Beauty and The Beast - Dealing with Adolescence 101 [Lessons Animation Taught Us]

This video will be a slightly different format than usual. Blame Movies with Mikey and his Lessons Animation Taught Us series for that.

Animation teaches a lot. For many animation is a child's first introduction to cinema and teaches them key concepts that they will encounter throughout life. You learn a lot from the media you consume as a small child, and whether your lessons are beneficial or ruinous is based on what you are watching and what you can take from them. As such today, I will be talking about Beauty and the Beast and what my tiny self took from this film.

A lot of pre-Beast Disney perpetuates this idea that for every girl, one day their prince will come to save them. Whether they are Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or The Little Mermaid, there's very little in the way of agency from the protagonists point of view. Beauty and the Beast flips this idea, so that Belle is saving the Beast. “She's the one to break the spell”. But here's the thing, I was about five when I first watched this. I didn't get the fairytale script flipping because I had no previous frame of reference, I just absorbed the “love will triumph over all” concept and kept that as a standard to live by for way too long.

Soundtrack:
The Prologue Piano Instrumental Cover - Jason Frisk    • Beauty and the Beast Prologue Piano I...  
Beauty and the Beast Piano Instrumental Cover - Jason Frisk    • Beauty And The Beast (Tale As Old As ...  

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