smoke?
i saw this quite a long time ago and was rather confused why the beast's body would sometimes seem to have smoke emitting from his clothes. anyone know what was the significance of that?
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Well in the beginning, in Jean Cocteau's introduction, he says something about children believing the stories we tell them and believing that a beast's hands will smoke when he kills someone. And Belle's father did see a dead deer before he approached the estate, and the beast did get quite distracted by one dear. And then when Belle saw him in his room, covered in blood, he apologized for being an animal. So I think that was him killing the deer and it represented him succumbing to his more animalistic, "beastly" side.
shareah thank u kindly rainybklynight ! your answer makes quite alot of sense.
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I agree, but why does the Beast's glove smoke when Belle uses it near the end? Even more strange it smokes right before she uses it, does NOT smoke when she arrives at the castle, smokes when she immediately returns home, and does NOT smoke when she uses it again. Seemingly random.
shareI was taken by the pearl beads turning to smoking string when Bette's sister handles them. I get the impression that it's Bette's virtue that suppresses the impure smoke effecting the gloves and the beads.
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