gaston is the best and the rest is all drips

[alexseanchai]

It's really amusing watching this movie through an autistic!Belle, toxic-masculinity-is-a-thing lens. Autistic!Belle is best headcanon. And the fundamental difference between the Beast and Gaston seems to be that the Beast learns better and consequently gets the girl, and Gaston, being determined not to learn better, dies.

Though I gotta say, that one gifset on Tumblr to the tune of "enchantress punishes eleven-year-old for being eleven, and all of eleven-year-old's extensive household to boot, and yet Gaston is the villain of the film? wut?" has a point. Not a point I like, but a point.

And the scene where Lumiere and Mrs. Potts are giving the Beast contradictory advice on how to impress Belle is quite reminiscent of a genderflipped version of "be sexy, but modest; be bold, but demure", etc.

No way is Chip more than ten. I'd put bets on he's not more than five. How did Chip come about, exactly? (Do I even want to know?)

Comments

[niqaeli]

I tend to believe that the rest of the household was sort of... frozen, emotionally, along with Beast. Meaning Chip was like 5 or so when the spell landed, and he just hasn't matured any in the decade since.

Because the alternatives are very brain-breaking, and it honestly makes sense -- I mean the spell was basically set to be broken by Beast's maturation, so it having frozen everything until Beast grows the fuck up makes sense.

(And no, Tumblr ain't wrong about that. I mean, Gaston's a fucking piece of work and the immediate danger. But the enchantress who fucked up an entire household because a noble kid whose parents were presumably off to war (where the hell else would his parents even be? what else would call them away for so long?) was a brat/asshole is... a lot MORE of a piece of work and arguably a danger to a whole lot more people than Gaston. Gaston is one-off worksmanship villainy, as it were, where the enchantress is mass-production villainy. And like so many mass-production villains, the majority of folks don't even notice or even laud her work...)

[neotoma]

I always thought the sorceress was a fairy, who are the Ur-example of Blue and Orange morality.

[alexseanchai]

Hmmm. Okay.

Yeah, that's scary.

[silveradept]

I wonder what she does to houses that do take her in - transform them less fully? The enchantress is probably just looking for an excuse to curse everyone she comes across, so it would probably eventually start to feel like the scene in Dogma when the angels confront the executives.

[alexseanchai]

Interesting...