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What if during the castle battle...

posted 6 years ago by TheMan18 (12511)
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a lot or at least some of the enchanted objects/cursed people were in some or other ways seriously hurt or even outright killed in the process by those invading villages?

Like, as in, if Le Fou really did manage to burn Lumiere in his candle state, or the footrest dog was stabbed by one of those sharp items they threw towards it, or worse, if Gaston and/or some of those villagers really did bring guns to the fight/battle and landed shots at those objects, would their deaths be permanent after the curse was lifted, if it was at all (what if the curse wasn't lifted in the end?) or would they just be successfully healed and resurrected like (SPOILERS ALERT) The Beast was in the end when he was transformed back into Prince Adam in his original human form?

Yeah, and how come indeed neither of the villagers or Gaston found it all that strange that all the furniture and all that was alive and could move, talk and if necessary even fight back successfully with no casualties from their side? (By the way, during that battle, was it their first EVER battle with people in either their enchanted or human form?) I mean, sure there was some panic and whatnot, but they didn't even act all that surprised, and on the other side, why didn't ANY of those people/objects/etc go AFTER Gaston when he was going alone to kill The Beast and protect him better, maybe at least some of them could've secretly guarded his room, no?

Imagine if Lumiere actually caught fire and started burning and was like "Ahhh" - can those objects in their enchanted form feel pain at all? I mean, they don't need to eat etc like we humans do, but how about those aspects? Also, did that Wardrobe KILL that guy when she jumped on him?

And wasn't it interesting that DESPITE The Beast ultimately saying "It doesn't matter now, just let them come", all of them STILL decided to fight off the invaders and defend themselves rather than assuming "Yeah, it doesn't look like the curse will ever be broken, lets do ourselves and the world a favour and let those men, who for some unknown reason want to invade us, kill us, because we don't want to live forever as objects like that".

[–] Stratego (29252) 6 years ago

I think they would've been resurrected when the curse was lifted.

The villagers already knew about the Beast, so living furniture would not be such a huge surprise. But I'm not so sure they weren't surprised, it's just that the servants immediately went into defense mode.

The servants weren't as depressed because they didn't lose the love of their life and weren't responsible for the curse not being lifted.

[–] TheMan18 (12511) 6 years ago

Fair enough.

But with The Beast, they could've maybe just assumed it is some kind of, even if rare but still possibly existing, animal, but its really beyond any real rationale that the furniture and tea cups and candles would be alive as well and have nose, ears, mouths and could talk, regardless of what they did or didn't already know about The Beast.

I mean, at that time, not all animals I suppose were discovered so they may have assumed that it was just another dangerous breed of animal and whatnot, but who has ever heard of sentient furniture that was alive and could talk and move like that.

And the servants could've maybe become depressed for their own different reasons such as having their human form taken away from them, which even in theory sounds emotionally traumatic.

And on a related note, did anyone actually WANT to see at least SOME of those enchanted objects/cursed people in the castle, apart from The Beast at the end, die at the hands of those invading villagers (like see Lumiere burned for instance), or is it a rather unnecessarily ruthless desire on par with say wanting to SEE Bambi's mother get shot by that hunter in "Bambi"?

I wonder what tales those villagers would tell after reaching their point of return after running away. And I also wonder, what DID they think was the reason the furniture was alive and those objects as well, were they maybe in their minds haunted by Ghostly spirits?

[–] Stratego (29252) 6 years ago

Like I said, the villagers didn't even have time to act very shocked since they were being attacked by the servants.

The servants were actually pretty down, they just weren't as depressed. For years they had tried to cope with a situation they weren't directly responsible for. They already knew what hopelesness felt like.

No, I didn't want to see anyone die, which includes Gaston.

The villagers probably made a pact to stay silent and just go on with their lives like before.