Beauty And The Beast: Movie Analysis

Dinseyfication is sanitizing reality for children, and Disney is well known for being notorious at romanticizing the hush world to suit the minds of children. Though this method of storytelling is flawed and often used negatively, it is still an effective way of visually narrating a story. This essay will prove that as an animator, artist or character developer you rely of stereotypes to help make your characters more appealing and also to make the story believable. This will be achieved through identifying and critically analysing race, sexuality and gender stereotypes in the movie Beauty and the Beast by Disney. Furthermore this essay will look at how these stereotypes affected the character and environment design, also looking at how each

So for something to be stereotyped it needs to exist or have existed and have been seen over and over again. Using stereotypes in children’s movies specifically may be viewed as morally wrong by academics but to an artist or film maker they help your audience identify with your characters. Disney studios know this, and they milk this concept for all its worth. However, the Beauty and the Beast appears to turn away from this path by showing a nerdy female lead, a brute as “prince charming” and a handsome “evil guy”. Though this film might first appear as if it doesn’t follow the conventional stereotypical ways of Disney’s movies, further analysis of the movie does indeed reveal that it is no different from its predecessors. This movie contains stereotypes relating to gender roles, social hierarchy and race. Most academic and parents are challenging Disney to rectify the confusion it has instilled in children concerning appropriate gender roles and since they are the ones with the most influence over children’s imaginations it is therefore their duty to ensure that their films are free of all these

She loves to read and is an introvert, she dreams of leaving her small town and its small town minded people. She seeks an adventure. Belle is also not fooled by appearances, she keeps rejecting the town’s most handsome, muscular, manly, respected and rich guy. She sees Gaston as rude and primeval, though every other female in town adores him. In her eyes he is conceited and ignorant, the only reason he wants her is because he wants to make her his “little wife”. He doesn’t care about her interests or getting to know her as a person. In fact he reveals that he doesn’t think women should read, “soon she will have ideas and start thinking” he says. Belle is also quite courageous, she doesn’t think twice at rushing alone into the most dangerous parts of the woods in the middle of the night to go look for her missing father. Moreover, she gives up her freedom to trade places with her sick father as the Beast’s prisoner. Despite the previously stated characteristics, a further in-depth analyses of Belle’s character shows us that she is no exception to Disney’s typical stereotypical heroines. Her physical appearance conforms to Disney’s ideals of beauty. She has long straight her, fair skin, a small waist and wide curious eyes. She is skinny and her name literally means beauty. She has small delicate hand and an enticing voice that can sing very well. She also appears to have a natural need to