I know this post is just a funny little post and yeah it’s true but
Every time I see someone ask about the staff not calling the Beast by his name, I just remember the commentary track on the 1991 animated movie, when they start talking about how they were scripting and boarding Belle’s return to the castle, “And she calls out to the Beast,” and had a collective moment of “Oh, shit, we forgot to give him a name!”
But it turned out okay, because “We decided it actually worked a lot better, her shouting “Beast!” I mean, it sounds better than if she’d run out and yelled “BOB!” or “STEVE!” or something.”
So let me get this straight.
The reason the Beast doesn’t have a name is that the directors forgot.
That…that’s amazing.
Yup. The directors FORGOT. I am dead serious.
They were so used to calling him ‘the Beast’ both in the script and in meetings that they never gave him a name! 8D
Listening to the commentary, you learn a lot of things were actually on accident – for instance, Chip getting Belle and Maurice out of the cellar? Totally blundered their way into that. They planned for Belle and Maurice to be locked up, but then said “Wait…how would they get out?”
“Oh! Oh, Chip followed Belle!”
“But he’s just a teacup!”
*silence*
“……what if he used Maurice’s wood-chopping thing?” [they admit that no, they did NOT plan to bring that machine back at all]
“But how would he make it work?! He has no hands!”
“IT’S A CARTOON! HE CAN TALK, CAN’T HE?!”
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