it all goes back to them fundamentally misunderstanding their own movies. there’s rarely ever a villain or “bad guy”, every single character has to be somewhat redeemable. Disney seems to think it’s audiences need to be spoon-fed the message nowadays.

[@jeel6576]

That’s not entirely true though because the reason the beast was cursed in the first place was because he was exactly like Gaston, an incredibly terrible rude but outwardly beautiful/handsome looking person. I think it should be fine for Disney to deepen the characters inside the stories of the animated movies because if they copied the animated movie completely it would be just a cheap life action copy. I think they did approach the issue misguided but the fact that everyone seems to think Gaston can’t be a 3 dimensional character when he’s literally what the Beast was like before he was cursed kind of feels like you didn’t get the entire message of the beauty and the beast, that you can, and should change to be a better person for the one you love. Villains can be great even if they’re one dimensional but since the animated movie already has that type of villain why not allow them to change it up a bit for an interesting twist. You can argue that Gaston in the original doesn’t want to learn to change but it’s mostly because he never gets cursed or scorned by the people in the village much like the servants never stopped the beast before he was cursed for being a terrible person. Also again, that’s the original animated movie’s story since the live action involves real people playing the characters, a more 3 dimensional character seems fitting. I feel like people are just hating the idea of change because the nostalgia of the old animated movies are still present and it’s kind of clouding everyone’s judgement

[@christiancardenas2975]

@@jeel6576 noo, it doesn't work. They kept the original story, they changed the characters: doesn't mesh very well. They needed to alter the stroy to accomodate the new "three dimensional characters", but alas, they didn't. That's why it doesn't work.

[@TalpaTulpa]

"Unappealing"

[@PeeperSnail]

It’s also bizarre because in the original he also represents and spearheads the misogyny that keeps Belle down. The remake makes a big deal about girlbossing and yet it tries to make you feel bad for Gaston.

[@ingridsuperfreak]

Something I realised it was absent in the 2017 movie during the relationship between Belle and the Beast? physical contact, which was increasing during the 1991 movie, at first Belle helping Beast with his wounds, then Beast taking her hands guiding her to the library, then Belle grabing Beast''s hands when he showed her his library saying thank you.....and then the dancing moment and when the Beast let her go, he played with her hair a little, showing how affectionate he became towards her, and she even touched his face before she leaves the castle, that's CHEMISTRY!, that's a little of INTIMACY, two things I never saw in the entire movie!. She was like "oh gosh I can't stand this monster"

[@TheSongwritingCat]

I think in the animated movie they had more of an emotional, affectionate relationship. The live action movie was more intellectual and reserved. Like a Jane Austen novel. Even with no one around to chaperone, you shouldn't be doing too much touching. But I did also wonder if part of it was the difficulty of the CGI. It's one thing to have the actor hold a plate or a book. But if you have to animate each individual hair moving when Belle touches his face, that's probably more difficult.

[@ingridsuperfreak]

@@TheSongwritingCat Disney should have thought about it before doing this movie, first of all, they should have made Dan Steven's appearance with make up instead of CGI, they were thinking about it, it would have given him more personality. You are right, maybe it was difficult to make Beast a touching monster with CGI, but at the end it made this story bland and out of feelings. An intellectual level would have been a different point of view, but they decided to be straight to the original, so the comparison will be always there

[@EB1493]

Oh yeah in the original animated film the chemistry and the intimacy was clearly there and naturally developed, but here, absolutely none of that, all in the name of political statements and crud like that. Keep politics far away from entertainment as humanly possible unless your making a political thriller or something!

[@alicjakempisty2729]

moving drawings were more human than actual humans in this live action

[@ingridsuperfreak]

@@alicjakempisty2729 absolutely true, which coming from Disney is pretty sad, 'cause they have many resources to make better effects

[@NonsenseWithGlasses]

The whole 'teaching another girl to read' thing is what bothers me the most about this adaptation. Belle wasn't considered weird because she *could* read, it's because she liked to read, because she preferred to read over engaging any of the poor provincial townies. And boy, my introverted ass sure did relate to animated Belle preferring to lose herself in books instead of human contact. That was kind of the point of Belle, to relate to all the little girls who felt like the outcasts, alone and stuck in a little nothing town with nothing to do. Plus, how does a town with only be one literate woman end up having it's own fully stocked bookshop!?

[@roxanne4820]

Yes! In cinema it's usually a guy who is different, weird and potentially outcasted, so as a girl who spent almost every break and lunch in primary school reading alone it was really nice to see a character like Belle.

[@tayliaburey7190]

Also the fact a black man could own a library but a girl wasn't allowed to read bothered me. This movie just made me annoyed It felt like forced feminism.

[@TheSongwritingCat]

@@tayliaburey7190 It's fake feminism. Taking a perfectly fine screenplay written by a woman and letting two dudes write a new screenplay "fixing" problems that were only identified by pedantic (male) youtubers.

[@littlelady9801]

@@TheSongwritingCat not fake feminism Just feminism

[@indiciaobscure]

One thing that really surprised me when i grew up is that Belle is not an intellectual. In media she's treated as this super smart know it all. And she IS smart, but her real characteristic is that she's a romantic and a dreamer. She doesn't read metaphysics, she reads stories about far off places, sword fights, and fairy tales. She dreams life can be bigger that what she has. She doesn't have TV, internet, or games, so she relies on books to give her that excitement. If she had a choice she wouldn't be reading but LIVING that life. She doesn't care what people think because this inner life is so much more important to her. Making her an inventor changes her fundamental character.

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

If anything, Gaston having PTSD is an INCREDIBLY insulting caricature of former soldiers with PTSD, since Gaston is STILL unhinged, arrogant, irrational, and cruel, and we shouldn't empathize with that; otherwise, they would have given Gaston some kind of redemption arc. It's not just pointless, it actively detracts from the character.

[@ScionStorm1]

Seems like they tried to portray ptsd and wound up creating a more disturbing psychopath instead.

[@herlocksholmes-uv5qw]

It isn't even PTSD; he doesn't get frighted by flashbacks you know, he isn't scared, he is just pleased with the thought of killing and war and how in hell is this PTSD?

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

Ah, yes, the dubious pleasure/benefit of mainstream armchair-"experts" getting paid for writing about characters with mental health conditions (like the rare and not-at-all studied or documented PTSD, of which there is so little information on, eh?) that they spent all of two minutes researching on a wiki... Thanks (but no thanks) for the social recognition and accompanying further distortion of poorly-explained facts, movie writers, amirite? *laughs... cries*

[@denni8884]

BLACKIESBOY TRUTH!

[@stewieismyhomeboy]

Like, remember what LeFou says to help Gaston calm down from his PTSD? To think of "grieving widows". Like, holy fuck.

[@vsGoliath96]

I find it genuinely fascinating that the harder Disney tries to empower their female characters in these remakes, the LESS compelling they become. The townspeople's issue with Belle was never that she could read, it's that she was a weird introvert who preferred reading over basically any other activity. They fucked this up with Mulan as well! Why is she a Jedi now? The whole point of the original was that she worked her ass off and became just as skillful a warrior as any man despite everything stacked against her. Now she just has crazy superpowers and is better than everyone to begin with.

[@lightyears-xo8qb]

As an asian i didn't bother watching mulan. The trailers alone buzzed me off

[@la_esmeralda444]

You're wrong about Belle. She WAS judged by being a woman and reading, Gaston himself says "everyone is aware that it is not right for a woman to read". But yes the rest is right.

[@mr_bassman6685]

@@la_esmeralda444 Perhaps it was more of a subtextual thing in the animated film (woman who could read *and* preferred to read over interacting with others) which was focused upon more in the live-action version.

[@X_MissMary_X]

Animated vs. live-action Belle and Mulan are perfect examples of strong female characters vs. Strong Female CharactersTM

[@cyancyborg1477]

Belle's father: picks a flower The beast: "You have committed crimes against Skyrim and her people. What say you in your defense?"

[@InSpades0]

No one escapes Cidna Mine.....no one

[@vicwolf717]

Have you heard of the high Elves?

[@andrewcoleman5775]

Maurice: uh... what's a Skyrim?

[@iloveyourunclebob]

"Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh what am I thinking, of course you don't." ...You'd know not to pick the roses.

[@kathi3093]

Your finally awake.

[@goisles6728]

"They bond over their mothers being dead" If that isn't the most Disney thing I've ever heard...

[@andrewcoleman5775]

Martha!

[@alibrennan5977]

@ bitch that’s my aunts name. That doesn’t mean I’m gonna be buddy buddy with a masked lunatic that was trying to kill me

[@berengustav7714]

Sokka and Zuko:Hello there

[@mariiam9312]

What I definitely can't stand from this movie is the fact that in the original; the beast was losing his "humanity" with the spell as time went by: The beast initially walked on four legs because he had forgotten how to walk on two legs, he had forgotten how to read (and Belle helps him), etc. Belle's presence made him force himself to change; To fight his curse. Belle came to bring his humanity back. And the 1991 film made us understand it very well and in a beautiful way. And NOW, in this new version it is assumed that the Beast knows how to read, walks perfectly upright, and has no other problems with his spell but with his "physical appearance". It's what I can't stand of this movie. In the original film, Belle did not find a cultured beast (who read every single book of his library 🙄), but in a bad mood as in this new film; she found someone broken, rude, almost animal, with almost no part of his humanity and returned it with her kindness and sweetness. Something that in my humble opinion, they did not demonstrate in this live-action. I love 1991 version so much 💛, too bad they didn’t made clear (or even showed!)so many morals and metaphors the original had... They just changed it so much that it feels somehow empty when you watch it.

[@katiebayliss9887]

Sweet Rose in the original Story he had his humanity and a heart of gold, the lesson for belle was to look past his ugliness and him not being witty and to see his heart of gold. Now I love both this version and the animated version. It’s like they were trying to borrow from the fairy tale or something

[@TheSongwritingCat]

I get what they were trying to do. He's less of a cartoonish buffoon. As they're falling in love, they can bond over mutual intelligence and common interests. But they could have just changed it so he can read in this version but still needed to regain his humanity.

[@TaeThei]

@ what does your asperger have to do with this? Dont belittle someone saying youre betted than them by stating a disorder and claiming it wasnt a hindrance to your mental capacity.. Dont be shallow

[@brieezy.]

that's a fine point

[@IMayOrMayHaveNot]

So empty you could say they cared more for LOOKING like the original instead of treasuring its ESSENCE... in a story about valuing a person's INNER beauty rather than their LOOKS, how insulting is that? T v T

[@jenniferl.8111]

Belle was kind and humble, and she was educated. She wasn’t condescending but just brushes away the misunderstandings of the town. Emma Watson’s Belle was literally the most annoying person ever, she was constantly rude to people and never bothered to communicate to them. They were rude in return and she came to the conclusion that the reason they don't like her is because she's so much better than them.

[@thunderbird1921]

Even as a guy, that's what drives me CRAZY about most "heroines" in movies or TV today. They seem to think that a powerful or influential woman is only one that is loud, rebellious, and/or gruff and tough. It's infuriating, because NOTHING could be farther from the truth. My mother is often gentle and very tenderhearted, yet she is one of the most remarkable women I've ever known. I feel so bad for parents with little girls today.

[@glue6679]

@@thunderbird1921 Oof. Seriously, instead of just integrating a masculine girl, a feminine boy, and still have feminine women and masculine men heroes, they’ve decided that heroes can ONLY be masculine. And as a feminine woman, I never saw a good representation of my personality in movies I watched. If you’re actually “woke” you need to make heroes of every gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and personality type. Another thing that angers me is the only representation Native American people get is pochahantas? A aged up, romanticized, “amazing” story of a Native American girl abandoning her people and culture for some European man she knows nothing about, who’s men killed her people? Not to mention during the time frame the real pochahantas was 12-14 years old? Disney has some problems to fix.

[@martinaroncl.5489]

I think that the egolatry thing is more like an Emma Watson's characteristic rather than something that came out with Belle herself. I mean, I've never had seen any Emma Watson's movie where she doesn't seems to believe she worths more than anyone else in the world. And it doesn't help at all that the dialogue she had to read was... well, let's just say narcisist at it's best. I don't know, that's just what I think. Btw, I'm not a native english speaker, so sorry if I made mistakes.

[@Lilly-to9hs]

@@martinaroncl.5489 I agree completely.

[@eamonclark4952]

Emma Watsons Belle only has two redeeming qualities 1: She looks Beautiful and 2: She sounds nice

[@scifikoala]

Disney poking fun at itself was cute and suprising the first couple of times, but now its just *painful*

[@edisonmichael6345]

Yeah, it is getting a tad... "Oh, sweetie, don't. Have some pride".

[@X_MissMary_X]

I think because with, say, Enchanted it felt like it came from a place of love. (I mean, the creators outright said it was meant to be a love letter to the classics.) Now if it's not outright cynical it just feels... the word that feels the most right to me is weary.

[@Lauren_210]

I just cringed in the Wreck it Ralph 2 trailer and I'm getting tired of them doing this.

[@NightEyeStudio1995]

it's kinda like the lampshading jokes in the big bang theory.... only disney doesn't suck 99% of the time

[@gwendolynstata3775]

"Our old movies were TERRIBLE! They only taught bad messages like how you should marry a man after you just met them and that stolkholm syndrome is fun and nothing else and weren't feminist-friendly in the slightest!" Like, did they even WATCH their old movies or just have some jaded CinemaSins writer regurgitate some Hot Takes? Mulan was the greatest girl power movie of all time. ALL TIME.

[@LostCosmonauts]

I can't wait for the Beauty and the Beast 2 live-action remake where they actually show Gaston eating 4-dozen eggs every morning to help him get large. I mean they say he did it... But we can't KNOW he did unless we see it in an excruciating 20-minute scene.

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

I also can't wait for them to explain the egg economy (the eggconomy, if you will) and how Gaston is able to afford and obtain roughly 350 eggs A WEEK in this so-called "poor provincial town".

[@Patrick-Phelan]

Those eggs were comfort-eating binges to protect him from the cruelty and negligence of his abusive father! Who was a wealthy slave trader, hence his ability to afford the eggs. And now the movie is better.

[@Febeleh]

Erick Wright Gaspar Noë can direct the film, and the 20 minute egg scene will borrow much of the uncomfortable nature of the 11 minute rape scene in Irreversible

[@ratprt]

you say that but I want to watch that so bad. I want to watch an actor eat all those eggs.

[@MattMcIrvin]

Did he use antlers in ALL of his decorating, or was there a time when he chose some different motif?

[@nyktomaniak4004]

Beast shows Belle his library just to show off "Look at this stuff Isn't it neat? Isn't this asshole's estate fucking sweet??"

[@zmdumpbox2340]

*S E E H O W B E A S T G L I T T E R S*

[@niallsulcer600]

Sorrow TV? Is that you?

[@violet_broregarde]

Look at this stuff Isn't it neat He boot is to big for he god damn feet

[@jossu7275]

Omg, I died.

[@Mr.Foxhat]

I almost choked on my food reading this.

[@melaniemagolan2241]

The whole "enchantment made the village forget" thing is so unnecessary. I always assumed that he was a secondary royal (has the title, has the money, no actual impact on the public), and this was the weird rural vacation castle that we never use, so let's stick the orphaned royal there and let him be raised by the staff so we don't have to think about him.

[@richardbourton4523]

You're so right, this castle is in the middle of nowhere, it's highly unlikely to be the seat of real power. And especially as he is a Prince, not a King. This is confirmed to be France, which is not a principality, so he's not the King of the village (like that's a thing). A Prince can be any number of individuals: he's not the Crown Prince, so he might not be anywhere near in line for the throne, like Prince Andrew or Prince Edward here in the UK. Now I like the royal family, but I don't know where Prince Edward lives day to day and he's actually a prince of my own country. The narration even says at the start 'In a faraway land A young prince lived in a shining castle' not 'The prince'. It's nitpicky to point out the difference there, but it's nitpicky of people to complain about the village not knowing about him so why not. He might not be a prince of THIS kingdom at all, there is no reason to assume he is. Perhaps he was exiled from his own, or fled from there after a revolution and is in hiding. [To any pedantic nitpickers reading this at some point, I know that the narration later says 'the prince', but this is after his introduction so only being clear that its the same prince in discussion]. It's fun to ask silly questions like 'why don't they know about the prince?' among friends while you watch a film of course, but when it becomes actual film criticism it's silly. I guess it just points to how good the original is, a masterpiece of animation and film in general: there's nothing else to complain about in it.

[@brianbarnes5296]

@@richardbourton4523 Exactly! Most people don't realize that The Beast may not have been an actual royal monarch. Especially given that, in the 1991 version, his parents are presumably dead. Meaning that he would have been declared king at this point already. So everyone still calling him "prince" means that he was one of those petty "kings". Germany around this time (1700's) had an even better example of this, as it was made up of tiny kingdoms with even elected officials of a particular realm taking on the title of prince in some cases. Which is why I like that you mention his kingdom being in a "far away land". Even the architecture of the beast's castle (very evident at the opening of the movie) is not very classically "French". The 2017 movie sort of makes the beast's castle in a style closer to Versailles, but it also adds on all of these unnecessary gothic spires that completely clash with the rococo Versailles look I think they were TRYING to go for. That's why I adore the 1991 version. The Beast's kingdom is set in such a storybook/fairytale like setting that would appeal to Belle's love of that exact thing (obviously more so after the entire transformation). But that also brings me to another point. Belle's love for adventure and something new. We know she initially goes to the castle to find Maurice and rescue him, but she also fearlessly agrees to stay... because there IS something more at that castle than her boring provincial life back home. It is exciting. It is adventurous! She is in one of her beloved stories. When Cogsworth and Lumiere are giving her a tour of the castle and she happens to stumble upon the staircase to the West Wing, she isn't afraid when they reveal that to her. She smiles and says in an excited tone, "Ah! So THAT'S the West Wing!" showing exactly that she does not feel threatened or "stockholmed" at the castle. This is all something Belle wants for herself. Following that scene we DO see her leave saying, "Promise or not promise, I can't stay here another minute!" Which totally disproves everyone saying she developed Stockholm syndrome lol

[@richardbourton4523]

@@brianbarnes5296 I totally agree, and really resent the ‘Belle has Stockholm syndrome’ thing, like that’s just not what happens in the movie? It’s not as simple as anyone just ‘falling in love with your captor’: there’s more to it!

[@kingofthings7929]

About the whole “Why would the witch do that to a child?” And “why would the witch also curse the staff?” Things. Did no one just think “Oh, the witch is an asshole” and move on? I mean, she was a witch in a fairy tale. Being mean often comes with the territory.

[@pinkcupcake4717]

The witch isn't a character, she's an agent of dramatic irony and karma for the purpose of story setup. She doesn't need to be more than that. She's here to inflict punishment on a privileged royal who looks at an old woman, dying of hunger and hypothermia, and responds with "ew, useless peasant, gross." and is willing to condemn someone to an agonizing death because she didn't have anything "valuable" to offer him. He could have let her coop up in the servant quarters and not even look at her, not miss the serving of bread and soup that would feed her through the night. The cost to him would have been practically nothing to save someone from dying, but he's such a terrible person that he wouldn't give even that. The moral of being generous and merciful, especially in winter, would hold for basically the entire existence of humanity. It's possibly the biggest dick move in the history of hospitality.

[@junieb9446]

@Morphing Taxi She can be justified in being upset at the Prince/Beast's violation of protocols of hospitality, while also being an arsehole who decides to use the entire castle staff as part of her punishment of the Prince/Beast. These are not mutually exclusive, and frankly entirely consistent with the kind of capricious nature of such agents in much of human myth and folklore. The narrative plot device can be morally ambiguous, amoral by design, or simply without any defined morality; it doesn't matter to the story. All you need to know is that the witch/enchantress sought out hospitality, the Prince violated social protocols of hospitality due to his character flaws, and the spurned witch/enchantress placed a curse upon him and his entire castle / staff as a result.

[@ScionStorm1]

She's not a witch in the original fairytale. She's a spiteful old fairy who was tasked with being the Prince's governess while the Queen was busy waging war to defend her kingdom from invaders after the death of the King. Then when the Prince was about 15, right after the long war ended, the old hag fairy demanded the Prince's hand in marriage and the Queen refused on counts of her age and lack of royal blood. So she cursed the prince to spite them all. This was long after she had already busted Belle's fairy mother to the fairy council for having married a human king and then tried to court Belle's biological father(a king) using and beauty disguise- and when that didn't work she hired assassins to kidnap baby Belle and kill her. They would have gotten away with it if Belle's fairy aunt(mother's sister) had not been watching over her, turned into a bear and slaughtered the assassins before then faking Belle's death and entrusting her to a merchant who had just lost his own youngest daughter for her own safety.

[@ScionStorm1]

@@junieb9446 What kind of character flaw is an 11-year old refusing to let a suspicious stranger into their home? Is the lesson here "always let strangers into your house or face consequences"?

[@ScionStorm1]

@@pinkcupcake4717 She was a whole character and the primary villain to both Belle and the Beast in the original fairytale. She cursed the prince to punish him and his mother for not wanting to marry her son off to an old hag with no royal blood and she tried to have Belle kidnapped and murdered out of spite after getting her mother arrested and taken away.

[@totallynameless8861]

By making Belle so "feminist", it seems like they're saying that she's "not like other girls".

[@palladiamorsdeus]

Good god, that's the female version of "I'm a nice guy."

[@joselocalau123]

afootineachworld that’s not what feminism today looks like. If you think it is, then your source of feminism probably only comes from tv shows and instagram posts

[@MrGeocidal]

Didn't they do that in the first one?

[@totallynameless8861]

@@MrGeocidal That's true. If I recall correctly, her differences were actually relevant to the plot/theme (it's been a while since I've seen either).

[@denises9120]

This is just Emma Watson in a Belle cosplay.

[@uhohwawh6965]

the thing about belle reading books was never "omg she is so feminist she can read" it was more of "she lives in her own world, reads a lot of stories,wants adventures and doesn t care about what other people think". in the original disney movie, the people from the town say that her head is always stuck in a book and that they just don t understand how a person can care so little about her looks and the handsome hunter everyone loves. they were mostly kind to her but they just didn t care about the stories she reads about. the whole point of the story is that belle wants an adventure, a story of her own (which she gets) not "she wants to teach girls how to read and she invents stuff".

[@uhohwawh6965]

i mean, ik its a change cause its not the same movie but stop pretending she was always like that

[@fabiomoreira1506]

She still insults everybody else in the middle of the street. She called the baker DUMB in the intro song. She's such an insufferable bitch. Yeah you can read. It's not like she WROTE a book. Good luck making bread out of pages.

[@MmMm-sf7pe]

@@fabiomoreira1506 She never calls the baker, or anyone else in town, dumb. Her line is "There goes the baker with his tray like always, the same old bread and rolls to sell." She is never rude to any of the villagers (except Gaston, but that's because he keeps trying to pressure her into marriage.)

[@fabiomoreira1506]

@@MmMm-sf7pe "little town with little people". Why is she so big?

[@literallygaston2489]

Fabio Moreira But she’s not wrong?The townspeople aren’t exactly intellectual or out of the ordinary. She doesn’t even think it’s a bad thing, she just feels like she doesn’t fit there. And it’s not like townspeople are any better to her or Maurice.

[@YouCantDeleteDenzelL]

I swear to god, Disney has had like at least 5 "first gay characters" at this point.

[@obiwankenobi9141]

why can't they just say "okay, this character is gay" than move on, oh yeah, china doesn't like gay people, so just SUBTEXT. come on disney, just man up and say a character is gay.

[@angelifiona513]

I guess they did that with Cruella too

[@YouCantDeleteDenzelL]

@@angelifiona513 and yet they still danced around making it explicitly clear that he's gay because, ya know, Russia and China

[@lifotheparty6195]

It’s always been Donald Duck

[@karinmaria6455]

@@lifotheparty6195 Is Daisy his beard?

[@Patricia_Taxxon]

I'm so glad disney made an entire movie for the imdb forums

[@adamtherock2008]

If this was pre 2017 I’d agree with you.

[@cashomnitrix]

Too bad they shut down the forums last year so it doesn’t even have that

[@MrParkerman6]

There aren't any forums anymore, dummy!

[@Dorian_sapiens]

What Eric Taxxon meant to say was that Disney made an entire movie for this comment thread. (Nice to see you here, Eric, by the way.)

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

They shut it down just before the movie came out. I saw so much arguing if it would suck or not. I kinda miss it honestly.

[@pixelleaf5037]

Modern Disney: Look at us putting a gay character in our movie!! We're so Woke™! Also modern Disney: Haha we're going to make an I Hate My Wife joke

[@LadyAhro]

Peak boomer humour. "Wife bad, marriage bad."

[@eraliaa3219]

@@LadyAhro Calls an obvious Gen Z kid a boomer = imbecile.

[@IMayOrMayHaveNot]

@@eraliaa3219 LadyAhro wasn't calling the kid who made the main comment a boomer, she was saying the marriage-type of jokes are typical boomer humor.

[@LadyAhro]

@@IMayOrMayHaveNot Yep. Boomers love making jokes about 'the ol' Ball and chain - wife is a nag and I'm miserable' except that of course they'd never get divorced in fear of actually looking after themselves and their house when the wife has gone.

[@Coksaugenatbrockhausen]

i dont see any connection between those two

[@WeBAD3]

Good god, and the CGI beast's expressions are so flat it's painful. The og beauty and the beast shows emotion so well it's a shock that a live action version falls so short.

[@bsmith7]

This seems to be a big flaw in a lot of Disney's recent CGI, the lion king was atrocious for that

[@Snommelp]

The Mom/Plague scene was so vital to the plot that I missed the entire thing in the theater because I needed to visit the toilet, and my only confusion when I returned was how I'd somehow managed to miss nothing

[@Leonnie13]

lol. That was exactly when I needed to duck out. Truer words…

[@maddimagpie]

The yellow dress was more of your eighth grade Miss Small Town pageant style. It seemed cheap, wasn't ultimately designed to flatter Emma, and it clearly took intermediate skill at best to make. I know that Emma refused to wear a corset regardless of the period and her choice was respected. But the only excuse for the end result that I could think of is that the costumers had some BANGING designs and they were mad that they had to scrap them.

[@sshernandez810]

I'm starting to wonder if they purposely made her dress that ugly specifically because she made them scrap their original designs. Like I'm sure the thg already something in mind before she was cast. Emma Watson's dress was absolute tragedy.

[@maddimagpie]

@@shiloha5646 I'll certainly check out the video. I personally love corsets and everything you mentioned is completely true! Even if they're not designed to be historically accurate, they can retain the comfort and style they're meant to give to an outfit when they are made with quality. I just can't imagine being the lead costumer and being told by a misinformed actress that I couldn't put her in something and watching her get her way without at least a small history lesson.

[@cattd00]

@Shiloh A Exactly. And Jacqueline Durran is actually a pretty great costume designer (except for the attrocity called Little Woman). Atonement is one of my favorite costuming moments by far. I think that she had some pretty amazing choices and the director and Emma just passed on them cause they though they knew better lol. One of the dumbest moments in history.

[@samanthascarcella526]

1) Belle wouldn’t have even worn a corset, she would’ve worn stays and 2)If Emma Watson did any research into the time period she is supposed to be portraying she’d known that actual stays and corsets we’re torture devices but are basically a bra and when properly made aren’t any more dangerous or uncomfortable than a bra. They give support and create the silhouette of wherever time they’re made in.

[@MadameDeForklift]

@@maddimagpie While I completely agree with everything all of you have said, there are still situations where I'd fully understand someone wanting to pass on a corset. For example, I own multiple handcrafted made-to-order fashion corsets (not waist trainers) and I've been known to wear them for an entire day at my local Ren Fest and ... ya'll ... as someone who poops on average ~3 times a day, corsets can be a pain. It is actually physically impossible to poop when all of your abdominal tissue is already constricted. If I were Emma Watson, staring down the barrel of multiple 12-hour shoots in an ornate and expensive corseted yellow dress, I would also try to nix the cinch, if for nothing else than my desire to consume something not puree'd in a blender in my trailer.

[@RapCritic]

"Thanks I hate it" is now a thing for me

[@treeguyfly]

Ay RC!

[@aztn19]

Me too lol

[@bidanemartinez-huerta9472]

It's more effective if you add a comma, "Thanks, I hate it!"

[@theMoporter]

Welcome to Facebook tag groups, enjoy your stay

[@asmrtpop2676]

Bidane Martinez-Huerta More like, different effect. “thanks i hate it” is so quick and blunt and droll. “Thanks, I hate it!” has a bit of an upbeat comedic beat.

[@LeePresson]

I heard a 14-year-old girl outside the Guardians of the Galaxy ride at Disneyland give it the most perfect critique I've ever heard: "it's beautiful but I hate it."

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

Give that girl a medal. She knows.

[@NexusKin]

Exactly! Extremely pretty on the outside, but empty and completely worthless on the inside!

[@veronicageorge3825]

@@NexusKin 😆

[@TheSongwritingCat]

@Elvick I think there are some interesting artistic choices. A couple of costumes, a piece of furniture, etc. But anything good is overwhelmed by the direction, lighting, editing, endless CGI, etc. There's a lack of vision. One of the guys who wrote the screenplay also wrote Huntsman: Winter's War. That's not a great movie either, but it chooses an aesthetic and goes hard. I think they thought they were being bold with vague "historical accuracy" but then they didn't commit to it.

[@jenniferl.8111]

Emma Watson *in a heavy British accent* “iM fRoM pAriS”

[@nickihere8753]

Why is the WHOLE movie British in Paris?!

[@Lilly-to9hs]

LOL

[@mindyschocolate]

Not sure why they couldn’t be bothered to find a French woman.

[@drpibisback7680]

@@mindyschocolate Star power, dear boy, star power. Any time you have to weigh "lesser-known actor who will result in a better character" versus "name actor who gets eyeballs when their name is on the poster," corporate fucks who don't give a shit about anything but money will always pick the latter. Such is the nature of mass-market art.

[@willisthrilled]

Because Belle’s AMERICAN accent in the original made so much more sense??? Maybe before you question the accent you might wanna start with questioning why anyone is speaking English in France in the first place, hmm? Lmao. This is not the hill to die on.

[@theghostnextdoor4948]

I've always loved the design of the beast in the 1991 movie and in the modern one he just looks like some guy's buffalo fursona.

[@machetecockatoo6549]

OMG LOL ....buffalo fursona! You're totally right! XD

[@alaplaya5]

He reminded me of this centaurs of Harry Potter...maybe that’s why I found their relationship so creppy

[@3katfox]

I just choked on my drink! 😂😂

[@Tareltonlives]

I call him Torgo

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

@alaplaya5 -- Geez, you're right. Now I can't unsee it. Here, and probably in HP now also, lol.

[@laineemaupin]

When I was a little kid I always attributed the plot hole of the beasts age him being suspended in time. Like all of the people of the castle didn’t age for the 10 years but only started when the petals started to fall. This made the issue of him being 11 go away and made the enchantress less of a jerk

[@BrokensoulRider]

And I think, in the original story, this was exactly the case.

[@memeosaurusrex3382]

Wouldn't that still make him 11 for ten years?

[@riccardoorlando2262]

@@memeosaurusrex3382 No, he would've been beasted as a young adult and stayed that for 10 years.

[@thompsonfj1]

This is what I always assumed, too. Especially because of Chip, who looks like he's maybe four or five, if that.

[@iRinnda]

Or fill the plot hole with simply the fact that out of all the enchanted people, the prince/beast was the only actually living creature. Inanimate objects don't "age" in the same sense, even if enchanted. Therefore, all the others were frozen in time while the beast was the only one who continued to age.

[@rogermwilcox]

And they moved Mrs. Potts' face from her FRONT to her SIDE! The tea pouring spout was supposed to be her nose, gawds dammit!

[@Greentealiesel]

Omg I thought I was the only one who noticed that. It low-key really bothered me

[@dullicecream]

I knewww something about her design looked really different but I couldn't put my finger on it

[@BadVideoWatcher1]

Now she's got real bad earwax

[@brieezy.]

well dear child, the animaters fucked up a lot of CG details, probably on purpose too..

[@ClaudetteVioletta]

To be fair, that could have been way CREPPIER. And yes, that's already possible.

[@d_lightnin8108]

“That’s Ursula’s crazy sister” took me out bruh

[@almahayworth4280]

The relationship between Beast and Belle is so awkward and uncomfortable.

[@wandanemer2630]

And I guess that's progressive... somehow?

[@satines6045]

@@wandanemer2630 In cartoon its beautiful.

[@NoBody-lj5xh]

You mean the way it always was?

[@vibing6530]

@@NoBody-lj5xh less charm I guess. I'm assuming.

[@michaelstrong5383]

Was there a relationship between the two of them? Because unlike in the original, I didn't see any of that in this movie.

[@rjhale9261]

"the regina george of CEOs" is the most powerful statement to describe someone I have ever heard and will keep it close to my heart to use for later

[@khfan4life365]

Also, “Daddy of daddies”. 🤣 I’m storing that for future use.

[@KrBme78]

Very fetch.

[@AshleyWool]

"We can't leave things to people's imaginations. Then they might go make an Internet about it." "Go make an Internet about it" is now a phrase I will use on the regular. Thank you.

[@NexusKin]

But I thought that's what the best movies do. They let people interpret some of the things behind it as to what they could possibly mean.

[@hagelslag9312]

Christopher Regan Exactly

[@authorjessowen]

Covers all the bases :D

[@seungwannie3624]

I am late here but what I have noticed from the relationship of belle and the beast was that it was mostly the beast making belle fall in love with him instead of the other way around. In the original you can see that the beast was actually the one who was falling for belle which in turn making him care for her and him wanting to change things about himself because of how kind and understanding belle was. In the remake, it was just belle falling in love with the beast and while the beast remains snarky and unempathetic. Belle was just adjusting to his needs and "accepting" his flaws while she also remains snarky and being better than anyone else.

[@kingsaracoon9594]

Omg right??? It makes the original's dynamic all the more sweet. There's just a mutual fondness between the two and you can tell that they really care about one another. Live action? I dont even know.

[@ElfsArt24]

Also the curse said he had to learn to love not make a girl love him which is so much better

[@ingridsuperfreak]

That's why many women, me included, prefers Beast more than his human form , because we all learned to love him even before Belle did. He changed for his own volition, he wanted to make Belle happy and the library scene wasn't cute because the Beast was showing off his book collection; it was cute because he even asked Belle to cloae her eyes because he has a surprise for her, showing that behind that fluffiness there was a child and cute personality that wanted to make you smile and being happy being there . Emma Watson added that stupid phrase in the balcony scene saying "can anybody be happy if they aren't free"??? for the dummies and their Stockholm syndrome thing .....but indeed Belle WAS HAPPY!!! she only missed her papa , she had everything she wanted there ; a nice castle where everybody attended her nicely ; someone who understands her passion and even read together ❤❤. That's why after all she stays in the castle with Adam , her father and the town is no longer a issue .

[@PhryneMnesarete]

GASP Ursula's crazy sister!!!!! that's it. that's the entire plot of that film.

[@NexusKin]

No wonder it was DTV!

[@RosegoIdFox]

Phryne Mnesarete ok but wasn’t Ursula also Tridents sister? Making her also Tridents crazy sister? Edit: Sorry I meant Triton 😑

[@benjaminwilliams8030]

Phryne Mnesarete and my entire life

[@andrewcoleman5775]

@@benjaminwilliams8030 Same.

[@veronicageorge3825]

@@RosegoIdFox *triton*

[@Schnyger]

Surprised you didn't highlight the removal of Beast's illiteracy. I always found that to be a fundamental plot point to his transformation as a person and his understanding of Belle. He doesn't know how to read, and so in his pride, he dismisses it as stupid and a waste of time. The irony that he has this massive library to impress people, but he can't actually enjoy any of it. As Belle teaches him to read, they bond naturally through a mutual activity. By becoming engaged in a story, he learns that he was wrong about something and Belle was right, softening his pride and opening himself up to what other people have to say. We get to see him mature. He gets excited and happy and shows new emotions. Even the story they're reading (King Arthur) has implications. He sees that an ordinary boy can be a king, which maybe deep down makes him think that maybe a beast could become a man. That's reaching a bit, maybe, but I think the correlation is there. Making him literate and removing the "teaching beast to be more human through reading" aspect undermines the entire plot, and I can't for the life of me understand why they would change that. All they had to do was adapt the broadway version, if they wanted a live action movie. That's it. Such a failure.

[@pheonixrises11]

Timothy Snyder +

[@Ellie_deMayo]

And considering they added the whole "Women reading!?" thing, one would think it be some sort of pay-off.

[@katmaw5910]

THANK YOU - I thought I was the only one who was greatly irritated by this. Beast's illiteracy is a crucial factor to his lack of development and actual education that is then carefully and encouragingly built through the act of reading with a passionate, caring companion such as Belle. When he admits that he can not read, he is embarrassed and this is after he has clearly developed an appreciation for stories and why Belle enjoys them. He is ashamed for not having been taught but instead of being mocked or being enabled to continue living in his lack of education which is what the servants did (this is not a character fault as it makes sense that servants of such a powerful master would simply enable him to continue his ways) Belle is of course initially surprised but lovingly (because Belle is noted on her honesty and kindness as a person but of course, just scratch that, Disney) encourages the Beast to try reading and patiently listens to him and corrects his pronunciation errors. Plus, it's Romeo and Juliet which is in all fairness pretty lengthy and complicated so for Belle to patiently teach him to read that is honestly admirable. But no. Just scrap the whole thing. Bin that concept and ditch the connection. Sorry for the rant but this is such a crucial factor in this old, beloved tale that seems to be overlooked.

[@det.bullock4461]

That scene was originally cut from the movie and added to the home video version along with an additional song. That's why she doesn't mention it.

[@LinneAzalea]

Yes, this! I hated that change in the live action version. Not only is he an absolute a-hole when he rolls his eyes and is condescending about her choice of favorite book, but it also portrays him as some kind of book snob while he was supposed to be the complete opposite, which added to his character growth in the original movie. His snobbish ways adds to absolutely nothing in the live action version either. He didn’t teach her anything nor did he learn anything from her. That scene when he then shows off his library just adds to that bs. I really hated this adaption.

[@faithwhite4345]

Tbh, i dont like the trope of "disney characters making fun of disney in the movie theyre in" I just want to watch a fun fairytale i dont need or want that included

[@andrewcoleman5775]

Me too.

[@ForrestFox626]

I didn't mind it in Enchanted, but that's because it was coming from a place of love. Not trying to be woke.

[@andrewcoleman5775]

@@ForrestFox626 I know right.

[@ForrestFox626]

@@alexanderpowell2097 That also helps

[@louminouz]

Like that cringy princess scene in Wreck it Ralph 2.

[@Lardo137]

That opening rant against CimenaSins and other pedantic bad faith reviewers is the single greatest murder-by-words I've seen against any KZbinr.

[@swimmyswim417]

It’s a perfect complement to Folding Idea’s recent “love letter” to the Nostalgia Critic.

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

please don't tell me people take CinemaSins seriously. their whole schtick is being nitpicky assholes

[@Lardo137]

@@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong Sorry to say, but entire communities basically style their entire attitude and arguments just like CinemaSins. Full of tired "gotcha's" and tangential nitpicking and constant bad faith bullshit - I mean, have you seen any argument in a controversial video game KZbin video and seen how it goes? It's exactly as exhausting and stupid as you'd expect.

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

@@Lardo137 No I haven't. do those people not realize CS is making fun of them?

[@Lardo137]

@@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong nope

[@Cartoonie12]

"the worst change has got be..." Lefou? "The teleportation book..." THE WHAT

[@aztn19]

Escape Goat ...but then, NEVER USES THE BOOK to help fix anything that the characters have to did with in the entire movie! Why over-explain the “science” behind all the other enchantments & plot holes, but then add the most useful magic MacGuffin that gets forgotten by the film’s cast save for needing it for a pointless scene that goes absolutely nowhere? Yeah, making a big deal about this Lefou being gay & crushing on Gaston is equally as dumb as it’s in the same fruitless vein of adding that book of Instant Transmission, since that too went nowhere relevant, but at least I wasn’t yelling: “Use the teleport book to save Maurice and end the movie already!!!” in the theater upsetting my date - at least she liked this crappy remake!!

[@zau64]

I thought the book only showed an image of a time and place. I don't think it actually brought them there.

[@FenrirWolf42]

​@@zau64I only saw this movie once so I might be misremembering, but I swear she took something from the house and brought it back with her when they poofed back to the castle, meaning they were physically there.

[@cedesb6988]

She had the rattle with her in the carriage at the end of the movie

[@TazarZero]

Exactly!

[@Beerbottles123]

Personally, I didn't like the live-action BB is because they never showed off how clever Belle can be. I'm not talking about her book-smarts. Animated-Belle had guile, she managed to tricked Gaston out of her house, while Watson just vents off her disgust and frustration in a song.

[@rkgk1517]

The original reminds me a bit of Mulan... we learn that Mulan's crafty and resourceful from the first like... 3 minutes of her screentime. Mulan's cleverness is what saves the day/China twice over. The movie doesn't hit us over the head with "WOW ISN'T MULAN SO SMART? DID YOU NOTICE BEING SMART IS HER DEFINING CHARACTER TRAIT? ISN'T IT A SHAME THAT SHE'S A WOMAN IN THIS SOCIETY?" right away like the damn washing machine scene in the remake.

[@PartyC4nnon]

hmmm…interesting. Thinking back, Mulan's craftiness also causes her to get in trouble in the beginning, setting a chicken lose and setting a house (and a bride connoisseur's butt) on fire. I think that makes a big difference from BB. Mulan's cleverness is a good trait that saved China, but it also is the reason she causes so much disruption at home. In other words, it tells us that its a disruptive quality she has, but overall a good and praiseworthy one and she is rewarded for keeping that cleverness. We see how it causes antagonism, but we also see that its good. Bell's similar innovativeness remake is a good character trait. Just, objectively good. Why is the town against a washing machine? Why doesnt the town like women reading? Bell's relationship with town seems to setup a subplot, as Lindsey Ellis describes, where her talent someday becomes recognized. While this talent does help her to make a explosive to free her dad, its not really a fitting end to the arc. Having her be creative and inventive isn't really a problem, I think, its how the town responds to it. IF they had shown she made a washing machine and the town didnt notice or shrugged it off, at least then it would be more akin to characterization, and that would make her making an explosive believable (its still believable in the movie) without making it a subplot….still I'm not a film expert, maybe that would still make that inventive quality go nowhere in the movie….

[@TheSongwritingCat]

Part of the problem is that animated Gaston was more openly menacing. He crowds into her personal space and forces his way into her house so she has to be clever to stay safe and avoid upsetting him (a realistic danger for a woman rejecting a man) while still getting him out of the house. Live action Gaston grabs her skirt one time but she quickly pulls it back and darts into her house. There's no sense of physical coercion. Because live action Belle is so capable, we don't see Gaston as a threat anymore. It's like how live action Belle has to tell us that she's definitely not scared... which means we never see her being vulnerable. Real courage is not never being frightened. It's being frightened and still choosing to act.

[@beauswan6531]

'Wow your pores are much less noticeable now that I have human eyes' 'IT IS YOU!'

[@Agelus8]

It would be great if in the end "The Beast" still is a dick, but more likeable, kind like Kirito in SAO Abridged.

[@NexusKin]

So romantic!

[@KidSnivy69]

That would of been adorable!

[@Iratepandabear]

It’s so funny how in their attempt to make the movie more feminist, they made everything about it so much creepier and insulting than it ever was

[@wjzav1971]

Most attempts at "feminism" in media in a nutshell

[@KingsandGenerals]

Emma Watson would have eaten the whole plate, but the plate had eyes, and it totally spoiled her appetite.

[@youtubingjaguar5082]

Either that or she would have already Transfigured said plate back into a person. ;)

[@KingsandGenerals]

Right. Or would have started a movement to free all the servants!

[@youtubingjaguar5082]

Or both! It would be like S.P.E.W. all over again! ;)

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

S.P.E.W. wasn't even in the movies.

[@Greendalewitch]

Kings and Generals My theory is that she was messing around with time turners and went too far back in time.

[@EllieC130]

I like that the reading part also adds “random one nice black guard” who helps Belle clean up her clothes. Like the most pointless type of diversity; very progressive.

[@AstralMarmot]

God the subtext of that moment is truly appalling. "No no, you see, he was nice because he *gets* it! He recognizes that the vague allusion to oppression she experienced is **exactly** like his, because all oppression is experienced in the exact same way by all marginalized identities!" It's as though someone tried to explain intersectionality to them and they were like, "I heard 'intersection', I think I got it."

[@bugcatcher101]

yeah, like, you're telling me a girl being literate and useful to the rest of her town is unacceptable but apparently racism isn't a thing in this pre-revolutionary provincial village?

[@jordanhill465]

I thought he was the librarian? Not saying that makes anything better, just that they tried to have them be friends, because books.

[@jonathanbowers8964]

To be honest, Pre-Revolutionary France did depend heavily on its slave colony in Haiti and had a distinct difference between slaves and “free people of color”. It is quite likely that some of these “free people of color” could have ended up in rural France (particularly if the local nobility was particularly wealthy) in some capacity. So the presence of black characters isn’t really out of place (although maybe the town would have been more overtly prejudiced) given the time period and the deep economic ties that France had to Haiti. If we are going to judge this film on that regard, we might as well write off “The Crucible” for having Tituba (an enslaved black woman living in New England in the 1690’s) or any of Charles Dickens’ stories that feature Australians returning to the British Mainland.

[@katiemercer8868]

Jonathan Bowers someone’s been reading their gcse texts - the crucible and great expectations lol

[@jordanserchuk7418]

The thing that annoyed me the most (besides the magic book - that was the most jarring and unnecessary), was the fact that the changes to both the Beast's character and Gaston's blurred them too close together. One of the biggest points I always make in defense of the original movie is that even when the Beast is at his worst, he's more redeemable than Gaston. For one thing, like some other comments have pointed out, the original Beast is very childlike; his rages are scary because he's a beast, but they're very much a spoiled child's impulsive temper tantrums that he regrets afterwards. He clearly comes across as a boy who was cursed very young and never really grew up until Belle's arrival. He's never sexist either; his initial rudeness has nothing to do with Belle's gender. Portraying him as a foppish, woman-objectifying adult when he's cursed and cutting the moments of guilt and sincere attempts at kindness from his early scenes with Belle just doesn't feel right. Ditto the whole "Gaston has PTSD" conceit and all his new interactions with Maurice. Until the very end, the original Gaston is never prone to impulsiveness or outbursts of temper. He's a cold-blooded manipulator, which is worse. All this fits with the story's main theme too. Not only is the Beast ugly on the outside while Gaston is handsome, he's also more outwardly unpleasant at first while Gaston seems affable and funny, if boorish. But these traits are just as superficial as their looks; the original Beast always has inner decency and vulnerability, while Gaston has none. The live-action version makes them just too similar throughout.

[@X_MissMary_X]

It's like they tried to make Gaston both more and less villainous which... works out predictably awkwardly. I mean just compare the scene where Gaston approached Belle in the town about her book. In the original, he outright dismisses her hobby because it would lead to her developing her own autonomy. In the new one, he tries to make small talk about it coming across more like a bumbling 14-year-old who doesn't know how to talk to girls...

[@Stacey_Robinson]

Well said! +Jordan Serchuk

[@PittsburghSportsFan43]

Just because you're not as bad as one person doesn't necessarily make you good. They're just horrible in different ways. Like saying someone who beats a woman is better than a rapist. Both are still horrible people who inflict pain on their victims, just in different ways. Gaston was a POS but at least he KNEW Belle and wanted her despite what the townspeople saw as weird. The beast just wanted her so she could break the spell and turn him and all his servants back into people again.

[@mitchhamilton64]

yeah but you see here, theres something called growth in the original. the beast had thoughts of having her break the spell pushed on to him because of his servants. he has no confidence in himself that itll actually work. he does try to make her like him as well as do genuine stuff just to make her happy. like showing her his library and letting her have access it to it at all times. he did it just to make her happy for all shes done. he dances with her to form a connection and maybe make her fall in love but at this point hes falling in love himself. then he lets her go when she needs to instead of forcing her to stay. thats growth. we see beat grow from a selfish shut in whos given up hope to a caring person willing to let his own needs go in order to make the woman he loves happy. gaston saw belle as a trophy. a woman who was very different from the rest of them and therefor should be his. he also had no respect for her, envisioning their marriage as her basically attending to her man which is not an idea belle was fond of. we then see as gaston continues to have his anger and frustration get the better of him and makes him a worse person. rallying the townsfolk to his aid to kill what he perceives as a threat to his love for belle and he just wants a new trophy. its like the original had characters in them or something.

[@selina5598]

He wanted her for his own ego. Not much better

[@PotatoFarmer656]

I knew something felt off with the “Library Reveal” scene but I couldn’t place it until Lindsey pointed it out 🤣 It was so iconic and it felt like the start of a massive shift in the Beast’s personality and their romantic dynamic. Letting her have the library was a gift, and it was really sweet how unsure he was when he asked if Belle if she liked it. But the tone was so different in the 2017 version, and as Lindsey said, he’s just “showing off”, goddamn

[@nick-playercharacter8583]

The best thing I've ever had to say about the live-action remake is that it really made me appreciate how good the animated film is.

[@april5897]

Same!! The whole time I was watching it I was just itching to watch the original! Especially for any of the musical bits...

[@DumbIdeaPresentedStupidly]

The NPC wanna do that even more watch the 30 min stage production at Hollywood studios

[@marissach]

I was so disapointed by the library scene. That was the best scene in the original, both for the character growth that beast noticed that Belle loved books and actively thought about a present and the epic library reveal. But the new one threw the scene away "Oh I guess you can have my library, it's dark and dank."

[@kragary]

Even worse, it's yet another negg: "You can start educating yourself by reading any book in my library. Because all of them are better than the crap you like."

[@marissach]

@@kragary Oh man, I didn't even think about that! I was so focused on the bad lighting and bad cinematography. All Disney had to do was make the original scene live action, but no, we get a negg instead.

[@kombuchas4684]

Plus the way she looks so happy in the library. Felt like she fell in love with him because he gave her something she wanted, not out of genuine kindness.

[@fabiomoreira1506]

@@marissach fun fact that library is the Biblioteca da universidade de Coimbra in Portugal.

[@TAPriceCTR]

@@kombuchas4684 and this differs from reality... how?

[@rjill7000]

Can't wait until the Hunchback of Notre Dame remake reveals Frollo is attracted to Esmeralda since she reminds him of his mother whom was hanged, burned, and whipped to death wile giving birth to him.

[@LeMasterofSwords]

Midnight Rantzzz what is this? Berserk?

[@alicetheblackrabbit5872]

Okay... That little comment, Gave me berserk vibes.

[@danielburns3240]

Hot.

[@historynerd205]

Tbh, if they decide to follow the plot of the original novel by Victor Hugo, like the musical, it would be quite interesting. Of course, it would need to be woke, so Esmeralda will undeniably be turned into a gIrL bOSs/giant prick. Oh well.

[@redforest9269]

I first read that as Frollo hanging, burning, and whipping his mother to death while still in the womb. XD

[@irnistarfirix]

Another problem with the live action movie is that it is so dark - like literally, I can't make out most of the expressions in a lot of scenes. The animated version managed to have dimly lit scenes but you could still see everything clearly.

[@0racleRose]

Exactly. Even the scenes she shows in the review are so dark I can't see a thing!!!

[@nkbujvytcygvujno6006]

This is more a problem with most modern moviemaking- the executives of most companies seem to have caught some idea that having a film be deliberately hard to see, with lots of shadow and darkness, makes it look more mature, gritty, and realistic. This idea seems to have originated after The Dark Knight, and the trend just keeps getting worse with each movie put out this way. Lighting departments are actually staffed with people trained in using dark-colored blue and grey light to make a scene look dark while still clearly showing what’s going on- they’re just being _told_ not to do this. Because privileged rich idiots are always the ones put in charge of moviemaking companies, and they don’t know what audiences want, so they just keep following bad trends and ignoring the advice of anyone with talent on staff.

[@Achillez098]

"We have no obligation to make art, history, or statements. But to make money it is often important to make art, history, or some significant statement." I will give this guy points for honesty...

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

Fantastic read, Disneywar. His Singles and Doubles idea wasn't a bad idea moneywise. But he got drunk on power like most people and went from medium budget movies that turn a steady profit to titanic messes like Pearl Harbor.

[@pinkwings8036]

Nothing has ever soured the magic Disney creates for me more than that quote. All of the passion and effort from the creative teams during the Disney Renaissance to be led by that line of thinking. It sours everything. that so much powerful and innovative creations were an afterthought and byproduct instead of wanting to make the stockholders happy.

[@Bryon_Turner]

Exactly! I'm a child of the 80's. Most of my childhood cartoons were nothing more than 30 minute long toy commercials. Doesn't mean they weren't great. Money is a great motivating factor. Unfortunately most other contemporary art is not valued like this.

[@brianmead7556]

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." At least he did understand the single prime point of a business: profit.

[@michaelhenry3234]

Achillez It, honestly, makes me respect him more.

[@oldoutlet6946]

Old Disney: Enchanting New Disney: Pandering

[@andrewcoleman5775]

Me: Dead inside.

[@nickv.3573]

@Retendo most of it was adapted not stolen. Except for Lion King that seemed like a shameless ripoff.

[@tophatring8445]

Retendo they did adaptations. The fairytales they took weren’t kid friendly and they wanted to change it up and make it friendlier for kids.

[@isaacledesma2557]

@Retendo sO WoKe

[@vetarlittorf1807]

@Lil Van Damme Kimba the White Lion might disagree.

[@Evgesha1990]

"Cinderella 3" is really the best of all Disney DVD-sequels. I like it.

[@QuintonReviews]

I love how educational your content is. It’s so layered and smart, and says so much more than other film channels. Keep up the incredible work!

[@xmlthegreat]

Quinton Reviews yeah and it's so much unlike yours... Jk lol.

[@violet5188]

Quinton Reviews Loved the Rage Comics video :)

[@TheOobo]

So. Crossover episode?

[@lucidexistance1]

Stop flirting. :P

[@Ebrahim_17]

yea Quinton shes married!

[@MrsBlack88]

One of my favorite parts in the original film was how books are something that help bond Belle and the Beast. He's an adult with anger problems but you get to see how he's still just a boy because a simple thing like reading makes him so happy & peaceful. It's also significant considering how Belle was constantly mocked for reading by everyone in town and Gaston saying "it's not right for a woman to read". Contrastingly, the Beast loves hearing Belle read and she teaches him to read as well, signifying his growing up. THAT is a good dynamic, not the Beast sneering at Belle for liking Romeo and Juliet.

[@starbird3939]

THIS! I kinda wish this little part was kept (the "Human Again" song I don't care for and don't mind its exclusion), It's just so.... perfect.

[@TheSongwritingCat]

I don't mind him sneering at R&J. It's a silly idea of romance and more of a cautionary tale about overly emotional teens. But the screenplay didn't do enough to show them bonding over literature. Oh, he allows her to read him a poem and then they stare out into the distance in companionable silence? So many men scoff at romance but don't understand it well enough to write it.

[@MrsBlack88]

TheSongwritingCat - My point was moreso that in the live action everyone sneers at her for reading, and then when she finally meets someone who also likes reading he’s a dick about what she enjoys. This erases the crucial difference between the Beast and everyone else-where Gaston is a rude, ignorant dumbass, the Beast is a rude, pretentious brat who, instead of mocking her for reading, mocks her for reading the wrong things. OG Beast loved when Belle read to him and would encourage her to do so because he found the same passion in stories as she did.

[@MrTristy22]

So did they put that in because "He's a dude and dudes wouldn't dig romance or girly things like that"? Well, I'm a dude. I grew up watching Disney princess movies and loving them. I was into things like Beatrix Potter and the Secret Garden as a kid. What I'm saying is just because you see several videos of a guy scoffing at the idea of something romantic doesn't mean there isn't someone who genuinely loves that who exists.

[@skylerdaniels9190]

Exactly! How is this Beast's reaction to Belle's favorite book any different than how Gaston would react?? I hate it

[@bisexualichigo4227]

Oh boy, if only you knew how horrible Mulan (2020) turned out to be. I’m still waiting for a good remake of an animated classic.

[@SamMoffatt]

Totally nailed it on the lack of music too!

[@AdamConus]

aladdin was pretty good

[@justanotherfangirlontheint4084]

Cinderella was great in my opinion.

[@dillonohlemiller9027]

Petes dragon

[@anteater9408]

You're probably never gonna get one

[@inthediamondsky]

you know what pissed me off?? THE FLOWER WASN'T GLOWING. GLOW ROSE, GLOW.

[@fabiomoreira1506]

To me was how Belle acts like she's so much better than everybody just because she can read. Lots of people can read you stuck up bitch... XD

[@supercatush]

I haven't notice that, untill you mencioned it AND NOW I'M SO F*CKING ANGRY GLOW ROSE, GLOWWWWWW

[@bryantbboyd3690]

@@supercatush the fact that you didn't notice it,proves it doesn't matter

[@emilyb.8219]

To borrow from Tangled: "Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine"

[@julianfantasia9033]

AGREED, damn.

[@souseiseki90]

Back when I still obsessed with Disney, I wanted to love this movie. I really really do. I was excited that they decided Emma Watson as Belle. Boy, I was so wrong about that. The acting is so bad, the writing features so many potential subplots that didn't go anywhere, and the worse of all, not chemistry between Belle and Beast. There are no intense romantic moments like in the original. As a result, the dance scene looked plain and meaningless, because the movie failed to make me believe that they are actually in love. This movie, unfortunately, breaks all my obsession toward Disney, from loving it to hating it, to not caring about it anymore. When I looked back at this moment, it still kinda sad.

[@grimmandtonics]

Not to mention the adamant focus on an inconsequential detail like not wearing a corset with the ballgown and THAT is the thing that made Belle so feminist shows how Disney (and consequently Emma Watson) still have outdated views on actual feminism. If they REALLY wanted to have a real feminist character they would have made her a woman of color in a provincial French town in that time period and all the struggles that a woman would have there. Same with the "gay" character. You could have done anything better than the outdated 90's view of homosexuality which is gay = offensively femme. Sigh.

[@sarakhairuddin5041]

You should watch the Cinderella adaptation version, that's literally the only Disney live action movie that has true magic in them

[@souseiseki90]

@@sarakhairuddin5041 Cinderella 2015 actually my favoritr Disney live action adaptation that are not retelling like Maleficent🥰🥰🥰🥰. It is straight up adaptation of the original story and straight fairy tale adaptation with enough update for modern audienxe without losing all the fairy tale magic. It actually felt like fairy tale free from all the satire and cynical comedy that you usually found on Shrek which is rarity in this post fairy tale deconstruction era. To be honest, looking at the interview and behind the scene of Cindetela 2015, the movie is more like a readaptation of the same material with some borrowed element from Disney animated movie rather than direct remake of the animated movie. It managed to stand as its own. Add thst to not making it into musical, it felt magical, new, and nostalgic at the same time. Sorry i talk lot😝

[@zurzakne-etra7069]

these animated movies were never meant to be made into live action versions... regardless of how much money you throw into something like this, it will still be shite

[@sunakitty7587]

*in the happiest most irritated tone* "THANKS I HATE IT." *EDIT* HOLY SHIT OVER A THOUSAND LIKES??! YOU GUYS ARE SO SWEET

[@tonycampbell1424]

whimper_ snapper I need this as a gif.

[@officialgoogleyoutube]

I don't mean any offense, but why comment this?

[@sunakitty7587]

Guy Incognito cause its funny

[@officialgoogleyoutube]

But it's just a quote from the video. You just typed out a quote from the video. I do not understand that.

[@sunakitty7587]

Guy Incognito thats basically the biggest form of youtube "comedy" cause people read it and give a light chuckle cause, hey that part was funny

[@katelynpringle5506]

It’s a shame Lindsey couldn’t hold all these feelings in until Mulan 2020, because that movie takes every problem she points out here and ramps it up to 11. I want to watch her destroy that movie.

[@kimifw58]

I don't think she ever will because that "Raya = Avatar" backlash seems to have scared her off of KZbin for good.

[@LilyApus]

@@kimifw58 oh shit what happened? I just found this channel and I didn't realize it was seemingly dead..

[@kimifw58]

@@LilyApus She said the Raya movie was a rip-off of Avatar the Last Airbender. Disney fans called her racist for saying East Asian cultures are the same as a South East Asian cultures, which she didn't. They saw any criticism for that movie as punching down because it was pandering to an underrepresented culture, so nothing she said reached them. ...Except when she compared herself to a trans person who got harassed online by transphobes. She made a video about this mess called "Mask Off." I wouldn't recommend watching it because it takes _forever_ to get to the point. Other KZbinrs have made videos about it which is how I know in the first place. Good news is Xiran Jay Zhao, who destroyed the Mulan remake, has since gathered South East Asian people to destroy Raya the same way and effectively defend Lindsay. I haven't seen any changes, though. Lindsay's still gone.

[@LilyApus]

@@kimifw58 I assume this all happened on twitter which is a terrible place to go with opinions of any kind because if there is one place on the entire internet that is determined to read way into something it's there, also seeing that she made a few videos after the "Mask off" one it seems like her desire for KZbin naturally died off sometime after that incident which is a real shame, hopefully her book worked out for her and she doesn't "need" to make videos, but I sure will miss the ones she will never make, I do find it intensely ironic the things she has covered so far of which there have been quite a few hot topics that a shitty dragon movie that was designed to pander to people which is never a good goal in the first place and should insult them more than empower them is what sends the mob after her in the end. also I love the Dib pfp, and thank you for answering in detail.

[@liv97497]

​@@LilyApus as far as I can surmise, it became really exhausting for her because this kind of thing had happened before, except the other times it was usually right wing twitter dragging her for something she'd said in a video. For as long as I've been a subscriber, I remember it happening twice before this final blow. There's a wonderful video of a talk she gave at an event, speaking generally about KZbin, video essays and her Hugo nomination, but it's a little disheartening because she's visibly so nervous - it was right after one of those attacks. You're right, twitter is a hellscape. It honestly makes me sad because her videos are genuinely good content. But her two books are really good (highly recommend) and she's making videos exclusively on nebula now, which people have to pay/subscribe to access, and that makes it much harder for something like this to happen again.

[@KimmimaruSai]

"they bond over their mothers" MARTHA?????????

[@oof-rr5nf]

*WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME*

[@virgilbarrios3174]

wHy d1D yU0 sAy tHaT nAm3

[@markuscriticus8278]

Honestly, even those two had better chemistry. "I don't... Not like you."

[@oof-rr5nf]

@@markuscriticus8278 oh Bruce was crushing on Clark 100%

[@Killzoneguy117]

"Our moms have the same name? Okay, we're friends now"

[@Jemini4228]

Morgana, "Ursula's crazy sister" still wins the 'most awkward and ham fisted character name introduction' award XD

[@winterlynn9012]

Jenny Sweeney It really does! Lol even as a child I remember thinking that was a stupid and weird line. Now as an adult I realize it's because is extremely sloppy and lazy exposition.

[@Jemini4228]

@@winterlynn9012 Here's a better way for them: Morgana acts crazy, another character calls her crazier than her sister. Then she says something about Ursula mentioning her by name, possibly giving us an early indication of her bitterness towards her to develop her character. Or you could have Sebastian awkwardly yelp it lol.

[@DedicatedShipper]

I mean. That’s true, but man did I love Melody as a kid.

[@melissam597]

Jenny Sweeney was Ursula meant to be not crazy lol

[@FabulousKilljoy]

Winter Harris SAME 😂 I’ve always made fun of it

[@heartbeatpoetry7704]

You forgot to mention the library change makes Belle into kinda a gold digger. She's all anti until that point, then suddenly she sees all this wealth of books and suddenly her attitude changes.

[@kinmizuki2984]

heartbeatpoetry and yet they have the balls to say that the original Belle wasn’t feminist enough.

[@melissam597]

I don’t mind this movie too much but I hate that they took the romance out of that scene, but then in the original there’s a mere ten minutes between him being abusive and them dancing so at least they paced the development of the romance a bit better. Neither is perfect I guess.

[@fabiomoreira1506]

Fun fact: IRL that's the Biblioteca da Universidade de Coimbra in Portugal

[@23Scadu]

Now I ain't sayin she a gold digger, but she ain't messin with no... bookless... beasts?

[@artoo36]

@@melissam597 In the original there are weeks between him being abusive and them dancing. Maybe even months. There are methods of storytelling and film-making that allow you to cover large amounts of story time in small amounts of real time, and the pacing is still perfectly fine. If you take issue with that pacing, then you have to take issue with the entire movie, because it's all paced quickly - it's a children's story made for a slightly shorter attention span and a shorter run-time. But they did an excellent job with it, from a technical standpoint.

[@xingcat]

The one trend I've disliked since online criticism started happening is the idea that internal consistency is more important than any other element in a movie.

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

xingcat Why is that a bad thing? A movie shouldn't be able to just contradict it's own rules whenever they become inconvenient.

[@maxxam4665]

It's a bad thing when you (generic you) have nothing to say on something and you pick a "random nitpick criticism from the internet" and make it the theme of the movie. Internet sometimes is a serious issue for critical thinking... well more the sometimes in than last years.

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

Max Xam But that doesn't have anything to do with the film's internal consistency, as internet discussion happens once the film or at least the trailers have been released, once you can't really change it.

[@maxxam4665]

I think it does, in its perception. Today it's all about taking sides on the internet, be with or against. So if I admit there is something wrong in the film's internal consistency it is assumed that I hate it. On the contrary, it seems to me that if I really like something, i should have no criticism whatsever about it. I am afraid that the internet discussions are able to "change" a film, perverting the perception we have about it. If you like a film, you can have something to criticize. I f you don't like a movie, there can be things, scenes, interpretations that you like in it. It's like there is no middle ground. Btw I don't like this film.

[@mastermarkus5307]

Agreed. I criticize the hell out of things I like, and sometimes enjoy nitpicking, but unless such things actually ruin the enjoyment or "form" of a piece of media I don't think these should be given concession just because some people notice them, because as pointed out many times in this video, sometimes filling the holes just turn into clumsy, far too pointed dialogue that ultimately mess up the impact of the story, and spoon-feed the audience information.

[@pjoned6634]

I'm glad somebody finally addresses that they weren't supposed to tell Belle about the rose or the curse! Every time I tell that to someone they don't understand that she's supposed to develop those feelings without her knowing he was human once. She's supposed to develop these feelings thinking that he is truly a beast, but she loves him anyway. I honestly hated this remake, and my friends hate me for hating it.

[@TheRisky9]

There are ways she can know about the curse and it can be appropriate. Christophe Gan's "Beauty and the Beast" did well with this. But the Beast wasn't trying to make Belle fall in love with him. He pretty much figured that she couldn't. The rose her father picked had a "Life for a life" rule attached to it. So if the rose is taken, then a life must pay for it. And Belle chooses that it must be her own life. (And there's a whole reason for that that makes sense.) So it can be done, but you have to take a completely different approach to the whole concept. And that is precisely the problem with this version.

[@cceerrs]

You must be the wise one amongst your friends :|

[@yurihageshi8008]

@@TheRisky9 was that with Scott as the beast? That version was epic

[@DuelaDent52]

Sweaty I mean, that's not like they tell her HOW to break the curse or that she has to fall in love with Beast. When Belle asks what she can do to help, they just say they're cursed and have made their peace with things. Still, I'm sorry your friends treat you that way.

[@andrewcoleman5775]

Someone likes this movie. The apocalypse has arrived way too early.

[@nanalove3819]

I always considered that the staff was turned into objects because the Beast treated people as objects, and the witch wanted to reflect that. That was unfair for the staff, but it was part of the Beast's "punishment". But then the movie want me to believe the staff were cursed because they were responsible of the Beast's education and didn't help him with his cruel father... Even if the cursed people in this castle includes a child and a dog.

[@KaitoLune]

They...they really botched the whole literacy angle in the remake. Belle and her love of reading is one of the many things that put her at odds with her town. Gaston voices the most negative opinion of women reading ("the next thing you know, she gets ideas"), and thus tells the audience in a wonderful display of "show, don't tell" that he doesn't value Belle's ability to think for herself. Meanwhile, the Beast, whom is illiterate, is taught to read by Belle and he expresses such satisfaction reading with her just in one scene. The whole point of literacy being a thing in the original movie was to help highlight the differences between Gaston and Beast. Making the Beast know how to read and then criticizing her favorite book, as Lindsay pointed out, just makes him a douchebag. Oh god, and that one song after Beast lets Belle go to her dad--don't get me started on how that destroys his character development.

[@gwendolynstata3775]

Okay, was the Beast illiterate in the original movie, or was that added in by the sequels. Because I swear that the original film made no mention of the Beast being illiterate, and you think that he WOULD be literate, being a prince and all.

[@MaryC861]

Gwendolyn Stata It's addressed in the first film with the "Human Again" number although this was added later in the special edition of the film and not in the original theatrical release.

[@rueenglish9328]

Okay, this is the ONE thing from the live action film I will defend. The Beast is a prince. Royals were basically required to be educated. Belle shouldn't have had to teach him how to be literate in the first place. It's not as eye-roll inducing as the other "fixes" because it was legitimately a reasonable enough choice to add it in. BUT The thing about that is how the 2017 version introduced that idea and just... let it die soon after, like an ember. They could've done so much with it, man. It's kind of amazing how much potential they wasted by turning it into an excuse for the Beast to mansplain. They coulda kept that montage from of Belle teaching the Beast how to be a person from the original, but then it ends in the part where she tries to teach him how to read. She tells him there's no pictures in the book but it's a fascinating book regardless. And the Beast just kinda groans like a child who doesn't wanna do his homework, but then completely blindsides Belle by reading it perfectly, even adding some silly accents to the characters whose lines he's reciting aloud. And after that he's like "What? Did you forget that I'm a prince just cause I'm a Beast?". Belle could've retorted back that she's guilty as charged, and then they nerd over Shakespeare or whatever with each other for hours, even past midnight. And maybe some days after he decides to impress Belle and spruce up that old, dusty library he hasn't used in years just for her. It could have been sooooo good. We coulda gotten an endearing, humanizing moment from Belle and Beast's shared interests, actually adding character depth to both of them, thereby enhancing their chemistry.... but nah. Just make him a smug douchebag. (An afterthought: About Gaston. It's worth noting that /he's not so literate himself./ In the original he chides Belle for reading a book, but then holds it up sideways and upside down complaining there's no pictures when he grabs it from her. So we could've had a neat juxtaposition between the Beast's opening heart and willingness to improve himself and Gaston's narcissism and boorish ignorance through their literacy....... BUT NAAAAAAAAAHHH)

[@BrightWulph]

IIRC in the "Human Again" number Beast/Adam say's that he learned, but he had forgotten how to read.

[@gRinchY-op5vr]

Rue English in the "Human Again" scene in the animated version, he flat out admits he learned how to read growing up - but over the years has forgotten. Not only does it give them the connection of her reminding him two to read but he's also less of a dick - so how they handled it in the remake is even WORSE when you think about that scene (and frankly takes away all defence of it lol)

[@samkuperman9035]

Emma Watson had this whole thing about how corsets are bad/patriarchal and thus she wouldn’t wear one for this film. As well intentioned as she was with this, she fundamentally misunderstood was corsets are/were. Corsets, when laced properly and comfortably, function the same as bras; they support the breasts and back, as well as make the heavy skirts and petticoats of 18th century fashion wearable. Most dresses of such construction *cannot be worn without corsets* because of how fucking heavy these big ass skirts are. The tight-lacing to the point of breathing problems and squished organs was a more recent phenomena that came about when the corset was falling out of fashion, and it wasn’t all that common to begin with. Because of this line of thinking, the dress looks like some cheap, modern prom dress rather than something special and magical. That seems like a minor complaint, but it goes to show how this Hashtag Woke™️ faux progressive, Hollywood liberalism worked to the film’s detriment.

[@boopboop1854]

Samantha Kuperman thank you for this

[@FischerFilmStudio]

boop boop agreed!

[@AWlpsSHOW36]

Corsets in the Victorian Era were crap and torture devices. They squashed ribs and organs and many women couldn't breath in them. That's why swooning was a thing back then, they were fainting all the time because they couldn't breathe! And it was more about appearance instead of body support. Sorry but as a history buff and activist, I personally find corsets crap.

[@samkuperman9035]

AWlpsSHOW36, you’re talking about corsets *in the Victorian era*. Corsets from the 16th to 18th century were cone shaped and functional; providing much welcome support to toros that bore many children or endured hard labor. Even in the Victorian Era, this practice was uncommon, it was mainly a kind of fetish. The Victorian equivalent of the that Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge from a while back. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHbbe6ahd7-WjZI

[@AWlpsSHOW36]

@@samkuperman9035 Oh wow. Interesting.

[@mrchuckmorris]

Cinderella 3 is a goofy half-masterpiece of a direct-to-VHS sequel, and I love it. I saw a couple scenes over my daughter's shoulder a couple years ago, and the minute Prince Charming nope'd out the window I was sold. Also, any time Jennifer Hale or Jim Cummings get to perform their spot-on impersonations of dead classic-Disney voice actors, it's golden.

[@doctortehe]

It's so weirdly good and it gives both the Prince and Cinderella some character development

[@taewae]

cinderella 3 is genuinely better than any of these live-action remakes

[@ScionStorm1]

Of all those sequels that were made the only two I really liked was Cinderella 3 and Bambi 2. Bambi 2 was just straight forward fill-in-the-time-gap story developing the estranged relationship between a previously absent father and his newly motherless son. I like a handful of aspects from the third little mermaid movie such as Triton's reason for hating humans, the reason Sebastian is so highly regarded with Triton, exploring the personalities of Ariel's sisters. Everything else was ...not great. Flouder was a completely different character. The villain sucked. At least it wasn't a complete waste like the second little mermaid movie which I generally pretend doesn't exist.

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

I wish you could "bookmark" yt comments like Quora answers, because this entire "thread" has me nodding in agreement and "yep, that!"-ing.

[@wandanemer2630]

Cinderella 3 is the best of the buch and I say that with pride! Little Mermaid 3 was pretty nice, and worked as a story on its own. Bambi 2 was also quite good and interesting! Mulan 2 isn't *that* bad... And I just refuse to believe Pocahontas 2, Little Mermaid 2 and (worst of them all) Hunchback 2 even exist.

[@toosleebee]

Also, the "Belle" scene for me was so infuriating. The fashion was all over the place. They were supposed to be in a 'poor provincial town' as Belle states but a lot of people are really well-dressed. Yes, maybe some characters in the town could be richer but the change of clothes wouldn't be that drastic. idk I'm not an expert

[@batyalivni3577]

You just don't have the right feel for the town. It sets no mood. I liked the original safe, deary, dull town because it was in wonderful contrast to the strange and uncanny woods and castle. In this one, it's more like "oh, so we're here now". No mood shift.

[@ducksick9973]

The fact that in the original movie the whole town fashion is earthy, dull colors and Belle was the only one dressed in blue to emphasize on her being the odd one out, now she's just a random town npc who happens to read

[@Marie45610]

My petty nonsense complaint about the movie is that they ruined the dress. Also holy auto-tune batman.

[@mfstarr1]

yes thank you it was awful emma ruined it

[@graceearl5997]

I agree with Emma’s singing, it was WAAAAYYY too auto tuned.

[@razzle2429]

@@graceearl5997 And there are so many parts where the music swells and Belle is supposed to hit a high note, but because Emma Watson isn't a singer, she can't. So the music sort of swells...to nothing.

[@TheDoomChibi]

They succeeded at making sure it looks good in motion for the ballroom scene, but it just looks so dead otherwise...

[@irockyoursockzsobad]

Emmy is an actual traditionally trained singer in opera, but for Whatever reason they auto tuned her.... it was also her first movie, so her name wasn't a pull back then. Butler on the other hand... was a pull. But damn can that man act.

[@doll_dress_swap12]

"we can't leave things to people's imaginations, then they might go make an internet about it"

[@andyp9969]

Also haven't they heard of exaggeration? It's not a literal ten years, and besides how do you explain the stain glass and the potrait? He does not look ten in either one

[@fightingmedialounge519]

Seems kind of like an overreaction considering the movie doesn't really do much to imply the fact. I mean it wasn't that important to begin with.

[@salamandah69]

Ironically Disney took the magic out of this movie. I think it has to do in part, because it's live-action and they wanted to make it seem more realistic. But the overexplaining killed the magic that existed.

[@kidicarusuprising6233]

Also, I'm pretty sure that the Beast loves Romeo and Juliet because in the Extended Animated version, he asks Belle if she could read the story to him again and she actually asks him if he could read it to her. The Beast didn't know how to read, well, maybe a little, and she even helped him learn how to read.

[@jamestown8398]

Wouldn't "the servants got punished too because the sorceress is a vindictive jerk" be a simpler explanation?

[@TheRisky9]

Right. In the cartoon she's a very typical magical being that you find in old western European fairy tales and folklore. Sometimes they were helpful. Sometimes they weren't. It's rarely explained why they do the things they do or why they have any interest in mortals at all. Why did this enchantress go dressed as a hag? I don't know. Why did the three witches predict MacBeth's fate. What interest would they have in Scottish politics? Who knows? But consistent with their nature when they are scorned, these magic beings do retaliate, and it's often disproportional to the crime. They will take the first born child because a father picked a flower in their garden. Or they will curse person in terrible ways. I actually thought the Enchantress in "Beauty and the Beast" was quite tame in comparison to what some of them do.

[@BOYVIRGO666]

Also Fairys and witches in fairy tales are assholes. This is not new information.

[@Spar10Leonidas]

I really have to ask: What kind of moral compass does one have if they're willing to place a curse on a 10-year-old boy for being a bit selfish? Is anyone really that surprised that someone willing to do that might also be willing to "punish" a bunch of innocent bystanders in the process? Too many of these people fishing for "flaws" don't put a lot of thought into the ones they come up with (and, even worse, most of those types refuse to concede that they might be wrong).

[@BOYVIRGO666]

@Will N Well yeah, they gotta be, you gotta say the spells.

[@razzle2429]

@@Spar10Leonidas It made even less sense in the remake because the enchantress saw first-hand Gaston being far more cruel and egotistical than the Beast was...yet she did nothing?? So, she only had an issue with the Beast being an asshole, I suppose.

[@stevenalexander6713]

"Look at my library! Isn't it grand?" "The one at Hogwarts is bigger." "WHAT!?!"

[@edenjung9816]

But he has atleast a bigger dick than Ron.

[@animalanomalies1601]

underrated comment

[@SecondTake123]

😂

[@mysterygirl6305]

Or the movie could have made a shuttle joke and she could have said, "I've seen bigger, but this is nice too" .

[@paulaqueirosz]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤵🏻🤣

[@FromKentuckytoTokyo]

My god, this is amazing. I might add one more point: The whole point of the first "Beauty and the Beast" was actually a bit of a meta-reaction, too. Before that film, Disney faced criticism for always depicting the "ugly" people as villains. The old film sought to remedy that problem to show beautiful people (like Gaston) could be villains, and the "ugly" people (the Beast) could be good people. The whole point was not to judge people by appearances, but how they act. The animated movie succeeded in getting that message across because it stayed FOCUSED on this one message and built a story around it. The live action movie lacked any of that FOCUS. It wanted a thousand different messages, ideas, and themes, and the story suffered for it. It's not *wrong* to have a meta-reaction in a film, just keep your focus on what is the core message of the story.

[@Evija3000]

From Kentucky to Tokyo And of course the same message was clearly shown in how the curse came to be, in the prince rejecting an old, ugly woman. And come to think of it, it might even go as far as the servants, because since they were objects, none of them was pretty or ugly, they were just personalities.

[@KindredBrujah]

In fact, it achieved the opposite, since the Beast was *not* a sympathetic character and Gaston kind of was.

[@TheSongwritingCat]

God, yes. The screenplay of the remake is so muddled.

[@dylanmatthews2677]

Wait can you imagine how fucked up it would have been if the Beast wasn't able to break the spell? He stays a beast forever, sure, but everyone just becomes inanimate objects so he'll basically be walking around his house full of the corpses of his dead staff

[@Ken19700]

Another mark against Belle getting in trouble for teaching a girl to read is that Beauty and the Beast was written by a woman (Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve) in 1740.

[@khfan4life365]

Ken MacMillan Also, the village didn’t hate Belle. They found her odd and quirky but not detestable. In the Belle song, they gaze at her with wonder and amusement. That’s another reason why I hated this movie.

[@jeromyperez5532]

@Brigid Madden Additionally, she seemingly admires the provincial people, but desires more than what they can give her. She's grateful for what she has, while aspiring to do and see more of the adventures of life. She puts the onus on herself rather than the village like in the 2017 film. She seemingly hates the village and they hate her. She's the outcast liberal. IMO this is the boardroom saying "We need the protagonist to be more like the target demographic."

[@razzle2429]

@@jeromyperez5532 Yeah, that's why I never understood the criticism of Belle being too 'pompous' or 'condescending'. She was never either of those things. She did seem to like the townspeople and seemed to know everyone by name (the song is called "Bonjour!" after all...she is saying hello to everyone in town) but she just wants more for herself than simply doing the same thing over and over every single day. She doesn't hate the townspeople for not wanting more or for finding her strange. She's maybe a little frustrated than nobody understands her, but that's only because she's lonely.

[@danette26]

Emma Watson was casted as Belle just because her most known role is another bookworm. They needed an actress with a background in musical theater. The Broadway-like bombastic singing style sets princesses such as Belle and Elsa apart from more modern princesses like Rapunzel, for example.

[@buffycatnip]

@Siren Drake a lot people say that emmy rossum would be a good fit for belle because she has experience in theater singing and looks similar to the cartoon belle. i loved emma watson in perks of being a wallflower and harry potter but for some reason, it was like she forgot how to act in beauty and the beast. i hated the dress too and i feel like it clashed with her skintone

[@kimifw58]

Yeah, why didn't Lindsay talk about Emma's awful singing and costume design? Yes, that's right. The _actress_ designed her character's dress. That is just bizarrely unprofessional. I'm sure a good deal of actors are skilled in costuming, but they should have credentials for such a skill before taking work from the actual costume department. I really want to understand Disney's logic behind this. "Hey, she's famous for this one thing, so let's rely on her to do other things that she has shown no talent in even though we can very easily get other people to do those things."

[@janalynsteele8002]

@Siren Drake I've been saying the feather duster would've been a better Belle for years! PLUS she (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) can sing! She sings beautifully in Beyond the Lights, and it was hugely distracting to me to see her in this auto-tuned mess.

[@YourCreativeDreamer]

I soooo wish they had casted Laura Osnes in the role instead!

[@DorianYarg]

And also, in Beaty and the beast (1991) Belle felt alone because she had no one to share her hobbies with. The only persone who loved books as she did, was the man from the book shop, but he is represented as a very old man, and an eventual friendship with a young girl was unlikly. In the new version of Beauty and the beast, the man from the book shop was a young and hot man! Why on earth did Belle feel alone? She had an opportunity to have a friend with her same passion for reading, there is no reason she should feel totally alone as in the previous movie.

[@michaelc5824]

When Lefou and Gaston are on horseback and see Belle. Gaston cannot explain why he likes her. Lefou says, “She has a certain ‘Je ne sais quois’” And Gaston says “I don’t know what that means.” Like... what?!?! This story takes place in France!!!!

[@cyancyborg1477]

Half the cast has British accents for some reason, I guess it makes sense in the worst way.

[@andrewcoleman5775]

Gaston needs a dictionary just to look up French language.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Funny thing is, if you rearrange the order of the words of Gaston's reply, it becomes "That means 'I don't know what'."

[@KrBme78]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter This is what happens when you hire Yoda as screenwriter!

[@tophatring8445]

Michael C yea and Belle has a British accent too 😂

[@wickedphant0m]

One thing that I wish had been touched on... this "live action" remake was still fully dependent on animation... but the animation is actually a hindrance to the story due to the reliance on realism and desire to supposedly be plot hole free. Something about the 1991 movie that was so masterful was how the animators brought the objects to life with personality and with feelings. They created actual characters who could express themselves, and who the audience could connect with. The animation in the 2017 version just made realistic looking objects that were self ambulatory and could talk. The matronly warmth of Mrs Potts' round face and big nose (the spout) is replaced by 2D lines painted on the side of a teapot. Lumiere and Cogsworth have basically no expression for the entire movie, and so much of Lumiere's charm is robbed by us not seeing his mischievous smirks and winks. It's an example which Lindsay references sometimes about filmmakers not really understanding their mediums... the 2017 crew was so in the mindset of making this "live action realism" movie that they didn't understand what it was about the animated movie that made it so good. Likewise, the animation for Beast also is a massive downgrade when it comes to emotional resonance. The 1991 movie makes a HUGE deal about Beast's eyes. They are drawn large, and they are expressive as hell, in a way that you can really only get from a cartoon or a very theatrical live actor. The 2017 motion capture vfx made his eyes smaller and got rid of all the color contrast of his brows, leading to a super stoic overall look that is kind of flat for the majority of the film. Couple that with the changes to the screenplay that caused the actor to make different acting choices, and the emotional impact of the character is weakened significantly. They keep the shot of his eyes toward the end, but it doesn't mean anything because his eyes haven't really mattered up to that point.

[@ShayLaLaLooHoo]

(Time to reply to a year-old comment, woohoo) Yes to everything you said about how the animation added to the characters! With Beast's eyes, his design really emphasizes their blueness: they're a pale shade that contrasts almost perfectly with the deep, warm browns of his fur, and the lines point to/frame them primarily. And we don't see blue eyes in the animal kingdom much, usually we see them in animals that are close companions to humans, like cats and dogs, (and even then, it's rare.) Really, blue eyes are only common in humans. Since the blue already feels familiar, we're more inclined to relate to him subconsciously, despite his animalistic traits.

[@wickedphant0m]

@@ShayLaLaLooHoo great observation. His eyes are the only human part left of him, which is why Belle can tell that it's him after he transforms back

[@richardbourton4523]

I honestly think the live action remakes are an insult to animation as a medium. They imply that the only reason a film was animated is because effects were not good enough to do it in live action and now they are? This is so wrong-headed: there is nothing in Snow White that could not have been done well enough in live action in 1937. Choosing animation was not done for fun, he nearly went bankrupt on his insane gamble, when live action would have been easier, cheaper and more respected. Disney chose animation for a reason, these films are animated for a reason. It gets more and more stark the longer the remakes went on. The Lion King was animated because you cannot convey that sense of emotion through realistic lion faces. I HATED the live action lion king, it was like corpses of lions shuflfing around, incapable of expressing emotion visually. I counted how many times a clear emotion was depicted in that film: 21 times in the whole movie. I know that sounds pedantic to do but it frustrates me so much. Animation allows anthropomorphism (e.g. of lions without them looking creepy), impractical choreography, incredible lighting and colours, magical transformations, crowd scenes and sets and locations that could never be portrayed in live action, minute control over every part of a character from looks and performance/acting and movement. Nothing comes for free in animation, it is all deliberate choices to tell a story in the best way. It's probably the greatest medium for storytelling after our own imaginations and then these remakes throw all that away. When Glen Keane drew the Beast he imbued so much pathos, life and interiority into him that shines through, Mark Henn gave so much complexity to Belle's performance (alongside Paige O Hara's voice acting of course). Instead we get Dan Steven's fighting through impenetrable CGI which Emma Watson has to try and act around (and with that train wreck of a film, the script isn't doing them any favours either). It's so disheartened and as I say, an insult to the great artists who made the original films.

[@ImEmmaRossTv]

My favourite thing is that in garments in that era, the bloomers did not have a crotch, and the fact that Belle tucks her skirts into her bloomers is hilarious. No wonder the town thought she was odd, she was flashing the whole street when she was walking!

[@bonks49k33]

Why is your dress a million times better than the one in the film?

[@ImEmmaRossTv]

Bonks49G K that’s really ironic given that this dress was 180 from China. 😂 especially given the thousands of dollars and hours that went into her dress in the movie.

[@bonks49k33]

@@ImEmmaRossTv Haha, that is interesting. Just proves that money doesn't make the dress. You look stunning.

[@vianjelos]

@@bonks49k33 I think it proves more that Disney has not concern for historical accuracy. You can get away with it in animation...but not live action. Also why does lumier have a french accent yet everyone else has a british one and LeFool has an american one? For a film trying to fix plot holes its a big thing to miss.

[@razzle2429]

@@vianjelos There was also that weird joke at the start of the movie where LeFou says "je ne sais pas" and Gaston says he doesn't know what that means. But they're in France! How does Gaston not know French? I always assumed that the characters were only speaking English so the audience understands them, but in reality we can assume they're speaking French to each other. So how would Gaston not know what "je ne sais pas" means? So weird!

[@nose-rice]

The worst change was turning the traffic light ladies into pink ladies, so sad 😩

[@lillyofthenorth8798]

"I'll show you to your room." "My room? ...but I thought-" "You - you wanna stay in the tower?" "No." "Then follow me" That line in the animated film always gets me.

[@fangsabre]

It does kindof sound like an impatient kid though lol. Like "do you WANT to stay in the tower? Well duh, so come with me"

[@rob-r6778]

@@fangsabre thats the point isn't it? He's trying to do a nice gesture but he's somewhat embarrassed and also still impatient.

[@samkuperman9035]

ROB-R that and he was turned into a beast when he was 11

[@colonyofrats4193]

These lines are straight out of the Christine and phantom fanfic I read yesterday lmao

[@monabohamad2242]

@@samkuperman9035 why is anyone/everyone so certain of that

[@lizzytrip4560]

You strike me as "film school Professor" meets "Wine Aunt" and I'm here for it

[@marylickona6322]

Hahaha yes I love it!!

[@dracu9833]

"wine aunt". perfect, I could never put into words why she's so damn sympathetic XD

[@XxYuyiTahxX]

"Damn, that is a sweet owl... love that owl..." I laughed

[@NexusKin]

It reminded me of Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Gahoole!

[@TheSongwritingCat]

Honestly, I thought the same thing while watching the movie. It's disappointing that Agatha the spinster was just the enchantress in disguise and not... a character that had a reason for being onscreen.

[@patriciomejia1114]

At least in the original, you could argue that the staff was enchanted because the castle was enchanted and the staff was in the castle. The movie's explanation is not only stupid, but it's also problematic, since by the staff's logic, Chip shouldn't have been transformed because he would be too young to influence the Beast's actions directly. Also, yeah, monarchy.

[@nanalove3819]

yes! this movie wants me to believe that a child is responsible for not having raised an adult? What? All the things they added to solve the inconsistances lead to other inconsistances, or problems, or were pointless. Come on, movie.

[@chinrys06]

Bruh that library scene really cemented why I hate the remake so much. Bad singing aside, that library scene was suppose to be a huge thing for both belle and the beast and the remake just said meh.

[@ericthetrickster4234]

So, the prince was 11 years old and his servants were enchanted and that's not logical or fair... well no. But they were cursed by a fairy. Fairies are not sane by human conceptions, they are not logical and they are not fair. Fairies are the kind of fictional creatures who will do all the chores for a peasant family on the condition they must never say they are thankful (which they inevitably do and they regret it), or that will raid your village, kidnapping people and doing all sorts of mischief because someone didn't leave a saucer of milk out. Punishing an 11 year old and all his servants with a horrific curse is.. well the kind of thing you'd think of from fairies.

[@spencerjohnson7776]

I'd say that magical creatures overreacting is a major theme in fairytales as well. If you feed a troll-woman's dog-child some scraps then you get a powerful magic tool from her. If you accidentally and innocently interrupt an elf mass then you get run over by a herd of horses.

[@TheRisky9]

@@spencerjohnson7776 Don't forget Ondine's curse. What's also interesting is that there's next to no explanation as to why magic beings even have anything to do with humans. What interest does Rumpelstiltskin have with a girl locked in a tower? And why does he even have need for anything that she has? He can turn straw into gold. Or why do the three witches have to show up and predict Macbeth's fate? What interest do Scottish politics have? The answer is, I don't know. You don't know. No one knows. They just do. In this case, there's no explanation as to why this Enchantress decides to show up dressed like a hag. She just does. And that's part of what makes them so intriguing. It's the fact they don't have any explanation, so therefore do and be just about anything. More often then not, they serve the story's allegorical nature.

[@falconstudios146]

People forget that fairies weren't always like Tinkerbell or the three from Sleeping Beauty. It's not even necessarily that fairy morality and sanity are inherently different from that of humans. Sometimes fairies are just assholes who do asshole things because it amuses them. Yes, some fairies do bad or illogical things because their worldviews are utterly alien to us, and to them what they're doing seems perfectly reasonable and acceptable. But sometimes it's much simpler, and fairies do what they do because they woke up that morning, turned to whomever they happened to be sharing their bed with after the previous night's decadence, and said "You know what would be hilarious? If we cursed some vain prince to be a vile, hideous beast!" Personally I like the latter more, as funnily enough, they tend to be more whimsical, because rather than being concerned with right or wrong, they just do things because they think it would be entertaining, and it usually is.

[@marionfaure4270]

I totally agree with you! I mean, in sleeping beauty, Maleficent curses a baby because she wasn't invited at the party

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Eric the Trickster Yeah, that’s just how life is, even in worlds of intrepid fantasy. Those who are given disproportionate influence over others typically lack the motivation to NOT be self-serving assholes.

[@rebeccalbrecht9361]

The DRESS 🤢 it's shocking how they could go from the absolutely beautiful, almost ethereal take on the original Cinderella dress in 2015 (although, I do kinda wish that they had gone back to the original silvery-white/very light blue dress and her burnt orange hair, but I understand it in that the marketing for Cinderella has been yellow haired and in a bright blue dress for decades now) to the pre-teen school dance yellow smock in 2017. So Emma Watson didn't want to wear a corset, whatever, but you can create stunning costumes without corsets????

[@jennifermoriarty2188]

Stays and need them for structure in dress... plus no tight lacing and needs to be broken in

[@pboytrif1]

18:50 I think you nail this bit 100%. Lots of remakes suffer from this. Its like the writer of the remake doesn't understand the significance, emotionally, of these moments in the original film.... they dont understand that the Beast wanting to give Belle access to the library was an act of love from him. Thats a huge deal, a huge growth in the character. To make it a scene where he is simply boasting about his library completely destroys the meaning and the character growth. So sad that they did this and clearly dont understand or care what it does to the meaning

[@KJanimal1]

Why would the servants be cursed too? Because a monarch is responsible for those under them, their subjects and their servants. The prince needed to learn that lesson. That his actions affect those around him, his decisions can change the lives of everyone in his kingdom for better or for worse. Even if they have no control over his decisions. The original seemed to understand this without explaining itself; the writers of the live action just didn’t get it and thought they needed to shove a reasoning into their version.

[@allbets0ff134]

Thankyou. Finally someone gets it. The servants are not being punnished its a side effects of another persons decision, a leaders cruelty. You are the first person who seems to get the point of this.

[@cbpd89]

I always just figured that the fairy was just cursing people and the castle servants were collateral damage. A lot of magic in fairy tales and myths is more like a natural disaster. But I also like your explanation a lot.

[@doesitmakesense5696]

You must be a christian because your logic is F'ed up. "God killing innocent children is to show that the pharaoh's action affect those around him. It's not punishment." - KJanimal1 If you want to show the prince's action effect those around him, then the consequences must come from those actions and not from a third party with a holier than thou attitude otherwise it defeats the purpose.

[@literallygaston2489]

doesitmakesense OP never said that they agree with this kind of thinking you walnut.

[@CalebCraft10]

@@doesitmakesense5696 Is it not possible that the Enchantress is a complete bitch with a god complex?

[@enzojackson7774]

After having seen MANY takes on this movie, I'm glad that there's one thing that's always a constant. *Audra McDonald is great.*

[@Lord_Of_Night]

She's amazing. And her songs were the only ones I bought from this remake. The beginning Aria is so good!

[@emmetthowell9265]

I will always remember my sister, who LOVES beauty and the beast, dragging me to watch this with her for emotional support. She knew it was going to be bad but still wanted to see it, you could see her soul dying a bit in the glow of the move theater

[@mitchellgeorge6031]

This movie has Obi-Wan Kenobi, Gandalf, Hermione, and Matthew from Downton Abbey and they somehow didn’t make it awesome.

[@Tareltonlives]

Honestly, the only reason I saw it was because of the cast. And they WASTED THEM!

[@wasabiANDkimchi]

And the guy from hunger games

[@NexusKin]

It was directed by one of the former Twilight directors, so that could be a big reason right there!

[@wandanemer2630]

Seriously, what the fuck??

[@totalwar1793]

Ewan MacGregor was in the film?!