History Headscratchers / BeautyAndTheBeast2017

** There's actually a very brief indication that he can switch between forms at will. When the villagers break into the castle, he appears in his normal candelabra form, only to switch to his human-molded body when the castle staff attack. It seems like his normal candelabra form is supposed to be his resting, less animate form (analogous to his introduction in the 1991 original, when he is shown to be able to hide his eyes and mouth). At any rate, it's an unusual creative decision to give him two forms that he switch ack and forth from.

* I get the idea of people wanted a better reason WHY the Enchantress did what she did, but in the attempt they actually made things worse story wise? I mean she blames the servants for not raising the Prince properly...forgetting they are SERVANTS to ROYALITY, if they tried to disobey the Prince's Dad; at best they are unemployed...worse they are killed. She hides the castle from all...solving the problem of nobody knowing about it but also greatly reducing the chances of a girl finding the place to break the spell till she makes sure Maurice gets there and Belle following. Not to mention all the shattered families (Mr Potts, Cogsworth's Wife). Its getting to the point the more you look at it the more the original version's "Stupid Idiot refusing Sacred Hospitality and getting punished" makes more sense.
** She doesn't necessarily blame them, ''they'' blames themselves. Although they cannot directly interfere, it's not outside the realm of possibility to coax him from afar. The amount of servants implies an absentee father-- common amongst nobility of that time. In fact, few even raised their own children. Regardless, a curse isn't meant to be fair. As mentioned above, we have no idea what any were like prior to the curse. Some were likely victims of being at the wrong place at the wrong time (Ms Potts, Chip) but others could have similar narcissist personalities that were humbled over time.

* I get the idea of people wanted a better reason WHY the Enchantress did what she did, but in the attempt they actually made things worse story wise? I mean she blames the servants for not raising the Prince properly...forgetting they are SERVANTS to ROYALITY, if they tried to disobey the Prince's Dad; at best they are unemployed...worse they are killed. She hides the castle from all...solving the problem of nobody knowing about it but also greatly reducing the chances of a girl finding the place to break the spell till she makes sure Maurice gets there and Belle following. Not to mention all the shattered families (Mr Potts, Cogsworth's Wife). Its getting to the point the more you look at it the more the original version's "Stupid Idiot refusing Sacred Hospitality and getting punished" makes more sense.

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** It's very difficult to know because there's a law in France that makes it illegal to collect data on ethnicity and race - a law established in the late 1700s at that. There was mass immigration to France in the 1800s as the Industrial Revolution happened. There's an unofficial survey that estimates about 50,000 African-Americans emigrated to France from Louisiana after Napoleon sold the territory to the United States - and that was 1803. The French also had colonies in Africa since the 1600s so yes there would be travel back and forth. It's also important to remember that the idea of ethnic diversity being a new thing is OlderThanTheyThink - it's just that the old Hollywood movies employed MonochromeCasting to make it look like everywhere was white at first. But there has always been ''some'' travel between the continents. Europe and Africa are quite close to each other, and the Romans went to Africa and recruited slaves; slavery in France continued up to the 1790s and it was very fashionable among the nobility to have a African/Moorish page or maid. So while there may not have been sprawling communities, there definitely were immigrants and escaped slaves scattered about.

** It's very difficult to know because there's a law in France that makes it illegal to collect data on ethnicity and race - a law established in the late 1700s at that. There was mass immigration to France in the 1800s as the Industrial Revolution happened. There's an unofficial survey that estimates about 50,000 African-Americans emigrated to France from Louisiana after Napoleon sold the territory to the United States - and that was 1803. The French also had colonies in Africa since the 1600s so yes there would be travel back and forth. It's also important to remember that the idea of ethnic diversity being a new thing is OlderThanTheyThink - it's just that the old Hollywood movies employed MonochromeCasting to make it look like everywhere was white at first. But there has always been ''some'' travel between the continents. Europe and Africa are quite close to each other, and the Romans went to Africa and recruited slaves. So while there may not have been sprawling communities, there definitely were immigrants scattered about.

* Not that this is a problem, but how did so many people of African descent wind up in an isolated, Late-Renaissance french village? Is this 21st century political correctness at work, or TruthInTelevision ?

* This was a problem with the original movie and it's even more of a problem now with the backstory explained: why in all the seven hells is Chip cursed? He's a little kid! It's not like he raised the prince to be as he was or like he could be expected to speak up for the Enchantress against all the adults there. He just had the bad luck to be in the castle at the time. What kind of BlueAndOrangeMorality is this?[[/folder]]

* This was a problem with the original movie and it's even more of a problem now with the backstory explained: why in all the seven hells is Chip cursed? He's a little kid! It's not like he raised the prince to be as he was or like he could be expected to speak up for the Enchantress against all the adults there. He just had the bad luck to be in the castle at the time. What kind of BlueAndOrangeMorality is this?

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** Right, and the Beast is a prince, and in the opening scene most of the people are wearing white wigs popular in the mid to late 1700's. But Gaston came back from a war, perhaps the French Revolution? That would set Beauty and the Beast sometime after 1799. '' But, '' the inhabitants of the castle don't age, and while Mrs. Potts does look younger than her grey-haired husband, the age gap is definitaly not more than 40 years. It might even be as little as 10 years.
*** According to Gaston's actor, Luke Evans [[http://www.refinery29.com/2017/03/145212/luke-evans-gaston-beauty-and-the-beast-character]], Gaston was sixteen years old when he protected Villeneuve from Portuguese marauders in 1740. Assuming Gaston is supposed to be about as old as his actor (37), that would place the events of the film in the 1760's.[[/folder]]

*** According to Gaston's actor, Luke Evans [[http://www.refinery29.com/2017/03/145212/luke-evans-gaston-beauty-and-the-beast-character]], Gaston was sixteen years old when he protected Villeneuve from Portuguese marauders in 1740. Assuming Gaston is supposed to be about as old as his actor (37), that would place the events of the film in the 1760's.

It's still laced up in the back, I can understand she ripped it but how?[[/folder]]

* Unlike in the original story, where the curse had a clear beginning (ten years ago) and a clear end (the prince's twenty-first year), they're more coy about the passage of time. However, this just raises more questions. We see petals falling while Belle is at the castle, and there are four left when he lets her go. So that means in the day or so it took for her to go there and come back, ''four'' petals fell. Assuming they fall at a set rate, how long has the curse been in effect, anyway?[[/folder]]

* It's still laced up in the back, I can understand she ripped it but how?[[/folder]]

[[AC:How did Belle manage to get her dress off that quickly while riding a horse?]]
* It's still laced up in the back, I can understand she ripped it but how?

How did Belle manage to get her dress off that quickly while riding a horse? It's still laced up in the back, I can understand she ripped it but how?