Talk:Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)/@comment-25097798-20141114235748/@comment-1672596-20141115023220

One thing's for certain, the musical from what I've heard of it was definitely far better than the actual film, as they actually tried to make Belle more sympathetic and closer to an internal beauty. Plus, they also made sure the Silly Girls looked garish specifically to highlight Belle's external beauty and thus truly ensure she was indeed the most beautiful woman in the village, not to mention actually giving them internally ugly characteristics beyond merely crushing on Gaston specifically to show they had less internal beauty than Belle did, and they actually made sure Gaston and LeFou actually USED their heads regarding their plotting and made sure everyone in tavern had left BEFORE singing that reprise (some complaints I have with the original film are that A. Belle came across as being a huge jerk in the film, not exactly having very many redeemable characteristics even with her breaking the curse, and the fact that the triplets don't demonstrate any internal ugliness at all, even their crush on Gaston came across as completely innocent, doesn't help matters either, B. Belle's supposed status as being the most beautiful woman in town is contradicted with the presence of the triplets, who have body frames that looked like they came from the Dead or Alive franchise and thus most certainly are superior in at least physical beauty to Belle, and C. the writers, apparently because they seemed to be feeling particularly cynical of their audiences that day, basically had Gaston and LeFou stupidly loudly exposing enough details of their plan in that stupid reprise in a public area to not only have everyone present know just what Gaston is planning, but also exposing him to everyone as the scumbag he truly is and they cheer him on, even though most bad guys, like Stalin or even Hitler for instance can't afford to do something like that).

I don't even like broadway musicals for various reasons (namely the actors engage in unspeakable acts behind the scenes), and I generally don't like Disney broadway adaptations due to several changes that aren't even really necessary (for example, The Little Mermaid Broadway Musical had altered the third day for what amounts to a death course Ariel had to survive regarding Eric choosing the bride despite their easily working Vanessa into the fold [heck, despite having a song in the workshop version that would have worked for Vanessa's appearance, they cut her out], and then there's Sebastian singing "Under the Sea" after Triton destroyed Ariel's grotto instead of before which really made Sebastian seem like a huge jerk. Now, let me make clear, I am willing to tolerate some changes, like the omission of the exploring of the sunken ship and encounter with sharks, or even the final battle with Ursula since, let's face it, there are limits of what they can do.). However, this is probably one adaptation I can probably say is definitely better than the source material.