Disney's Dark Secrets About Beauty and the Beast - (Tooned Up S3 E14) 

It's a tale as old as time, but this tale has changed quite a bit! In honor of the live action Beauty and the Beast film, we're taking a look at some of Disney's dark (seriously dark!) secrets about the original tale of Beauty and the Beast! What did we miss? Are you going to see Beauty and the Beast? Watch Disney 107 Facts! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AuZGQnkparE.html

If I remember correctly, people would often marry further into their family in the past, unaware of many aspects of genetics. I believe that was especially true with royalty as they wanted to keep their blood "pure" or something. So, in that regards, it wasn't that odd that beast were to marry his cousin.

Let's hear it for the voice over guy in the video too! ;) (just kidding) Honestly, I'm very proud to be voicing some videos for Channel Frederator now. I can't wait to do more.

Cousins? So were Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. This story is set in a time period before theirs, so incest wasn't really creepy back then. I actually like this version better than the Disney one despite the "dark" stuff, but I do love the lion-dog beast from Disney ♥

Royal cousin marriages were not that uncommon especially during the time the story was written. The queen of England is married to her cousin though I'm pretty sure he is her third or fourth cousin

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I used to watch this series on HBO Kids called "Happily Ever After". Their adaptation of Beauty and the Beast is a lot closer to the original, but nixes the whole cousins things. And, considering how fairy tales usually are, this wasn't too bad!

Belle mean beauty in French, so in the original her name would have been "Belle"

Very interesting video. Make more of them. On a side note, the voice guy in this video sounds 100% better then the voice people in other videos. The last 107 facts (more star vs the forces of evil) sounded like the girl used her webcam as a microphone. This guy sounds professional!

Her original name was Belle though. It's a french story

Actually, Beauty had five other siblings, not eleven Also, he didn't blame Belle! Beast sayed that he could go away, if one of his daughters took his place as a prisioner, and Beauty feels guilty for asking for the rose that unleashed this domino effect, so she offered herself

Wanna know a secret? I've literally never seen Beauty and the Beast... How dare you not do spoiler alert lol

I wonder what Tim Burton's take on this would be like?

Okay, I'm confused. Doesn't Belle mean beauty in French?

You forgot one thing. Beauty's sisters killed her, good fairy brings her back to life, and turn the sisters into stone columns until someone loves them...which means they're fucked forever.

Ah Discord how I love that mischeivous Lord of Chaos "Its so nice to have such devoted fans"

you should do more of these

Hi thank you for doing this it was very interesting and it was nice to hear the original story. Keep it up!

Wasn't marrying your cousins a common thing among the nobility, back in the day?

In that time period it was actually very common to marry your cousin and it was also common to marry at the age of ten or younger, so from the authors perspective it's probably a very heart warming story.

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Ignoring the disturbing aspects for a moment, the original story, to me, seems needlessly complicated.

I'd actually like to see a Disney version of this story. Like word for word with this story but everything, except the beast, obviously, would remain how we picture them from the 90s. Also my mind went right to "Big meaty claws". Thanks spongebob and ADD!

This was soooo interesting! I knew quickly the big lines of the original story, but not all these cool details! Are you going to do more "Disney Dark Secrets"?

my grandparents owned the grim brothers fairy stories, but i don't ever recall Beauty and the beast being one of them. those facts, especially the incest part, made me shiver. but i also wish now the films had monkey butlers. also kudos to you for using the monkey image from the Aardman animated film "Science. An adventure with pirates". such a good film!

WIKI LIED TO ME! Because when I read the actual story of Beauty and the Beast it had a lot of differences to this video. Also there is a Beauty and the Beast movie that stayed true to the book version where instead of monkey butlers and parrots it was instead adorable beagles that were turned into a tarsier looking animal.

The version I read did not have monkey butlers, but invisible servants and...strange magical windows that display amusing shows for her.

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no gaston ??!!!! wow the original version must've been sooooo boring

Great video, captivated me start to finish.

The live action one had beast take in belles father not because of entering his castle, but for stealing a rose.

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way back when, it was common for royal families to marry their relatives to keep the "royal bloodline" or whatever, which is why a lot of royalty in the past had mental or physical problems

Please do Disney's Dark Secrets about Pinocchio and Bambi! The Disney versions are *way* different that the source material.

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Suddenly... the origin story of Walter's version of Marry Poppins seems more believable.

amazing video friend

I just shared this to all my friends, it's so good! They all love it too and we would really be grateful if you do more 👏😊

i will never look at this movie the same way again!

This is mind blowing!

"Her name was Beauty, NOT Belle" I Mean, it's set in France where Belle literally means beauty... pretty cleaver if you ask me. And their that's line from the first song "well it's no wonder that her name means beauty" - it's not like the fact is hidden for people who might not know French or name meanings.

I don't get how star wars and Marvel became part of the Disney family and now they are putting James Cameron's Avatar in the park. they were not Disney to begin with and now they are? Doesn't make sense to me................. BUT I LOVE IT!!

What's funny about this video is when the narrator mentioned Discord, I was looking at pictures of him.

I can't believe how this story is so relatable to me,but it is kind of complicated even if some of the story is different.

What were pictures from the picture (the prince on the throne and stuff) 11:39

i just watched this last night lol

When I was a child. There was a claymation version of " Beauty and The Beast ", The beast was a mix between a wolf and a lion, she had to go through a small maze everyday, and all the servants were "ghost like" or invisible. The two lead servants were animal hybrids through. The Beast did not die because of a side effect of the spell. The rose is different to, it is frozen in time, until it wilts. Then the spell is broken. They simply called instead of " Belle ", was changed to " Beauty Elizabeth ", it was from around 1989 to 1993. It was pretty good, I am disappointed it is not online through. It is sad, what his family did to him. So Beauty is a princess already. The cousin thing is not weird, if they are very distant or did not know.

The original strory is the cutest! hahaha not fraky at all

Interesting even though in the version I heard, the person who cursed him knocked on the door asking for help and he wouldn't help which was why he was cursed. But of course with many fairytales there's probably many differfent versions.

I can't imagine this story being told in less than 3 hours of screen time...

I loved this vid PLEASE DO MORE

Beast was cool with him robbing the place, but when it came to his garden: OH HELL NO

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To be fair, royals of old _did_ often try to keep it in the family. Obviously that doesn't make it a good thing, it's just...a thing.

There's also an Italian fairy tale very similar to beauty and the beast, except that in this version, the beast was a wizard who lived alone in a garden, and the flower was a golden carnation.

this would be a good video series! How about a Cinderella one?

I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THIS STORY IN A ROLPLAY WHEN I CAME TO THE SCHOOL CINEMAS. I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

CHILDHOOD WHERE ARE YOU? Childhood: I'm dead. Me: ..oh, ok.

this video is really interesting!

This was really good

I've paused this video and will resume later. I don't need to share things like this but I wanted to.

Disney didn't invent the living, moving objects in the castle. The French did. See the old black and white moving Belle et la Bete

dat thumbnail tho XD

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if all this is true I don't want to hear another person talk about disney changes in movies being "for babies" anymore.

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Dark secrets about The Hunchback of Notre Dame!!! As dark as the tones are in the Disney movie, the original story by Victor Hugo is soooo much worse.

1:20, he says "Beauty" is Belle's real name, but actually, in the original french version, the girl's name is Belle, it was translated to "Beauty" in the english version. And by the way, it's really not as simple as "Here's the gruesome original version of Beauty and the Beast and here's how Disney cut half of it to adapt it for children". There have been multiple versions of the fairy tale before Disney adapted it and they are all very different. Disney just used one of these versions (probably not the original) as an inspiration for their movie. And I did say "inspiration", they weren't necessarily trying to tell the same story.

I had this book!! Only mine had Beast a more hairy Boar type look.

Please make dark secrets an ongoing series!

"Beast" is a term of endearment for lucipher. Anytime it can be included in a media project, membership in the club is renewed Wink wink

childhood ruined. thank you Frank.

the everblooming garden is quite nice, actually

In those days it was highly common for royalty to wed someone of their own family to ensure that the money and power didn't leave the family. It doesn't make it any less taboo today but it does make sense for the period the story was set in~

Peter pan was based on an urban legend parents used to tell their children to scare them. It goes like this: when children went to bed at night a serial killer wandered the streets climbing up balconies and luring children away from their homes. This serial killer played a magical flute, luring the children out of their homes. He took them onto a rowboat and sailed to a deserted island and killed his newest victims there on the sand of the shore.

As a German, I had the "privilege" to have been told (almost all of) the original stories; at least the ones by the Brother's Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. As far as I know, German families have the original collection of the Grimm's fairytales instead of the altered versions (of course, only if they even OWN a collection at all). E.g., I knew that in Snow White, Snowy's step-mom had to dance in burning hot shoes 'til she died, or that in Rapunzel the prince (and I think Punzy, too? Not quite sure rn) was blinded, and that Cinderella's or "Aschenputtel As a German, I had the "privilege" to have been told (almost all of) the original stories; at least the ones by the Brother's Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. As far as I know, German families have the original collection of the Grimm's fairytales instead of the altered versions (of course, only if they even OWN a collection at all). E.g., I knew that in Snow White, Snowy's step-mom had to dance in burning hot shoes 'til she died, or that in Rapunzel the prince (and I think Punzy, too? Not quite sure rn) was blinded, and that Cinderellas or "Aschenputtels/Aschenbrödels" (German synonym for wallflower) -as she's called in the original- sisters had to cut off their toes/heels to fit in the slipper, as well as their eyes had been pecked out by doves at the end because of their cruelty to Cinderella.

Belle, with an "E" at the end is the french word for beauty as use in the story in its original language, the proper title is "la belle et la Bête"

I still love the version where Belle has 2 older sisters who want only nice stuff and she asks for a rose. They laugh at her and tell her she is stupid. Also when their dad goes to the market they tell him to bring the gifts while she only ask him to look out for himself and return safely. When the father returns he tells about the beast and his request to bring one of his daughters Belle is shocked while her sisters are mad at their father for not bringing their gifts. Belle volunteers to go to the Beast and while her father's says no, her older sisters tell her yes so they can have her stuff and so their father doesn't have to feed her and they would become rich again. They also hope Belle would die. However when Belle returns to see her father and sisters and they see how well clothed she is, the two sisters become jealous and try to convince Belle to stay longer than the 2 weeks she promised. They say they missed her in hope she would stay and the beast would kill her and she falls for their lies. One night she looks into the mirror only to find out the beast lying in the rose garden, dying. She doesn't wait a minute but takes a horse and goes back to help him. She tells the Beast that she is in love with him and he becomes human again. However at the wedding Belles sisters show up and ask for forgiveness in hope that they can marry some of Beasts friends. Belle sees through their plan and tells them she is done with their mocking and bullying and they become stone but mentain conscious to become statues in the castle to see Belles happiness as their punishment. Speaking of karma😂

Disney didn't invented the enchanted objects of the Beast's castle: in fact, many elements from Disney's Beauty and the Beast were inspired by Jean Cocteau's film from 1946. Thought I would just mention it.

I watched the movie this weekend and something that I found very disturbing was that when Belle and beast were racing in the ball room it looked like Belle was racing with a devil. I was maybe two seconds but disturbing.

Not only is the original one messed up but they seem to complicate things a bit, with Beauty's back story and Beast's back story I guess in books you kinda have to, to make it well length. I'm glad Disney made it more simple, charming and well...less incest. I get cousins are far blood from each other but eh...you can't blame people for thinking that's kinda....not so pleasant.

I really wanna see this version in the big screen

There is also the versions where Beauty only has two sisters. One where they are awful and jealous of her when she returns and another when their Father dies and they aren't that bad. But Beauty ends up staying to long, one by accident the other by trickery.

From what I've heard, in the original story Belle's sisters gets jealous because she married a prince, so they decide to drown and kill her. I can't remember how she comes back to life, I think the enchantress brings her back to life so she can accuse and kill her sisters for killing her and she's with her husband again.

In all fairness about the cousin thing, in that era it was common for cousins to marry, i'm not sure exactly when it was stopped but i've heard of some cases nowadays when you're allowed to marry any of your cousins, from Second cousins onwards (wouldn't do it myself lol but love is love lol)

Please tell me you are gonna do more of these!

Belle means "beauty" in french. But yeah. her "actual" name, of course...

Do Lion King (from 1-3) and also Little Mermaid if you haven't.. I know those have dark secrets too hehe

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To be honest I would have liked Prince Adam to remain in Beast form, course I'm sure he wouldn't have wanted it that way. I guess I'm just thinking if it were me xD awesome facts though!

Oooooh my goooodnesssss this story is so involved!!!!!!

no disslikes? heyy tahts preety good

so what im hearing is the hello kitty version i watched god knows how many years ago was more correct then the Disney version.

He copies all his early stories than sues everyone who draws mr mouse

3:56-4:15 They actually did add that element from the original fairy tale into the recent film. 5:33-6:13 Though in actuality the Beast's description is pretty vague, many depict it as a lot of animals, mostly a lion, or a bear, or a wild boar. 8:52 Actually Gaston was based on a character in the 1946 Jean Cocteau version of Beauty and the Beast, a rival suitor Avenant. 8:37 That is one controversy that I do have a problem with,. Sure the syndrome probably existed ever since the fairy tale was told in the 1750s, but the name wasn't coined yet until the 1970s with the Swedish bank robbery. Back then they would've considered it brainwashing or manipulation. One thing though you forgot to mention is that the true antagonists in the original story was Belle's older stepsisters. Which are basically almost the same as Cinderella's stepsisters. They were the ones that purposefully made Belle stay longer than her due date to return to the castle. Hoping to have the Beast eat her in anger. And when the good fairy turned the Beast back into a Prince, she punished the sisters severely by turning them into stone statues, telling them that in the only way to revert back to human again was if someone found love in return. Though a good video anyway.

Now I myself am an artist / cartoonist and I know well to all that with "The Dark Side of Disney" Yes, many of their stories are old folk tales and stories from 17 or 1800. Some of them are from The brothers Grimm from Germany (They wrote not even the stories but, got them released) and Hans Christian Andersen from Denmark. I myself am from Denmark. :-)

I'm still freaked out about the cousins thing

I love that the live action verison made the beast take belle father after he took a rose luke the orginal tale :D

I've heard two versions of Beauty and The Beast. In the first version, Beauty didn't arrive back to the castle at time, and Beast dies. Instead tuning into statues, sisters go to Hell. In the second version, Beauty was drowned in the bathtub. Beauty becomes a ghost and she has to find a true love that she can go to Heaven. Both versions are pretty dark.

No one annoys channel federator like Gaston