Thread:Hey1234/@comment-1672596-20150526140020

Hi.

I only felt the Kingdom Hearts fangame mention should be mentioned because there were a few references to internet-related elements to various characters. If it needs to be kept off, I guess it should be kept off.

Anyways, I think that at the very least, we should keep the bit about how several characters who weren't actually depicted as bad guys in the film at all either due to actually being good guys or otherwise never actually demonstrated to have done evil were given red colors despite it being deliberately supplied to Gaston to show he was evil compared to Belle and Beast. For example, in the original film, Beast's cape was wine red, not purple as marketing and later appearances gave him. Sultan (the dog that was transformed into a footstool) had red on the cloth portions of his hide in his footstool form, and he obviously was neither evil nor had he done anything villainous in the film. Claudette, one of the Bimbettes, was shown wearing a red dress, yet she hasn't done anything evil or bad in the actual film (the comics, yeah, she did things bad, but not the film, which is the main point) and this was despite Claudette and her Bimbette sisters being the closest things to Belle's foils in the story, and even Belle herself actually wore red at one point (she was wearing a red/pink dress as well as a red hood during the snowball fight/walk through the snow-filled grounds during the song Something There). When you're trying to use a specific color to contrast two characters in terms of moral alignment (specifically good and evil), which the writers made clear was the case with making Gaston wear red, having protagonistic characters or characters who, while not actually the main characters, nonetheless have never actually demonstrated any wrongdoing (as was the case with Claudette) wear the kind of clothing meant to symbolize evil is actually a very huge contradiction of terms. That's why it needs to be noted. That, as well as Gaston in the concept arts for the original screenplay ironically being depicted as wearing blue, since the concept arts for Gaston in the final version of the original screenplay did have him wearing blue. 