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Sep. 5th, 2016 09:43 pmI think I just solved the puzzle of the portrait in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. You know the one, that's ripped one way in the prologue and another when Belle finds it?
Well, obviously it's two similar portraits. But that's not the thing. "Ten years we've been rusting" in conjunction with "till his twenty-first year" meaning the Prince was eleven in the prologue, and yet both portraits depict a young man very like the Prince in the epilogue?
IT'S HIS FATHER.
...what happened to him and both mothers, anyway?
(I mean, still fond of the idea that Belle's mother worked at the castle, and part of the enchantment was a forgetting outside the castle about anyone inside it as of the enchantment, so Belle's parents had a tearful reunion at the first possible moment after he remembered her. But still.)
Also, Belle and the Beast are both ridiculously autistic.
Also also, why didn't anyone think to fill Belle in on the situation?
Well, obviously it's two similar portraits. But that's not the thing. "Ten years we've been rusting" in conjunction with "till his twenty-first year" meaning the Prince was eleven in the prologue, and yet both portraits depict a young man very like the Prince in the epilogue?
IT'S HIS FATHER.
...what happened to him and both mothers, anyway?
(I mean, still fond of the idea that Belle's mother worked at the castle, and part of the enchantment was a forgetting outside the castle about anyone inside it as of the enchantment, so Belle's parents had a tearful reunion at the first possible moment after he remembered her. But still.)
Also, Belle and the Beast are both ridiculously autistic.
Also also, why didn't anyone think to fill Belle in on the situation?