And she was hardly an improvement over the character depicted in the pages of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s Magasin des enfans in 1756.īelle (Emma Watson) remains uncommonly beautiful, but her neighbors think she’s “odd” because she loves to read and because she wants a life beyond their French village.
Given the choice to perhaps update Belle-to make her someone young girls, tweens, and teens could admire-Disney instead opted to make her almost as compliant as she is in its popular and beloved 1991 animated version. Or maybe it’s right in line with reality: The film came out the same week President Donald Trump released his heartless budget proposal, making it impossible not to see the parallels between the greedy prince and Trump, the gilded castle and the golden halls of Mar-a-Lago, Belle and Melania. When he refuses to help an indigent, elderly woman (who’s actually a powerful sorceress), she punishes him for his greed.Īmid the surge of anti-Trump, “Women’s March” feminism of 2017, it’s tough to understand why Disney is reviving a story that’s so disempowering for its central female character. He’s materialistic and selfish, and he taxes citizens so he can fill his castle with beautiful golden objects. In the opening scene of Disney’s new live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, we find out why the prince was cursed to become a beast.
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