Thread:Hey1234/@comment-1672596-20150531230156

Hi.

I see your point (SilverFlight's as well) for undoing several of those things, but I really think we should keep at the very least the bit about them being more beautiful than Belle out of universe. It's not that I actually WANT them to be more beautiful than Belle (actually, I was pretty much annoyed by the fact that they are constantly harping that Belle's the most beautiful woman in the village and yet those three girls were given a more beautiful physical appearance since it's a contradiction in terms), so much as because their body types, economics wise at least, IS considered more beautiful than Belle's physical appearance. As I pointed out to FireGothNerd, some examples include:


 * Tecmo/Team Ninja's fighting game franchise Dead or Alive gave several of their female characters extremely big chests and skinny bodies. Honestly, the only character in that franchise that is actually closer to Belle's bodytype is Marie Rose. Heck, it was so well known for this that they actually brought it back by fan demand in Dead or Alive 5 when they were originally planning for a more realistic approach.
 * Same deal with Love Hina, and the only character who isn't a kid who is flat chested is Kanako Urashima, and even she basically has to inflate her chest whenever she morphs).
 * Heck, Battle Vixens, especially Sonsaku Hakufu, was given this appearance.
 * Lara Croft from Tomb Raider had a huge enough chest that even Barbie looked flat chested by comparison.
 * Speaking of which, Barbie was given the same dimensions, and she's geared towards girls.
 * Samus Aran from Metroid also is closer to their bodytype than Belle's.
 * Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman, was even given this appearance in the official coloring book for Batman Returns, even though she wasn't even nearly as good looking in the actual film.
 * Heck, even Pokémon wasn't exempt from this, considering how Electric Tale of Pikachu gave Misty a rack when in the Anime she was explicitly stated to be flat-chested (not to mention aged her up two years compared to her anime self), James cheating by wearing inflatable breasts and actually coming very close to winning first place in the infamous Beauty and the Beach episode (though Misty was implied to have beat him and Jessie after they attacked the show), and, heck, May's overall design in AG (especially considering she was 10 years old), and that was clearly intentional.
 * Also Maron (Krillin's ex-girlfriend) in Dragon Ball Z, having the same dimensions.
 * Heck, even the women of Resident Evil were depicted as being extremely busty (I know Sheva Alomar, Jill Valentine, and Excella Gionne at least were definitely very busty. I think the only exceptions are Rebecca Chambers, Moira Burton, and Sherry Birkin.).

Oh, and keep in mind, these examples are from places of both Japan and America, possibly Europe as well.

To be honest with you, I actually hated how the writers and animators made the Triplets more beautiful than her, since it ruined a large part of the plot and made a plothole regarding Gaston ignoring them, but I must note it regardless of my personal feelings on the matter. If I was to go by opinion, my personal feelings for them, disregarding facts or even whether I have any objective trust of them, I would have just edited it to say they were ugly crones. So no, it's not opinion that drives me, it's economics. And believe me, I really am annoyed with the emphasis of busty women as being the epitome of physical beauty right now.

We might have to keep the bit about the triplets not being aware of Gaston having set up the wedding, because their reactions made pretty obvious they didn't know. I even have the screencaps to prove it.

Look at the lips of the various characters who aren't Gaston or LeFou. While the other villagers are definitely mouthing the lyrics, the triplets AREN'T mouthing them at all. Now why would they not sing along if they supported the plan at all? Also, I actually watched the scene a while back, and the only sounds they made were squealing, as none of the voices singing the choral lyrics belonged to the triplets at all (their voices would be recognizable for their soprano voices).

As a side note, a good example of characters being offscreen would have been much earlier in the film, when Belle tries to return back to her cottage to help her dad. We see the triplets still swooning Gaston just as Belle forces herself off Gaston and the camera pans away, and we don't even see them leave at all, just continuing to stare at Gaston, and the camera angle would have ensured we at least saw them moving away from them from behind them (and the layout making clear they can't go in any direction other than behind Gaston). That means they actually were still present when they saw Gaston and LeFou mocking Maurice. Yet we don't even hear them laughing (their laughs would have been recognizable with the high pitched feminine laughter as we briefly heard them laughing in the Gaston song when Gaston lifted their bench). 