Talk:Maurice's Machine/@comment-1672596-20150307230722

I always wonder, how DID that device get put back together in the climax (especially when it was implied that it had to be broken down just for Phillipe to carry the machine to the fair since it towers over Belle and Maurice)? There was not enough time for either Belle or Maurice to actually put it back together during any of those instances (Belle had to immediately find her father and track down his last known whereabouts via Phillipe, Maurice wouldn't have wasted time from trying to search for and rescue Belle after trying to request help failed to build the contraption, and there simply wasn't enough time for either Belle or Maurice to fix it when they got back home due to the mob arriving shortly afterwards thanks to LeFou, and besides which, Belle spent her time nursing Maurice back to health and Maurice had barely regained consciousness for a few minutes before the Asylum Warden came knocking), and it's not even really clear if Belle even contributed much to the machine besides occasionally passing Maurice some tools when trying to work on the device earlier in the film. I think that's a pretty big plothole and one of the biggest ones, that as well as how Belle was even able to lift the Beast/Maurice up yet apparently having to resort to exposing the Beast's existence to Gaston and the mob.