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

Such a shame they were removed from the final version, really, nor were they even given an adequate substitute. Had they been kept in, Belle truly would have had a foil regarding the intended moral of true beauty coming from within. Instead, not only do they end up removed by, who else, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Linda Woolverton, but the closest representations to those characters, the triplets, do such a horrible job at actually demonstrating how Belle matches up with the moral. If anything, they came far closer in overall character to actually MATCHING UP with the moral than Belle ever did despite crushing on Gaston, someone who actually DID match inner ugliness, and I don't even like them all that much.

Sad, really. Thanks to Katzenberg and Woolverton, and their insistence on making Belle a feminist and rewriting the story to have a feminist twist, they just left the Aesop extremely broken. Sure, people can complain all they want about the change for The Little Mermaid's ending, but at least most of the original story there was otherwise faithfully adapted, and besides which, one can even argue the changed ending actually IMPROVED on the original tale in that case. This didn't even do that.

Maybe if those two wicked women were kept, heck, maybe if Marguerite was kept or even if they actually managed to give the triplets characterizations that actually matched the inner ugliness aspect of the moral true beauty comes from within, the film would have been far better and actually DEMONSTRATE the moral not just between Beast and Gaston, but also demonstrate it for Belle as well, especially when she's the co-protagonist/deuteragonist.