I liked the movie but I really didn't like how they did the relation growing between the beauty and the beast. It seemed like she didn't have any motivation to have any attachment to him even in a human form. He was arrogant, not too much romance, just This is Me, Love Me...
Also I really didn't understood the scene when she sees him eating the meat and then he wants to kiss her and she was kind of ok?
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yeah that was my only thing with it as well I didn't think Belle and the Beast had enough time or relationship development which is the point of the story.
The only thing that I think made it less of an issue than normal was that at the end it's shown that the narrator is Belle reading the story to her children and all the things such as the puppies and the doll were objects in the room. So of course the Beast/Prince is the children's father.
If you take it from the persepctive that the story is playing out in the minds of the children as they imagine the words of the story coming to life in their heads it kind of makes sense that they'd omit a chunk of the relationship out because children wouldn't be thinking about these grand romantic scenes it'd be far more innocent.
Still it was disappointing especially cause I think Lea Sedoux and Vincent Cassel did have an interesting chemistry.
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Also I really didn't understood the scene when she sees him eating the meat and then he wants to kiss her and she was kind of ok?
AND to add to that it's partly symbolic. There have been many pyschological and sexual representations in the Beauty and Beast/La Belle Et La Bete narrative especially the Madame De Vellenue that this version is based on. In fact in the original narrative the Beast directly asks Belle each night at dinner if she will sleep with him. So that undertone is never far from the story and it's definately present in this movie.
The very character of the Beast this walking talking animal who appears horrific but acts like a man could be representative of Belle the pure, wholesome virgin's attitude towards sexuality. It's frightening at first as it requires the surrender of her childhood/innocence in the story this literally is the forceful separation from her family life and her father (take from that whatever Freudian meaning you will) and at first she resents it. Because remember in the time period the story is set marriages were often arranged love was rarely a factor. The agreement between the Beast and Belle's father over the rose plays out like a marriage contract and thus Belle is being forced into "marriage" or living arrangement with a person she doesn't know who will at some point want her sexually. And with her unhappienss over this relationship and her little knowledge of it she is resistant to it.
But the more she gets to know the Beast the more she starts understanding the humanity and love that can come from sexuality and the more she starts to open up her mind to the possibility. When she sees him devouring the animal I think it's a pig? That is the summation of what she fears the most her worst nightmare coming true. Here the Beast makes this big show of trying to behave like a man dancing with her, watching her eat etc but in that instance she sees the primal, agressive side of male sexuality and it sends her running. She allows fear to over take her however when you get that scene on the ice that's the moment when she sees the Beast/her lover's sexuality in it's true form agressive yet human, dangerous and passionate and she is drawn to it because before the ice breaks she leans in to kiss him back. She's accepting it. That's what spurs her to really fall for him and come back to him she wants the beast and the man who is in the beast she wants both- a real partner/lover with all the darkness, uncertainty and flaws that come with it.
I think what makes this movie so jarring is that on the one hand you have this kid friendly aspect with the puppies and the sisters and everything but then you have this dark edge that is really trying to bring up the adult themes of the story and in the end it leaves the film and sadly the development Beauty and Beast relationship to suffer for it because it's trying to be both things at once and the two tones can't find a middle ground. Honestly I'd rather Gans have either really gone all out and made it this kooky, cute retelling with the big colours and laughs and all that or REALLY go all out and make it this dark adult retelling like the 1946 La Belle Et La Bete or the 1970s Czech film and amp up the gothic, dark romance of the story.
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