Talk:Belle's Sisters/@comment-1672596-20150608173707/@comment-1672596-20150619110542

The point of the film as was the case of the original story was to show that true beauty comes from within. I never missed the intended point of the film at all. The problem is that Belle showed extremely little to indicate she was even pure of heart on the inside (you know, the entire point of being beautiful on the inside. Think Snow White, Cinderella, heck, even Ariel, her immediate predecessor and the true first proactive DP despite what Linda Woolverton stated. Heck, for a non-Disney example, look at Goku, a guy with enough purity of heart to be able to ride the flying nimbus AND be immune to the Devilmite Beam.), while the triplets, the closest she had to foils and the closest in characterization to her wicked sisters, actually didn't come across as behaving hideously at all in the film.

In fact, Snow White, Cinderella, and even Ariel had better demonstrated that moral than Belle did with their respective foils of Queen Grimhilde, Lady Tremaine/Drizella/Anastasia, and Vanessa, in the case of the latter film, that wasn't even intended to have that moral to begin with.

Oh, and in case you've forgotten, both this version of the film and the 1989 screenplay had Belle sneaking out to the Beast's castle specifically to sacrifice herself to save her father. That would have been proactive enough.