The Problem with Disneys Remake Beauty and the Beast

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  @AryaForce · 4 years ago (edited)

  Actually, in the original story of Beauty and the Beast, Belle's father was treated like a guest. So the food and fire was all set up for him. He wasn't punished for eating and heating himself up, but for simply stealing a rose from the Beast's garden. Also you are beautiful, please don't call yourself ugly.

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  @supersasukemaniac · 4 years ago

  Beast's song "Evermore" was honestly a good addition to the songs, and, the live action more accurately portrays just how thematically dark "Kill the Beast" is.

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  @kaya119 · 4 years ago (edited)

  There are a lot of problems, some smaller ones really like the weird autotuning over her voice and the disappointing costumes. But the biggest for me was Belle. Belle in the animated version felt like a small town girl who dreamed of bigger things even though her neighbors don&apos;t understand why. Live action Belle felt like the big city girl who has to move to a small town and is super judgmental and feels like she is better than the other girls in town, because she&apos;s &quot;not like other girls because she reads&quot;. Which I think affected the chemistry. <br><br>Animated Belle found a kindred spirit after basically being rejected and misunderstood by her town. Live action Belle was the one who seemed to be keeping people at a distance and judging them. Like right in the first song, animated Belle is positively ecstatic when someone talks to her and basically runs after him to tell him about her book only to get brushed off. Live action Belle is approached by someone and basically is the one to brush him off and walks away even though he is actually listening to her and still asking her questions after she has walked away. Animated Belle wanted to find a kindred spirit. She wanted the fairy tale adventure. Live action Belle just wanted out. (Also live action Belle didn&apos;t feel like a romantic at all to me, she felt like the type that would watch the Titanic and be like, &quot;that was dumb, he could have fit on the door too. Also, why toss the necklace. Couldn&apos;t she have gotten closure from selling it or donating it?&quot;) Like animated Belle was a daydreamer, head in the clouds type who was misunderstood because she wanted more but would have spent her whole life in that small town daydreaming about it rather than acting on it if fate hadn&apos;t intervened in the form of a storm and a rose. Live action was basically Hermione, practical and pragmatic, judging the town because they didn&apos;t want more, and she absolutely would have left as soon as she could after coming up with an invention to sell or plan to support herself. <br><br>Plus animated Belle bonding with Beast by teaching him to read (after first reading him Romeo and Juliet while he watches dreamily before asking her to read it to him again) was a much cuter bonding scene than him scoffing at her liking Romeo and Julie in the live action.

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  @veraaurelis8931 · 4 years ago

  Lol when Belle was singing and you said “She sounds not so bad, but there’s something weird there” it’s the dang autotune. I’m no musical genius and I can still hear it 😭 No offense to Emma, can’t they just find an actress who can sing well if they’re making a musical.

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  @PokhrajRoy. · 4 years ago

  Belle in today’s times would technically be a Mechanical Engineer who’d have a side hustle as a Booktuber.

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  @RhetoricalThrill · 4 years ago

  What irritates me is that they tried to explain why the staff were also cursed but they did it so half-assed. &nbsp;Ok, so they looked the other way when a tyrant mistreated his son, rather than risk their own livelihoods, families, and possibly lives? &nbsp;That deserves a curse? &nbsp;And it doesn’t explain a damn thing about Chip or the dog. &nbsp;WTF.

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  @supersasukemaniac · 4 years ago (edited)

  Actually the food was for him. The staff is desperate to have a guest again, so they set all of it up. In the original Lumiere and Cogsworth are actively arguing with each other about taking care of Maurice. In the live action version, they actually made it even more creepy by having it all just appear with no explanation, until Chip slides onto the table.

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  @rekkanablackwood8790 · 4 years ago (edited)

  So a lot of things were brought up already, but I just wanted to add some.<br>1. In the original, the Beast gives his enormous coolest library as a gift to Belle, bc he wants to do smth for her. In the remake, &nbsp;he &apos;s just being mean and bragging to Belle (perfect way to a woman&apos;s heart - criticize her hobbies and the things she likes, tell her you have better ones!)<br>2. They completely changed Belle&apos;s character. In the original, Belle was sweet, soft and caring, while she liked reading the stories about adventures, fights and magic. In the remake she HITS LUMIERE and likes ROMEO AND JULIET. WTF? <br><br>P.S. Glad to see, that a year later, he&apos;s still Edward to you :))

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  @constanzagonzalez4681 · 4 years ago

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  @isling359 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I think the problem with this is they got everything that made the original good and just completely twisted it.<br>Belle fell in love with the beast naturally, not even knowing he was a man that got transformed. In this she knows about the curse.<br>The townspeople were weirded out by Belle, but never were mean to her. In this they publicly shame her, which made their redemption at the end even weirder.<br>Gaston was a popular, mean guy. At the end, he got the mob by his side because everyone looked up to him. In this the townspeople don&apos;t really respect him (LeFou pays them to sing in the Gaston song) and even give Maurice the benefit of the doubt when he accuses Gaston. That just makes him less compelling as a villain.<br>And as a whole there were just little bad details that made the whole thing miserable. The awful dress, the half assed &quot;feminist&quot; improvements on Belle&apos;s character, the poorly explained power of the magic book, the shameless queer baiting with LeFou, the absence of chemistry between the actors and many other things.<br>They tried to make the original &quot;better&quot;, but made it worse by not deeply understanding what made the original so good: it was a love story. Not a story about Belle&apos;s mom, about LeFou being in the closet, about the Enchantress or the furniture&apos;s families. Belle and the Beast didn&apos;t get enough time to develop organically as a couple. Also the Beast is a total asshole in this even by the end of the movie lol

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  @Tasmanianval · 4 years ago

  When first saw this movie I thought it was good, but when I saw it for a second time a lot of things really bothered me:<br>1. Emma Watson can&apos;t sing, there&apos;s a lot of notes that is clearly auto tune and comparing with the other ones is a big difference, also has no chemistry with beast so the end doesn&apos;t feel natural. &nbsp;<br>2. The banana yellow babydoll dress with no structure IS SO BAD in this context, basically because all of the others characters are in period costumes except her.<br>3.They clearly tried to replicate the original movie even in dialoge but in a completely different context so the lines seem really odd, also bullying belle because she teaches a girl to read is extremely weird when the story takes place in one of the few eras when almost every one was encouraging reading 🤔<br><br>Maybe I&apos;m a little biased because beauty and the beast is one of my favorites disney animated movies.<br><br>And no, you&apos;re not ugly.

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  @razzledazzledingdong2979 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The auto tune on Watson’s voice was unbearable… it was just sooooo bad. <br>But “Evermore” slaps, tho the auto tune was a little noticeable in some parts but not as terrible as Watson’s<br><br>Also the iconic “golden” dress was U G L Y gosh. The gold detailing was entirely unnoticeable. Just a terrible dress all together

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