Talk:Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)/@comment-17971101-20200127014254/@comment-1672596-20200127144212

Yeah, though at least Gaston was actually intended by the writers to be that.

And let's be honest, when she basically insults the village, rather openly if I must add, as basically being too provincial for her tastes when stating she wanted out from the village, basically and openly dissed her peers as being "little people", clearly inferring they're inferior to her (which last I checked more than fits in with the definition of being rude and conceited), that doesn't exactly dissuade the notion that she's a snobbish narcissistic jerk (and what's worse is that that wasn't even what was intended for her, meaning they made her unintentionally unsympathetic as a result). It also doesn't help that, despite clearly having the luxury to spend her day reading and not have any apparent need to do any work around the house, she doesn't make ANY attempt to leave the village despite clearly hating it, nor does she have any real in-story reason for doing so, something which even her predecessors at least possessed.

Now, maybe if the original movie explicitly depicted the town as being, I don't know, like Mos Eisley from Star Wars or Gotham from Batman (a broken town, in other words), Belle actually MIGHT have a reason to complain. And BTW, just so we're clear, I'm not fond of even HAVING to say those bad things about her, it's as painful as having to shear your own limb off due to looking up to her as a child myself.