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''Beastly'' is a 2007 [[Young Adult]] novel written by Alex Flinn. It's a modern retelling of ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', set in New York.
Kyle Kingsbury, rich, handsome and popular, plays a mean practical joke on an outcast girl in his class, who is really a witch named Kendra in disguise. The witch then curses him for his cruelty. He turns into a beast; however, because he performed a small act of kindness shortly before his transformation when he gave an unwanted rose corsage to a girl working a ticket booth, she gives him two years to break the spell, or remain a beast forever. The only way he can turn back to normal is if he truly loves a girl and gets her to love him in return, proving the love with a kiss. Kendra later offers Kyle further aid by giving him a magic mirror that shows him whomever he wishes to see. He is locked in a mansion-like apartment by his shallow, image-obsessed father. His only company is his housekeeper, Magda, and, at his request, a blind tutor named Will.
After a year of being in this state, and trying and failing to find love, Kyle changes his name to Adrian to reflect his feelings of being a completely different person from the conceited, materialistic boy he used to be. When a robber stumbles into his garden Adrian offers him a deal; he won't report the robber to the police if the robber brings Adrian his daughter, Linda. She is Adrian's last chance to break the spell before his two years are up.
[[The Film of the Book|The movie]] was released March 18th, 2011; instead of Kyle being turned into an inhuman beast, in this version, he' turns into a [[Hollywood Homely|"human monster"]] -- a [[Heroic Build|huge]], [[Ugly Cute|ugly]] [[Punk Rock|punk]] covered in tattoos, [[Savage Piercings|piercings]], and [[Covered
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* [[Animorphism]]
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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]
* [[Flower Motifs]]: The meanings of different roses are brought up at various points in the book, and Kyle plants a specific kind of miniature called "Little Linda" in honor of Linda's arrival.
* [[For Halloween I Am Going
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Especially when she [[Letting Her Hair Down|lets her hair down]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Adrian, after he lets Lindy go off to help her father.
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* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Sloane, although it's less about her not having a personality than her personality being genuinely shallow and her interest in Kyle based solely on him being handsome and popular, which is why Kyle trying to kiss her to break his curse fails.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Lindy, after trying on the dress she and Adrian find in the attic.
* [[Shout
** There are also several references to other [[Fairy Tale|fairy tales]] as Kyle chats with more modern people living them, such as "[[The Little Mermaid]]", "[[
* [[Snow Means Love]]
* [[Title Drop]]: Kyle begins the story by saying he'll tell the reader how he "became... ''beastly."''
* [[True Beauty Is
* [[True
=== [[The Film of the Book]] provides examples of: ===
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130710235715/http://images.hitfix.com/photos/226356/AlexBeastlyShavedPt_article_story_main.jpg "beast"] just looks like a really hardcore punk kid who's been in a fight, which to a modern audience is arguably a lot sexier than his pretty boy form.
** And he gets to keep his six-pack abs, too.
** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/2/28/ He's going to tell girls he got these scars racing motorbikes in an] ''[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/2/28/ active volcano]''. [[Sarcasm Mode|How will she ever bring herself to love this dark prince?]]"
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* [[Dueling Movies]]: Deliberately averted by the producers. ''Beastly'' was originally scheduled to be released in 2010 around the same time as ''Charlie St. Cloud'', but since [[Vanessa Hudgens]] and [[Zac Efron]] were still dating, ''Beastly'' was moved up to avoid competition between the then-couple. In hindsight, this might have been a moot point, as neither movie appear to have been very successful.
* [[Feigning Intelligence]]: Invoked by Kyle. He tries to get lesson plan answers in advance to sound smart and impress Lindy, and confesses to Will that he looks up modern poetry to pick up girls. To his initial dismay, he accidentally selects one of Lindy's favorites.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: It certainly has a few intentional stylistic elements in common with ''[[Twilight (
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Kyle's viewpoints and poor treatment of others directly mirror his father's, and it's implied he spent his entire childhood being ignored by him.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Rob Kingsbury treats his son like garbage the whole film, and it appears his only comeuppance is a hurt voice message from Kyle, {{spoiler|until the very end when the trope is subverted: Kendra pays him a little visit as his new assistant. Cue credits}}. Subverted when Lindy's father {{spoiler|overdoses on drugs}} but played straight when {{spoiler|he survives}}.
* [[Leaning
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* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: Blink-and-you'll-miss-em clips of Lindy hanging on Hunter and him giving her a piggy-back ride, him standing on top of the Manhattan Bridge, Hunter running through a park, Kyle rubbing Lindy's lips with his thumb, Hunter catching Lindy as she jumps off a wall, and Lindy telling Hunter he's the most beautiful man she's ever met ({{spoiler|the angle and the fact that she's crying suggests it might have been the scene from the book where he gets shot}}).
* [[Mysterious Protector]]
* [[Neil Patrick Harris]]: Will, in the movie.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Alex Pettyfer, kind of a lot.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Surprisingly, this is Kyle's campaign speech... to the people voting for him. ''And then they still elect him''.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Sloane, again. After Kyle disappears, she immediately goes out with his wing-man. However, it's heavily implied she knew this when she is heard confessing she didn't like herself while dating Kyle and felt like she had to pretend to be someone else.
* [[Shout
* [[Stalker
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
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{{Beauty and the Beast and other media}}
[[Category:Romance Novel]]
[[Category:Young Adult Literature]]
[[Category:Horror Literature]]
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