No Such Thing as Happily Ever After

[masayuki]

Yes, Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie of all time, but I'm not sure I like the ending anymore. I've been thinking about this for a while and reached my conclusion: in the end, his beastliness is part the charm that attracts her to him. So when he becomes a prince, he isn't interesting anymore

Comments

[serotonintonic]

I've actually always thought that. Theres a book that looks at it that way too called "Beast" and tells the story weird-like from the beast's point of view.

[masayuki]

I searched for the book on amazon but can't find it. Do you have it? Is it a children's book?

[serotonintonic]

I think it's a teen book. My copy is in a box somewhere but I actually thing the library has it. And it might possibly be written by Jane Yolen- maybe... It was an ok book, not great. It just was an interesting point of view.

[masayuki]

So I just found the book to which I think you're referring. It's not by Jane Yolen; it's by Donna Jo Napoli. Anyway, I really want to read it now.

[serotonintonic]

gorgio, you made this post 3 years ago! Go read it though, it's interesting.

[masayuki]

yeah well, last night i watched disney's Hercules, which is nowhere near as good as Beauty and the Beast, but it got got me back into my disney/childhood nostalgia period. (it usually happens around this time every year.) so then i started browsing through wikipedia articles on a bunch of disney movies, and i found the Beast book. anyway, today i looked at my university library and they don't have the book. i guess i have to wait until summer.