Like this:
This has ALWAYS bugged me.
You have to work backwards a bit -- the fact that Lumiere sings "for 10 years, we've been rusting / needing so much more than dusting" and the fact that the last petal will fall on the Prince/Beast's 21st birthday -- but those two pieces of evidence help you realize that the prince was ELEVEN years old when he was cursed.
Yep. The Enchantress cursed an eleven year old boy for not letting a stranger into his house.
Now, I know that fairies aren't exactly known for their good-will (at least in non-Disney lore) and they can be vain and selfish and don't give a flying flip about someone's age and whether they're a child but...still. This IS Disney, and it's always bugged me.
Plus, that portrait of the Beast as a human is virtually identical to the way he looks at the end of the movie which...how do they know? He definitely didn't look like that at eleven!
Oh. And yeah. Gaston is definitely still the villain of the movie, don't get me wrong. He's just not the only one. He's sexist and prejudiced and basically incites a mob to murder so...yeah. Definitely still a villain.
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