So what was the moral of the story? "You should get past appearances and see someone for who they really are...

So what was the moral of the story? "You should get past appearances and see someone for who they really are, as long as they're 7 ft tall, physically imposing, powerful, and are a wealthy aristocrat with a lavish estate, mansion and a staff of servants"?

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Yep.

There was no moral. Despite her supposed intellectuality, Belle was just as much of a shallow cunt who looked down on others for not burying themselves in fantasy and trying to live the lives they had

Just stick with your abusive lover and eventually your patience will be rewarded when they become the gentle lover you deserve

No, I'm pretty sure the message is don't be a beast in the first place. It doesn't have to do with the fact that he had riches. If anything, that just makes him potentially more irresponsible and wicked.

Although the resolution is more morally ambiguous in my opinion. Gaston was kind of right for wanting to stop evil. Technically, the Beast did do nice and careless things for Belle when he was still in his form, but it might be unwise to paint every beast as being redeemable.

you have to actually put effort into becoming a better person before anyone will like you for you and not what you can do for them

>Belle
>retarded NEET who thinks she's superior to others for reading fairy tales for children all day
>desirable

You should get past appearances and see someone for who they really are, BECAUSE THEY HAVE OTHER GOOD TRAITS THAT ARE NOT IMMEDIATELY APPARENT, OBTUSE FUCKHEAD

This, the moral was supposed to be shown through Beast’s past misdeeds but the movie never focused on that.

Don’t fucking ignore old ladies asking for help at your front door.

she is a sexy lady, why not

Originally the tale is for young wives and girls who fear men. The moral is that this huge hairy beast actually has feelings and will love you and that appearances may be deceiving.

Moral? I thought it was just a fantasy story about a girl stumbling into having a rich boyfriend who's also kind of a cunt, like most Shojou manga.

Bestiality is okay.

Would Belle have loved the beast if he had lived in a rundown shack in the woods, with no fancy talking silverware to serve her dinner?

I like to think Belle got the gist of it when she saw torn portrait and the magic rose. She made a long term investment that paid off. Plus he had a massive fucking library so if he never turned back at least she'd have something to do for the rest of her life.

That didn't exactly seem like that much of a rarity for the village

Yeah.

You mean the moral of the story WASN'T candleabras are always right?

I doubt that

One of the versions of the story ("The Scarlet Flower") has the Beast living in a cave

Maybe. Belle was a fan of fantasy romance books. A monster with a magical curse that only lifts if he experiences true love might have been enough to pique her interest. The castle definitely helped, though.

Stockholm Syndrome.

>Emma watson is a closetted furry
At least something interesting came out of it

The moral of the story is that some men are meant to breed and incels like Gaston and you are not them.

Battered-women shelters exist only because of this.

Shrek had a better moral but Beauty and the Beast was a far more impressive feat of animation

Damn I'm so sad that Gaston will get all three of the Bimbettes instead of Belle. That's no way to live

Women actually believe that.

Moral of the story; If you are intelligent enough, you can convince even yourself it is okay to fuck a dog.

I like the idea Belle preferred him as a beast

The lesson is witches/faeries deserve to be burned at the stake. The beast was cursed when he was 10/11 because he didn't want to let some weird/creepy stranger into his house like any sane person would.

Moral of the story: if you save her from a pack of wolves she pretty much has to fuck you

Beast learned to truly love someone other than himself.

Doesn't matter how ugly or abusive you are, a 10/10 will fall for you if you have enough money.

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>kidnap gf
>"she will warm up to me eventually!"

Obviously not because the servants helped them get together.

ok but that's happened before.

Belle really was kind of a bitch, wasn't she? Like she's probably tied with Ariel in terms of just being bad people.

>prince is handsome but acts like a cunt
>gets turned into monster
>meets girl
>still a cunt
>girl dislikes monster acting like a cunt
>eventually stops acting like a cunt
>girl likes him now, doesn't mind that he's a monster
>villain is handsome but acts like a cunt

The message is it's what's on the inside that counts. Congrats on getting spoonfed a children's story.

More like
>guy and girl of similar age are forced into a situation where they have to spend a lot of time with each other
>they hate each other first then warm up
Literally every love story forever.

Literally fucking exactly that.

This is the same generation of cartoons where Quasimodo famously *didn't* get the girl but willingly accepted that a chad who did nothing of significance took all the credit because the role of unattractive men in society is to work diligently and form a bed for chads to fuck on.

Ah, Disney and their conflicting ideals.

Did Esmeralda fall for Quasimodo, who repeatedly saved her life and would have thrown himself into a roaring fire for her?

Every Hollywood rom-com:

>WAAU'HAAU! Look at this wacky couple of misfits who REALLY don't like each other! But what happens when they are stuck together in a random location for two weeks!? Find out this April!

Maybe in the original fairy tale. Disney Belle is only the deuterogonist in this movie because she doesn't really have to change her way of thinking or her behavior on someone else's terms, just her own. The beast is the one who actually has to grow and make tough decisions and even has a foil in Gaston who goes the opposite direction. Belle wants adventure...and she kind of finds it in the more positive and mysterious aspects of the castle. But nothing about her really fundamentally changes as a result, instead she effects the change in the story.

This is also why Shrek 2 is so great, because it reaffirms that they were both committed to loving each other as they were from their very first kiss.

This. It was written in 18th century France for young aristocratic girls whose main prospect in life was to be married off to a rich and powerful stranger, and it was meant to relieve a lot of the anxieties that would come with that. It doesn’t really apply to average classed modern day people, but plenty of people still mistake the story to be “timeless” and try to force a “it’s what’s on the inside that counts” moral to fit their current worldview, but it’s really caught on more because it’s an excuse for pretty visuals.

Or they'll transform you into a monster out of spite, the beast was, what 10, eleven?

>Gaston is an incel
What the fuck am I reading, does this shitty word even have an actual meaning anymore

if you're ugly on the inside, a fairy might make you ugly on the outside, and then people won't want to be around you
be good on the inside, and people will forgive your looks, maybe. But mobs will still try to kill you with pitchforks and torches, so kinda just stay inside.

also if you kidnap and force a girl to live with you she'll eventually fall in love with you

Love can make men act like a beast and a beast act like a man.

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