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Painting the blue fabric for Belle’s dress! I was a little nervous but mostly super excited for this part, and I had to do a quick messy drape with of the finished pieces to see how it looks over the green. I’m so happy!
S U B T L E T Y
(alternate title: Yes, I’m still not over my disappointment with the 2017 live-action remake of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Fight me.)
We're in October of 2019 and I'm still thinking about the Beauty and the Beast live-action remake. There are a lot of things that I don't agree with story-wise. I could make a list. The writers of the remake were so desperate to explain every detail that makes a fairy tale a fairy tale and spoon-feed it to the audience. However, there is one particular bit that stood out to me.
As Beast is preparing himself to dance with Belle, he explains how he randomly suggested a dance with her. Its framed as him asking her out on a date like the nervous dork he truly is. Okay, so these writers wanted to explain why these two have a dance scene. That's fair. Still, it really stood out in my mind. This made me think about why Belle and Beast had their date in the original film. It took a while, but I finally figured it out:
It's Beast's birthday.
The curse states that his curse will become permanent on his twenty-first birthday. “The rose, she had offered, was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year. If he could learn to love another, and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time.” It makes so much sense this way. We the audience and all the castle dwellers know the exact moment the rose will lose all of its petals.
It's very subtle. Unlike the remake, which disrupts the flow of events by constantly stopping to explain what is going on, the original plants seeds early on and leaves them alone until they are relevant and ties them into present events. This is the very last moment Beast has to confess his feelings. He is hours away from losing his second chance at humanity for good. And yet it never felt like that. For the nearly twenty-five years I've been alive I never put that together. It never felt forced, and it never felt desperate, because it was real.
Beast truly had finally learned to love.
I'm FINALLY getting somewhere with the design for the Beast. It clicked that the way some of the wigs of the time almost folded down around the face in a way that, if you squinted, looked liked the ridges of ram horns. From there I was able to get the creative juice flowing. I'm still stuck on make up, but luckily l have a very talented friend that I will introduce at some point in the future to help me with that. And there are a lot of decisions to be made about how to trim the waistcoat and tailcoat- men during this period LOVED their bling. I was fortunate enough to find some beautiful fur in a clearance rack. which will definitely get used a lot, but there's still a lot more to be added from there.
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