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[divider type=”space_thin”] Disney, knowing that we need all the goddamn happy thoughts we can get right now, finally dropped the full Beauty and the Beast trailer. Y’all was ready too, knocking Star Wars: The Force Awakens off its most-viewed trailer throne. Never underestimate the Disney Golden Age fandom. We ride hard.
We get glimpses of not a live-action remake, but a remix. Starting with the new studio into sequence that slides into that unforgettable piano walk that tells you just what’s about to go down. An eleven-year old brat finna play himself in front of the wrong lady, a pretty bibliophile stuck in rural purgatory finna become her daddy’s collateral, and y’all better be ready for this tale as old as time. Most of the shots in this movie are lifted shot for shot and line for line from the original. Belle seems to get a few more costume changes (never a bad thing) and Maurice’s trespassing (which it barely is in the original because Lumière and Cogsworth kinda invite him in) is discovered in Beast’s garden when he plucks a rose, a nod to the original fairytale. We don’t get a taste of any music so all songs may be relegated to background music. How do y’all feel about that? I’m on the fence.
The second-best Hermione Granger (top spot goes to Noma Dumezweni. Yeah, I’m biased, IDC.) dons the iconic blue dress to run around the French countryside being British and pull herself a prince and a big ass library. Dan Stevens looks more Pan’s Labyrinth Faun than the lion +…
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Brittany N. Williams
Brittany N. Williams is a writer, actress, unimpressed Shakespearean Blerd, keeper of 90s theme songs, future Lord of the Fire Nation, and & New Orleanian by way of Baltimore, DC, Hong Kong, London, and NYC….
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