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The tale, known in France as "Beauty and the Beast" (and in Russia - as "The Scarlet Flower"), undoubtedly contains considerable erotic potential, which was fully exploited by the major French director Valerian Borovchik in the quasi-pornographic version of 1976 "The Beast". And the completely innocent versions of Jean Cocteau (1946) and Christophe Hans (2014) cannot be called purely children's films - they are serious stories of love, sometimes accompanied by traumatic experiences.
Ironically, the 16+ rating in Russia went to the company's new project Walt disney pictures - the lightest and most inoffensive film adaptation, almost a musical based, moreover, on the 1991 cartoon. This is because director Bill Condon (author of "Gods and Monsters", the final part of "Twilight" "Dawn" and the provocative biopic "Dr. Kinsey") in one of the interviews recklessly named the assistant of the main villain Gaston - eccentric LeFou (that is, in translation from French - a fool) - gay.
It was heard by the most anxious State Duma deputies, raised a fuss, as a result of which the Ministry of Culture gave the children's film an adult movie. If it were not for the director's explanations, hardly anyone seriously thought about LeFou's orientation - there is no more gayness in this character than in some Yagupop from The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (in general, one has only to look closely at the Soviet children's cinema classics - not yet you will see this). Finding adult episodes in the new Beauty and the Beast has been a challenge. But we tried to highlight what the deputies and officials of the Ministry of Culture may consider "propaganda of sin" unacceptable for children.
1. In the hands of the peasants, singing (some with envy, some with admiration) about the unusual girl Belle, flickers a real Buche-de-Chevre - goat cheese in a moldy crust. The sanctions are not expected to be lifted soon, so there is no need to poison the soul of the younger generation with pictures of delicacies banned in Russia.
2. The gloomy headmaster of the village school forbids Belle to teach girls to read and write, it’s enough, they say, and you alone, too smart, but the people do not need innovations, he accepts them with hostility. Why would children look at this and think about different reforms?
3. "I so want to know what I myself can become, it's too early for me to play a wedding." It is possible that on this freedom-loving song Belle censors dreamed of feminists. Such desires are not far from protest actions.
4. The enchanted castle of the Beast is inhabited by living things. During the dance, the gallant candelabrum Lumiere (played by Ewan McGregor, by the way) merges in an embrace with Plumette, a snow-white dust brush that looks more like a turtle dove. Yes, and sings "Your very presence ignites me!" Isn't it too sensual for our country?
5. The villain Gaston comes out of a state of anger, only remembering the fields of bloody battles. A parody of military valor and honor, not otherwise.
6. "Not in the world more beautiful than peoplethan Gaston! Nobody will bite you like Gaston! ”Sings the fool LeFou, willingly showing the traces of the overlord's teeth on his fat belly. The episode can be mistaken for an absurd joke. But State Duma deputies know better what circumstances leave such marks on the body.
7. Under the influence of the clever manipulator Gaston, a crowd of superstitious peasants set out to storm the castle. Aren't there any unnecessary associations with the revolutionary movement of the masses? And it doesn't matter that the authors of the film are on the side of the Beast and his aristocratic servants - it is better not to touch the explosive topic in any way. Especially in the year of the centenary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
8. Gaston gets rid of Belle's father by sending the old man to a mental hospital. Direct association with the punitive psychiatry that flourished in the USSR.
9. To the song "Sunshine, you are no longer in my life" Belle finds herself at her mother's deathbed - and this is the only, no kidding, episode of the film.
10. In the "Beauty" the dubious "Let all that we wait for come by nightfall" sounds - how to explain this to adolescents who are waiting for only one thing at night?
1. In the script for "Beauty and the Beast" in 1988, Gaston was not as such: there were three admirers of Belle, fighting for her hand and heart. All three had Gaston's qualities and flaws. At the end of the cartoon, the Enchantress turned them into animals (along with the evil Belle sisters) for their misdeeds and for trying to kill the Beast.
2. In the 1989 script, the three suitors of Belle were combined into one character - the Marquis of Gaston. In this version, the nobleman Gaston shared the role of the villain with Marguerite, Belle's aunt, who chose him to marry her niece in revenge on her brother Maurice, a merchant who lost his wealth at sea. At the end of the cartoon, Gaston and his minions stole Belle's self-propelled carriage (in the final version of Beauty and the Beast, this carriage brought Maurice home from the castle) and rode it to the Beast's castle to kill him. The role of the carriage was cut by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who also initiated the rewriting of the entire script and the change of director. 
3. In an approved script for 1990, written by Linda Wolverton, Gaston becomes a hunter and local hero, with whom all the country girls fall in love except Belle. The character and appearance of Gaston was significantly influenced by Brom Bones from the short film The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (the second part of the cartoon "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad"), Sir Kay from "Sword in the Stone", stereotypes about cool football players from American high school and former Linda's guys ("boobies"). 
4. In the final version of Beauty and the Beast, Gaston wears a red (Disney villainous) outfit. However, in the concept of one of the earliest versions, the Marquis of Gaston wears a blue camisole. 
5. There is still controversy about Gaston's name: in the 1989 script, Aunt Marguerite introduces him as Gaston LeGum. In the final version, the girls in love with Gaston call him "Monsieur Gaston", and Belle ironically calls himself "Madame Gaston". Opinions were divided: someone still considers him LeHum, someone - a man named Gaston with an unknown name. 
6. In one of the scenarios, Gaston had to fight the Monster in the woods at the edge of the cliff. He wounded him with a sword, knocked him to the ground and pulled a blunderbuss from his belt to finish off when Belle hit him on the head with a stone. From the blow, Gaston fell off a cliff, broke his leg and noticed that the wolves that had previously attacked Maurice and Belle were approaching him. They decided to abandon this idea of \u200b\u200bthe ending due to excessive cruelty. As a result, a similar ending was realized in The Lion King.
7. Also in one of the versions of the cartoon, Gaston committed suicide after inflicting a fatal wound in the back of the Beast. After stabbing the Beast in the back, Gaston was supposed to jump from the tower, laughing madly. Like, he realized that he could not win Belle's heart, which means that the Beast should not be with her; and having killed him, there is no need to live on. 
8. For the animation of some scenes with Gaston, Andreas Deja relied on the play of a live actor, and somewhere he relied solely on his own imagination. Robert Wright, who voiced the character, was also very helpful. Interestingly, this role was originally supposed to go to Rupert Everett, but he was eventually turned down due to the lack of brutality of the voice. The moral compensation for this failure for Everett was the role of Prince Charming in the second and third "Shreks".
9. The most difficult part of Gaston's appearance was his hairy chest. Andreas Dej's assistants and other animators who worked on the character suggested about twenty different versions of Gaston's breasts. These are three of them. 
10. Both the Beast and Gaston have blue eyes. This coincidence is never found in any Disney cartoon. 
11. In the trailer for the cartoon, there is a hint that Gaston is the only villager who is aware of the curse of the Beast. It literally says: "This is the only person who wants the spell to live." This explains Gaston's rather calm reaction to the news of the enchanted castle and the Beast, while the rest of the villagers were beside themselves with fear and anger.
We cannot reveal all its secrets until the release of the tape in Russian cinemas, but we can tell a lot about the film in which Emma Watson and characters drawn on computers sing, dance and act out the events of the fairy tale that we know in Russia as "The Scarlet Flower".
Influenced by the success of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast was also made a drawing musical in the spirit of Broadway. Poet Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken pored over the songs again. Ashman already knew that he was dying of AIDS, but he hid it from everyone except his closest friends and coworkers. Many Disney fans did not suspect that the author of witty songs, in which there was not even a fraction of depression, might not live to see the premiere.
Still from the cartoon "Beauty and the Beast"
Drawing a cartoon, Disney artists were inspired both by real French landscapes and castles (the artists were specially brought to France for sketches), and by their sometimes unbridled imagination. So, the design of the Beast was the creation of Chris Sanders, who combined the features of a bison, bear, lion, gorilla, deer, wolf and wild boar in the prince-monster. However, in the end, the Beast turned out to be similar to the mask worn by Jean Mare in the Cocteau film.
"Beauty and the Beast" is the second Disney film after Rescuers in Australia, created using the CAPS computer animation system developed by Pixar. Then it was only about the computer manipulation of hand-drawn images and about giving up the laborious work with transparent sheets of plastic, which have been used for decades to produce animation. Nevertheless, there was a significant fragment in the picture, created with the help of 3D animation calculated on computers - that is, computer graphics in the modern sense of the word. It was a ballroom scene, and the programmers were responsible for the movement in the frame of the walls, against which the Beauty and the Beast dance. The episode was so successful and effective that the studio decided to continue investing in computer graphics. Over time, this led to the birth of the Pixar we know and love today.
The cartoon was released on November 22, 1991. It cost $ 25 million - one and a half times less than The Little Mermaid, the creation of which was largely an experiment. However, Beauty and the Beast's animation was more refined, its plot was more gripping, and its songs were more sweeping. And the audience realized this. The film grossed $ 425 million worldwide, and few critics dared not call it an outstanding canvas or masterpiece. Only feminists found fault with the picture, who reproached the tape for glorifying the "Stockholm Syndrome". But their opinion did not carry much weight.
A few months later, Beauty and the Beast became the first ever cartoon to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. It is clear that the ribbon did not receive the award (“The Silence of the Lambs” could not be avoided), but it was still an amazing honor. Mencken won an Oscar as a composer and shared an Oscar with Ashman for Best Song Beauty and the Beast. At the same time, of the five songs nominated that year, three were taken from the soundtrack of "Beauty and the Beast". Unfortunately, Ashman had died by that time - he did not even have time to see the final version of the film, the songs of which the poet was writing literally on his deathbed.
Prehistory of the new "Beauty and the Beast"
While admiring the cartoon by Wise and Truesdale, American critics have repeatedly noted that they would love to watch a Broadway musical based on the songs of the picture. At first, then-head of the Walt Disney studio, Michael Eisner, was against the idea, but he quickly became a fan of it when he realized that the company could make good money by reusing its intellectual property.
Linda Wolverton personally worked on new version a script that adapts the plot to the possibilities of musical theater. To compose the new songs, the English poet Tim Rice was brought in, who also worked with Alan Mencken on Disney's "Aladdin" (Ashman began writing songs for this cartoon, but died before the completion of the project).
The premiere of the new production took place in April 1994. The play ran first in one and then in another New York theater until July 2007, making Beauty and the Beast one of the longest-running shows in Broadway history. Obviously, it was a colossal success. The show could have gone on, but in 2007 Disney presented the Broadway version of "The Little Mermaid" to the public and felt that the old performance would take away the viewers from the new show from the "Disney Princess" cycle. Foreign productions of "Beauty and the Beast" in London, Paris, Madrid and other metropolitan areas also enjoyed success.
Michael Eisner loved this show so much that he wanted to keep it for posterity. He thought about filming a TV version of the play, but at some point he got the idea to make a full-fledged feature film with the export of actors to France and filming in historical Baroque interiors and against the background of real French landscapes. Eisner didn’t manage to implement this idea until his departure from Walt Disney in 2006, but the studio did not forget about this plan, although Eisner was forcibly "survived" from the company after the studio crisis in the first half of the 2000s.
In the second half of the decade, Eisner's plan grew into a large-scale plan for shooting game versions of the famous Disney cartoons. While the studio had a lot of original ideas, Walt Disney was keen to ensure its financial stability by squeezing the best it can from time-tested brands. It was important that the game remake does not replace or overshadow the drawn fairy tale, as is sometimes the case with successful remakes of game films (who now watches "Fly" in 1958 instead of "Fly" in the 1980s?). It stands next to the cartoon on the shelves of video stores, and its release reminds the public of a classic canvas that little viewers could not see.
The first film in the new series was Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton. Artistically, it was a rather weak movie (by the way, written by Linda Wolverton), but it grossed a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and this gave Disney the reason to draw up a plan for future blockbusters on a hand-drawn basis.
In 2014, Maleficent was released, the development of which began while working on Alice. In the same year, it became known that Disney was preparing a new "Beauty and the Beast". The film was originally supposed to only use a couple of songs from the cartoon, but the success of Frozen in 2013 proved that audiences have not lost interest in full-fledged Disney musicals. So the project was reimagined as an almost exact replica of the original cartoon, albeit with extensive new material (the new film is 40 minutes longer than the original).
Work on the new "Beauty and the Beast"
Apparently, Spiliotopoulos was trying to make "Beauty and the Beast" a more "courageous" story, recalling Gaston's participation in the war and with other plot aspects that would be more interesting for boys (Disney people do not really like to release romantic films, mainly intended for girls and women ). But the billion-dollar collection of "Frozen" convinced the studio to abandon this concept, and to return the script to the "feminine" channel, the writer, screenwriter and director Stephen Chbosky, the author of the film "It's Good to Be Quiet" - a school psychological melodrama, which became one of the first Emma Watson's acting work after the completion of the Harry Potter cycle. Nevertheless, the mention of Gaston being in the war remains in the film.
Emma Watson and Bill Condon on the set of Beauty and the Beast
Oscar winner Bill Condon was invited to stage the new Beauty and the Beast for the script for the drama Gods and Monsters, which Condon directed himself. He also worked as a screenwriter on the musical Chicago and as a director on the biopic Kinsey, the musical drama Dreamgirls and the Twilight dilogy. Saga. Dawn. " This is one of those directors whose name immediately comes to mind when producers think about who can shoot a musical melodrama with an abundance of special effects.
Condon spent six months at Framestore, a London-based special effects studio, before embarking on detailed artwork for the film. Together with production designer Sarah Greenwood ("", "", "") and Framestore staff, the director experimented with different visual approaches to the film (primarily fantasy characters) and looked for ideas that seemed to him the most successful. Eventually Condon decided to dance from real baroque interiors. In particular, the watch butler Cogsworth and the candelabrum maitre d 'Lumiere were inspired by the original utensils of Baroque France, with their extremely artsy designs and an abundance of gilding.
As for the plot of the new tape, its main difference from the original was the greater attention paid to the past of Belle and the Beast. The creators of the tape decided to show that the hero and the heroine lost their mothers early and that this realization becomes a romantic moment that brings the characters closer together. In one of the scenes connected with this part of the narrative, the authors of the film used a magical artifact that was in the original tale, but was not useful to the cartoon. It is a magical book that takes the owner wherever he pleases. As you can see, the writers bothered to go back to the original source and get an idea or two from it. Although they were mostly based on the cartoon script.
Condon hoped to be able to include songs written specifically for the stage musical into the film, but he regretted that they did not fit into his vision of the picture. So Mencken and Rice were hired to write three new songs for the main storyline and the song How Does A Moment Last Forever, which plays on the end credits. This song was performed by Celine Dion - the same one who once buzzed everyone's ears with her song for "Titanic". By the way, Dion sang Beauty and the Beast in a duet with Peebo Bryson for the ending credits of the 1991 cartoon. Their recording received a Grammy. For the new film, the title duo Beauty and the Beast was sung by Ariana Grande and John Legend.
After the director realized what picture he wanted to shoot and what picture he could create with a budget of one and a half hundred million dollars, he was able to start casting. The creators of the 1991 cartoon could afford to hire Broadway performers and be guided by vocal abilities, rather than world-famous actors. Condon had to look for his performers among famous stars - those whose names and faces made sense to put on the poster. We have already written that Disney's concept of game remakes requires the involvement of celebrities, since this is the key feature of these films: “Want to see how Angelina Jolie played the evil witch Maleficent? Of course you do! " Vocals also mattered to Condon, but he came in second. The director asked the candidates to sing "Hakuna Matata" from "The Lion King" in order to assess what he and the sound engineers would have to work with.
On the set of the movie "Beauty and the Beast"
In January 2015, Emma Watson tweeted that she was cast as Belle. It was a natural decision, as Watson made a name for herself playing the charming "bookworm" Hermione in the "Potterian" and since the actress had dreamed of playing Belle in some version of Beauty and the Beast since childhood. By the way, although Watson was born into an English family and was educated in Britain, she was born in Paris, where her parents lived and worked at that time. So “Beauty and the Beast” is a kind of “native” fairy tale for her. Other contenders for the role were Emma Roberts from Scream Queens and Lily Collins from Snow White: Revenge of the Dwarfs.
The prince and the voice of the Beast are Englishman Dan Stevens, former hero of Downton Abbey and current hero of the eccentric superhero show Legion. Condon brought Stevens with him from the biopic thriller The Fifth Estate, where the actor played a supporting role. You may also have seen him in the blockbuster Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, where Stevens portrayed Lancelot. The actor looks sweet and romantic enough to portray a prince, but he can also play controversial and weird characters, which is brilliantly demonstrated in Legion. Therefore, "Beauty and the Beast" he was quite suitable. Before Stevens' invitation, the studio hoped to get Ryan Gosling, but he chose to star in La La Land. On the contrary, Watson turned down a role in this musical to play Belle.
The inventor Maurice, Belle's elderly father, was played by film and musical theater actor Kevin Kline, an Oscar winner for the comedy A Fish Called Wanda. He was one of the voice actors for Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Welsh actor Luke Evans, Bard from The Hobbit, Dracula from 2014's Dracula and the main villain of Fast and Furious 6 played the role of Gaston, a hunter, a former mercenary and self-styled contender for Belle's hand. His stellar career began with the image of the divine handsome Apollo in "Clash of the Titans". In real life, Evans would never pretend to be Watson's heart, as he prefers men.
Luke Evans and Josh Gad on the set of Beauty and the Beast
Film, TV and Broadway comedian Josh Gad, who voiced Olaf the snowman in Frozen, played Lefa, Gaston's henchman, in Beauty and the Beast. In the cartoon, this is a purely comic character who only does what he praises his friend, while in the movie this role is expanded, and Lefou not only follows Gaston's lead, but also expresses doubt about his most vile deeds. In addition, in Condon's interpretation (like Evans, the director is openly gay), Lefou is in love with Gaston, although he is not really aware of this.
The other key stars of the film mostly worked in the recording studio, creating the voices of living castle utensils. Former hero In Star Wars, Ewin McGregor dabbled in the role of Lumiere's head waiter-candelabrum, who loves to throw dinner parties. He was invited when they could not hire the French Oscar winner Jean Dujardin. Former Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings Ian McKellen voiced the cowardly and pompous butler Cogsworth, turned into a mechanical watch. At first, the actor did not want to act, but in the end he agreed.
Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson played and sang the role of head cook Mrs. Potts, who looks like a teapot. Black South African British actress Gugu Mbata-Rowe from Jupiter Ascending portrays the broom maid Plumett. American black actress and singer Audra MacDonald, winner of six Broadway Tony awards, sang the part of the castle singer Madame de Wardrobe, who was turned into a wardrobe by the curse. Finally, Oscar-nominated Stanley Tucci played Maestro Cadenza, the castle composer turned into a harpsichord.
Promotional frame for the film "Beauty and the Beast"
Contrary to long-standing plans by Michael Eisner, Condon did not travel with the group to shoot in France. Beauty and the Beast was filmed in England, predominantly at Shepperton Studios. Large-scale decorations were built there, which became even more grandiose thanks to computer additions. The scenes where it was necessary to show the flowering nature (the action of the picture develops simultaneously in summer and winter, since the enchanted castle has its own, cold weather), were filmed in the picturesque surroundings of the Berkhamsted golf club. For Watson, these were familiar places - she filmed there for the "Potter".
Filming took place from mid-May to late August 2105. At the same time, the premiere of the picture was scheduled from the very beginning for 2017. The producers assigned the film such a lengthy postproduction period that Condon had time to fine-tune the numerous CG scenes.
Of all the "impossible" characters, the Monster was the most difficult to implement. During the filming, it was assumed that on the screen there will be Stevens' head, covered with the most complicated plastic make-up, the real torso of the actor and “inhuman” body parts like hooves drawn on the computer. So the actor was present on the set and played in all of his scenes. He had to do this on stilts, since the Beast is taller than the Prince before the transformation.
In the future, however, it was decided that the Beast's makeup was not good enough and that the actor's head would be replaced with a computer-generated image of the muzzle drawn based on Stevens' facial expressions. So the actor played his entire role again, in a chair for capturing facial expressions, relying on computer processing.
For Watson, the main test was singing. The actress specifically took music lessons to cope with her role. Since the star's vocal range is not Broadway, Belle's part was simplified so that Watson could sing it without embarrassment.
Beauty and the Beast Characters
Belle - the main character of the picture. She is a smart, kind and well-read girl from a small French town. Belle feels like a stranger among not book lovers citizens, and she hopes that someday she will travel the world. Belle becomes a prisoner of the Beast when she agrees to replace her father in the castle dungeon. Belle was played by Emma Watson.
Monster - the main character pictures. The Beast was once a heartless prince who lived in a luxurious castle. The powerful sorceress punished the Prince for his insensitivity, turning the young man into a terrible monster, and his servants into utensils. If the Monster does not start an affair with the girl before the last petal falls from the rose left by the sorceress, then the former prince will forever remain a monster. The monster does not even hope that the curse will be lifted until Belle enters his castle. The monster was played by Dan Stevens.
Gaston - the main villain of the picture. This is a selfish and narcissistic former mercenary turned hunter. City girls really like Gaston, but he wants to marry Belle, although she does not reciprocate. For him, it is not a matter of love. Gaston is simply convinced that he deserves to marry the city's first beauty, whom, despite her "weirdness", Belle is considered to be. Gaston was played by Luke Evans.
Maurice - Father Belle. This is an inventor who received a Parisian education, but lives in the backwoods. Maurice supports Belle in her love of reading, and he does not consider Gaston a worthy match for his daughter. Maurice incurs the wrath of the Beast when he picks a rose for his daughter in the garden of an enchanted castle. The law requires Maurice to spend his entire life in prison, but Belle convinces the Beast that she must replace her father. Maurice was played by Kevin Kline.
Lefu - a hanger and constant companion of Gaston. He often praises a friend, even if there is no reason for it. Nevertheless, he is not devoid of conscience, and he does not like Gaston's crimes. Lefu was played by Josh Gad.
Lumiere - the head waiter of the Beast Castle, which looks like a candelabrum. Lumiere loves to arrange magnificent receptions, and he gladly accepts Belle at the castle as a dear guest. He does not hesitate to violate the orders of the Beast in order to please the heroine. Lumiere was played by Ewin McGregor.
Cogsworth - Beast's castle butler who looks like a mechanical clock. Cogsworth is executive and cowardly. Submission to the Monster is most important to him, even more important than breaking the spell. Therefore, Cogsworth does not like the way Lumiere violates direct orders for Belle's sake. Cogsworth was played by Ian McKellen.
Mrs Potts - Beast's castle cook who looks like a teapot. Like Lumière, Mrs. Potts is very kind and friendly, and she cares for Belle as if she were her own daughter. Missy Potts was played by Emma Thompson.
Plumette - the maid of the Beast's castle, who looks like a duster for shaking off the dust. Plumette loves Lumiere, and she is at the same time with him in everything. Plumette played Gugu Mbata-Row.
Madame de Wardrobe - The Beast Castle singer who looks like a wardrobe. She loves to dress everyone who asks for it and who does not. Madame de Wardrobe was played by Audra MacDonald.
Maestro Cadenza is the composer and pianist of the Beast's Castle, who looks like a harpsichord. The maestro writes music for Madame de Wardrobe and accompanies her with pleasure. Cadenza was played by Stanley Tucci.
Expectations
Judging by the collection of past Disney remakes and predicted by Hollywood analysts, the new Beauty and the Beast will be a great success. The painting will easily recoup the $ 160 million that was spent on it. The only question is whether the fees will be influenced by not too favorable reviews and reviews, which reproach the picture for the fact that it offers little new in comparison with the cartoon of 1991 and spoils a lot of the old. Let's see if Emma Watson, as Belle, can beat the bad press the film has already received and will receive.
In Russia, the picture can be additionally hindered or helped by the scandal that erupted due to Condon's statements that Lefu is gay. The film was suspected of gay propaganda, and although it was not found (you need to carefully watch the picture in order to catch a couple of directorial allusions to comical homosexuality, so this is not propaganda in any way), the tape was assigned a rating of "16+", which means that children should not watch cinema without parents. However, Disney films are already a family spectacle, and therefore the age rating can only interfere with teenagers who go to the movies themselves. How will this affect the training camp? We'll find out soon enough.
This sweet lady is the housewife of the castle. The good-natured woman was turned into a teapot by a spell. And her large number of children - in teacups. Such a kind of family tea set. Madame Pott, like the rest of the Beast's servants, are trying to help Belle adapt to the new environment, because she can help them all to remove the spell.
Le Fou
Friend of Gaston, or rather his "six". A wimpy, undersized boy. Not crazy, stupid. Often makes rash acts for which Gaston swears at him, giving him "pretzels". Translated from French (and our heroes live in a French town) "le fou" means "fool".
Maurice
This good-natured old man is actually the father of our heroine - Belle. Maurice's small stature hides a huge talent, he is an inventor. As a good parent, the old man loves his daughter very much. Maurice tries to support all her hobbies and interests. For some non-standard and extraordinary inventions, the inhabitants of this small French town consider the old man strange, and some, even crazy. He has a dream to create a good invention and become rich. He really hopes that the new invention will be able to turn their life with Belle for the better.
In some interpretations, you can hear that this heroine is called Babette. She serves the Beast as a maid. The spell cast on all the inhabitants of the castle turned her into a duster to remove dust. Fifi is the lover of Lumière, the French head waiter of the castle. This beautiful couple, like no other, pleases the eye. Despite the fact that Fifi appears to the viewer in the form of a panicle, she has a white cap and a flirty mole above her lips.
Miss Potts' son, was turned into a cup when the spell took effect. She tries in every possible way to help Belle brighten up her loneliness and supports her as best she can. Kind and mischievous, as a boy should be at his age, he became very friendly with the cartoon heroine.
Cogsworth
Butler of the Beast's castle. He loves order very much and always tries to maintain it: everything should be in its place. Constantly trying to please his master. By nationality, Cogsworth is German, in addition to being an actress, this is also manifested in pedantry. After casting the spell, it was turned into a mantel clock.
Lumiere
Works for the Beast as the head waiter of the castle. When the spell took effect, it turned into a candelabrum. Lumiere is very welcoming. He can be recognized in the cartoon by his strong French accent. Likes to arrange beautiful shows. Can make a whole Broadway production out of a meal on a table.
It's no secret that in children's cartoons, good should triumph over evil. However, they often make a greater impression on young viewers than positive heroes, they even have their own fans. Particularly indicative in this regard is the interest that is aroused by the bright villains of Disney, who are introduced by the creators of the famous cartoons to revive the plot. Which of the greedy, mischievous, envious and similar negative personalities managed to become the most popular?
How it all started
About such a phenomenon as the villains of Disney, they started talking in the first half of the last century. A kind of founder of the category was the Evil Queen, whom the young viewers got to know thanks to the cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", which was released back in 1937. It is curious that this was the first full-length creation of the famous studio.
The evil queen is a cunning lady who cares only for her own beauty and nothing more. Like many other Disney villains, the ruler wants to remain the best, that is, the most beautiful. However, her stepdaughter Snow White is growing up, who year after year becomes whiter and rosier than "mother". Wanting to get rid of her young rival, the cruel queen leaves the girl in the thicket of the forest, and then completely tries to destroy her with the help of a poisoned apple. Of course, good wins.
Who is Captain Hook
In 1953, the cartoon "Peter Pan" was presented to the audience, which presented the young audience with several more vivid images. Among them was Captain Hook, who was entrusted with the role of the main enemy, with whom the central character of the fascinating hand-drawn story is forced to fight. Of course, the eternal baby Peter Pan, who does not want to grow up, always remains the winner in the competition with his antagonist.
Parents need not be afraid that the image of such a famous hero as the one-armed Captain Hook turned out to be too ominous, scaring the kids when watching the cartoon. The creators endowed the pirate with a comical way, attributed to him a tendency to hysteria and some cowardice. For example, this negative character is capable of fainting when he sees a crocodile in front of him.
Ursula the Sea Witch
There is hardly a child who does not like the colorful cartoon The Little Mermaid, released in 1989. The Disney Villains category is replenished with this dynamic cartoon about the underwater world and its inhabitants. This time the main character will have to fight the insidious witch Ursula and, of course, defeat her enemy.
Interestingly, the creators did not immediately decide to endow the witch who will poison the life of the beautiful Ariel with an octopus appearance. Ursula was originally seen as a mermaid, but such an appearance did not cause fear. Then, instead of a fish tail, the sea villain acquired tentacles and began to look really creepy. Even the most naive viewers do not believe Ursula when, at the beginning of the story, she tries to convince Ariel of her desire to help her.
The wicked lion
Disney cartoons are often made the main characters of animals, among which there are not only good, but also frankly bad characters. Remembering the latter, one cannot ignore such a bright bastard as the Scar, with whom the cartoon "The Lion King" introduces children. This beast is characterized by such qualities as envy, cynicism and treachery. Its sharp claws are never hidden by the pads of the fingers. It is believed that the prototype of Scar was Claudius - the character of "Hamlet", written by Shakespeare.
Scar kills his brother Mufasa, wanting to take his throne. The bad lion is trying to eliminate another contender for the throne - his little nephew Simba, but the baby miraculously manages to escape from the evil uncle. Of course, Simba, having made loyal friends and matured, returns to take revenge on a treacherous relative and regain his rightful title of king. Like other Disney cartoons, The Lion King ends with a victory for good.
What is known about Gaston
Should every drawn negative character at first glance seem so, or can it look good at first? Disney, who will play the role of villains, often seem kind to the audience at the first meeting. However, their further actions make it possible to verify the opposite. A striking example of such a metamorphosis is Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, a fairy tale that was released in 1991.
Gaston is a handsome guy, the supposed protector of a beautiful heroine, who must save her from a monster. But gradually such qualities of a "knight" as greed, narcissism, a tendency to treachery, cowardice are revealed. The enemy of Gaston, on the other hand, behaves decisively and nobly, which allows children to guess who the true hero of the story is, despite his disgusting appearance.
About how cartoon characters should look like, who are to become the heroes of another fairy tale, Disney studio employees can think for months. This fate did not escape Gaston, who was not originally planned to be turned into a negative character. However, in the process of work, the creators decided that the story would only benefit from the negative qualities of the "prince".
Another evil queen
In 1951, a wonderful cartoon "Alice in Wonderland" was released, which conquered millions of young viewers living in different parts of the world. The colorful story introduced the audience to another villainous ruler, with whom positive characters are forced to fight. Of course, this is the unforgettable Queen of Hearts, which becomes the main problem of the girl Alice.
Wonderland, into the territory of which a child accidentally falls, is under the rule of a ruthless and bloodthirsty dictator. He is the Queen of Hearts, her tentacles terrifying all the inhabitants of the fairy land, not counting Alice and her brave allies. The only way fighting her enemies, which the villainess is known for, is an order to cut off her head. Of course, evil will be punished as a result, the triumph of good is inevitable.
Turning to magic
It's no secret that wizards can be not only kind, but also evil. The cartoon "The Princess and the Frog", which was released in 2009, will help to remember this. Dr. Facilier is an insidious, ruthless villain who subdued the magic of Voodoo, his middle name, known to the elect, is the Shadow Man. The goal that the evil professor sets himself is to conquer. For the battle for the city, this man plans to use the help of his own "hellish friends".
For the first time seeing a character like Dr. Facilier, little viewers will not for a second doubt that he worships the forces of evil. This is facilitated by the villainous appearance of the antihero, who was created by Disney specialists, emphasized by his tall and thin, endowed with dark skin and purple eyes. Facilier values \u200b\u200bmoney and power above all else, is able to decide on the most desperate actions, seeing the prospect of profit.
Prototype - James Moriarty
The cartoon "The Great Mouse Detective", released by the famous studio in 1986, can be recommended not only to young children, but also to their parents if they like stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and other cunning detectives. Professor Ratigan is the main villain of the fairy tale. As a rat, the character insists on being spoken of as a mouse.
The prototype of Ratigan, according to the creators of the cartoon, is the legendary clean water Sherlock Holmes. The villain's goal is to conquer the British mouse empire, for the sake of achieving it, he is ready to use any means. Professor Ratigan entertains young viewers throughout the cartoon, at the end he enchantingly dies, allowing good to triumph once again.
The Disney studio in its works often uses the image of a bloodthirsty queen, ready for any action in order to gain or maintain power. Another villain, presented to the audience in 2000, Izma, belongs to the same category. "The Adventures of the Emperor" is a fairy tale that makes fun of human vices. The antagonist is a vengeful adviser to the ruler who wants to pay off with her master for the merciless dismissal, to seize the throne that belongs to him.
Of course, Izma's numerous attempts to assassinate Kuzko invariably fail. The evil counselor is defeated by the forces of good, her cunning plans will have to collapse without a chance of implementation. However, the punishment awaiting the wrong adviser does not turn out to be too cruel. Izma will have to spend several years working in the scout camp.
Other bright villains
Of course, not all the vivid images of the followers of the forces of evil created by the employees of the Disney studio are listed above. For example, you can recall the fascinating tale of the misadventures of a nimble guy named Aladdin. Fans of the colorful cartoon will surely remember the insidious Jafar, with whom the main character had to fight. The antagonist tries to subjugate the genie, then completely tries to take his place. The power-hungry vizier enchants with a gloomy sense of humor.
It is impossible not to mention the wonderful cartoon "Sleeping Beauty" and its main villainess Maleficent. The witch put a curse on the little princess, having quarreled with her royal parents and decided to take revenge on them for their alleged offense. Another great example of a Disney villain is Sherkhan. Dangerous enemy Mowgli from "The Jungle Book" throughout the cartoon is trying to eliminate the boy, because he hates people. Sher Khan seems fearless, but in reality he is afraid of many things, for example, fire and guns.
These are the most charismatic negative characters created by the Disney studio over the years.