• I Want You To Meet An Old Friend Of Mine: Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts) and Jerry Orbach (Lumiere) were old friends and have worked together before, notably in Murder She Wrote, where Orbach played a friend of Jessica Fletcher's, gumshoe Harry McGraw, in several episodes.

This is nice and interesting but... what does it have to do with Beauty and the Beast? It sounds more like trivia than anything, unless there's a part of the movie I'm not remembering, and seeing as how the example doesn't say this happens in the movie...

Does Belle have a flaw? Someone on youtube think Belle is "a goody-two shoes". I think Belle is a bit over-emtional

Does Belle have a flaw? Someone on youtube think Belle is "a goody-two shoes". I think Belle is a bit over-emtional

Seeing how long the trope list is, I feel that a Character Sheet needs to be made. Anyone agree that the movie needs a Character Sheet?

"Abomination Accusation Attack: Gaston doesn't believe that the Beast even exists. When Belle proves him wrong, he changes his position to accusing him of eating children - never mind that the Beast has been around for a long time and the only person who had been missing was Belle herself! Or that the villagers believed Gaston over Belle despite the fact that Gaston was proven wrong immediately beforehand."

I think we need to show that the villagers are terrified as they have just seen a monster in a magic mirror. And that they believe Belle is crazy.

• Deconstruction: Gaston is arguably a Deconstruction of the God Mode Sue. Being simply better at anything than anyone else and being far too aware of it, Gaston has clearly given himself the privilege to do whatever he wants, regardless of the morality of his actions (that everyone sucks up to him and does what he tells them, as is appropriate for Mary Sues, doesn't help). At best, his ego has rendered him incapable of seeing the error of his ways; at worst, he's well aware of how utterly evil he can be, but simply doesn't care...because no one elevates himself over petty morality like Gaston.
  • This also makes Gaston a deconstruction of the type of hero that appears in Grimm's fairy tales: handsome and adventurous hunter/woodsman, loved son in both his world and his own mind out to court his fair maiden, who, as far as he thinks, should be owed him and fall into his arms. He encounters monsters and never bothers to think they're anything but evil, since the original stories weren't inclined to have that belief as well. Even his jerkassness is a characteristic of Grimm's heroes, [[who were often known to do sadistic things to defeat their enemies, and were occasionally Designated Heroes. However, the movie shows the inherent wickedness these qualities brought together in the wrong way could create, totally without catering to Values Dissonance.
  • Likewise the Beast is a deconstruction of the character from the original tale who was kind and gentlemanly despite his monstrous appearance. Here the loss of his humanity as well as the impossible nature of his task only serve to drive him deeper into depression and seclusion. He utterly gives up hope of ever breaking the spell and begins to give into his beastly urges, stops wearing clothes, hunting for his food, and becoming fiercely territorial. If Belle hadn't come along exactly when she did, he would have never broken the spell and become an animal completely.

This entire section was cut due to natter. While I agree that the section could definitely be cut down, I disagree with the notion that the ENTIRE THING is just a natterbomb. There are a great deal of excellent points addressed within this section.

Under Meaningful Name: Gaston meaning dark. Uhh, since when?

In addition to all the things mentioned in the article, I found another issue when I watched the movie again.

In the introduction, they clearly state that the rose will bloom until the Beast's twenty-first birthday, and he must find love before then. In the song "Be Our Guest", Lumiere utters this line-

"Ten years we've been rusting, needing so much more than dusting-"

Meaning that ten years have passed since they were changed. Now, since they still have a little time, however short, it means the Beast is not yet twenty-one, so for ten years to have passed, the enchantress must have placed a curse ON A TEN YEAR OLD CHILD.

Not to mention, where the hell are the Beast's parents? And how was the castle kept supplied during this time if not by trading with outlying villages? How did no one in the nearby family know of the Prince? Ten years isn't that long, someone would have known about the royal family, they would HAVE to.

Also, the aforementioned age issue would make the midquel "The Enchanted Christmas" even more wrong than it's already blatant issues, because of the fact that in the flashback you see the Beast answer the door as an adult. This isn't possible, because if he had been that old the curse would have already been permanently sealed if Lumiere's "Ten years" line was true.

• I Am Not Shazam: Babette is not, repeat NOT the name of the featherduster. The Babettes are the triplets who fawn over Gaston. The featherduster is Fifi.

This is incorrect. The triplets are called the bimbettes, the name of the feather duster in the Broadway show is definitely Babette. In one of the sequel films she was referred to as Fifi, though.