FIRST LOOK
beauty and the beast
don’t know if this is as ~deep~ as i think it is, but by all of gaston’s own personal standards of identity/values, the beast is a better man than he is: brawnier, bigger, fightier, & of course every last inch of him’s covered in hair
ohmigod, it’s true though! the beast was basically gaston, and the ticked off fairy turned him into the purest manifestation of his toxic ideals to make him learn to be less of an ass
…..now I really wanna see the version of the movie where instead of dying, the curse passes from the beast to gaston!
except gaston doesn’t have a swag ass castle to sulk in, so he’s out running around the countryside, hiding in forests and stuff, alternately terrorizing the populace and being hunted. it’s a turnabout of his “peerless hunter” backstory– he is now both the monster and the prey.
untillllll he, idk, meets some humble woodcutter(?) that takes him in when he’s wounded or offers him shelter in a storm? and etc, etc, LIFE LESSONS, toxic masculinity slowly vanquished. (ooh, or maybe it should be like–a flower seller or herbalist or some feminine-coded profession he would have devalued to really set up a foil.)
also the gaston-beast needs antlers. terrifying claw-hooked sprawling antlers. antlers for all of his decorating.
Random headcanon: the curse on the Beast’s servants in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is tied to the role, not the individual person. They could go back to being human any time they wanted simply by quitting their jobs. They stick around mostly because being an anthropomorphic clock is still better than being an unemployed peasant in 18th Century France.
It’s a girl!
I know its a girl!
(x)SUDDENLY I’M FIVE YEARS OLD AGAIN,
WATCHING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
ON VHS, ON A SCRATCHY TELEVISIONM
SITTING ON MY LIVING ROOM FLOOR.
The cast of the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast so far.
Josh Gad joins the project which already has Emma Watson cast as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, and Luke Evans as the villain Gaston. Filming will begin on May 18, 2015 in London. (Sources: The Hollywood Reporter, Collider)
Updated with Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Fifi (renamed as Plumette for the remake) and Ewan McGregor as Lumière.