Concept:
A witch curses a man to be a hideous, terrifying monster – only his learning to love and earn that person’s love in return will break the spell.
One day he finds an orphan in the land surrounding his home and takes the kid in. And yeah, he’s scary and horrible-looking, but like hell he’s letting a child out to fend for themselves, and he does everything he can to make sure the kid is safe, comfortable, and happy. And eventually the child stops minding that they’re staying with a monster, eventually stops thinking he’s going to eat them and gnaw on their bones.
And then one night the kid kisses their monster-dad on the cheek before bed and says “Goodnight, Dad. I love you,” thus breaking the spell.
I can’t tell whether this is the description for Beauty And The Beast or Monsters Inc.
Maybe it’s a fusion of both?
Tag: beauty and the beast
don’t know if this is as ~deep~ as i think it is, but by all of gaston’s own personal standards of identity/values, the beast is a better man than he is: brawnier, bigger, fightier, & of course every last inch of him’s covered in hair
ohmigod, it’s true though! the beast was basically gaston, and the ticked off fairy turned him into the purest manifestation of his toxic ideals to make him learn to be less of an ass
…..now I really wanna see the version of the movie where instead of dying, the curse passes from the beast to gaston!
except gaston doesn’t have a swag ass castle to sulk in, so he’s out running around the countryside, hiding in forests and stuff, alternately terrorizing the populace and being hunted. it’s a turnabout of his “peerless hunter” backstory– he is now both the monster and the prey.
untillllll he, idk, meets some humble woodcutter(?) that takes him in when he’s wounded or offers him shelter in a storm? and etc, etc, LIFE LESSONS, toxic masculinity slowly vanquished. (ooh, or maybe it should be like–a flower seller or herbalist or some feminine-coded profession he would have devalued to really set up a foil.)
also the gaston-beast needs antlers. terrifying claw-hooked sprawling antlers. antlers for all of his decorating.
BRUH
BRUH.
Beauty and the Beast (2017) concept art by the artist/illustrator Karl Simon
So beautiful!!