About FPS

[rainmage]

I've been talking with this with yaired, gingetsu and hamsterfactor, and more recently with river_nile about this subject. I saw something on fandomsecrets about it as well. So I might as well make a post about it.

Most girls and young women who are either Disney freaks or lived their childhood during the early 90s, including me, suffer from what I like to call FPS.

Stands for Fugly

Comments

[etrangere]

*dies laughing*

You and everyone else, indeed.

(the time I'm worrying is when watching LotR awakes the little furry inside - let's not even mention some Ghibli movies).

[rainmage]

I really thought I was alone for years. It was shocking yet soothing that it happened to be a collective thing.

You just reminded me I still haven't watched Porco Rosso. And what on LotR is furry-awakening? The orcs? The hobbits' hairy soles?

[etrangere]

the Balrog!

[etrangere]

Porco Rosso rocks the cabash, you must watch it soon.

[rainmage]

I was just told it's mentioned on the DVD. It was annoying enough to make me post this rant formally. All this time I was hoping it to be fanon, alas.

orange-haired Ricky Martin
XDDDD Particularly 80's!Martin with his long hair, I can see the resemblance.

[kryptyd]

OMG! So true! Me and my sister were complaining about this for years! I must remind her about it, although it is painful to remember what Beast becomes.

Robin Hood is also a bit of alright! ^___~

[rainmage]

Heh, I never had a sister or watched the movie with anyone my age. It would've been so great to have someone to fangirl Disney movies with although in my case, I'd annoy them further by showing off because I knew the original song lyrics in English and they didn't *was a prissy purist from childhood*

[vehemence]

I... never had a crush on the Beast XD For me I only ever crushed on Aladdin and John Smith and YES ROBIN HOOD >> Thank god I'm not a furry. But that movie is really awesome xD

[rainmage]

Well, I don't think crushing on the beast qualifies anyone as furry per se. I didn't crush on Aladdin but I'm not surprised so many people did because he was great and good-looking.

I love this post.

[fujurpreux]

Because, really. Through the movie we learned to love Beast as the sweet, clumsy, insecure bundle of love with anger management issues he truly was beneath the furry exterior. So, yeah, the transformation was sort of anti-climatic in a way. XD

By the way, about the name, I remember from the DVD commentary that by the time they recorded the part where Gaston is hunting Beast through the castle roof and Belle was supposed to scream Beast's name, they realized they didn't have an actual name for him. I don't remember why they still kept him nameless until the Encyclopedia came out (it's been a while since I watched it), but I think it was the time.
As for why Adam my guess is that they were aiming at symbolic, since Adam was the first man and Beast what actually a man and stuff. :P They'd be my poster child for 'Why You Shouldn't Aim At Symbolic Unless You Really, Really Know What You're Doing' if Dan Brow wasn't around. :P

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[rainmage]

But the thing is, at that time almost all Disney movies had the happy ending, and the Beast staying as such wasn't a happy ending for everyone (Lumiére was just desperate to have his penis back and get laid again, y/y?). So a transformation was expected, preferably after getting rid of Gaston drastically. Thus, final battle and saving-you-from-death-with-love with inverse roles (because normally it's the prince saving the girl, not the other way around).

That's an interesting theory, but I reckon Disney lacks the pseudo-intellectualism for symbolic meta. Probably someone from the staff was called Adam, or the director's son was an Adam, or some shit like that. Or they were He-man fanboys and were watching re-runs at the time.

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[fujurpreux]

Lumiére was just desperate to have his penis back and get laid again, y/y?
YYYYY XD TTLY.

But still, you spend all the time understanding the beauty inside and then, boom, it turns out he's also pretty outside. =D At least here, unlike in certain soap operas with a protagonist named Betty, there was no other way to break the curse. (I'm thinking in terms of the broken Aesop, btw.)

I reckon Disney lacks the pseudo-intellectualism for symbolic meta.
I wouldn't be so sure. After all, they take the true symbolism out of the fairy tales in a way it no longer can be a coincidence. >.>;;