Talk:Beauty and the Beast Original Screenplay/@comment-5091911-20140823132511/@comment-1672596-20140823140309

I'd have a few ideas on how this would have been:


 * Belle actually would be shown as being a near-angel in the film (which, you have to admit, is kind of necessary when we have a moral that deals with true beauty coming from within. After all, in the final version, I'm doubtful most people would consider throwing your possible groom into the mud and taking some amusement in the humiliation as being an indication of internal beauty. Heck, Cinderella and Snow White never pulled those things off on their antagonists, so how exactly is Belle able to do that and still be called "internally beautiful?" In fact, in the final version, internal beauty seemed more forced regarding Belle's characterization.);
 * We actually see an actual effective foil for Belle highlighting how internally ugly that character is (Aunt Marguerite from her actions definitely won't be considered a saint anytime soon, and while it would be a shame that Belle's sisters are omitted from the film, Marguerite more than makes up for it, unlike in the final version where the best they could come up with regarding foils for Belle are the triplets who other than swooning for the main villain, Gaston, are never actually depicted as actually being bad in the film);
 * We actually see how Belle and her family would be sympathetic in this, especially when they actually are coming close to losing everything they have left (in the film we got, we never got any sense of this);
 * We actually would have a nicely-earned take-that against certain French Revolution founders (ie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau) with Gaston;
 * We probably also won't have Belle effectively backstabbing the Beast as well;
 * Oh, and we definitely won't have an extremely cynical depiction of various people, unlike the villagers in the final film (*cough* *cough*Gaston reprise*cough* *cough*)

I honestly don't get how this was even remotely dark, especially for Jeffrey Katzenberg to basically order the film to be rewritten, considering how he later nearly killed Toy Story with the Black Friday reel (which, BTW, actually was dark, especially in regards to being edgy and adult). I mean, come on, Snow White and even Cinderella were far darker than this draft (and I'm talking the Disney versions), and if kids could handle those movies, they most certainly can handle this draft.

Honestly, I'm willing to bet the proverbial farm that if the draft was kept as is, it would have even better reception than the final version.