The movie is translating all the characters' French into fluent English; Lumiere's "French" accent is their way of indicating he's Belgianhttps://twitter.com/ecnielsen/status/816532546129305600 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Not buying it. If he's so Belgian, why doesn't he solve any murders?
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Replying to @echarlesnielsen
The sexy feather duster, in the study, with the candlestick @ecnielsen
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The talking stove has the same accent as Lumiere and presumably specializes in waffles @ecnielsen
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Ok if I had to be serious and geeky abt it I'd say they're speaking an archaic regional dialect of French from wherever/whenever they are
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Replying to @arthur_affect
And the connotations of a "French accent" - cultured, educated, snobbish - indicate those chars are speaking Metropolitan French from Paris
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Hence accents are associated w the Beast's high ranking courtiers who presumably came from elsewhere (Lumiere from Paris, Cogsworth London)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Imagine leaving the big city for the sticks for what you think will be a resume-building position only to be transformed into furniture
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I guess the local prince hasn't communicated with his subjects for 10 years and they're just pretending everything's fine, not paying taxes
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I also like that Belle's dad has in fact invented a functional rotary steam engine 40 years before James Watt and no one cares
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Replying to @arthur_affect
(Based on the publication date of the original Beauty and the Beast novel in 1740)
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