Beauty and The Beast/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** Fans are divided between thinking the enchantress was a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], a benevolent fairy, or a raging bitch who cursed an innocent child and entire castle for "a stupid reason".

** Belle is she a well-meaning bookworm unfairly made an outcast by the villagers or is she actually a snob, and therefore deserving of being ostracised by the village?

** It's become a popular theory that Belle's falling in love with the Beast is really just some form of Stockholm Syndrome.

** [[Confused Matthew]] has offered a truly compelling theory that the true monsters of this film are actually the Villagers. Gaston has to merely ''suggest'' that the Beast is evil and they immediately yell to "Kill the Beast!". Gaston goes between them in turn saying ''nothing'' while they invent reasons for the Beast to be evil and form into a mob. Its because of them that Gaston has any freedom to act the way he does. Unlike ''every'' other Disney film when the villain is revealed, they don't turn against the villain, they actually ''join'' him.

** Plus his is [[Tony Jay|voice actor]] would end up playing [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Frollo]].

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: It's a highly-idealized [[Arcadia|rural French town]] which, while poor, still has lots of wide open spaces, and the castle is gorgeous on the interior. But it's still eighteenth-century France, where Maurice and Belle are shunned and seen as uncanny for being themselves because women aren't supposed to read.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Variation -- Chip's voice actor was so popular with the filmmakers that his tiny role was greatly expanded; he replaced another character, a music box, for the most part (the music box was only relegated to a cameo in the final version, specifically right before the battle).

* [[Fountain of Memes]]: Gaston. In [[Youtube Poop]] he seems to occupy some sort of strange middle ground between [[Butt Monkey]] and [[Memetic Badass]]...

** The film makes a very good [[Take That]] to series where the female character falls in love with the male character mostly for his looks (i.e. [[Twilight]], years before it ever existed).

* [[Ho Yay]]: LeFou is slavishly devoted to Gaston; some people also read a bit of subtext into Lumiere's interaction with Cogsworth (they certainly do have a bit of [[Tsundere]]-esque bickering going on).

** Belle's beauty may be as much to do with her being seen as unattainable, unlike the Bimbettes and note that all the attractive women in-universe are all drawn as busty and practically heaving out of their bodices, except for Belle who may intentionally have been drawn as taller and more slender. In short her beauty is meant to be more understated and ''natural'' than obvious.

*** Also, it's more of an inner beauty. Of the [[Disney Princess|Disney Princesses]], she's the most conservatively dressed and the only brunette, yet she's one of the kindest and most honest of the princesses.

{{quote|NOBODY ORDERS ''DECAF'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}neAN-JHkkCs LIKE GASTON]!}}

** "Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest!"

** Videos that remix the scene where LeFou says "I'll strike up the band!" for Gaston's wedding to make the band play different songs are quite popular.

** "How can you read this? There's no pictures!"