#batb remake

[miramelindamusings]

Since I drew Jasmine from the remake, I wanted to try drawing Belle from the 2017 Beauty and the Beast :)!

[missgalaxtea]

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.

[wolfimagery]

Beauty and the Beast (2017), dir. Bill Condon

[patema-introverted]

Beauty and the Beast 2017 gave me the same vibe as I would get watching a public high school production of the disney movie. The problem was that when your production has 160 million dollars, you expect to be watching a movie, not a school play.

[ravenclaw-artist]

Eep

[padalickmyballs]

a teeny tiny pronoun change in the BatB remake made me smile

1991: "If he could learn to love another, and earn HER love in return by the time the last petal fell..."

2017: "If he could learn to love another, and earn THEIR love in return by the time the last petal fell..."

[theblogofbonbon]

I have very conflicting thoughts on the live-action Beauty and the Beast because on one hand I ain’t no furry trash but on the other hand Dan Stevens.

You see my moral dilemma??

[gayemoji]

beauty and the beast was great lefou is my son