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dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Walt Disney Pictur</ce></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="relative md:mx-to md:flex md:max-w-ntaer-md lg:max-w-none"><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent-ntaer clearfix sm:ml-to md:ml-100 md:max-w-article-body lg:mx-100"><div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong><em>Warng: Spoilers ahead for the ty tails that differentiate the 2017 remake of </em>Bety and the Beast<em> om the 1991 animated versn.</em></strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">There’s been a fair b of ntroversy over Bill Condon’s live-actn remake of Disney’s animated 1991 classic <em>Bety and the Beast</em>, mostly centered over Condon’s proclamatn that he’s given Disney s first nonilly, openly gay character. In an terview wh <a href="><em>Attu</em></a>, Condon scribed that character, the villa’s syphantic sikick LeFou, as if his sexualy was a signifint, foreground part of the plot, and as if ultimately arrived at some major moment of tth:</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><blockquote class="duet--article--blockquote ewrhy30"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup ewrhy37 _1xwtict0">“He’s nfed about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s jt realisg that he has the feelgs. And [actor Josh Gad] mak somethg really subtle and lic out of . And that’s what has s payoff at the end, which I don’t want to give away. But is a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie.”</p></blockquote></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">But when arriv, that “nice, exclively gay” moment is a one-send shot of LeFou a fancy ballroom-dance fale, accintally shoved to the arms of a namels man who’s wearg drag bee of an earlier sight gag. It isn’t an “exclively gay moment,” ’s about a dozen vaguely mpy am. Much like<a href="> <em>Fdg Dory</em></a>’s <a href=">ntroversial, much-ballyhooed “lbian uple”</a> — two women who appeared a extremely brief, silent reactn shot the film — LeFou is all PR blz and no actual payoff. But the tepidns of this built-up moment hasn’t stopped the predictable backlash, om onle plats to an Alabama theater <a href=">noisily pullg the film</a> om s lp (provg the bigoted old chtnut “why are they phg their views on ” is still alive and well the world) to Malaysia banng the film. To Disney’s cred, the pany has <a href=">refed to recut the film</a> to appease Malaysian censors, which is an admirably prcipled stand to take over a sgle send of footage.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:66.34768740031897%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 376w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 384w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 415w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 480w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 540w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 640w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 750w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 828w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 1080w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 1200w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 1440w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 1920w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 2048w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div><div class="z-1 w-full hidn"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:66.34768740031897%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 376w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 384w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 415w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 480w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 540w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 640w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 750w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 828w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 1080w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 1200w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 1440w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 1920w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 2048w, (2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(2508x1664:2509x1665):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Walt Disney Pictur</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The LeFou imbrogl is an immense wasted opportuny. Promotg <em>Bety and the Beast </em>by toutg s darg clivy (or, grotquely, s <a href=">“tribute” to lyricist Howard Ashman</a>), mak for a lot of attentn-grabbg articl. But the actual executn is dull — or dly offensive, given that Disney’s first “official” gay character (ignorg s <a href=">d on and fan-non on</a>) is a tty, clgy, regrsive, “nfed” stereotype. <em>Bety and the Beast</em> isn’t necsarily the right fom to explore the nuanc of the gay experience. But given how much virtual k the character has gotten, ’s bafflg how ltle there is to him, not jt as a gay man, but as a veloped figure of any kd.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">It’s largely a tratg clone of the origal movie</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">And he isn’t the only wasted opportuny Condon’s remake. It’s largely a tratg clone of the origal movie — same songs, same script, often even the exact same shot choic — but replac every moment of thentic or movg emotn wh bombast and hyperbolic overemphasis. It slows down the flow of the faiar mic by jammg extra phras, and builds up the energy by jammg nonstop, by actn onto the screen. It’s a garish, strint film, as well as a profoundly unnecsary one. And wherever s creators e up wh h subplots or new character tails, they tend to be poorly tegrated, slapped erratilly over the existg narrative like a half-assed at of pat. Among the other thgs the film throws out and stantly disrds:</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:66.66666666666666%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 376w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 384w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 415w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 480w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 540w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 640w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 750w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 828w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1080w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1200w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1440w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1920w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 2048w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div><div class="z-1 w-full hidn"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:66.66666666666666%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 376w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 384w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 415w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 480w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 540w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 640w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 750w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 828w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1080w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1200w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1440w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1920w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 2048w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Walt Disney Pictur</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><h4 class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-headg my-20 font-polysans text-24 font-light leadg-110 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple md:text-26 [&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl [&>a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>Belle as ventor and outst</strong></h4></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The prerelease hype around LeFou was mirrored by the prerelease hype around Belle, wh Emma Watson, who plays her the film, <a href=">tellg <em>EW</em></a> that Belle is now the talented ventor, rather than her father Mrice. The ia was to give Belle more of a background, and more of a purpose life than wanrg around sgg about how her muny disappots her. In practice, though, her big background velopment nsists entirely of a scene where she a barrel and a donkey to do her lndry so she has more time to read. She don’t actually e her newfound ventg skills to any meangful narrative purpose. When she needs to pe a ge, Beast’s servants help her; when she needs to pick a lock, Mrice handl . Any ambns she has as an ventor are never verbalized, and her theoretil skills never bee eful. Past the brief lndry sequence, ventg never up aga. It’s not part of the story, ’s a random, unattached moment. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">In the same way, there’s a quick shot of Belle teachg a young girl to read, and angerg the lol peasants, who quickly stop her. Apparently female leracy is anathema a fantasy villa where only the boys are seen gog to school. This is meant to expla why the entire town is so obssed wh Belle beg, as the openg song says, “very different om the rt of ” and “a bety but a funny girl.” The ia of Belle tryg to overe stutnalized sexism a provcial town is a pretty heady one. But aga, the film do nothg wh , apart om a sgle le om Belle, late the film, plag about how she don’t f wh the lols.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:66.66666666666666%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 376w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 384w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 415w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 480w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 540w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 640w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 750w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 828w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1080w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1200w, (2808x1872:2809x1873):format(webp)/ 1440w, 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font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Walt Disney Pictur</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><h4 class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-headg my-20 font-polysans text-24 font-light leadg-110 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple md:text-26 [&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl [&>a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>Gaston as a troubled war veteran</strong></h4></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Ls hyped, but still strangely unrled the new movie, is the ia that the villao blowhard Gaston (Le Evans) is such a jerk bee he’s a profsnal soldier wh no battl left to fight, and he longs to return to a simpler, more purposeful time his life. He and LeFou know each other om “the war,” where they were ras arms. It’s a potentially meangful relatnship that explas why Gaston blankly tolerat LeFou’s creepy handss, and why LeFou sticks wh a loudmouthed bully. It’s dly implied that Gaston’s temper and abily to ntrol his rage om his past, and that LeFou is an actual iend who shar Gaston’s history and hontly rpects and unrstands him. That’s another potentially powerful velopment, but mostly surfac via a uple of throwaway l, and one joke about LeFou’s Gaston-whisperg talents.<strong> </strong></p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><h4 class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-headg my-20 font-polysans text-24 font-light leadg-110 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple md:text-26 [&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl [&>a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>LeFou’s rehabilatn</strong></h4></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The heel-face turn is a great tradn stori about villas, and ’s given Amerin pop culture some of s most memorable story endgs — <em>Return of the Jedi</em>, Dr. Sss’ <em>How the Grch Stole Christmas!</em>, even most recently <a href="><em>Moana</em></a>. So the ia that LeFou might not play out entirely as a villa is potentially trigug — and certaly keepg wh Condon’s larger tentns for the character. Bad enough for Disney’s first supposed openly gay character to be swishy, obssive, and annoyg whout him also beg an irreemable villa. If only the character’s velopment had any meangful roots the earlier parts of the story. There are ty hts at him havg a personaly past “sikick” his emotnal support of Gaston, but as character velopment go, ’s a th soup. At most, he gets a uple of l to support the ia that he has his own morals and goals — the bt one is a new addn “The Mob Song,” as Gaston whips the villagers to a fury agast the Beast. His “Meh, I’ve cid to swch sis!” le is particularly offhand and silly. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:56.74418604651162%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" 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style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 376w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 384w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 415w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 480w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 540w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 640w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 750w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 828w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1080w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1200w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1440w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1920w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 2048w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Walt Disney Pictur</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><h4 class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-headg my-20 font-polysans text-24 font-light leadg-110 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple md:text-26 [&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl [&>a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>Beast’s backstory and the servants’ motiv</strong> </h4></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">One of the mor problems viewers gmbled over the origal <em>Bety and the Beast </em>was the qutn of why Beast’s servants — Lumière, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, et al — stand by him and seem to re so much about him, when he brought a magil curse down on them by beg a selfish brat, and has subsequently turned to a temperamental, dangero tyrant. That isn’t actually much of a plot hole. Of urse they stand by him and serve him — he’s their only chance at gettg the curse lifted. Their “affectn” for him is largely crisis management and mollifitn. And where n an anthropomorphic ndltick, clock, and teapot expect to go if they leave the enchanted stle?</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px]"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">When the film do try somethg new, ’s via halfhearted throwaway l</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">But Condon’s versn of the film do exprsly take up the qutn. Mrs. Potts has a ltle monologue explag how Beast’s mother died early and his father was a va tyrant who turned him to a va tyrant return. The servants did nothg to stop any of this, so they feel rponsible. Screenwrers Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiltopoulos try hard to brg an old-world servant-and-master relatnship to a 2017 settg, where loyalty and service are exprsly about emotnal rponsibily and the ia that all awful behavr has s roots childhood trma. But this quickie applitn of plot-spackle rais more qutns than answers. Where is Beast’s father? Why did the servants thk they had any rponsibily, or abily, to fix a prce followg a kg’s footsteps? <a href=">Why is Disney so obssed wh ad mothers?</a> If the servants are only hangg around bee they feel they owe Beast for not terferg his upbrgg, why aren’t they makg any efforts at all to help him improve his awful personaly and terrible behavr?</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><h4 class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-headg my-20 font-polysans text-24 font-light leadg-110 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple md:text-26 [&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl [&>a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-whe"><strong>And general</strong></h4></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">Disney has stggled to fe exactly what wants to do wh s seemgly endls (and <a href=">prsgly</a><a href="> profable</a>) n of live-actn remak of animated classics. Are they meant as homag, updat, “brand pos” remrs of existg anchis, or jt high-profile sh grabs? The answer vari slightly om film to film. <em>Alice Wonrland</em> didn’t feel like a remake so much as a new versn of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel, straed through Tim Burton’s hoe brand of morbid whimsy and the cultural landspe’s ntemporaneo obssn wh young-adult-novel-worthy teen actn hero. <a href="><em>Maleficent</em></a><em> </em>tried to give <em>Sleepg Bety</em>’s villa a tragic backstory, and wound up as a pretty but unfortably imative mergg of Disney’s film and the Broadway h mil <em>Wicked</em>. <a href="><em>Crella</em></a> ma the tle character more bland and passive, rampg up the villa’s personaly at everyone else’s expense. So far, only <a href="><em>The Jungle Book</em></a> has ma to the screen wh a strong pot of view and addns to the story — mostly om Rudyard Kiplg’s origal Jungle Book stori, but part origal creatns — that epen the characters and make their nflicts more meangful. </p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block"><div class="my-9"><div class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out"><div class="fixed set-0 h-[110vh] w-full bg-whe transn-all duratn-300 ease--out z-[-1] cursor-flt opacy-0"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Zoom" tabx="0" class="visible z-30 w-full orig-center transn-all duratn-300 ease--out cursor-zoom-"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:56.74418604651162%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 376w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 384w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 415w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 480w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 540w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 640w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 750w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 828w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1080w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1200w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1440w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1920w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 2048w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div><div class="z-1 w-full hidn"><figure class="transn-all duratn-300 ease--out lg:mx-0"><div><div class="duet--media--ntent-warng relative" style="paddg-top:56.74418604651162%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/><noscript><img alt="" loadg="lazy" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver" siz="(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 744px" srcSet="(1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 376w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 384w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 415w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 480w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 540w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 640w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 750w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 828w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1080w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1200w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1440w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 1920w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 2048w, (1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/ 2400w" src="(1075x610:1076x611):format(webp)/"/></noscript></span></div></div></figure></div></div><div class="duet--media--ptn pt-6 font-polysans-mono text-12 font-light leadg-130 trackg-1"> <ce class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup le not-alic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&>a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-unrle-gray [&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-unrle-gray">Walt Disney Pictur</ce></div></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">In <em>Bety and the Beast</em>’s se, virtually all of the new addns to the story are aimed vaguely the same directn. As the marketg suggts, the updat are all about backstory, about tryg to make the characters more three-dimensnal, to make their choic more meangful, their origs clearer, and their trmas more volvg. But few of the new ias have any sort of pth or ditn to that e. They’re shallow, surface addns that don’t add to the story, or change s directn, or reveal anythg new.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100"><div class="duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20"><div class="mb-10 h-[22px] w-[65px] bg-ankl"></div><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeatg-l-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leadg-120 trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:bg-repeatg-l-light dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple">one character shows how much better this all uld have been</p></div></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">The updat Condon’s <em>Bety and the Beast </em>aren’t exclively superficial. Beast fally gets a song to himself, and ’s a powerful mil moment, even when improbably transforms him om what Belle scrib as “sweet, and almost kd… and so unsure” to a bellowg operatic hero, as ostentat and over-the-top as the evil Gaston. Lumière’s feather-dter girliend Plumette (voiced by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and the livg wardrobe Madame Garrobe (Audra McDonald) get slightly larger rol, givg the story a place for actors of lor, even if they’re mostly offscreen voic matched to animated objects.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">And most signifintly, Belle’s dad Mrice has been upgrad om a wacky rtoon eccentric to a more nuanced character, a grievg widower dog his bt to support a headstrong dghter. His embellishments clu a sweet (and too short) song of his own, and a history that explas the cisns he faced when Belle’s mother died. (Of urse she did; this is still a Disney movie.) Kev Kle plays him as sentimental and stgglg, and giv him a backbone the moments where unts. But more signifintly, his backstory is more than an idle joke or a tweaked le. It’s an tegral part of the story. It affects Belle’s character, and alters her actns, and leads to a strong new scene that epens Belle’s relatnship wh Beast. It hts at how much better and more mted the other character chang uld have been as well.</p></div><div class="duet--article--article-body-ponent"><p class="duet--article--dangeroly-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leadg-160 -trackg-1 selectn:bg-ankl-20 dark:text-whe dark:selectn:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-ankl dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-unrle-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-unrle-whe">In an <a href=">terview wh <em>USA Today</em></a>, actor Josh Gad boasts that the film improv LeFou, a character origally “fed by rtoon nces,” by “expandg on that, givg him dimensn, makg him human.” That’s a worthy goal that might have ma <em>Bety and the Beast </em>feel ls like an empty experiment visual hyperbole, or at bt, a timid toe ttg the waters of diversy. But for the most part, the 2017 <em>Bety and the Beast </em>don’t follow through on Condon’s promis about LeFou, or on Gad’s enthiastic claims. It don’t follow through on many of s gambs. It’s much more dited to pyttg a classic, while makg bigger, lour, and broar. For a $160 ln movie, endlsly hyped and tmpeted as a ground-breakg act of creativy and imagatn, that’s a remarkably small and unworthy goal.</p></div></div><div class="mb-40 mt-30"><button class="duet--article--ments-button group le-flex h-40 w-full ems-center jtify-center round-[2px] borr-[1px] borr-solid borr-blurple font-polysans-mono text-11 font-light upperse trackg-12 text-blurple hover:bg-blurple hover:text-whe md:w-to md:px-30"><svg class="mr-10 le pt-2" width="12" height="14" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 12 12" stroke-width="1px" xmlns="><tle>Comments
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