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For God's sake, did you not forget that Gaston threatened to feed Maurice to the wolves before Maurice rejected him?
I think the only snobby lunatic around here is you. You have a poor sense of common sense and reality.
Onto Maurice, Gaston was starting to lose his patience. Don't believe me? Here's the exchange.
Gaston: I am done playing this game! Where is Belle?
Maurice: Belle is with the...
Gaston: There are no such things as beasts, or talking tea cups, or magic! But there are wolves frostbite and starvation!
Lefou: Deep breaths, Gaston. Deep breaths.
Gaston: So why don't we just turn around and go back to Villenueve? I'm sure Belle is back at home cooking a lovely dinner!
Maurice: If you think I made all this up then why did you offer to help?
Gaston: Because I want to marry your daughter! Now... let's go home!
Maurice: Belle is not at home! She is with the...
Gaston: If you say beast one more time, I WILL FEED YOU TO THE WOLVES!
Lefou: Gaston, stop it! Breath! Happy thoughts! Go back to the war! Blood, explosions, countless widows.
Gaston: Widows...
Lefou: Yes yes that's it. That's it.
Gaston: (turns to Maurice smiling like nothing happened) Maurice! Old Bean! Now that's no way to treat my future father-in-law is it?!
Maurice: Who's your father in law? You will never marry my daughter. (Gaston punches Maurice.)
Gaston threatened to feed Maurice to the wolves and Maurice heard about Gaston's affairs with widows. A man with a violent temper and happy thoughts like that is a no go for Belle and Maurice.
There is a reason why they rejected him, if you bother to look closely. Belle rejected Gaston, because although Gaston did compliment Belle's book, he then starts abruptly changing the subject to inviting himself over to Belle's house for dinner. At first Belle rather politely refuses, but when he asks if she's busy, this is when she starts to get uneasy with him and she says no. Gaston is basically giving her unwanted attention, which she does not like. Later when she got in trouble with the headmaster, Gaston starts relentlessly pursuing her to her house, stepping on her cabbages, blocking her path, and following her to the door, and then grabbing her dress and pulling her towards him. This is essentially stalking her. Girls do not like guys who stalk them relentlessly.
Then explain how he's more sympathetic when he left Maurice to die at the jaws of the wolves.
A new conflict between Gaston and Maurice is added to the story. In the film, Maurice outright refuses to let Gaston marry Belle (in the original film, he's genuinely open to the idea of the two of them getting together, at least at first). This is what pushes Gaston to knock the old man out and tie him to a tree in the woods, leaving him to die in the cold (or to be eaten by the wolves). After he's saved by Agathe, Maurice returns to the village to confront Gaston, only for the latter to turn the tables on him by getting him incarcerated, thus sparing himself from any consequences for his crime.
The original film made it clear that Belle had no interest in Gaston and that his Stalker with a Crush attitude made him dangerous, but said nothing about the vulnerability of a single woman during that period of history. The new film has Gaston's unsuccessful wooing of Belle include him drawing her attention to the miserable life of spinsters in a peasant town once their fathers have died, making it clear to young viewers that Belle's situation isn't as easy as simply saying no.
Gaston is a war hero on top of having good looks and hunting/fighting skills, which goes further in explaining why someone so obnoxious is so beloved and trusted by the townsfolk. Mentioning a war in his introductory scene also quickly establishes that, unlike the original hunter of animals, this one has likely killed humans before (and a Black Comedy scene where Lefou calms him down by reminiscing about war builds on this), making it a smaller jump to his evil acts later in the film.
Then here's what it says from the website.
Why are none of the villagers aware of an enchanted castle only a relatively short distance away from where they live? Part of the Enchantress's curse not only seals the castle off from the outside world, but makes everyone in the surrounding area forget all about it.
The confusing timeline of the seasons in the animated filmnote is explained here by having the castle — on top of everything else — be locked in an eternal winter, while it's clearly summer in the world outside.
The puzzling implication that the Prince was left to run his castle at only 11 years old — "Ten years we've been rusting" since everyone was transformed, but the rose blooms until his 21st year — is eliminated by dropping all references to his age and how many years pass before Belle comes to the castle, and firmly establishing that he was an adult when he was cursed. "Ten years" is changed to "Too long". In the meantime, a Flashback to his youth has his parents appear.
Belle and Maurice are given significant Backstory explaining why they moved to the village in the first place ("Every morning just the same/Since the morning that we came/To this poor provincial town") and why Belle has a Missing Mom. They lived in Paris until a plague killed Belle's mother. Maurice became desperate to protect Belle and thus they moved to the small, safe village. This also provides an alternate reason for Maurice setting out in the first place; his music boxes are sold at an out-of-town market once a year. This same change explains better why Belle is an outcast in the village, as they see her as a city-born kook obsessed with reading (something only the well-educated do).
Then how would you explain this part of this website here?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017
Look for adaptational expansion and you'll see what I mean.
I HAVE seen the animated film, and while I do like it, it has a lot of plot holes. This live action film fixed many of the plot holes and now I know why the characters act the way they are. Not only that, they add in subtlety in dialogue. That is why I love the live action film, and nothing that you say is ever going to change that.
You are completely missing the entire point here. The whole point of Beauty and the Beast is not to judge others based on first impressions and appearances. For they can be something different on the inside. Also about the writing here, there is a thing called subtlety. Gaston acts charming but he is self-absorbed and self-entitled.
And what part of "Belle may feel lonely but at the same time she doesn't want unwanted attention" did you all not get? Belle is a girl who is intelligent and realistic and ahead of her time, and the kind of girl who doesn't fall for a guy in a matter of seconds. Seeing all of you sympathizing with Gaston and seeing Belle as a snob, it's making me think you're all as small-minded as the villagers.