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Young Portman looks almost exactly like Belle to me, certainly way more than Emma does. I really don't get the Hathaway thing. I mean she can sing and has brown hair and that's where the resemblance ends for me. I would never buy that an entire village and the hottest guy in town would be smitten by her beauty. I already have some trouble buying it with Emma, who I find much better looking than Hathaway. Anyways, I don't mind that clip too much, Emma sounds much more natural here than in previous clips and hopefully the movie will be awesome. The new songs sound good and better than the Broadway ones so there's promise there too.

Disney's Divinity wrote:

That's only your opinion.

And that's my opinion because major characters in fairytales often go without names.

Yea but they are deepening and naming and giving more info to every single character. So it just would logically and nicely follow for the Beast/Prince.

Disney's Divinity wrote:

Disney Duster wrote:The world DID care because the filmakers of this film CARED enough to make the Beast's castle in eternal winter while the rest of the locations are in one season!

I'm trying to decipher meaning from this, but... Nope. The only story change I've seen so far that doesn't connect back to the original tale itself would be Belle being the inventor instead of Maurice, which as you've said before could just as easily be because of Emma Watson's own demands and no one else in particular.

Also worth remembering is that there are undoubtedly going to be differences between the live-action film and the original just because it isn’t a verbatim re-make; I wouldn’t use that as confirmation bias of perceived corrections of the original.

I think you're ignoring how they changed the fault the original film had of the passage of time not seeming to make sense, and I was right about them caring about it, but if you think all the rest of the changes, even making Belle more feminist than she was the first time, is not making changes to grab people other than fans of the original, fine. But this film is grabbing my attention more than the original did by the architecture, some of the costumes, and the ball in the beginning and showing the enchantress and how the prince became a beast. By the way nice TLM banner. You're exceptional. I gotta admit.

As for that "Belle" clip, Emma sounds lovely singing...but then her acting...sorry I feel it's not very good. My opinion but...oh man I'm sorry I can't believe how she is letting me down with that.

disneyprincess11 wrote:You're welcome! And thanks!

AHHHHHHHH! SO MAGICAL! And Emma sounds great!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1VQkTTT7M[/youtube]

To be honest, I found it pretty corny. It was quite awkward and cartoony. It seemed like it was a scene from Annie with another setting. The same could be said about the English accents, which are distracting.

[quote="JeanGreyForever"][quote="mdseverin"][quote="taei"]

Is anyone struggling with this movie?
Like, I wanna look forward to it, but when I think of the animated movie, I can't bring myself to. I'm having a hard time distancing them from each other. [/quote]

I was very disappointed when I heard that Emma Watson was cast as Belle. The photos and the video clips have not improved my opinion. I would have cast Vanessa Marano. Anne Hathaway from 10 years ago would been my ideal pick.

From what I have seen, the rest of the movie looks good and I'll be open to it. I just don't know if I can come to accept Emma as Belle.[/quote]

I'm a Harry Potter fan but I've never been a big Emma Watson fan so this casting didn't thrill me. I would have picked Anne Hathaway or Emmy Rossum if this had been a few years back.

Does Vanessa Marano sing? I know Laura Marano does and I think she could pull it off, minus the box office draw.[/quote]

I'm not sure if she sings, but either one of them would be better

New TV spot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF178HjQU0Y

Costume design featurette:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M95NsqegWIA

And videos from the presentation of the film in France:
Emma Watson & Cast at France Press Event
Emma Watson & Josh Gad Speak at Paris Screening
Alan Menken Plays Classic Songs Live in France
Press conference - Beauty and the Beast

Angela Lansbury is a good singer, just, not sounding as big and beautiful as I think singers should.

So, Belle's live-action dress looks beautiful in movement...but only in that. When the dress is not moving it looks so bad.

D82 wrote:New TV spot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF178HjQU0Y

I'm not used yet to McGregor's 'accent'

New magazine article: https://twitter.com/EmWatsonBelgium/sta ... 9540105216

By the way, Celine Dion said in an interview that she doubted at first whether she should perform the song she sings in the film or not:

"I saw the [new] movie, it's great, but there was something inside of me that was shaking little bit," she recalled. "They say, 'So what do you think? Would you consider singing this new 'Beauty and the Beast' song, 30 years later?' and I'm like, 'Uh, I have to listen to it again, because I need to be professional.'"

"To be honest with you, I said to them, 'That is so hard for me to commit [to] right now, because I felt like cheating [on] the first Beauty and the Beast," she continued, describing how "in love" she was with the first movie.

After much deliberation, however, Dion says it was speaking to the spirit of Angelil, who died last January after a long battle with throat cancer, that convinced her to go for it.

"I understood it was an amazing privilege again," she shared. "Beauty and the Beast had brought me to where I am today. I went back home, I listened to it… I kind of talked to Rene, and he said, 'You should.'"

Source: http://www.etonline.com/news/211050_exc ... the_beast/

Disney's Divinity wrote:I wouldn't have minded either Hathaway or Natalie Portman if they'd been younger. (Since that would also have been before Hathaway became enormously full of herself.) Although Portman wouldn't have been quite as picture perfect as Watson to me.

I wouldn't pick either of them. For all my rants about Emma, Portman lacks even more charisma and inner beauty than Watson does, despite that Portman has the looks. Hathaway at least had more charisma and likability, but lacks the natural beauty.

However, despite my previous rants about Emma, she does possess some inner beauty as Belle at some clips, more than excepted actually.

This might sound weird but, I would have cast someone with a less pointy chin. Both of those girls have it. Bell needs more of a defined jawline. Your average costumed character at the parks are probably closer to what I would pick, looks wise. Just aged down a bit.

New TV spot from the Academy Awards (with some new 'Be Our Guest' footage):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-b-RxmpBQ[/youtube]

A longer clip of Gaston's song has been released:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JG6f5_37tg[/youtube]

Hmmm... looking at this "Gaston" clip...

Does anyone else thing LeFou is coming across a little effeminate?

Is it just me, or are the voices really hard to hear ? Like the instrumental is too loud against the vocal work ?

I can hear them just fine.

I can't hear him very well either. I mean, I hear him, but I can't make out the words like I could in the animated version.

I just can't with this movie anymore.

Gaston sounds like a little girl. "As a specimen, yes I'm intimidating!" Intimidating who? Kittens and butterflies?

Josh Gad was born to play LeFou. He sounds just like him. Gaston on the other hand I'm not too impressed with. His voice doesn't sound anything like Gaston. Maybe I need to watch more of him to adjust, but I'm not very pleased with him yet.

Enchanting Melodies Belle Doll Commercial by Hasbro featuring the song "Something There":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4UeemLCzo

Marce82 wrote:Does anyone else thing LeFou is coming across a little effeminate?

Well, you spotted it first

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Di ... t-20170228