Beauty and the Beast Explained: Tale as Old as Time
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- We look back at 1991's Beauty and the Beast and unpack what made the movie so great: its visuals, the symbolism of the story, and the origins of the "tale as old as time." Buy or rent Beauty and the Beast on Amazon: amzn.to/2qFdxyS
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He turned into a prince in the end because he earned his right to be human. What I liked about it is that Belle is not automatically charmed by his looks. She’s skeptical until she looks into his eyes and sees his inner self shine through.
I absolutely agree!
homeboy was 11 when he was turned, this whole story was unfair to him just being a kid. still my fav tho
TheCasmenantoriny A selfish kid tho
Jo he also turned back into human because Bell was human. Just like in shrek, Fiona turned into an ogre because Shrek was an ogre. To fit to match and enhance and strengthen each other
Was The prince 11 though. At the start of the movie the Prince looks like a full grown man in the stained glass narration. Plus if time had really passed the same as the outside world, Chip would have been born a teacup, as he is clearly less than ten years old. How does a teapot give birth? Magic perhaps.
I always thought that time stopped at the castle when the curse came.
Also in many of the original stories time does not stop and the beast is old enough to be belle's father by the time he turns human again.
My favourite part of the movie is when he changes at the end, and she has that tiny, momentary glimpse of disbelief in her eyes, like even though that there's a beautiful man in front of her now, that's not what she's looking for. She's looking into his eyes, to find the one she fell in love with. That's why I love Belle.
Remy Vee never noticed that
Alright I'll give Beauty and the Beast credit for that. Still, I think Shrek did the whole inner beauty story better though.
It wasnt only about looks in the Beauty and the beast like it was for Shrek. It was about turning a frigid heart into a kind heart. Dont get me wrong I like Shrek as well (The 2nd movie was my favorite. Puss in Boots!! Eeeeeeee~) but Beauty and the Beast was amazing! Like the saying goes beauty is in the EYE of the beholder~ (Kind of a reference to when Belle recognized the beast just by him looking at her) This movie gives me the good feeling chill when people explain what the plot was actually doing.
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@@JFairy189 Did you want it to turn into bestiality or?
The Beast has a red cape with a blue shirt and Gaston has a red shirt with a blue cape. It could symbolize that on the outside Gaston is seen as good but on the inside he is a beast, and that the beast is seen as a beast on the outside but on the inside has more humanity than Gaston.
nice catch!
Genius!!
Wow, you are good 👍👍
That was good
Oh my gosh that’s good! That makes me realize that in the scenes where the beast and Gaston show their true character (the beast in the ballroom scene and Gaston in the mob scene), both of them aren’t wearing their capes aka their outer personas and you can see them both for who they are.
The beast regaining his human form is the reward for the prince, not belle. It's just a bonus for belle that he turned into a totally hot guy. Great analysis btw, i love it!
Ron P. He wasn't hot though
mriee idk i kinda like him
The Enemy Is Your Compass. Racist 👆
The Enemy Is Your Compass. No he doesn't. And your playlist is full of white supremacist videos. Typical
Gaston was hot but she was right not to pick him
I believe the beast being turned back into a beautiful prince is a symbol of our tendency to start perceiving people as more physically beautiful if they exhibit beautiful moral qualities, like the beast did towards the end.
Alexandra Mikka exactly! Great point!
Yes! Thank you. Well said. This video got it completely wrong.
Alexandra Mikka If I recall, there’s a Roald Dahl quote along those lines: that a person could have the most hideous physical features imaginable, but as long as they were a good person, their beauty would radiate from every pore. Conversely, the most conventionally attractive person would be unbearably hideous if they were cruel and hateful.
EXCELLENT idea~‼️
So true in life~❣️🥰💥
@@etcetera1995
This is often quite true.
Some ugly inside people do manage to hide it...
But often it is exactly right that inner beauty shines through and inner ugliness can be seen with the eye in the habitual facial expressions of a small and petty or malicious mind...
Another relevant quote is "After 40 people have the face they deserve."
That pretty exterior eventually takes on the lines of nastiness or small-mindedness or rage that they have been etched into their face for four decades...
"We'll have six or seven!"
"Dogs?"
Same Bell. Same.
I would not mind having six or seven dogs, love dogs
Plus, who would want kids like Gaston and with Gaston?
@CrystalOtaku93
See, that’s the thing: No one wants kids like Gaston.
I think that the Beast returning to his human form means he was freed from his curse. The reward of the outer beauty matching the inner beauty. I mean we're not Shreks, we're human. So he goes back to being human but he's finally a true human. Both are rewarded by being able to be who they were born to be, but the experience was necessary for them to be good, and not beautiful in a shallow way. Idk how to explain this. If he had stayed the Beast then the sorceress is bad: she TOOK something away from him forever. However, she just returned him to his normal state, but she GAVE him something: a good heart.
Agreed!
The Matadore also the beast as a human is like hot as fuck, it would be a waste of a beautiful human
So? The real people whom the story was based on were a stunningly beautiful but otherwise run-of-the-mill middle-class female servant to the royal court & a man afflicted with hypertrichosis/Ambras Syndrome often crudely nicknamed "Werewolfism" after lycanthropy (the condition of turning from relatively average man into a Wolf Man cursed with the problems that being such a creature poses, including enhanced base, primal instincts that often drive the bitten into bloodlust, which is why they resort to stealing farmer's livestock [which is, unfortunately, also a primary source of income for said famers] instead of stalking & killing their fellow, non-transformed humans, because they still have the human sense of morality in spite of their condition & therefore, see taking livestock as a nice alternative to murdering other people, as animals are typically viewed by those in the industry as more expendable & in a sad sense, more replaceable, than humans, even though we humans are nothing more than advanced animals ourselves, with our only real distinct difference being our ability to use logistics to form reason & to pair it in conjunction with common sense values engrained in us from our youth to help in creating the way we think that consequently molds the way we act, whereas all other animals, even the apes as our closest kin in the animal world, typically rely on their innate, natural behaviors to run their lives, although humanity has been able to manipulate these behaviors so that animals could serve humanity better & in turn, we could learn more about the other species who aren't us & get a greater understanding & respect for everything that makes each of us a unique creature gifted with life that deserves dignity & should be treated with the upmost care possible) that was miscast as "a monster" purely based on aesthetics - that is, outward appearance - despite being highly articulate/intelligent in picking up verbose language & being highly creative in other aspects, but always feeling hindered by his outward visage that both enthralled but also equally appalled people (as known when the makeshift couple & their oddity offspring were shuffled across Europe like celebrities are nowadays, except that they were treated as less than human because of our main hero's non-conformity due to the incurable disease which he was unfortunately burdened with & were typically viewed the same as circus sideshow freaks/carnies, so that paid onlookers could feign a twinge of sympathy for their plight, yet feel disgustingly disgusted by the whole thing at a safe distance, without being judged for their own hypocrisy, to the point that the couple had no choice but to sit back & let France's wicked Queen essentially control their lives due to her being of higher social standing than themselves - the Queen was a vindictive tyrant who used murderous raids as attempts to quell the growing rebellion the French people had against her & as much as she played matchmaker for the real _Beauty & the Beast_ in arranging their marriage, the misfit couple themselves were treated essentially like living property/objects rather than the actual people they were - and ultimately sell off their hairy offspring to other high-ranking nobles higher up on the social ladder as "cartel"/"gifts"/"pets" to bolster France's association with those countries interested in having their own "Beasts" for themselves, as taken into account by one of the surviving letters scrawled out by one of Petrus & Catherine's daughters born with the same disease her sisters & their father were all born with). THAT is the true story of what happened to the genuine couple that inspired the "tale as old as time".
I loved the analysis, but the end sent me another message. To me, the beast turning back into a human was a gift for him, not for belle. It represents him gaining back his humanity through all of the changes he went through in the movie. It also shows that inner beauty will shine through, and that it is more important than external beauty, hence why belle fell in love with him while in beast form and was mostly unaffected by his change back into human. Him being human again was more a matter of internal changes than his actual, physical change.
Finally!
I am SO sick of people thinking that "Beauty and the Beast " is about Stockholm Syndrome!
If there is a BatB relationship that is Stockholms, it's *not* with the title characters!
It's between Gaston and LeFou (worship wise).
Keshia Anders
YOU AND ME BOTH!
Keshia Anders if there is anyone who has it ... I say it's Harley Quinn from the Batman series
FINALLY someone noticed it, thank you (about Gaston)
Holy crap, that's so true! Gaston verbally and physically abuses Lefou but he still worships the ground he walks on (even more so than the rest of the town) and basically risked dying of hypothermia for him
You're ignoring the film's whole message -- "If you love him enough, no matter how beastly he is, you can change him." That's a recipe for abuse.
for the part where the beast turns back, I think its sort of like If you are beautiful on the inside people will see you as beautiful on the outside
True...thanks Helen.
I don't think society works like that.
@@thetelegothika5327 but, thats how it should be. Appreciate beauty, inner or outward!
The Telegothika some people in said society, work like that.
The beast is 11 when he's turned, so the real villain is the enchantress who turned a boy without parents present into a beast his servants into objects because he wouldn't let a stranger into his house for simply offering a rose. True the boy could learn some empathy but he was only 11. Still an interesting review that was worth the time to watch. Please keep making content.
Back then kids were forced to grow up early. And be married off before a certain age.
This is true often noble born would be married around the age of 18 the common misconception being around 9-12 years of age, however Prince Adam is 11 years of age still learning, hasn't yet gone through puberty, and knows little if anything on how to approach a situation where a woman who is old and haggard comes bearing a rose in exchange for a room out of the cold. She takes this one instance on christmas at a late hour to judge a child of an adult flaw, If Prince adam had been 16 or 18 years old already what in that time period would consider manhood the situation would be completely different.
Yes, my dad "This witch is evil."
Honestly I always thought of it as if he stopped aging. So after 21 years of being a Beast he would either find love or be doomed. As for Lumiere's assertion of "10 years," again I always assumed that that's when the servants lost hope. Before that they were pressing forward with optimism, but after 10 years of being household objects they could see no way to become human.
It never actually gives you an age of the prince. In the opening window he is obviously grown up, the "10 years we've been waiting" is how long the spell has gone for... time would have been frozen for them during the curse, never age, always remain a beast
I enjoyed your analysis. The one thing I would disagree on is the Beast turning back into a human at the end. I would argue that it wasn't about 'beauty', it was about being able to live as fully himself in every way. He changed back for his own sake rather than for Belle's or anybody else's. The same with the household staff.
phoenixfriend Indeed. He was actually human in the first place, and only went through this transformation as a lesson to himself.
When people are so quick to say "this movie is basically about Stockholm Syndrome" doesn't that sort of reflect the whole mentality of the society that rejected Belle in the first place? People that orchestrate or perpetuate that idea are like the Gastons of society, no?
People don't like that someone falling in love with their captor is portrayed as romantic, not whatever it is you're trying to imply.
Nah. Belle doesn't have to have Stockholm Syndrome for complaints about a captor/captive love story to be valid; the two are unrelated. The message I take away from the movie-that if you treat your abductee with kindness they may genuinely fall in love with you-is worse than if she were to have Stockholm Syndrome IMO. Thomas is not right in comparing people who don't want to see Belle forgive/fall in love with her abuser (even if he is supposedly reformed) to Gaston whose objections to the relationship are purely selfish and totally sexist, i.e. he sees Belle as his property and doesn't want anyone else to have her. That comparison makes no sense.
Let's not forget that Belle's father did enter the Beast's domain uninvited so technically you could say that Belle is no victim. She willingly chose to take her father's place. There are a lot of subtle nuances in this story, at least this particular version which people tend to overlook.
Prisoners are not (innately) victims either, they are being punished for their crimes; and yet a romantic or sexual relationship between a prisoner and prison guard is still considered unethical because of the imbalance of power.
Back to my original point which is that it is very simplistic and narrow minded to simply say that this film is about Stockholm Syndrome. If you go and look at the film again you will notice that the beast was willing to give Belle her freedom and risk staying a beast forever (I don't know, maybe that should have turned him human again but that's neither here nor there.) But another less critical approach to this story might inform you that this is a story about change, growth and maturity (actually you know what other Disney film you could compare this to? 'The Emperors New Groove') Gaston was the real monster because after the Beast showed compassion which Belle taught him Gaston still tried to kill him. If you watch the movie again you'll notice how the dynamic between the beast and Belle changed.
This has quickly become one of my favorite channels. So insightful.
I've seen this movie numerous times, and that parallel b/w the Best and Gaston blew my mind!
Sal D'Souza it might also be a callback to the original Jean Coteau film. I believe both "Gaston" and the "Beast" died... only for the Beast to come back as "Gaston" (Not really Gaston because he wasn't a douchebag).
I knew the film had layers, but this video taught me about the many layers I've never thought about
you could say that Beauty and the Beast is like an 'onion'....
I wonder why we didn't see it there before ;)
just like ogres, this movie has layers.
It has many more. One of the directors had aids and passed away before the film was finished.
I love how you brought up what the Beast not remembering how to read means to him and the story. The remake made it so that he knew how to read and would "sometimes" read. It's nice that it allows them something to bond over, but it kind of takes away from Beast's arc. That he seemed to have given up on being human. Doug Walker pointed out how the animated Beast went from animalistic behaviors to more human ones as the movie progresses, which shows how he's willing to give humanity a chance and change for Belle. And in the Broadway, having Belle read to the Beast provides a sweet moment for them to bond when he realizes books can take him away from his pain for a little bit. Belle can relate to that since she's aware of what the town thinks of her, but reading brings her joy. Now she has someone to share that joy with.
Is true, if I remember correctly she says that people call her weird for her love of books, and he tells her something about she is not weird at all. It was a sweet moment for them
Doug Walker's a jerk
The Beast becomes Human as a reward for him, not Belle.
Throughout the film on a sliding scale he goes from a beast (Hunting his food, not wearing proper clothes, he's losing memory of being human. That's him accepting what he is and he's miserable because of it) to human (learning compassion, thinking of others) and earns his, and everyone else in the castle's, humanity back.
Hell, even in the original tale, he doesn't change until after Belle agrees to marry him, with was AFTER she told him she loved him.
To support this, I was devastated that Disney+ left out the Human Again song. Just before it starts, Belle asks the Beast if he could read Romeo and Juliet to her, albeit with some difficulty- mispronouncing the word 'two'.
@@sofoniza I always headcannoned that the Beast forgot how to read, it works as a symbol of his humanity and Belle helping him relearn it. (It's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of Live Action Beast.)
I feel like him turning back to human is necessary.. I mean,
1. He proved his inner beauty, so I don't see why he'd still be cursed
2. It also says that that being beautiful doesn't mean you're vain
3. ALOT of people (including myself) wouldn't have been okay with her actively dating (basically) an animal. She loved his personality, now she can actually love all of him. Not because he's pretty, but because he's human. If he was an ugly human would've been okay too. Just not a beast.
The thing is, the real people were Petrus Gonzalvus, a man afflicted with hypertrichosis/Ambras Syndrome/"Werewolfism" (it was an incurable disease, not some curse to be lifted & it's something only 40% or less of the world's people have) & Catherine Raffilin, a middle-class (at least by the royal elite's standards, anyway) noblewoman who coincidentally shared first names with King Henry the 2nd's wife, who upon the death of his majesty, became Queen.
Queen Catherine's reign was actually one of the cruelest in all of French history, yet she purposely played matchmaker between her adopted son (as Petrus was adopted by the French royal court to learn the ways of being a true nobleman, but was still lower in rank than the King & Queen, who essentially "owned" him, which meant that if he spoke out against mistreatment, he would've been quickly sent to the gallows to be hanged or even beheaded by medieval gulliotine) & the lovely female servant that shared her first name, because she wanted them to sire offspring with the same condition as their father. After each of their sons turned out normal & healthy, Petrus & Catherine were essentially demanded to produce a child with hair or die, more or less, per the wretched Queen's degree.
Luckily for the strange husband & wife, they had daughters, who were all born with the same affliction as their father, but unfortunately, even after giving the Queen what she wanted, the real-life Beauty & the Beast couldn't live in peace with their offspring (both normal & with hair all over their bodies), because the misfit family was then shuffled across Europe in what amounts to a celebrity tour, simply so paying bystanders could stare at them (this would be no different than paying customers looking at circus performers who are part of travelling freakshow exhibits) whilst feigning sympathy & yet, still be allowed to feel genuine alarming disgust from a safe distance.
During this whole excursion, the Queen worked deals with Dukes & Duchesses of higher status than Petrus & Catherine to sell/parcel off their hairy daughters as cartel/gifts/pets (according to a carefully preserved handwritten letter from one of the daughters found among the various documents that prove the fairy tale couple's existance, with their grand castle being the opulent Chateau De Blois where Petrus was raised & instructed during his adolesence), much to the dismay of their disheartened parents, who just wanted to be left alone to live their lives without bothering anyone. It wasn't until after all of their hairy offspring had been sold & their normal children had found homes with other families that Petrus & Catherine were finally allowed to live the last years of their lives in relative comfort.
But alas, even upon their deaths, it was still a question as to whether Petrus was wholly a man or not purely based on aesthetics, because whereas Catherine was granted a proper Christian burial befitting someone of her social standing in spite of whom she was wed to, Petrus wasn't afforded this last great honor, which suggests that, even through all of this, France still wasn't willing to let its hairy hero get the just due he so richly deserved.
So, all in all, it's a good thing that their lives were rewritten into the French fable several times over, as the "tale as old as time" finally allowed them to posthumously achieve the "Happily Ever After" that had alluded them for so long in life.
Finally, as for whether or the beautiful Catherine truly loved her financee regardless of his appearance, she was taken aback at first & was afraid that Petrus might revert to some hidden primal instincts, given everyone's concerns about raising someone whom those in the know percieved as a monster, given that Petrus was a feral child of 12-years-old found in the woods when he was first discovered, leading many to assume falsely that he was somehow the missing link between man & animal or even perhaps, that he was the first known living example of the local wildman myth (like lycanthropes/were-animals, wildmen were known to be cowardly barbarians driven by bloodlust, with only the instincts of mating, fighting & killing being what remained of their humanity, if they ever had any at all to start with). But once she got to know him better, Catherine began to actually fall in love with her eloquently soft-spoken arranged beau in spite of his outwardly looks. In the Ambras castle deep in the Austrian Alps among various other pieces of curious oddities sits a lovely painted portrait of Petrus & Catherine, with Petrus dressed in his best fine linen clothing complete with traditional French ruffles & behind him, Catherine has her lithe hand placed upon his shoulder with a faint hint of a smile adorning her face, which is a clear, albeit subtle, sign of true affection, to at last, confirm that, yes, Beauty did love her Beast in the end).
In the context of the fairy tale adaptations, the reason the Prince gets to be "Human Again" instead of staying a beast is because it was his reward for finding that one person who could love him in spite of how fearsome he looked on the outside, because the transfigured Prince needed to be with someone whom he could love & be loved by in return for the spell to be broken.
TherealRNO sad story for sure. But, aren't men usually hairy? Perhaps not wildly like that man was, but still hairy. Therefore, was the witchy queen being biased about how much hair makes a man a man, and a man a beast?
@@DiamondsRexpensive Well, at first, since people thought he might've been a real-life monster because of his affliction (akin to wild man/wolfman/werewolf/lycanthrope horror stories, never mind Petrus being initially discovered as a feral child in the woods before becoming civilized), the reason the court of King Henry the 2nd adopted Petrus to begin with (beyond seeking to mold him into a French nobleman) was because the King himself was genuinely interested in the connection between humans & animals, so he used Petrus as a case study, with his Highness often finding himself pondering what makes a man a man, particularly since Petrus had very quickly proven himself to be soft-spoken, highly intelligent, multilingual & very much dedicated to learning the ways of French nobility that he had been afforded, in stark contrast to the viciously primal brute many around him erroneously perceived him to be. As for the cruel widowed Queen, it was never truly stated just exactly why she wanted Petrus to sire hairy offspring, but it's obvious she clearly did have her preferences.
This video made me appreciate the movie more
That argument that changing the beast back at the end was sending an inappropriate message that outer beauty is preferable is faulty. He was not originally a beast. If his beastly appearance is a reflection of his inner self, his outer self cannot simply cease to exist unless he had remained unchanged inside. Besides, the Disney princesses themselves proved that when you are beautiful inside, your beauty radiates to the outside. If he had stayed as himself there would always be the possibility that he could revert to his previous nature.
Excellent analysis of the movie, however I believe that your conclusion may undermine your thesis in some regard. His transformation at the end of the movie is a representation of him finding and accepting his humanity. If Gaston is a mirror image of his beastly self and the final fight scene is him casting off his monster visage then the transformation back into a human being is the ultimate form of his development. If he were to remain a beast then the symbolism of him losing that inhuman aspect of himself is lost.
Symbolism is EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!
And I love it.
Okay but listen, listen, LISTEN. Turning him back to human might not be just about physical looks and stuff... that could him totally and fully getting rid of his monstrosity. The movie’s point is that this human was a monster on the inside so a witch made him a monster on the outside too.. she made him see his inner self.. him coming back to his human form just shows that there was no traces of monster inside him anymore... in this movie they used Adam’s human form as the symbol of good. So him coming back human is him becoming fully good. As for Shrek, I see it is kinda different... Fiona found her inner self and loved while being with an ugly ogre.. which made her love the ugly ogre... he wasn’t ugly to her anymore because he was never ugly to start with.. he has always been a very beautiful creature on the inside... and she too, was just as beautiful as him... but she was trying to be as beautiful as the others, the humans, so she was trying to hide her true identity to be accepted by everyone else... her becoming an ogre when the curse broke just shows that she accepted her different beauty as it is. She’s different and so fucking what?! She can be beautiful /and/ different just like the man who rescued her and loved her in all her shapes.
This is how I see it.
That's what was so disappointing about the 2017 remake
The beast nonchalantly threw belle a library in a really arrogant neggy way instead of it being about understanding her love for book and a desire to see her happy in a deeper way
Was so disappointing
very insightful thank you....
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A lot of female fans admitted they preferred his beast form than his human form even children at Disney said they'd rather see the beast than the prince
That is because he's more recognized that way, first off. I mean it IS called _Beauty & the Beast_ after all, not _Beauty & the Effeminate Prince Adam_ (ironically, this calls to mind the MOTU Power Couple He-Man & Teela as well as Skeletor henchman Beastman, because as Prince Adam, both the transfigured fairytale prince & the protector of Eternia are shiftless loafers who don't have quite the power they have when they're cursed out of either their own selfishness - in Disney's versions - or, per the original novel, because the powerful enchantress able to change her age at will from a haggard old crone begging for scraps [where it was proper etiquette at the time for nobles to give shelter & means of food & drink to weary travelers, especially the needy, elderly, sickly, or small children unable to fend for themselves all alone in the world] to a gracefully ageless young woman who wishes to have the transfigured prince for herself, despite essentially being his 2nd mother after the death or permanent disappearance of his biologicial mother earlier on in his life OR before they raise their enchanted sword into the air & say, "By the Power of Grayskull, I Have The Power" to become The Beast & He-Man respectively, with Skeletor henchman Beastman bearing a passing resemblance to the fairytale's male lead in terms of his humanoid bestial features). The 2nd reason most might prefer his Beast form to his human one is that the actual person upon whom the transformed Prince was based on was the way he looked due to hypertrichosis/Ambras Syndrome (often crudely misnamed "Werewolfism" after lycanthropy, the condition of being able to shift from an average man to a super-strong Wolf Man, usually in correlation with a full moon & blooming wolfsbane or in the Beast's case, the time clock that is the Enchanted Rose) & stayed with hair covering his entire body all of his life, to the point that even his daughters inherited the condition from him. The 3rd reason as to why fans simply choose the Beast over his fully realized Prince form is out of pure personal preference based around the fact that the Beast is more exciting than the boring Prince he returns back into.
The thing about Emma rejecting the corset bugs me, for multiple reasons. The main reason being that as an actress she should be thinking about the context of the costume choices, before her own ideals. So she doesn't want to wear a corset normally, fine, few people do. But she was playing a character in a different time, so that shouldn't matter.
With that said, I don't think Belle would wear a corset. She isn't too concerned about her appearance beyond looking presentable in public, and her father wouldn't force her to wear something she's against, so having Belle actively wear a corset of her own volition seems odd to me. But that's part of understanding how you want to interpret the character. As an actor Emma should understand this.
My other reason for being annoyed about it is that corsets just look really nice and as long as you don't tighten it to the point that you're breaking your ribs, you'll be okay.
I saw this movie when I was 5, it’s the first Disney movie I saws and it’s my all time favorite. I am an awkward French girl and it resonates a lot with me.
I had met Glen Keane for a masterclass for Rapunzel release, he talked about the Beast transformation scene animation and how hard it was for him to create it. For me I always thought that his transformation was just the illustration of self-acceptance and self-love. Like when you accept and love your inner self it will be seen on the outside, it transforme you into a beautiful human been inside and out. Gaston was beautiful from the outside but ugly inside and this transformed him into a monster, the opposite is true for the Beast. It doesn’t matter what you look like if you don’t love the inside, I never thought it was something like you said.
Sorry for my misspelling English.
Emma Watson refused to wear a corset for the live-action version so as not to glorify unrealistic beauty expectations...and yet still wore a dress with boning in the stomach, which mimics the shape of a corset, without doing what a corset was originally designed to do: support breasts.
stewieismyhomeboy so much for realistic films
an sjw to be precise.
Now, if the only purpose of a corset was to shape the waist I can understand she might be apprehensive, but as an actor you need to represent a character and a time. Maybe she should have read into it before trying to stand up for "beauty standards". Personally I think if it were a lesser known actor who refused to wear a stupid corset they would have found a replacement.
Wicked Whisper, sorry, but you can't really say wearing a corset is justified by the time period. I mean during the time period, there weren't magical enchantresses, there weren't awkward, grumpy buffalo-lion-warthog things living in abandoned castles, people didn't just break out into passionate song about how weird a girl reading books was. It's not like the viewers can't figure out that the time period is in the past from all of the other hints...
And like this person explained, belle wasn't about beauty on the outside, she was about beauty on the inside, so it doesn't actually represent the character. You say 'beauty standards' as though it is something ridiculous, but it is actually pretty bad to girls' self consciousness, they might even get bullied for it or hate themselves intensely because they feel ugly compared to what they see in movies. And anyway, her dress already acts as a corset kind of, but you can;t seriously say that a corset is going to massively make a difference, it adds nothing to the actual character, and either way there are a lot of bigger inconsistencies than lacking a corset (which we don't even know she was wearing).
Crepuscular Night, I was speaking more generally, but I do understand where you're coming from. Belle really wouldn't be into corseting now that you bring it up, but how she's drawn says otherwise so I guess I didn't really think about what that character herself would do. If Emma Watson weren't playing belle though, I still think she should have at least tried a corset. It's not that important in the big picture, but it's a nice detail people might admire, instead of saying that she's making a big deal about not wearing one.
Why do you think in the recent, live-action movie the beast actually can read, and in multiple languages, but he doesn't show Belle the library as a gift; I believe he does it so she just has something to do as he holds her captive.
I would be interested in an analytic comparison and contrast between the recent film and the original iteration of the film.
The nature of animation lends itself more to symbolism than a live action interpretation, so while elements like the library scene work in the original, it wouldn't necessarily translate well in live action. For instance, the Beast didn't actually give her the library so much as show her where it was. She sure didn't take any of it with her when she was released. Plus, any prince sure as hell knew how to read (Plus, the scene where he couldn't wasn't even in the theatrical version but was added for an anniversary release.) The live action version doesn't rely on the symbolism that the animated version does. That's simply the nature of doing a live action version; the symbolism of drawings is replaced by a more textual or dramatic version where two people of equal intellectual and emotional ability meet and form understanding and attachment. He, in essence, gives her access to the "great wide somewhere" while she shows him how to grow and better himself as a person.
I agree with above.
Plus a prince would be highly educated.
This was part of the massive plot hole in the animated beauty and the beast that if Beast turns human when he's 21 and has been cursed for 10 years means he was 11 when he was turned into a beast. A bratty, spoiled 11 years old (with no parents for some reason) may not have learned to read very well and so it's believable that after 10years of not reading he would have been very bad at it as he is in the animated movie.
But then, WHY would anyone curse an 11 year old child?
In the opening, (of the animated movie) we see the prince and he's a grown ass man. So my young brain figured the "21st year" part of the curse meant his 21st year as a beast...not 21st year alive. I was a supporter of the theory that when cursed, time stopped at the castle. (Because otherwise, Mrs. Potts gave birth to a teacup)
This also made sense to my young brain as I had read one of the original Beauty and the Beast stories and the Beast is old. Old enough to be Belle's father.
I Vividly remember a line where Belle and beast are on a walk and belle remarks "You are an old Beast." And the beast agrees that he is old. So even if the prince was frozen at whatever age he was or is in fact over 40 (he looks good for 40) Still made sense to me.
As to why he didn't give Belle the Library I would think that in the real world, what would be the point of that. She's never leaving the castle, she likes to read but reads junk (according to Adam) so he shows her better books to read. why would be GIVE her the library, she can't take it with her. She's living there forever anyway, so here it is. Like showing your sleepover friends where the bathroom is. since your here, you may as well know where it is.
Agree, the only problem that occurs however, (for me at least) is that Belle, a city girl, now essentially falls in love with a nobleman who "of course knows how to read, don't be stupid", in stark contrast to everyone else that can't read as they are common rural people (with way more important concerns, may I add, like actually having enough food to eat), and therefore are below her and not good enough.
I much prefer the contrast of Gaston ridiculing Belle for reading bc he didn't like it and Adam (beast) wanting to hear her read for him (as is shown in the original movie cut).
People don’t realise that the beast was around 10-11 years old when he turned away the old woman, which was simply a case of stranger danger, and therefor his actions were completely justified, and he was likely scared when the enchantress turned into a beautiful woman, and feared that something bad would happen if he turned her away after witnessing such magical properties, and with standard 10 year old mentality, he apologised, not realising his actions would impact his future the way they did.
What a wonderful and well presented analysis of the film. As the Supervising Animator of Mrs. Potts and Chip in the 1991 animated film, I am impressed with the way you hit every point perfectly and were able to pinpoint exactly what we were striving to do when making the film. I have enjoyed a number of these analyses and was pleased and thrilled to have stumbled upon this one for a film I had played a key role in. Those were happy times and I’m so glad people still enjoy the film. It’s one on my favorites, too.
there's a reason why I love this movie. the more u watch the more u learn something new everyday. it's the little details that make this movie the masterpiece. great video u did.
Also, Chip represents our inner curiosity, innocence, and desire to trust that things will work out
You say the end puts outer beauty as still preferable but I don't see it this way : we notice Belle isn't falling in Beast's charm right when he comes back human, but only when she realised it is _still_ the same person by looking into his eyes. This ending physical transformation making the Beast human again symbolises his inside transformation into a human, moreover Belle fell in love _before_, when he wasn't "beautiful" at all.
"you're positively primeval" is my favourite line
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That scene of the Beat learning to read was not in Theatrical Cut.
I was going to say, I don't remember that scene at all. The animation even looks wrong. Why the hell was it added?
1980rlquinn It was one of the deleted scenes that was found in the special edition dvd/blue rays
When they remastered B&B for its Imax release they took the deleted scenes and even a whole song number and animated them to add into the film. It was the way it was supposed to have been if time and budget had not been an issue. Back then it was very rare for a children's movie to run over an hour and a half.
Wow, your analysis of these Disney stories just lights that fire of love that I have for each one of these videos you do.
Beauty and the Beast has always been my favorite disney movie. I've never been able to put into words why but i think y'all explained it for me. This is a great analysis of the movie
This was my favorite movie when I was a kid ,now as an adult I realize how my values I carry now were learnt from this amazing movie....this movie still inspires me ...and I ended up becoming a women like belle....kind , thoughtful and appariting inner beauty above all...love this movie more then ever ❤
I love your channel. You're like an english teacher looking into symbolism, but you do it really well. Everything you claim is extremely valid; you're not pulling it out of nowhere. It all makes sense. Also, you only do this on stuff I actually care about (a.k.a not some random book I never wanted to read in the first place). Thank you, and keep doing what you're doing!
This is the first film I've ever loved, and I didn't think it was possible I could love it even more! These films are important for kids, they really don't go over their heads when teaching them lessons about inner beauty and love for one another.
Great analysis.
But Emma Watson not wanting to wear a corset is simply stupid and shows bare ignorance. Corsets were not direct tools of women's oppression, but day to day wear, same as skirts or jackets. The social value of women being based only on their reproductive skills, and them not being treated nor considered equal as men, that was/is the REAL oppression.
Fashion was (and still is) a mirror of what society values in its members, and what is culturally seen as beautiful.
The corset seen as a tool to take women down is just a silly modern interpretation (which can be seen in many movies such as gone with the wind, titanic, brave...). It helped shape and maintain the body, like bras. It was NEVER supposed to smothered women.
So, as a feminist, I get that Emma Watson wanted to modernize a bit her character. But her choice (was it really hers to begin with, or is it a marketing move to help promote the movie via a buzz?) was off.
Totally agree. Her dresses were awful and totally impractical. I mean, she spent lots of time in the snow, with no warm clothes or boots, even shocks! A strong independent woman is not afraid to be cold, I suppose
The cold never bothered me anyway…
I think your theory is confirmed! LOL XD
I agree 100% about your comment on the corset so true. Personal I did not like Emma waston as belle but that is just me.
You're so right! Besides there was a time when men wore girdles and corsets as well as women.
Just because they did it back then doesn't make it healthy, Just saying
This was simply one of the best videos about the analysis on this movie. Beauty and the Beast is iconic and a cinematic masterpiece which is layered with so many amazing messages, symbolic ideas and morals that it is indescribable. The way this movie connected with everyone is just so beautiful. Beauty and the Beast, a 2-D animated Disney Princess movie, was the first ever animated movie to be nominated for the Best Picture category at the Academy Awards during a time where there even wasn't an Animated Feature category. The impact, deservedly so, is historic. Timeless, really. I LOVE this tale as old as time and I really hope that everyone can learn to appreciate this masterpiece.
I really enjoyed this analysis of the movie. There are a few things I've learned from the movie itself before, but I've learned even more with this video! Thank you :D
What an excellent channel. Keep growing!
I never thought of the beast turning back into a human as still finding beauty preferable, I always just thought it was his reward for becoming good, and thus a reward for the servants as well. There are of course people who can't escape their outer appearance, but I think we saw that Beast and Bell found happiness before he transformed anyway.
All your videos are amazing. Thank you for sharing all your insights.
Siena Schickel & Susannah McCullough
Both of you are amazing!! Thank you for the well thought out and beautifly narrated dialogue on such a great film! Thank you!
Appearances-wise, what bothered me more than the Beast changing back was the fact that the woman he had to learn to love was notably beautiful. Like, this wasn't supposed to be about *her* learning to see past appearances; she was already pretty good at that, as witness her revulsion towards Gaston even as the rest of the town basically worshipped him, and even her father mentioned him as a possible companion for Belle when they were talking. Belle already knows that inner and outer beauty aren't necessarily correlated. The Beast's development would have seemed stronger if an ugly woman had come into his castle that night... but then I guess we would have needed a different outer conflict, since Gaston would not have been interested in an ugly Belle. All the same, it's something I would have liked to see.
the thing is, the reason it happened in real-life to Petrus & Catherine like it did is because the queen of France wanted him & his bride to breed baby beasts like himself, so she personally chose a beautiful woman, because no man wants to date/marry/have children with someone whom he's not, at least on some level, physically attracted to
Old comment, but you might enjoy some medieval romances that do just that. The Wife of Bath's Tale and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle are both "loathly lady" stories. Ie. The Enchantress character ends up with the hero. Actually, gender-inverted versions of popular archetypes were pretty common.
Check out the BOOK Beastly (not the movie with Vanessa Hudgens) and it describes the Beauty character Lindy as red-haired and with crooked teeth, and after the Beast character Kyle becomes human again people are commenting on HIM dating Lindy which he does call them out for.
I really love this Chanel! Thank you for the matériel.
Amazing Breakdown, so much insight
Thank you
I had no idea that there was this much symbolism in this movie.
Man i'm living with these videos from the Take. i think i just watched many than i normally do, in just 2 days. thank you guys!
Can you do Princess and the Frog and Sleeping Beauty and Snow White? Or how about all of them? Haha I love these videos!
Soo im only about 10 minutes and I have to stop and say how incrediblely amazing and well thought out this analysis is! It is so well edited and put together that I have say im so in tune and captivated with the flow of your edits and your nice segways.
Really great work. The editing is so satisfying. Good work! =D
Great analysis! My all-time favorite Disney movie!
Thank you for analyzing Beauty and the Beast♥♥♥♥
This movie is my favorite movie ever!!!
I think the key to the ending is that it wasn’t so much that he returned to bring a pretty face for belle- but that he ran straight to her to let her know that they could be together again (he became human for her, and not himself). She looked into his eyes to make sure it was him, because she would have most likely loved him anyway, but society would have been the one to make their relationship a challenge. So yeah, I can see why they decided to turn him back.
Also I wanted to sob- I love this movie so much. Both man and woman are breaking standards here, and it’s all thanks and due to the fact that the man isn’t a Prince Charming, if you really think about it. She had to find the love for him, and he for her. In this tale it’s reversed- the curse is on the prince, and not on the damsel in distress anymore. However she is also fighting misogyny.
I think Disney has a subtle way of priming the audience for the future stories they have in place, even if it’s intuitive by nature in their story telling. But also priming the new era by reacting to their needs and desires in their films and adapting their story telling in order to do so.
Also I might just be reading too hard into this. But I think you did a spectacular job of providing the explanations for this movie 😂❤️ I love this story so much.
Thank you so much for this. After all the Disney Princess skepticism and comments of Stockholm syndrome I started to feel disenchanted with my favorite Disney film, Beauty and the Beast. I can feel that warm glow again that I used to have about this film, and I'm reminded again of why it's so special.
wow.. just wow! impressive work indeed.... loved it
This made me love my favorite Disney movie even more
My Fiancee and I were watching this last week, and we kept crying because it felt likr someone was telling a story about our lives and and our romance 💓✝️
Thank you for sharing such an important aspect that 90% of human being tend to ignore the Beauty within! We search for the outer Beauty...
Beauty and The Beast,
The Lion King,
and Hurcules are
the Best Disney films!!!
One of the best channel I have ever seen ❤
Your analysis is REALLY good!
I watched a documentary with Glen Kane where he describes the transformation of the beast, he explains that this specific moment was of a man putting outside and revealing his best part. So, at the end, the movie doesn't say that the prince is better than the beast, but it was a poetic way of saying that love is the key for the best version of ourselves.
Your analysis of disney classics are beautifull and full of wisdom abt life. There is so much to find in this simple stories.
I'm so glad you mentioned the real life beauty and beast
I love your video essays
I truly believe it would have been an even better ending if instead of dying,Gaston became a beast as punishment.
I thought I was the only one who would have prefered that. It would be a better punishment for a someone like Gaston to have to confront the consequences of his actions and to realize that he would no longer had all that attention from everyone (or almost everyone) he so desperately wants rather than just dying.
Wonderful!!
My Favorite Disney animated film!
I enjoyed this psychological thesis!
This is far more preferable for young children then Any of the other "princess" movies!
It shows boys the differences between Gaston and The Beast.
It shows Belle as a headstrong, practical young lady who knows what she wants and is willing to fight for her father and her dreams!
She's not looking for some "perfect prince" to rescue her. She realizes that the Beast is far from ideal, but, somehow, he makes her happy.
this shows young people that great relationships don't happen overnight
and that falling in love takes time...the rose.
it's not so much him returning to his Prince form, but knowing that she would love him, Irregardless of How he looked ( This Is Love)
Bravo!
Thank you very much!
And it was the first animated film to be nominated the Academy Award for Best Picture. Not that the Oscars matter, but just the fact that a cartoon was able to reach such a seemingly impossible feat is astounding, which it so rightfully deserves, even more so than Silence of the Lambs in my opinion, despite how good it is.
It's wonderful to find an appreciation video for this masterpiece
This channel is something else!
Wow your videos are wonderful! Just watched the Cinderella one. These are fantastic! So well thought out and insightful.
I subscribed due to this video. I adore this film and have a perfect voice-over speaking in the background...priceless.
That’s two times you impressed me and helped give a disney favorite of mine justice. Thank you thank you thank you
As always, another great video. Keep on these great analysis. It would be great if in the near future you make a comparison of "The Beauty and the Beast", with Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water".
Omg i loved this..could/have you done more? PLEASE?!!!
I love this. Something I’ve also been thinking about for a while is the line “certain as the sun, rising in the east” from the song beauty and the beast, because considering that the beast lives in the *west* wing, it makes sense for belle to descend into the ballroom from the east wing, and therefore be symbolized as the sun in the beasts world.
Your explanation makes so much sense. 😃
Oh my gosh, I'm a year 1 film student, and my mind has been blown so many times that I see I'm really still so shallow, not even ankle deep. Those things that you point out, it's sad so many people don't make the relation as they watch the film, even myself, despite of how much more beautiful it makes everything. And here I thought I was good at noticing details, I have much to learn.
Always thought the ending should have been different but it’s still a masterpiece and I can’t get of the music, my Spotify Disney playlist has all the songs! Again this proves to us that real beauty is love, kindness and empathy! ❤️
Wow, how did you discover and compile all of these fascinating findings? How much research, how much intuition? Very good
Wow. This was....wow. Analysis Supreme!
I love the live action Beauty and the Beasts’ Gaston song scene in the pub they pulled it off brilliantly
you mean live action Beauty And The Beast, right? Cinderella has no pub scene from what I can remember.
Didrick Namtvedt obviously. There’s no Gaston either. Errors happen, I watched the Cinderella video right before this so I just mixed up the names. It’s really not a big deal...
this channel is amazing. im really suprised you dont have a million viewers.
This analysis is fantastic!!
Profound analysis. Well done.
You're so amazingly clever and relevant, girls! Thank you for your work
What a wonderful video! I agree with all your insights and love that included the background history of story. I never (personally) liked the deleted scene they reincluded in film. I don't find it historically accurate because the Beast, being a Prince, would have been taught to read well (regardless of whether or not he enjoyed books). I do, though, like your particular insights of that scene because it does make have it more sense (for me) even though I don't like it. Thank you for taking the time to make videos like these. I've enjoyed every one that I've watched!
soooooooo thoughtful and enjoyable!
great work! Thanks!
I just viewed this one and the Cinderella video... what a great channel. Very insightful. Thank goodness for intelligent people!
Great vid! Thanks!
The analysis of this video is great for English class. It uses symbolisms and their meaning...great essay