History Film / BeautyAndTheBeast2017

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: LeFou, who is interested romantically in Gaston, who attempts to win Belle's heart.

** During the song 'Gaston', Gaston does not sing about having hair on his chest, which apparently was requested by Luke Evans, probably because it would not be appropriate for younger viewers.

* SickeningCrunch: In equal parts horrific and [[AssholeVictim cathartic]], we hear Gaston's [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou sudden stop]] at the end of his [[DisneyVillainDeath fall]].

* BlueIsHeroic: Belle again wears a blue dress for most of the film.

* ExactWords: The Beast says that when the prison door shuts, it will not be opened again, so Belle takes the time granted to say goodbye to her father — then shoves him out of the cell and locks herself in. True to his word, the Beast leaves her there and takes Maurice away to release him.

* CanonWelding: The idea of the Enchantress's curse threatening to turn the servants into completely inanimate, non-sentient objects, as well as their culpability in helping to make the Prince into a SpoiledBrat by remaining passive to his behavior, first appeared in the Broadway musical version of the original film.

* Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying: The wolves in the movie are too large, make lion noises, and attack humans.

* RealityEnsues: Upon coming across [[AnimateInanimateObject Animate Inanimate Objects]], particularly in a dark and fairly creepy castle, people react less with awe and wonder and more with outright terror.
** Despite being remorseful for [[spoiler: leaving Marice to wolves and clearly wanting to side with him during the climax, when Gaston threatens to out him and send him to the Madhouse, LeFou clams up.]] Living as an LGBT+ person during a time when this was seen as a mental illness (at best) is incredibly dangerous and could be used to blackmail people into silence.

''Beauty and the Beast'' is a 2017 Creator/{{Disney}} film based on [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the animated classic]] based on the FairyTale [[Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast of the same name]]. It is the first LiveActionAdaptation of a [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation Disney Renaissance]] film, and the first such Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon adaptation to be a [[TheMusical musical]] like its source material. Its AllStarCast includes Creator/EmmaWatson as Belle, Creator/DanStevens as the Beast, Creator/LukeEvans as Gaston, Creator/JoshGad as [=LeFou=], [[Creator/EwanMcgregor Ewan [=McGregor=]]] as Lumière, Creator/EmmaThompson as Mrs. Potts, Creator/IanMcKellen as Cogsworth, Creator/KevinKline as Maurice, Creator/GuguMbathaRaw as Plumette, and Music/AudraMcDonald as Madame de Garderobe (The Wardrobe).

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Technically, Belle ''fails'' to save the Beast, as she only confesses her love for him after the last petal falls. By then, the Beast is dead and the servants have permanently transformed into inanimate objects. Despite this, the Enchantress herself chooses to lift the curse anyway.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: The color of each horse symbolizes its rider's morality— Phillipe is white, Gaston's horse is blacks, and [=LeFou's=] horse is brown.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: The color of each horse symbolize its rider's morality― Phillipe is white, Gaston's horse is black, and [=LeFou's=] horse is brown.

* AmbiguousSyntax: It isn't clarified if Gaston doesn't understand [[=LeFou=]] or if he doesn't understand the saying "I don't know what" when he responds with "I don't know what that means" to [=LeFou=].

* AmbiguousSyntax: It isn't clarified if Gaston doesn't understand French or if he doesn't understand the saying "I don't know what" when he responds with "I don't know what that means" to [=LeFou=].

* TruerToTheText: Small as it may be, having Maurice cross the Beast for picking a rose rather than tresspassing makes it more faithful to the original story in that regard.

** Maurice in the animated film was an AbsentMindedProfessor whose inventions usually didn't work and had made him a laughing stock among the townsfolk. Here, he's a skilled craftsman who makes music boxes and makes a living selling them at market. Meanwhile, Belle is the inventor, and invents a more down-to-earth device, a mule-driven churning clothes washer, with a proper invention process with designing and prototyping before she builds the functional version.

** Maurice in the animated film was an AbsentMindedProfessor whose inventions usually didn't work and had made him a laughing stock among the townsfolk. Here, he's a skilled craftsman who makes music boxes and makes a living selling them at market.

* ChekhovsSkill: When Belle and Maurice are locked up during "The Mob Song", it's [[spoiler: Maurice's music box-building abilities]] that free them. [[spoiler: Because he's an expert on tiny mechanical workings, he's able to pick the lock with a hairpin that Belle provides]].

* DisneyVillainDeath: No one falls to his death like Gaston, as in the original film, though under different circumstances. It comes complete with a [[SickeningCrunch rather audible thud]] shortly after he falls out of view, unusual for this trope (though he no longer lands on wrought iron spikes, so at least it wasn't as painful).

* PetTheDog: Even before he starts becoming more civil and kinder after he saves Belle from the wolves, the Beast lets Belle say goodbye to her father, unlike in the animated version. (Belle takes advantage of this to take his place in the cell.)

* {{Adorkable}}:
** Belle, such as when she invents the "washing machine", is seen reading more often in the film, and almost squealing in delight when the Beast gives her the library.
** The Beast himself, with his nervous attempts at wooing Belle and interest in reading.
%%** [=LeFou=], played by Josh Gad.