What I Think About Beauty & The Beast

[curiousnorway]

I've watched Beauty and the beast and I loved this movie. It was great and I thinks the movie has been underrated by many movie reviewers from my country. Here's my review of it. PS! It includes a few spoilers.

Visual effects

The visual effects was wonderful and it was much easier to be engaged in the magically adventure in the live action version. The animated one can't beat this one. It's more believable with alive humans than animated characters and therefor I gets a more emotional connection with them. The CGI made the beast and his servants who's in-animated objects looking alive. The producers even gave them the ability to blink and do other movement in a realistic way.

It was many beautiful scenes with impressive details and the costume impressed me as well. The scenes reflected the mood in the movie very well in addition to give us a idea which relationship and which state the characters were in. When the enchantress broke the curse, the castle and the environment changed drastically like the characters' appearance.

Plot

The plot is quite similar to the animated movie and I thought it was good they mostly was stuck to the original. There's only a few changes. Bell's father is an artist instead of being an inventor and Belle is the inventor. Another major change is the depth in the movie which I liked. We gets the backstory to Belle's and the beast's parents. The movie explains what happen to Belle's mother and why the beast doesn't have parents anymore. The movie also answered other unanswered questions I had from the animated version. We gets to know why the village doesn't know about the beast's castle and more about the prince's life before he became a beast. But the enchantress paradox are still unanswered. In some versions the beast was an 11-years old when he was turned and I've questioned the enchantress' hero status. Seems more like a villain, and why should a child let a stranger entering in the first place? But the prince seemed like he was in his 20's in this movie when visited and couldn't be younger than 18.

Behind the scenes photo of the village in the movie. I couldn't find another photo of the village.

Actors & characters

I thinks Emma Watson is underrated in the Belle role. How she portraying the character is fine and I was positively surprised over her singing. She singed much better than what I expected.

I liked the cute side of Belle that Emma portrayed. But also the feministic, bookworm, brave and intelligent side of her. The sides of her that some calls "flawed" didn't bother me and it's a human she portrays. She delivers the emotional parts well as well and is a sympathetically character. I liked the scenes where she did her laundry, learned a little girl to read, her arguing with the beast and that she stood up for herself. Since she had the ability to speak for herself and had some independence, I don't think she had the Stockholm syndrome.

The other actors did a good job as well. Luke Evans managed to portray Gaston as an handsome, but a narcissistic egoist man, and the actor who played the prince did the emotional and the dynamic in the character well. "Lumiere" nailed the French accent and the hilarious personality like the animated version of him. In short, everybody did it good. But when the beast transformed back to the human form, he wasn't as I imagined him. I expected the prince to be handsomer and not like a plain average guy. It wasn't a big disappointment, just not what I expected.

The prince in human form.

Diversity

I thinks the diversity is positive in one way, but I was skeptical to it too. It has nothing to do with I'm against the actors or the writers, just that I wants it to be more convincing since it's the 18th century. Firstly I'm going to point out what I'm happy with.

It's nice they includes everyone. In humanity it's a lot of diversity. I admit I liked the Leouf twist a bit even though it's not very historically correct. It made the movie a bit different than the original and a surprising twist is fun. In addition Disney hasn't had so many gay characters before and it's nice to see them progressing. But putting the gay part in a movie about modern time would maybe be more suitable since most European countries are more progressing today.

Another thing that's historically incorrect is the amount of non-European looking people. There were a few black and Asian people in the 18th century's Europe, but it was very rare. In the movie it was too many non-whites. It wouldn't be total unrealistic to have one or two, but having as many as they had in the movie is unrealistic. The movie is a fairy tale and many magically stuffs happens, so I'm fully aware that the movie aren't supposed to be realistic. But I just wanted to point it out anyway. Being progressing and all that stuffs is important, but I do also appreciate some realism. Hopes you sees my point and not thinking I'm a racist.

[OlderAndWiser]

I have not seen the movie. Emma Watson is an engaging young lady and that might be enough to motivate me to see it. Disney is FAR too PC for my taste and many people with a liberal bent will take liberties with history if it furthers their agenda.

[1truekhaleesi]

I just love this movie. My sister is going to be pissed I saw it without her. To be fair, she kept moving the date we were planning to see it but I will gladly watch it again because I loved it that much.

[Anonymous]

I am master Pai Mei. You might remember me from the Quentin Tarantino double film “Kill Bill” which was released in the 2000s. In that film I helped this petulant yellow-haired white woman from the United States become a contract killer. Her time with me was most irritating, like 95% of women who hail from that country, but I was able to make her somewhat agreeable due to months of a highly active and regimented schedule where degenerate western female behaviors are severely curtailed and restricted.
Having seen firsthand how far American women have fallen as worthy domestic partners due to rampant obesity, bitchiness, man-hating propaganda, and culinary retardation, I have developed a program for the masses which will make females from the United States into potentially marriageable ladies again.
I call it the “Cruel Tutelage Of Pai Mei”, and the following article will address four ways that the program will be most beneficial.
1. They Will Get Off Their Fat Ass And Lose Weight
Per head of population, among any westerners I have witnessed, American women have got to be the fattest and most slovenly looking females my poor old eyes have ever seen. They are like gazing upon an enormous factory farm animal, who should be harvested for her whale blubber (to make something useful like soap) rather than sitting on her bloated behind in some useless “marketing” or “human resources” job they love so much.
Even worse, their idea of after-work relaxation is not going to the gym or learning how to make a healthy new recipe, but curling up under the covers to “Netflix and chill” and gorge themselves on high calorie sweets like some morbidly obese pig. Observe an American woman in her natural habitat…
Disgusting.

At the cruel tutelage of Pai Mei, I will teach these “HR” (or whatever they call themselves) swamp donkeys how to get into shape and to stay in shape through rigorous and unrelenting physical training, discipline, and repetition. Weeks on end of carrying buckets of water up and down temple steps in 30-something degree weather will help shed that whale blubber and (hopefully) instill a regimen that will keep that weight off for life.

[Opinion Owner]

2. They Will Learn Humility And Respect For Men.
At the cruel tutelage of Pai Mei, we understand that young American women have absolutely no humility and that their arrogant egos have spiraled completely out of control.
Social media has given very average looking women the impression that they are “goddesses”, and that their impotent non-profit venture or virtue signaling is supposed to “change the world” somehow. Furthermore, this thing called “feminism” in the west is infecting women with the crazy idea that they are either equal or even superior to men in most facets of life, and should be able to do exactly the same things that men do.
Well under my tutelage, American women are quickly going to come to the realization that men are far stronger physically, and have much greater capacity for accepting sound logic and reason, rather than what simply “feels” right about society. They will also learn to respect men, rather than treating them as disposable utilities, ...

[Opinion Owner]

.. and learn to take full responsibility for their malevolent actions and face the consequences of such actions.
So do you think American women can attempt to strike a man and he’s supposed to do nothing about it? Or that some white knight chump is going to jump in and save his “mi’lady” when that man exercises his natural right to self-defense and suitable retaliation? WRONG.
If you attempt any physical altercation with a man under my tutelage, you can expect to be painfully struck back and subdued using the full weight and force under that man’s disposal, which is going to be a LOT more than what a comparable woman can muster.
Respect men, and they will respect you. Far too many American women think they are immune to retaliation for being physically aggressive with men, and thanks to master Pai Mei, we are going to forever wipe that psychotic idea from their feeble yankee brains.

[Opinion Owner]

3. They Will Learn Discipline And Understand Real Suffering
American women have got to be the most sheltered, protected, and coddled women on planet Earth. No other type of female inhabiting this blue marble floating in space has their hand held longer, and has their problems magically disappear via financial contribution, public forgiveness, or an “empowerment” narrative, than a national of the stars and bars.
Under my cruel tutelage, bogus yankee 1st world “problems” like the gender pay gap lie or a mythical “rape culture” will be forever removed from their feeble female minds.
Long days of carrying heavy buckets of water up and down steps, rigid military-style kung fu routines, and repeatedly smashing their knuckles against heavy wooden boards will also teach them about the stress and suffering that billions of less fortunate people around the world endure on a daily basis.
So there’s no Iphone’s, Instagram, All-Night Happy Hour and In-N-Out Burger...

[Opinion Owner]

... where you’ll be going young lady! But when it’s all said and done, your newfound rudimentary Kung Fu skills will be able to help fend off those storybook “rapists” that you are so concerned about.
4. They Will Learn To Cook Healthy Meals And Eat Properly
Finally, there was a man on this stupid piece of western communications technology called ‘Twitter’ who once mentioned “If you walk up to a western Millennial girl with a cast iron skillet, 97% would rather take a beating than use it to cook dinner”.
I had my obligatory laugh, followed by the emotionally painful realization that his Confucius-like wisdom is hardly very separate from reality. Young American women just cannot cook anymore, and compound that problem by consuming awful and fattening pre-packaged diets.
Along with these American female tubs of lard shedding massive amounts of weight via the water-and-steps routine, my tutelage will include basic home cooking skills and mealtime etiquette...

[Opinion Owner]

.. Rest assured they are going to use that cast iron skillet dammit.
Foods high in carbohydrates, fats, sugars, salts, and flour will be neither prepared nor consumed. This is pretty much epitomized by obese Americans’ obsession with these nutritionally bankrupt monstrosities called doughnuts, or as I like to call them “crumbly cunt cakes”.
Conclusion
When it is all said and done, American women will finally be of an agreeable weight, have adequate cooking skills, stop acting like spoiled and petulant children, and have a much greater appreciation for western men, due to their greater understanding of the high quality of life that their workmanship and sacrifice provides for them.
Maybe, just maybe, the tide of men looking towards Brazil, Colombia, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, or Vietnam as places to find an agreeable life partner can be reversed if these obese land whales from North America follow my teachings.

[TuMeManques]

I really enjoyed this movie. I loved the cinematography! I was very excited to see Emma Watson because I love her but honestly her performance felt flat and a little boring and the singing on her part was so bad. I really wish they'd gone with someone else.

Maleficent is still my favorite remake.

[curiousnorway]

I liked the Maleficent movie too. Really enjoyed it. I also liked the Cinderella remake.

Seems like we have different opinions on Emma Watson. : )

[TuMeManques]

Usually I love her.

[curiousnorway]

She's gorgeous. I hasn't watched other movies she's in, so I can't tell. But I thinks she did it well in the 2017 fairy tale movie.

[JustinTheGreat]

I agree, I liked the movie very much.
The only thing I don't agree with is Emma Watsons singing. Its very obvious that she was heavily autotuned, and I didn't really enjoy the song she sang because I kept getting distracted by a robotic sounding voice
But she looks exactly how you would imagine a real life belle to look, and she's a great actress.
The guy who played Gaston did amazing. and I liked everyone else too.

[curiousnorway]

You've right it's auto tuned. Most songs nowadays are auto tuned, so that's not a big surprise. But I thinks it sounded nice. Just my opinion. ; ) I've heard much worse before.

[clampfan101]

The visual effects were great, and the plot had some nice additions and changes, before I still love the cartoon 10 times more. Emma Watson looked enough like Belle, and could sing nicely, but just didn't have the same feel of either. Especially singing. Emma did "good enough", but Paige O'Hara sang absolutely beautifully. I also think the cartoon Belle is much prettier. Dan Stevens did pretty well in his role, but the Beast looks nothing like the cartoon Beast, who was much more ferocious.

[PrincessPie]

Just watched it today at cinema very much enjoyed it :)

[ThisDudeHere]

-I love you.
-But you're a beast!
-I have a castle
*drops panties*

[meatballs21]

I enjoyed it way more than I expected. Emma Watson was miscast and was wooden and unlikeable.

[John_Doesnt]

Emma Watson sucks as Belle.

[curiousnorway]

Can you please explain why you thinks so?