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I agree. Mixed-race relationships were pretty taboo in the plague era and for pretty much any era until the last 30 years, so if just one would be weird enough, to see like 4 or 5 mixed-race couples in this film set in the 14th century is very strange. Also, a black person owned the library, and a separate black person ran the tavern/bar. For a black person to run a high profile building in this time period is also highly unlikely, and quite distracting.
I don't have any sort of issue with hiring a diverse cast, but it felt like Disney went out of their way to hire black people for the sake of hiring black people, as if to say "no, we need more black people to show how diverse and universal we are!" Why not write roles intended for black people? The same goes for the recent Magnificent Seven remake, where the entire cast is filled with Asians, Mexicans, native Americans, being led by a black cowboy, in a very racist era of American history, and none of the townsfolk bat an eye. It was okay for Django in Django Unchained to be black because of his skin color and the oppression he rises up against was the entire point of the film.
I can suspend my belief enough to buy magic and shapeshifting in this movie, but then the film states several real things that actually happened in history, such as the War Of France and the Black Plague. In fact, the film could actually be pinpointed to an exact year: 1374. That completely sucks out any magic or wonder the original film had. The animated version was timeless and genuinely felt magical, this one does not. I think the idea of the diverse cast would've worked better had the film felt more like a magical fantasy and not something grounded in reality.
Robbie Benson's Beast is unforgettable. I don't even remember Dan Stevens's Beast.
Did you honestly think a massive-scale blockbuster with a huge budget would have an all-Japanese cast, mostly unknown to world audiences? Nobody in the Western hemisphere and most of the Eastern hemisphere would give a flying fuck about the film had it not recognizable actors, white or not. As shitty as it is, there simply aren't many Japanese actors with worldwide billing power like Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt, or in this case Scarlett Johanson. It's our faults, really.
People who think this movie is anti-white are stupid. The roles could be reversed and it wouldn't become anti-black. The film had a setting and utilized it. It wouldn't matter anyways, because practically everything about this film, regarding its acting, direction, pacing, and screenplay, is fantastic.
Yes, because all 900 million white people on Earth in 2017 are KKK-supporting racists who want death to anyone with brown skin.
It originally ended with the racist cop from earlier showing up to the scene, shooting Chris but not killing him. Chris is then detained and we see him arrested in prison in county jail, and the person he shares a cell with is another survivor who escaped, and it is implied he's in jail for killing (or mortally wounding) Rose's grandfather, and that the groundskeeper was his friend or something.
The ending was apparently never filmed.
Many people say the exclusion of this and The Dark Knight at the 2008 Oscar noms is what lead the Academy to make 10 nomination slots. People stopped caring about the Oscars because all the nominations of BP were films they had never seen or, in the case of many, never even heard of. The 2009 Oscars was the lowest rated Oscar ceremony in the show's recent history. If things hadn't changed, I guarantee films like District 9, Up, and even Avatar wouldn't have gotten a BP nomination the following year.
It's argued that the servants got rightfully transformed in this version because they too laughed at the old lady. Their punishment was still unnecessarily cruel.
I kept seeing Jack Black as LeFou too.
I think if the movie were made in the 90's, Bruce Campbell would've been the perfect Gaston.