ArthuriusMartyrius
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I'm not sure Emma Watson didn't entirely buy into the feminist take considering some of the mindbogglingly idiotic changes that were made to the remake like Gaston being made into a basically decent if old-fashioned bloke until he suddenly goes turbo-evil midway through the movie for seemingly no reason because the people writing the script remembered that he's supposed to be the villain. And conversely turbo-changing the cunt levels on Belle to 500% to the extent that the scene with her and Gaston at the beginning of the film turns from a narcissistic douche hitting on a nice, bookish girl into a Chad politely asking out an average girl who responds in the most hostile, bitchy manner possible to turn him down.He was a dick who snarled at her at the beginning, but he never struck her or belittled her. Gaston's the actual abuser-in-progress due to how much he got angry over not having any control/power over her to the point he was going to find potentially unethical ways to force her to marry him. Beast had his servants giving him advice/keeping him on a leash so he could've become abusive had he been left alone for all those years, but being a selfish asshole =/= abusive.
The feminist take of it being about Stockholm Syndrome was always bullshit, and the same goes for saying Beast was being abusive. Yelling at each other in an argument is not abusive unless you're purposefully tearing one or each other down for the sake of having more power/control in the argument. The scene with Beast and Belle arguing after the wolf pack scene was not abusive, as both made good points, but one made more of an impact with facts that couldn't be refuted because it was something that put both their lives in danger. And even then, she still thanked him for saving her life as she's treating his wounds, ending it on a more positive note that allowed them to calm down around each other, and Beast was then willing to make the effort to change his behavior.
Emma Watson still had too much control over Belle, but whether it was due to professionalism or she never actually bought into the Stockholm Syndrome lie, she didn't make an ass out of herself in the interviews nor tore down the original movie/fairy tale to make her movie look better. She's from a somewhat-different time, and it shows.
I do still think Beauty and the Beast is kinda icky especially how it glosses over the fact that the Beast's servants are openly trying to gaslight Belle into staying so she can break the curse.