upon viewing Jean Cocteau's wonderful version from 1946...
1. switch the masculine and feminine roles - the beast is a woman who wants the mother's beautiful son to marry her... what would this feminist version reveal to us about our inherited gender attitudes...
2. the beast kills the beauty immediately upon arrival in the castle. he asks her why she's come, she explains to save her father, that she feels responsible and that her love for him binds her to... he snuffs her out, he cannot stand that such pure goodness exists in the world. From here the narrative must take a completely different turn - the beast is not goodness disguised in a horrible facade, he is truly evil.
3. The scene where the beast says "you pet my head as if I were an animal" (I am paraphrasing) and Belle replies "but you are a beast"... our protagonist sits on the couch watching this scene with his housemates cat in his lap, petting it gently, the cat stares him directly in the eyes, purs, expands, borders on mythic. we clearly see the wide brush of his whiskers.
4. "your goodness will cost you dearly, Belle" beautiful
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