Dark Disney Conspiracy Theories

Making Sense of Beauty And The Beast

(Aftermath of: Beauty & the Beast: The Enchantress Is the Real Villian)

Beauty and the Beast has one of the biggest plot holes that we have ever seen in a movie. At the very beginning there is an introduction that tells us all about how the beast came to be the beast. Some old beggar woman came to the beast’s castle and offered a rose in exchange for a place to stay. He said no and suddenly she was an enchantress who believed he didn’t have any love in his heart. She turned him into the beast and everyone in the castle into random objects until he was able to fall in love and earn the love of that person as well. The rose would bloom “until his 21st year,” at which point the last petal would fall off and the spell would become permanent. Seeing as how the last petal fell just as Belle pronounced her love for him, that would signify that he was 21 at the time. If you remember the lyrics to Be Our Guest, Lumiere sings “10 years we’ve been rusting,” which lead us to believe that the beast was only 11 years old at the time that he told some old, strange woman that she couldn’t spend the night there. It made no sense. Especially since the imagery that we see of the prince before his transformation is definitely not that of an 11-year-old.

This theory might help fill that plot hole, though. What it states is that the beast and the rest of the castle were actually frozen in time and it was their 21st year in the transformation. The “10 years” part of Lumiere’s song can easily be linked to another part of the intro where it states “As the years past, he fell into despair and lost all hope…” This might signify that it was just 10 years ago that the beast lost hope and actually stopped trying to break the curse because he couldn’t find anyone who was willing to love a beast. If this was the time that he stopped tending to the castle, then it would explain Lumiere’s line. Not all that weird, right? Well it gets weirder.

Let’s talk about that enchantress for a moment. What possible reason would she have for targeting Prince Adam? It’s very clear that Adam had nothing to do with the running of the kingdom, seeing as how everyone has gotten along just fine without him. The theory expands further, claiming that the enchantress is actually a scorned lover of his. It would explain why she chose a spell that made it nearly impossible for anyone to fall in love with him. This would be her way of saying “Go ahead and try to find someone who will love you as much as I did,” while trying to make him feel the pain of rejection that she felt when he kicked her to the curb. In order to make things even more strange, there are some that believe that Chip is actually the love child of Beast and the Enchantress. This was brought about because Mrs. Potts is clearly much too old to have a son that young, and it is defended further by the fact that Chip and Prince Adam kind of look alike when they’re both human again. Mrs. Potts would likely be treating Chip as her son in order to cover for the prince having a child out of wedlock. This would also explain his need to banish his lover, which then explains the rage she would have towards him, and suddenly everything starts to fall into place. It’s insane. It’s twisted. I love it.