Talk:Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)/@comment-1031724-20170802220311

One thing I noticed more recently is that we don't see as much hints to Gaston's evil nature earlier in. He didn't beat up Lefou for no reason (though he did have his horse splash the Bimbettes), nor did he really belittle Belle's interest in reading, all he seemed was hopelessly infatuated with Belle. (It's harder to notice for those who are familiar with the animated film and know Gaston's the villain) He even seemingly believes Maurice and offers to help him.

Then of course, after it's revealed he was only playing along to try to win Belle's hand in marriage, the first sign that he is evil is when he tries to kill Maurice, something that didn't happen in the animated film, showing that Gaston is even more of a psycho here and is not above murdering anyone who gets in his way, beast or human.