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Mathis News
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Page 11
Disney retells tale as old as time with mixed results
clock and Mrs. Potts the kids and nostalgic for essary, but it made more
tea pot all have inter- adults. It seems rushed, than $170 million in its
cheap
focused. I mean, surely
Disney has the money to
make an epic retelling of
the fairy tale.
The actors all basically
look like their animated
counterparts with the
exception of Gaston who
doesn’t look like he ate
four dozen eggs as a child
and isn’t nearly the size of
a barge.
Disneyland (also, more
on that later). Emma
Watson, while a very
attractive young woman,
has never looked more
wooden and awkward as
she twirls and lip synchs
to one of the original’s
most memorable tunes.
Watson mostly looks the
part, but Belle’s charm
and bravado got lost in
translation. And one of
the first story changes in
the film happens when
we meet Kevin Kline as
her father, Maurice, who
is some sort of toy build-
er and painter instead
of a crazy inventor. And
instead of heading off to
try and sell his inven-
tions and set the story in
motion, he simply goes off
to the market and gets
lost.
By Paul Gonzales
Mathis News editor
esting French design
updates but look pretty
strange and are ani-
mated poorly, especial-
ly when interacting with
live actors.
CALALLEN - First off,
I loved Disneys 1991 ani-
mated take on the fairy
tale “Beauty and the
Beast” and have watched
it countless times, espe-
cially since becoming a
father. It is such a flaw-
less movie that it is so far
the only animated film to
ever win Best Picture at
the Academy Awards.
So when the House of
Mouse decided to make a
live version of the animat-
ed classic, I immediately
grew interested. They
had made a live action
version of another one of
their animated classics
“The Jungle Book” just
last year, and it was fan-
tastic, so there was no
way that Disney could
fail with “Beauty and the
Beast” - the original hav-
ing stunning animation,
unforgettable songs and
indelible characters.
But somehow they
managed to miss the high
mark set by the original.
While “Beauty and the
Beast” is in no way a ter-
rible movie, it is a forget-
table one. And for a movie
that is nearly identical to
the original it boggles my
mind how they could’ve
made such a mess of a
simple retelling. I mean,
it was basically already
made, all they had to do
was copy and paste it on
screen with real people
and spiffy computer ani-
mation, right?
“Beauty and the Beast”
begins with a flashback
of the Beast, in human
form, putting on makeup
as he readies for a party
(appropriate for the time
in France). Then as the
party starts to get wild
and crazy, an old woman
appears at his castle door
looking for shelter from a
snow storm battering the
land outside. The Beast,
not wanting to be bothered
during his lavish party,
mocks her along with his
guests before turning her
away. The woman then
turns into a enchantress
(really just a big ball of
light) and curses him to
remain a “hideous beast”
(more on that later) until
he can fall in love and get
love in return.
We all know the story.
Now what the original
film did so well was they
got creative with the ori-
gin and told it with voice
over work and animated
stained glass windows.
In this version it’s clunky
and even though they
bring back the narrator,
you hear the actors laugh
and scream in between
him speaking, but when
he’s not talking the actors
are simply staring off
somewhere as if they
were listening to the guy
explain the story.
So already the movie
was feeling a bit odd.
Then we get Belle sing-
ing “Bonjour” to everyone
as she wanders through
her village, like the ani-
mated film, but the vil-
lage looks like a ride from
and
opening weekend, so
I suppose most people
found it at least enter-
unnec-
taining.
Maybe I’m alone in
feeling let down by the
remake, but I always
expect more from Disney,
especially when
they’re tell-
ing a tale as
old as time.
Again.
“Beauty and
the Beast”
is playing at
Movies Inc.,
4222 Wildcat
Drive in Calallen.
Oh, and the
big controversy
you’ve been hear-
ing about in the
news about
countries ban- I
ning the film
because of the 1
character of
LeFou being
gay...it’s noth-
ing. He flirts a
little with Gaston
and dances with
a man for three
seconds. It’s no i
reason to keep J
your children M
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the film
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'hideous beast”
in this film may be the
only character that didn’t
transition well from the
animated version. Beast
almost looks the same
with his horns and feline
facial features, but the
computer animation is
pretty awful. I laughed
the first time he appeared
on screen, and he’s not
nearly as hulking or fero-
cious as the animated
version. He looks more
like Chewbacca with goat
horns than anything.
Actually, the entire
film is full of subpar com-
puter animation. Lumiere
the talking candelabra,
Cogsworth the talking
The
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it!
&
Oh, yea, and the family
doesn’t live in a quaint
cottage on a hill, they live
at the edge of a very tiny
town.
While Belle is sing-
ing we also meet Gaston
played with bland, humor-
less fluff by Luke Evans.
While Evans attempts
Gaston’s pompous, self-
absorbed attitude, he
never really reaches the
original’s absurd nar-
cissism which is clearly
needed to show that he is
in fact the villain. In this
movie he just seems like a
buffoon.
The story basically car-
ries on like the original
with a few changes here
and there, and then, of
course, we all know how
it ends, but I won’t spoil it
anyway.
First off, the songs we
all know and love are
here but seem like simple
rehashes of the famous
tunes. There’s not really
any significant updating
or changes; they simply
sound like karaoke cov-
ers sung by famous actors
who aren’t the best sing-
ers. There are also some
new songs added to the
movie but aren’t instant
classics like the old ones,
though there is a touch-
ing, slightly cheesy song
Beast sings when Belle
leaves him that made a
few audience members
shed a tear. Myself not
being one of them.
The one noticeable prob-
lem which takes shape as
soon as the movie begins
is that every set in the
film looks like a set.
Belle’s village and local
tavern looks like a theat-
rical stage and the inside
of Beast’s castle looks like
a cheap movie set from
the ’60s. It was really jar-
ring and completely took
me out of the movie.
I can’t understand how
a film with such epic qual-
ities, which the animated
original used to excellent
effect, could simply make
the movie feel claustro-
phobic and fake. I mean
we’re already suspending
disbelief with the story of
a beast who lives in a cas-
tle looking for love, so why
not make the visions on
screen grand and expand-
ing instead of tiny and
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Gonzales, Paul. Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 2017, newspaper, March 23, 2017; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1170423/m1/11/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mathis Public Library.