It wasn't bad but I didn't like it much because it paid too much attention on appearances and futile details and not enough to those emotions that should have been the heart of it. It starts with a long part in which this family is introduced: a rich merchant who loses his fortune when his ships sink or disappear; his three sons, very plain and one of them stupid enough to owe a lot of money to bad people; his three daughters: two who keep whining all the time because they can't afford riches anymore, and the youngest - Belle - who must have been adopted because she's lively, optimistic, sweet, who loves her sisters and likes to work in her vegetable garden (Léa Seydoux). I think too much screen-time was lost with all these money problems and whining. Let's not even talk of her garden, and the scene while she works in it, so fake and unbelievable, with those pumpkins..
Anyway, the merchant 'thinks' he's about to get his fortune back, so the daughters ask for gifts: clothes and jewels for the stupid vain girls and a rose for Belle (like in the original fairytale I think, here she says it's the only thing that won't grow in her garden... ). The man goes, only to discover that he has nothing. During his way back, he gets lost, his horse is hurt. He sees a house (big house, more of a castle) which is not locked so he goes inside! Sure, go on.
Once he's in, he sees a big table full of food of any kind when candles lit as by magic, and he's all "I'm hungry" and eats a lot. Then other lights are lit by magic and he sees rich things, exactly what his two daughters had asked for. So he takes all that stuff!! Just like that! I mean, you see a light on and you're certain it's an invitation for you to take all their stuff!!! Still he keeps calling himself a good honest man.
Outside the house he takes a roses for Belle , et voilà, now the beast is angry because 'his gifts were not enough, the man had to steal his precious rose'. The man can go saying goodbye to his family but must come back or his sons and daughters will be killed. Belle is like 'everybody blames me because mother died to give me life, I won't let you die because you brought me a rose' so she goes instead, and they can't follow her because only that horse can enter the magic forest. Finally Belle goes to the beast's castle, but only sees him at dinner. She finds beautiful dresses and jewels and each day she wears them. Not just that, but every morning she comes out of her room with splendid hairstyles, and I would very much like to know who does her hair!
Every night she has visions of the past when the beast was a prince obsessed with the idea of hunting a golden deer. His bride-to-be had him promise he would stop, but he didn't, he killed the beautiful, poor creature only to discover it was his girlfriend, who was actually a nymph, a daughter of the God of Nature or something like that. She wanted to know love and met him (how lucky..) and she still loves him enough to beg his father not to kill him. Still, the prince is transformed into a beast.
Belle misses her family and makes a deal with him: a dance in exchange for a day with my family. They believed her dead, instead she comes back with rich clothes and jewels, so two of her brothers steal them in an attempt to repay the debts. They offer all the 'abandoned-castle' 's riches to the bad man; they all go there and the bad guys break and steal everything they can. They are all killed by stone giants but the gang leader almost kills the beast. Belle has her brother bring him inside where some magic water can cure him, and here she tells him she loves him, thus breaking the curse. The prince goes back to look like Vincent Cassel and the strange creatures in the castle go back to be lovely dogs. Nothing is told about all the people that lived or hunted with him, I suppose they don't matter.. :-/ so they all died, is that it?
Now, who can tell me how it happened that Belle fell in love? After the dance she still despised him, then she saw him in her dream kill a defenceless deer for fun only and shed a tear over his girlfriend's dead, naked body, and bang: eternal love is born... why?? It's absurd, it makes no sense at all. They should have spent a little time on scenes between them, to give her a reason, whatever reason!!
This is why I didn't like it. It was all beautiful dresses, beautiful scenery, but no heart.
ITA la bella e la bestia
ENG the beauty and the beast
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