I mean, great, add the detail that he actually fought in a war and it affected him before playing it off for laughs, what was that about
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"So what, you'd prefer a shot for shot remake of the cartoon?" Well... yes
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I mean my big pet peeve nowadays is adding stuff randomly to make things "grittier" or "more mature" that don't actually work
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It's frustrating, again, bc the original is so GOOD at having that implied depth while still being a functional kids' movie
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Like Gaston makes sense in the original. He's a mostly harmless bully until Belle publicly humiliates him, which he isn't equipped to handle
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LeFou tries to help by pumping up his ego with the musical number "Gaston", Maurice appears right at the moment hes most drunk on popularity
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Result, Gaston's first ever Evil Plan (or plan of any kind), the moment he crosses the line in "Gaston (Reprise)", which the LA version cut
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But it's still a *deniable* Evil Plan, it's still something he can tell himself he's doing for Maurice's own good or whatever
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Then Belle comes back, proves that he's wrong about the Beast and Maurice's sanity and makes him look like an asshole in public AGAIN
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And that's when he becomes violent, unhinged "Kill the Beast" Gaston
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It's not Shakespeare but it's a clear, grounded escalating arc - for an intentionally cartoonish cartoon villain
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This is one of those things where I'm kind of grateful to the remake for so clearly illuminating what the original did well
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Sometimes you don't know how something works until you take it apart and try to put it back together. Cf Trump's America
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