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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

How about Beauty and the Beast? Fall in love with the monster that imprisoned you and your father. It worked out exactly as he planned. Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.


13 posted on 10/17/2018 5:18:09 PM PDT by MNDude (WWG1WGA)
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To: MNDude

Well, to be fair, Beast only imprisoned Maurice. Belle just did a prisoner swap (and just as an FYI, said prisoner swap was Belle’s idea, and if anything Beast was taken aback by the plan). And I really wouldn’t call Belle a Stockie, since she does talk back to her captors quite a bit. If I were to bet my money on anyone suffering from that, it’s Rapunzel regarding Mother Gothel.

Actually, personally, I’d say that the movie has far WORSE messages in there than whether it’s okay to embrace Stockholm Syndrome. Namely, it depicts the guys as useless, mean, and/or goofballs, and there’s also Belle’s taming of Beast to such an extent that he is unwilling to fight back unless she was nearby. Oh, and it also pushes radical feminism by Linda Woolverton’s own admission. It even started a whole string of movies that pretty much condemn marriage as a concept, to the extent that the only characters besides Gaston who have ANY approval of marriage at all are depicted as dumb blondes and bimbos (as a matter of fact, they’re even called “the bimbettes” in the script and credits). In fact, you could call BATB the prototype of the Maleficent movie if you wish, made by the same woman in fact. Heck, nearing the end, Belle had no problem basically selling Beast and his servants down the river, even when she clearly was aware that Gaston had orchestrated the illegal arrest of Maurice via a mob just to force her hand in marriage to him. Oh, and it also seems to promote promiscuity as a good thing via Lumiere, especially when no one, and I do mean absolutely NO one, actually calls him out on it, certainly not Belle whom the story treats as a moral paragon. In fact, it’s the first Disney movie to change the storyline from the original tale in a radical fashion... NOT to clean it up for kids, mind you, but to push a socio-political agenda onto them. Yes, prior Disney movies have at times condensed and even radically altered the story, but most times it was so they could make them a bit more appropriate for children, not to push some kind of agenda.


59 posted on 10/18/2018 2:01:44 PM PDT by otness_e
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