History Fridge / BeautyAndTheBeast2017

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%% The remake makes the following changes from the original:
%% * In both movies, during the opening song, Belle is seen gushing about the book she just finished to someone who isn't interested. In the original, this is ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'', which can make her seem rather easily impressed for her age. The remake changes it to the more appropriate ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' - meaning she is reading a play's script, which is of course in book form, rather than a children's book.
%% * Many fans questioned how the bookseller in the animated film could maintain a business when Belle only borrows his books rather than buys them (and he even ends up giving her one for free) and it seemed very unlikely anyone else in the village had any interest in reading since it's for that very reason they all thought Belle to be so odd. In the movie he is replaced by Pere Robert, the town's pastor. He keeps a few books that serve as the town's library in the church and Belle is the only one who reads them. As a pastor, he wouldn't be reliant upon selling books for an income.
%% * It was never explained [[FridgeLogic how Belle got Beast on the horse]] after he passed out from his fight with the wolves. In the LiveActionFilm, Belle asks the Beast to stand up for her so she can help him onto it. Oddly enough, an audiobook of the original animated version stated that this was how it happened.
%% * The Beast is literate and well-read, which makes sense (he was a Prince and, as he says, he "had an expensive education"), and shows that he and Belle do share something important in common. And locked up with a huge library, naturally he would spend his time reading in order to give him some relief from his fate... [[Funny/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 Except the books in Greek.]]

* It may seem strange that the villagers are so quick to believe the Beast is an evil monster (the French version of the Mob Song outright calling him the devil). In pre-modern Europe, however, attacks from wolves and feral dogs (at times rabid) were a dire danger, with the notable case of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Gévaudan Beast of G%C3%A9vaudan]] claiming 500 lives before being put down (even escaping hunting parties assembled by ''the king'' with the best men available before a local hunter got lucky) and being so hard to kill many attributed it supernatural qualities. To the villagers it would have seemed like ''another'' man-eating monster had appeared but they got lucky and found out before it started attacking, and since the village's best hunter who is also a war veteran and former royal guard is asking for volunteers...

** The War of Austrian Succession ended in 1748, so if it's twelve years after the war the film is set in 1760... During the Seven Years' War. While they wouldn't serve on the frontlines, as Louis XV did not go to the front this time, Gaston likely feels he's missing on the glory due not being in the army anymore, ''and'' may believe he could have prevented [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens Robert-François Damiens]]' stabbing of the king. No wonder he's in such a worsening mood: if the king goes to the frontlines he won't be there to win glory, and while he's at Villeneuve his colleagues messed up so badly the king was nearly killed.

* It may seem strange that the villagers are so quick to believe the Beast is an evil monster (the French version of the Mob Song outright calling him the devil). In pre-modern Europe, however, attacks from wolves and feral dogs (at times rabid) were a dire danger, with the notable case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan Beast of G%C3%A9vaudan]] claiming 500 lives before being put down (even escaping hunting parties assembled by ''the king'' with the best men available before a local hunter got lucky) and being so hard to kill many attributed it supernatural qualities. To the villagers it would have seemed like ''another'' man-eating monster had appeared but they got lucky and found out before it started attacking, and since the village's best hunter who is also a war veteran and former royal guard is asking for volunteers...

* In the original film, Cogsworth was much bossier and seemed to (at least believe) that he held a degree of authority over the other servants. In this movie, his stuffiness seems more motivated by timidity and a desire to avoid conflict. It possibly has to do with how, in this movie, he has a shrewish, bitter wife whom he doesn't seem to like very much.