With all the cuts and changes they also cut out all the symbolism. The whole point of the movie is to look past the exterior and finding the beauty within. Belle walking past the scary exterior statues and discovering the beautiful rose is like her metaphorically walking past the Beast's appearance and mystery and then finding the beauty in his heart. I mean think about how she finds the rose in the intimate setting of his bedroom and before that it was his old portrait... What a loss for the live action :'(
I think only Cinderella remake (not Camilla💀) actually captured the magic of the cartoon and atleast give a little background personality to other caharacters
@@justadjustor8993 she meant Lily James' Cinderella, it was a good movie and it gave more character to the prince, Cinderella, and the stepmother. Although on the other hand, tbh Brandy's Cinderella was iconic
I loved the 2015 Cinderella. I generally find villains more captivating, but that adaptation was able to make a one-dimensional, passive character into a lovable and inspiring protagonist. (Also, Cate Blanchett. Just, yes.)
They also didn't make it a boundary explicitly set by the beast that would justify his anger when crossed. Also the camera follows her instead of him when the scene is over talking away from showing a very important moment of regret after lashing ok it at her. That moment was so important in the originals. It showed that he knew he was not being the person he wanted to be and that he wanted to be better... Like the whole point of the movie. The beast putting in effort to be better
Right, and they messed up the Library scene too. In the og it's gift after she saves him, he genuinely wants to do something for her and is excited to surprise her. In the live action it like, oh you like books? Here's my massive library, I had an expensive education🙄 you can have I guess.
@@angie.castle Agreed, he was like groaning when she spoke poetry and said it was stupid or something along those lines and was like eh keep the stupid library
Personally, my problem with live-action Beauty and the Beast (besides all of it) is their mischaracterization of Belle. While it's okay to portray her as a feminist, Belle is no inventor or nerd or activist. She's a hopeless romantic and a dreamer. She longs for adventure and excitement, anything to get her away from her boring, provincial life. That's why her nose is always in the books; it offered her a world beyond what life had given her. If anything, her modern equivalent would be a blogger making book analyses on RU-vid and making fan fiction as a hobby. That's why it's so easy for her to enter Beast's room despite the danger-it's in her character to be curious of the unknown. To find out what's lurking behind closed doors. To understand Beast beyond his fur and claws. One thing I did like about the film is that that also expanded on Beast's character, that he was a book reader who loves romance. And I wish this could have been the starting point where Belle discovers that under his looks is a person longing for love and adventure just like her.
I think the only show I've seen where the portrayed a cartoon in a very creative way and keep the cartoony nature of the original was SpongeBob the musical weirdly enough😅 the honestly did an incredible job though
@@craftlover2018 alice in wonderland live action is actually my favorite, because it isn't like the movie but they didn't move too far away from the concept of the movie. I think what people hate is the life action is just like a sequel to the animation which i agree leave me in a cliff hanger.
@@jang_prism9066 OMG I love the live action of Alice In Wonderland. Personally, I feel it gave more characterization for the Mad Hatter and the bunnies while still keeping their wild charm. I also like how Alice is portrayed and the red queen is just -chef's kiss-
You forgot the worst part. In the live action Beast just yells at her and kicked her out, then the scene follows her attempting to escape. In the Disney version we see him yell at her, kick her out and then when she is gone we see total regret and shame wash over his whole face and body. The moment showed the audience that he knew he messed up, and he is not just a pure evil rage monster but I person with a temper that he doesn’t know how to control. That moment of seeing him regret what he’d done humanized him, and the live action movie totally cuts it out.
Out of all the live action movies I think Cinderella was the only one that was decently good. It actually expanded on the characters and the sets and designs didn't get in the way of the story but were beautiful nonetheless. Plus they didn't just copy-paste their old movie they actually strayed a little bit and changed a few aspects such as regular mice, the prince having a story, no music, and the fairy godmother being young. They strayed enough from the original to actually be creative and different but stayed close enough to really give that Cinderella feel, and appreciate the old work and the new one. I think after the Cinderella movie they just started copy-pasting the stories of movies and focusing more of design and being progressive than caring about the actual story.
And adding on to the no music thing- that worked, where Mulan didn't, because the characters were still characters. We could love them and we could understand them in spite of the lack of music. By Mulan they just didn't care, and so they didn't bother making the characters real characters and the entire movie is exceptionally bland, in large part because of that. Cinderella was one of the first ones, done back when they still gave a shit about it lol
Finally found someone who also states the same thing. The live action movie focused way too much on the background details, drowning the characters. You barely pay attention to any of the characters because you're too busy looking at all the background details.
Same with Lion King live action actually. The camera always had to show the entire nature's scenery as if someone wants to show off their CGI work than to tell the story.
Omg I’m actually in love with tangled so much that at this point I would hate it if they made a live action adaption because I already know they would butcher that movie so much 😭
The ball gown was HORRIBLE. It wasn’t even a gown. Thank Emma Watson for that. Being a feminist she said she didn’t want to wear a corset. A corset is not anti feminist, it’s needed to hold up the big dresses 🤦🏻♀️ And what kind of director lets their actors make these decisions?
@@ilicia_08 She probably threatened them that she won't do it unless they change it..cant imagine why they would bend their back like that otherwise :/
@@ilicia_08 bro, she was only cast because of Harry Potter Fame and her barely legal youthful look. It wasn't for acting chops. They wanted the movie to be a success, regardless if it was good
In the original she's also very clearly told not to go to the West Wind by the Beast and then dissuaded by Lumière and Cogsworth whom she has to trick get past, which shows a mischievous nature. In this version, the Beast never told her it was forbidden and Mrs Potts doesn't make it a big deal, so not only Belle makes it there too easily and without showing much character with her intention to break a rule, but it also makes the Beast's furious reaction to her being in the room weird when he never told her not to come there, while in the original it kind of made sense for him to be mad when he made his demands very clear (although he of course overreacted).
This movie sucked. Emma Watson is overrated. I love her as Hermione Granger, but we all gotta realize Emma Watson is a talented actress and we love her, but gotta separate her from Hermione. She always wants to play this Belle, Heminone-esque characters and people see her as that but boring. But also, Disney's live action all sucked maybe other than Cinderella only because it was the first one. Getting old.
If everyone in this comment section had helped make the live action BatB it would have been AMAZING. My biggest problem with the remakes (except Cinderella, that one was great) is that it seems like the people making them don't have any affection for the story.
I feel the same, Aladdin was so poorly written, i felt like they missed the vibes completely. I wont even talk about the Lion King... However I was quite surprised with the Little Mermaid. I thought the CGI was bad and i didnt really enjoyed the Ursula, but otherwise i was really into the movie while watching it and i felt like the people who worked on it really liked what they were doing, and really enjoyed the little mermaid animated movie. I could see it in the movie. It was quite refreshing.
Nice girl but terrible actress. She had one expression (haughty) for the entire movie and in the nicest way possible, just isn’t beautiful enough to be Belle. She looks like a little kid in comparison to the woman belle was, and there’s such a lack of expression. She’s wooden and her acting was very much move from point A to B just like Harry Potter. Like she’s just trying to remember her next lines She got lucky when she was chosen for Harry Potter and maybe should’ve dipped out of acting soon after. I’m still annoyed about her being chosen over a gorgeous French actress who could actually pull off the role and not just be an old fashioned hermione
@@shisah5544 I agree! Me and my mum always look at her acting carefully in movies or shows, she needs some acting lessons..😭 I don't get how ppl say she's a rlly good actor when she's terrible at portraying emotions/facial expressions and details in movements.
i love her too, but she is sometimes overly feminist. Belle was never a feminist, she was more of a bookworm. her character was literally changed to suit emma's personality. plus emma refused to wear a corset because it is oppressive, when it actually wasnt in that time period, and was the equivalent to a bra
YES! Omg please make these for every Disney live action remake. It’s like they’ve sucked the life out of the originals in the remakes I swear 😢 and they’re about to do it to my childhood favorite, The Little Mermaid. It’s incredible the detail and thought that went into the original stories. The buildup, the story creation and background, the super animated and emotional character faces, the music, the beautiful animation. Now it just looks like everything is dark, the characters don’t have anything special or interesting about them, and the storyline loses so much detail and importance. This short describes it perfectly.
@@victoriagreen4433 I saw live action Aladdin and that was most definitely not a improvement. Cartoon jasmine was a badass and they turned her into a girl that constantly sang about how she was going to fight and do something different just to do the same things. Aladdin and jasmine had no chemistry and Aladdin had no confidence going on which is important for the character. This felt more like a genie movie and even then still disappointing. The only saving grace was genie and the maids relationship.
Honestly the only remakes that deserved the reboot are Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, and Cinderella. Everything else was basically a carbon copy of the original, and we don’t even speak about the atrocity that was Mulan.
@@victoriagreen4433 Aladdin was cringe from start to finish. Jasmine was too focused on appearing independent and strong rather while not really doing much.
My biggest disappointment with Beauty and the Beast is that people keep gleefully falling all over themselves to trash the original movie from the early 90's, slapping the "Stockholm syndrome" label on it and calling that a more intelligent interpretation of the movie than what it actually means. It's even worse that Disney endorses that mindset in their other movies that reference Beauty and the Beast. That's a deliberate tarnishing of the memory of the man who is responsible for the original movie. He was dying of AIDS at the time. And back then, there was so much stigma and terror around AIDS, he felt isolated. I'm so frustrated with Disney because they keep placating the loudest voices on social media instead of shutting them down. Narratives and echo chambers have largely ruined Disney at this point
Beauty and the Beast was my school's musical this year. At practice one day my French drama teacher asked us all if we've seen it, the kid who played The beast said he'd only seen the live action version and my drama teacher/the director was disgraced and told him he was fired. 😂 I was Maurice btw incase you were wondering lol.
They do make a lot of sequels, but they add to the story and are sometimes even better than the original, unlike when disney makes sequels just for cash.
It often feels like the live action reboots plan for you to have watched the animation. So, they don't need to put that much care into actually explaining what's going on - you already know.
I wish Belle in the live action was more emotional at the end when the Beast died. Belle in the animated movie showed more emotion when she said she loved him than the live action
Disney’s animated movies are timeless because they aren’t focused on the times they were made. When watching the original animated movies you aren’t reminded about the politics that were happening during its creation. But with the live action movies the timelessness is lost because the times they were made in are all that the movie is become about. I think that makes sense. Does to me at least.
Yeah. Are you talking about the current modern time (now) and cultural climate that has very obvious and badly inserted lines that project a popular, and usually not that accurate or fitting to the film, character, narrative flow etc, viewpoint? Like when she says "I'm not a princess " - or the cross-dressing insert that then has the wardrobe sing - when she's supposed to be fighting invaders and helping everyone else - "be free, be free" (like fine, it's okay to have that viewpoint in the film of course but that was a very obvious quick, inserted, 'feels fake and pandering rather than genuine' moment to insert that in, within the context of the whole narrative. Honestly I've blocked a lot of this one out bc you know, sanity and I know there are other examples of this but I really don't want to recollect them haha Oh or how they keep having female leads sing about how empowered they are but then their actions are skewed around so they actually end up less empowered that the original Disney animation . 😂 yikes. Also, Belle was already a feminist. A lot of modern people just get their definition of feminism wrong. Like this live action, for example. 😂😂😂It's literally about being equal, and being freely feminine and standing up for yourself when you aren't treated equally or with respect. Which all of the Disney princesses do. Anyone who tries to say "oh I'm.making her more empowered" in the live actions - clearly didn't actually watch or read or properly follow and understand what was going on in the film. She always was. 🙄
I love this criticism! Ideological and broader critiques on the Disney remakes are all well and good and definitely have their place, but I love how this review really gets into the nitty gritty of storyboarding and shot composition and why it fails on that level as well
I think the only live action they aced was Cinderella, everything was perfect and even added scenes of kit and Ella. The Steph mother may not be the creepy scary type like the cartoon but she gave a different aura that makes it unique and she delivered it with the intimidation. In this short vid I agree about this sense and the rise in the live action doesn’t even feel special, I mean it’s live action but this movie has magic, should have made it glow
Cinderella was the only good live action remake With aladdin also being good And new ariel (if you remove the ariel being black) is ok like halle baileys songs are good
Emma just feels so young. She feels like a young rebellious teen looking to do great things and was forced into this prison with a giant much older man. In the cartoon version she feels older, and yes the stockholder syndrome feel is still a bit there she just feels… older. And, like someone else mentioned in another comment, she actually is looking for love. She’s a hopeless romantic. She’s not looking for just anything, she’s looking for someone. And it makes her love story feel more comfortable and genuine than they portrayed in the live action.
No such thing as Stockholm Syndrome. People don’t irrationally fall in love with their captors, a couple of corrupt Swedish police officers made it up in the 70s after several female hostages during a bank robbery said they were treated better by the robbers than they were by the police, so the police had to cover themselves. Sorry for the Ted Talk, just really bothers me that it’s wormed its way into the public consciousness even 50 years later
this really shows how live action takes away so much magic of animation... i just wish they'd play the animations in theaters instead of making whole new versions that take away so, so much detail
There is SO MUCH expression, hesitation, and strain depicted in the original that actors should be able to replicate in a natural way. Tbh I blame direction than Emma. Hell, probably not even the director's fault. Ultimately, I blame Disney 😔
It still fucks me up that they had to make Gaston do worse things in this movie because Emma Watson was so unlikable, she was making the bad guy look good.
I still think Emma wasn’t the right choice for Belle, they only did it for her Harry Potter fame to get people interested and because Hermione was also a bookworm. SHE CAN’T SING! I always thought Anne Hathaway would have been a wonderful Belle but she’s probably too old now sadly. Emma was given FAR TOO much control over the character and just made her a feminist symbol. Throughout the whole film I could practically hear Emma screaming, ‘Look! Look! Belle’s so modern, she wants to teach a girl to read, she tucks her dress into her bloomers, SHE’S the inventor not her father! GIRL POWER!!!” She made Belle seem so stuck up, even the bit where she takes her father’s place. She aggressively throws her father out of the prison and angrily tells the Beast off. The 90’s Belle was kind, caring and a hopeless romantic but craved adventure which made her so curious about the West Wing.
For me among the live action adaptations, this movie, the Lion King, and Mulan are not enjoyable to rewatch. I'd rather watch the original animated ones where the execution of the story is better. Whereas Cinderella, Aladdin, and recently the Little Mermaid are better adaptations.
Sure there were some small bits of anticlimax but you gotta realize that in the live action, they actually put more story; in the original movie I noticed there was a lot if plot holes A LOT. In the live action they fixed a lot of those holes and put a lot more story into it; in doing that I honestly forgive the people for making this brutal mistake- obviously they werent too keen on panning in and out and making it mysterious, more that belle was curious of what it holds and that shes only really scared of the beast not the castle
A lot of these remakes aren’t made to be movies . Just ‘spectacle’ , they aren’t even using the basics of story telling in this scene like they do in the original they just want to show off how pretty the background is . Which it is , it’s very pretty . But it isn’t the purpose of this scene
The whole movie I didn’t see Belle just Emma Watson, not really her fault per say, I just see her in everything role she’s in (kinda like Nicolas Cage) but her acting didn’t help. They shoulda gone with an unknown actress. It would still be bad but I could felt belle at leadt
This describes the feeling of this scene being anticlimactic in the life action so perfectly. I could never properly describe why this scene felt that way other than me saying it felt rushed. Thank you !
What sucks about all of Disney's live action remakes (except Cinderella. That was actually pretty good.) is that they make these movies with the audience already knowing everything. It's 100% fan service done horribly. There's not suspense or anything because they know we are watching what we have already seen a hundred times. They don't put effort into anything anymore. Except for maybe special effects.... Sometimes....
Oh c'mon. Seriously. People forget the music. And it held strong. She asked for a rose from her father. She never got it. So yeah the climax is diff. But here she finds a rose. After not receiving it. A simple thing she adores and then again its taken away from her by the beast.
I was a early teen when this was released, and almost fell asleep at the theater watching this movie adaptation. this movie was so bland and devoid of magic. the dress was a monstrosity too, so underwhelming. unlike Cinderella, this actually captured the magic that the animation has. I cry every time I see the dress transformation, it was just so magical and beautiful.
I feel like Disney just try to grab some cash from people because they only care about the Appearance of it but not the actual meaning of the film of itself. I feel Disney doesn't care about it anymore because they are trying to make a life action of moana so I don't really think that they're even tried to make another idea or inspiration for a new film or a new Disney Princesses anymore
the thing about the live action is I get its totally different from the original, and most of us don't like it, but I've seen so many people put the blame on Emma for these changes even tho I doubt she had much choice
the original animation movies are always better, but i gotta say that this live action and cinderella's (the first one not the camilla cabello one) were my favorite so far.
because they paid alot for having Emma in the live action that they need to give her alot of screen time. instead of Beauty and the Beast, it is more Emma and the Beast.
the set was beautiful but showing it as a set and not a focus would have enhanced it, that way almost implying "we don't even need to hand on it for long you already know it's beautiful"
I actually really enjoyed the live-action! I thought they did a good job, you don’t have to dive into it so deep. It’s truly just another Disney movie made for kids to enjoy 🤷🏼♀️
Why is everyone shaming Emma? She is a great actor and if you think she isn’t good at her job, look at the scene when she was tortured by Bellatrix. If you hate the character so much, blame it on the writers
Sometimes I feel like I'm in the minority when I say there have never once been a good live action remake (and I've watched them all). None of them match up to the wonder of the animated ones. They all feel too hollow, too shallow, or just too cringe. There were little to no wonderment to any of the movies and they all feel unabashedly like an attempt to manipulate you by using your sense of nostalgia to buy more, to consume more. They all feel like cashgrabs. Some might argue that we might enjoy the movie more if we weren't comparing it to the animated ones but then what is the point of naming them like their animated counterparts other than piggybacking off their success. It feels like a younger sibling's poor attempt to match up to their genius older sibling. This is why when people start saying, "Disney should make a live action remake of..." I feel like stuffing a sock in them. _Don't give Disney any ideas._ They're a multibillion dollar corporation; they have the funds, the creative team, the *resources* to create new legacies. Instead, they're twisting our sense of nostalgia and love for our childhood to manipulate us into buying old ideas that aren't even that good. Because we are the new buying power. Disney would rather churn out bad ideas wrapped in colourful gauze and glitter rather than pay the creatives that gave them their foundation.
I got nothing against Emma but bro you don't need to bring your values in every role thata why the movie wasn't good and the dress looked like that was because Emma didn't want to wear a corset saying that they were "anti feminist"
Belle dress was special to every Disney princess has a signature dress uquie to them, it's memorable and iconic, but instead they choose the most underwhelming dress yet
The original wasn't even a good story- just brilliant animation, and music, and everything else.. But my god the visual storytelling in the new one is completely butchered
I disagree, like I enjoyed the original but actually prefer the live action the scene in the original feltndragged out whereas this feels straightforward and to the point.
