Talk:Mulan (2018 film)/@comment-5091911-20150330210304/@comment-1672596-20150403160904

"The remake for BATB is, IMO, needed because other people criticize Belle for seeing the beast as a way to get married."

I think it's needed as well, especially when A., they don't stay true to the original tale (The Little Mermaid by Disney actually stayed truer to its template source than BATB did with its template source, and that movie was infamous for changing the ending), B., the original Disney version just pushed feminist propaganda, many times at the expense of the intended moral of the tale (you expect me to believe that those blonde triplets from their behavior had inner ugliness compared to Belle, or that Belle was pure of heart from her behavior? It's not even opinion, either: Jeffrey Katzenberg and Linda Woolverton freely admitted that was exactly what they were aiming for when rewriting the film to the one we currently have, the latter even specifically citing the Women's Liberation Movement from the 1960s as being an inspiration for Belle.), and C., thanks to the rather idiotic decision to make the film occur in late 18th Century France and making Belle into an uncritical bookworm (really, when exactly has she EVER shown discernment of the literature she reads), it also creates the implication, however unintended, that Belle may go for the Jacobins and try to remake France in a bloodbath to match the Philosophes' puerile writings, especially those of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Sade. Heck, the only reason she even started to see Beast as an actual friend, if not a lover, was because he gifted her with a library, not because of any good traits he might have had (which actually is even WORSE than simply falling for someone for their good looks instead of their personality).

And while it is nice that Cinderella actually DID stay true to its original message when it was remade, it really didn't NEED one, since there really wasn't anything particularly antiquated with the film (unlike with Dumbo, for example, since as you pointed out, there was the Jim Crow character and besides which, the use of Elephants in Circuses is looked down upon, or Beauty and the Beast, which basically was made specifically to effectively glorify the Women's Liberation Movement and feminism, at the expense of the intended moral of the tale, or having Belle possibly being a black widow or a gold digger.).