to think Beauty and the Beast is all to cock?

[downgraded]

DD is obsessed with this. Mostly I don't mind because the songs are good.... but have you noticed that:

1. The prince got turned into a beast when he was 11. He has until he's 21 to get someone to fall in love with him, and they say they been like that for 10 years - who the fuck turns an 11 year old into a beast because he's mean to them? 11 year olds are mean, that's what they do! Plus why was he in the castle on his own anyway, where were the parents? Why weren't SS involved?
   
   
2. Belle finds the rose and runs off on the very same night she is taken prisoner. The same night! She has the meal and then pokes about where she shouldn't and that's that. I mean, she's brand new in the castle and specifically told not to go in the West Wing. Does she give a fuck? No, the nosey cow goes wandering off where she shouldn't. As far as house guests go, it's pretty bad manners.
   
   
3. Maurice goes straight to the tavern once he is kicked out of the castle and gets Gaston thinking of chucking him in the loony bin. They get the old man round fairly shortly and Belle turns up with the mirror. So how long has Belle had to fall in love with the beast? 48 hours? For a guy with hairy hands and fangs he's a pretty fast worker.
   
   
4. so from start to finish, the whole thing happens within a week. If Belle was to post here for advice, I'm not sure that anyone would be advocating marrying a semi feral wild animal with a staff of animate household objects, even if he did have his own castle. Especially in so short a timescale.
   
   I love the film, but the timings are seriously fucked up.

[Cumbrae]

I was assuming he was born a boy and turned into a tea cup with the spell. But as he is clearly less than 10 yo he must not have aged in 10 years. Even though the beast has.

Of course maybe it was doggy years...

[sausagechops101]

I'd still like a night with Gaston though. I heard that every last inch of him was covered with hair.

[downgraded]

Ooh yes!

He's especially good at expactorating, which sounds lovely and filthy

[EvilTwins]

You'd need to stock up on eggs though. He eats several dozen every day.

[WellErrr]

I love the bit where he bursts into song at the start.

'Right from the moment when I met her, saw her.....'

[crustsaway]

Over thinking there OP, take a rest.

[geekymommy]

SS wasn't involved because there was no SS in France in the late 1700s.

I agree that, if you're turning 11 year olds into beasts for being mean, you're probably going to be doing that an awful lot.

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

I thought time stood still when he got cursed? So he and all his servants were transformed but didnt age.

I did wonder what the situation was when they all turned back into humans though:- where would the clock be? How would they brew up?

[debbriana]

well done. That made my evening.

[downgraded]

Hacked if he stopped ageing when he got turned into a beast then there would be no hurry with Belle falling in love with him. But the rose loses its petals so time must still tick on.

Good point about when the servants tour back into humans though. They'd have to go out and buy a whole dinner set, clock, candelabra etc. Expensive.

Mind you, they could put it all on the wedding list.

[MorrisZapp]

Isn't there a CrazyOldMaurice on MN? Maybe it was another forum :)

I work in an old building with ornate lampposts outside it, tres Parisian. Every day I picture them dancing and serving me a banquet.

If it ain't Baroque...

[toriap2]

Does the fact that all the servants are now furniture etc mean that the room in the West wing with the broken furniture etc is a graveyard full of dead servants! Surely it wasnt like that before everyone got changed?

[wanderings]

Oh yes. I had the Ladybird book of Beauty and the Beast, and some of the scenes are very intense indeed; like many of the Ladybird stories before Disneyfication:

(After the merchant has pleaded for his life to be spared)
Beast: "Very well. Your life will be spared on one condition, that you come back here in a month's time, bringing with you whoever meets you on your return home."

(As the merchant rides home)
Merchant (to himself): "Will it be my cat, or will it be my dog who meets me on my return? (horrified moment as he thinks of Beauty skipping gaily down the garden path to meet him) "What if it is Beauty who meets me on my return?"


(I also learned the story of Snow White and Rose Red soon afterwards, which I think is one of the more interesting fairy tales, only spoiled a bit by the cliche of a handsome prince appearing from nowhere at the end.)