I saw Beauty & the Beast yesterday. In 3D. And broke all my ideas about fairy tales.
It was the 1st time I was watching this classic (had only read it earlier), and somehow, didn’t love it. I don’t know if the animations were re-done, or just the voice-overs were new. It just didn’t mesh well. It was, you know, a bit too modernized for a happily-ever-after tale. ‘No one takes cheap shots like Gaston’, & ‘he is just so-so’. Really? I don’t think the good old tales would have lines like these. Or maybe I have just grown up and refuse to believe it. Sigh.
There was a concept in the movie though, which I liked. It was something I christened ‘The temper room’ – one where the beast goes to rant and rave and look at his precious rose. And he goes there whenever he is angry, and rips all paintings, and breaks the furniture and just shreds everything to pieces. No one goes there to clean up, either. What use, when it’s just going to be devastated again? Shouldn’t everyone have such a room each, used just for venting anger? Kinda like a self-imposed timeout. Would reduce much of the anger-currents out in the world!
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DewdropDream
September 27th, 2010 at 10:41
I don’t get this drive to modernise things, literature especially. There was an outcry here over Enid Blyton’s works being given the modern lingo twist. What next I ask you, Pride and Prejudice modernised? ‘Darcy? Gawd he is like sooooo … whatever man’. I see THAT working well š
I do like the concept of an ‘anger room’. Wouldn’t store much there though. Except maybe unbreakable dishes š All the noise and none of the mess, heh!
25BAR
October 26th, 2010 at 05:34
I think modern animation sucks. All of that 3D etc. I like good old hand drawn 2D animations.