Talk:Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)/@comment-1672596-20140807173331

I can't be sure about this film. If they do make it, I only request that they do this much:

1. Keep it as close to the original tale as possible.

2. If they keep Gaston in the film, they need to have Belle refuse him in a way that doesn't come across as her being a jerk. Also, they probably should have Belle cite some sort of motive besides it being the provincial life for wanting to get away from the village (like, I don't know, being constantly abused like in the Simpsons episode Boys of Bummer, certainly something like in Cinderella). And there needs to be a way for the villagers to discover the castle without Belle basically doing something as stupid as exposing the Beast's existence by using the magic mirror. Also, they probably should have Belle actually recognize and discern good literature from bad literature, as we never got a sense of that in the original animated film.

3. If they keep the triplets, the movie should actually give them internally ugly characteristics besides crushing on Gaston in order to actually show Belle having the most internal beauty (I found it to be a huge flaw when the triplets, who were intended to be foils to Belle and the closest stand-ins to Belle's wicked sisters in the original tale, were ironically shown to be more internally beautiful from the little we see of them than Belle was during the entire movie, with their only real mark against them being their falling for a jackal like Gaston. Heck, unlike the other villagers in the pub, it's not even clear whether they were even aware of Maurice bursting in as they don't even appear until the final verses of the reprise, and were absent during the pan-out at the end of the original rendition of Gaston, much less whether they supported Gaston's heinous plot).