History Film / BeautyAndTheBeast2017

** The animated villagers thought Belle was odd because of her intelligence and love of reading, but seemed to more or less leave her to her own devices. In this version, they're openly hostile to her because of it, going so far as to destroy a gadget she invented to help with the laundry.

** In "Belle," the boys going into the schoolhouse look like a GenderFlip of the twelve little boarding school girls in ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'', with their blue uniforms and yellow straw hats.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: The Beast is introduced wearing an old, ratty cloak, but as the film goes on, he starts wearing more prim and proper attire as he becomes nicer and more civilised.

** The "Be Our Guest" song contains a number of tributes to other musicals:
** Later in the song, Lumiere gets surrounded by an array of pink feather fans, a nod to the song "All I Care About is Love" from ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}''.

* EveryoneHasStandards: [=LeFou=], in an AdaptationPersonalityChange. As Gaston's methods become more ruthless, [=LeFou=] becomes more uncomfortable with them. Finally, [[spoiler:he performs a HeelFaceTurn to save Mrs. Potts from falling, and then (novelization only) tells Belle where Gaston has gone]].

* EmpathyDollShot: Belle finding the rose rattle in her childhood home is treated as such. [[spoiler: As she sees the dilapidated state of the home her father had talked so lovingly about, she notes that the Paris of her childhood is gone. Inverted in that, instead of representing a child's death, it represents Belle's mother's death - the rattle is revealed in flashback to be the last thing she had of her daughter's after Belle was taken by her father to spare them both from a plague.]]
* EnchantedForest: The forest beyond Villeneuve has a reputation for being haunted, according to the {{Novelization}} -- likely the result of the Enchantress's curse, which caused the villagers to forget the enchanted castle. And if that wasn't a good enough reason to stay out, it's packed with wolves. When you go off the beaten track, things start to get even worse.

* StockholmSyndrome: Played with. While Belle does start falling for Beast, her rational side remains cognizant of the fact that she's still his prisoner. It forms the nature of an ArmorPiercingQuestion she poses to him, after their dance. The primary cause for Belle developing this at all is because Beast concurrently developed LimaSyndrome and began treating her in accordance.

** Instead of just lovesick roaring, Beast now gets his own solo IAmBecomingSong, "Evermore", as Belle leaves the castle, firmly cementing his ByronicHero character expansion from the animation. Of note, Beast also straight-up lets Belle leave, after decades of fans complaining about StockholmSyndrome.

** Maurice is an OverprotectiveDad who makes music boxes rather than a wacky inventor, which alters his role in the plot because he isn't initially seen as crazy by the townspeople. Gaston only comes up with the ploy of getting him institutionalized after [[spoiler:his ''previous'' ploy of leaving him to die in the enchanted forest fails and he is accused of attempted murder by Maurice]].

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Belle's mother passed away when she was just a baby, and her father became an OverprotectiveDad to compensate, moving out to the countryside even though a woman like Belle cannot thrive there as she might in Paris. [[spoiler:In his defense, the mother died of plague, both she and the doctor in attendance told him to leave, and he certainly didn't want to lose Belle.]] As for the Beast's parents, [[spoiler:his mother was good, but she died when he was young. From there, his father was primarily responsible for what the Prince became]]. [[spoiler:Note that in the family portrait Belle spots in the west wing, the images of the young Prince and his father have been slashed by the Beast's claws, but the image of his mother is left untouched.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: Maurice [[spoiler:lost his wife in Paris during a plague]], which is why he left for Villeneuve — to protect his daughter Belle from suffering the same fate. Even though he comes to realize she can never be completely happy in a town where she's subjected to AllOfTheOtherReindeer, he takes comfort in knowing she will be safe. When Belle decides to take her father's place in the Beast's castle so he can be freed, Maurice refuses to cooperate, begging her to see sense and leave him. Maurice even goes as far to say [[spoiler:he could not save his wife]], but he can at least save Belle.

** Alexis Loizon, who plays Stanley, was in the French theatrical adaptation as Gaston.

* RoleReprise: Yoni Amar who played the Beast in the French theatrical adaptation, provides the French dubbing for the Beast.

* Role Reprise: Yoni Amar who played the Beast in the French theatrical adaptation, provides the French dubbing for the Beast.

* CastingGag: The Latin American Spanish dub brings back three of the original actors, albeit in different roles. Francisco Colmenero, the narrator of the 1991 movie, is the voice of Cogsworth; Moisés Palacios (the original Cogsworth) is instead the voice of Maurice; and Creator/ArturoMercado (the original Beast) is an additional voice. Also, Creator/SergioZaldivar portrayed Gaston in the theatrical adaptation, but here he is instead the voice of Lumiere.

* CastingGag: The Latin American Spanish dub brings back three of the original actors, albeit in different roles. Francisco Colmenero, the narrator of the 1991 movie, is the voice of Cogsworth; Moisés Palacios (the original Cogsworth) is instead the voice of Maurice; and Arturo Mercado (the original Beast) is an additional voice. Also, Sergio Zaldívar portrayed Gaston in the theatrical adaptation, but he is instead the voice of Lumiere.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender:

* MistakenForTransformed: Belle is briefly left under the impression that literally ''every'' object in the castle is an enchanted servant, and actually asks a hairbrush it's name. Cue FacePalm from Lumiere as Cogsworth explains that it's just an ordinary brush.

** Cadenza (Creator/StanleyTucci), an eccentric maestro, is turned into a harpsichord. He is apparently inspired by Forte the talking pipe organ from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas''. There is a grand piano in the original film that appears mostly in the ballroom scene. For bonus points, he's the husband of Madame De Garderobe/The Wardrobe, who was unattached in the original film, and a piano stool is their transformed pet dog (who is obviously meant to be the counterpart of Sultan, the castle dog turned ottoman in the original).

** Cadenza (Creator/StanleyTucci), an eccentric maestro, is turned into a harpsichord. He is apparently inspired by Forte the talking pipe organ from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas''. There is a grand piano in the original film that appears mostly in the ballroom scene. For bonus points, he's the husband of Madame De Garderobe/The Wardrobe, who was unattached in the original film, and a piano stool is their transformed pet dog.

** The dog was named Sultan in the animated continuity. Here, he's named Froufrou.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: 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.

** The Beast called Maurice a "thief". Well, perhaps in ''another life'', he was [[WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado a con artist]], a [[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance a pirate]], and [[Film/AFishCalledWanda a jewel thief]]. Also, it's not the first time Creator/KevinKline came from [[Film/FrenchKiss France]].

* 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.

* TheLostWoods: The forest beyond Villeneuve has a reputation for being haunted, according to the {{Novelization}} — likely the result of the Enchantress's curse, which caused the villagers to forget the enchanted castle. And if that wasn't a good enough reason to stay out, it's packed with wolves. When you go off the beaten track, things start to get even worse.

* SavageWolves: A pack of wolves inhabit the [[LostWoods cursed forest]] outside the castle grounds. Maurice comes to the castle because he is seeking refuge from the wolves, and later, they are about to attack Belle when she tries to escape the castle, but the Beast [[BigDamnHeroes comes to the rescue]]. Even after being scared away by the Beast's [[RoarBeforeBeating angry roars]] and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom prodigious strength]], the wolves did enough damage to the Beast to cause him to pass out.

* AdultFear: As in the original film, Maurice is very worried about Belle being held prisoner by the Beast and fears that he will never see her again.
** Mrs. Potts experiences this [[spoiler:when the staff are turning into objects permanently and she can't find Chip]].

The film was released on March 17, 2017, in a similar late-winter release slot as ''Film/Cinderella2015'', though with March 16 evening screenings in select markets, following recent custom for highly-anticipated films. The first teaser for the film can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c38r-SAnTWM here]] and the first full trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvW_L8sTu5E here]]. A prequel series focused on Gaston and [=LeFou=], titled ''Little Town'', is in development for Creator/DisneyPlus.

* HypnotizeThePrincess: Invoked. When Belle tries to save her father from commission and prove that the Beast is not the monster the townspeople think he is, Gaston proclaims "the monster has her under his spell!"

** This isn't the first Disney movie where Kevin Kline [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame saves a young child from a tragedy involving a windmill]]]]. [[note]]Both that film and the original ''Beauty and The Beast'' were directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise.[[/note]]