Crazy Nate: If you haven’t heard the news already, Disney is coming out with a brand
new version of our childhood favorite, Beauty and the Beast.
And since she did such a good job with Harry Potter, I’m super excited to see Emma Watson
will be playing Belle.
I didn’t even realize she had such a great singing voice!
But, that’s not what we’re talking about today.
Today, we are talking about the original…
Beauty and the Beast, and all the easter eggs you missed.
But you thought Pixar is the originator of easter eggs right?
Nope.
Disney was putting Easter Eggs in their movies before Pixar was even a twinkle in it’s
mothers eye.
Of course with Disney, naturally it doesn’t take long for a song and dance to kick up.
Tamon: What do you want me to do?
Dress in drag and do the hula?
Hula!
Crazy Nate: But you have to keep your eyes peeled in this very first musical, right out
of the gate.
You see that there is a easter egg to Mary Poppins with the Chimney sweeper.
Also keep in mind WITH these Disney films, these movies were hand drawn, so the detail
in the easter egg isn’t as exactifying as the modern day Pixar easter eggs that were
grown more accustom to.
Also if you notice in the older classics, it looks like you can always tell whats going
to be moving in the scene, and whats stationary.
That’s because the backgrounds would all be real hand paintings, and they would hand
draw each character frame by frame.
Literally thousands of drawings just to get one character to move.
While we are here let’s point out that Belle is the only one in town wearing blue.
The blue represents her pure heart.
Also the choice of dress is an easter egg to Dorothy from Disney’s Wizard of Oz.
Here you can see Toby the turtle from Robin hood.
And I know that's not an easter egg…
But, I want so this so badly that this guy right here looks like Link from Zelda.
Don't they kinda look the same?
When she goes to the book store lets pay close attention to her describe her favorite book.
Librarian: But you've read it twice?
Belle: Well it's my favorite.
Far off places, daring sword fights, magic spells, a prince in disguise.
Here's where she meets prince charming.
But she wont discover that it's him till chapter 3.
Crazy Nate: Now to get the reference of prince charming in chapter 3, you need to know this.
In Hollywood there is a common layout for movies called the Three-act structure.
Basically cut the movie into three parts.
The First part is to introduce you to all the characters and all, and to let you know
how they live.
Then we go on to the second part, and that's called the “Rising Action”, and it is
here where we find our main character gets into a bad situation and everything they do
just keeps getting the situation worse and worse.
Then the third and final act, is what she was referring to in chapter 3 of her favorite
book.
Is when the movie is brought to the most dramatic part ever, and the question that has been
going through everyone's mind for the entire movie of act 1 and 2, and in Belle’s case
that question, is she going to love Beast in return.
So basically her favorite book, which also happens to be blue, is basically a book about
herself.
Oh my goodness, I bet PITA you know, the animal police?
I bet they had a field day with this movie.
If they were even around then.
And I have a few concerns with Gaston and his gun safety, or lack of.
First off he fired a gun in city limits.
Totally illegal!
Then he points his gun at the girl of his dreams?!
Are you kidding me?
Kid’s!
always treat a gun like it’s loaded, and never point it at someone, especially someone
you like.
And never point the barrel of a gun at your head.
I think it's safe to say that Gaston never took a gun safety class in his life.
Now he leaves his gun in the street unattended.
This guy is not responsible enough to be owning a gun…
Ok, anywho… back to the musical.
There are more easter eggs to find.
Here we can see one of the puppies from 101 Dalmatians.
And a cat trying to get the fish.
I’m not sure if the cat is a easter egg to The Aristocats or just comic relief.
Let’s have a little bit of funsies here and say it’s an easter egg to The Aristocats.
Same thing goes for this dog that’s eating this guys sausages.
Can we say it’s an easter egg to Lady and the Tramp?
This kid is holding Winnie the pooh.
And they used to smoke in Disney movies, and that was hopefully before they realized smoking
was bad for you.
Hopefully.
In The basement where Maurice works, you find the Time glass from Aladdin right there on
the shelf.
These two guys are easter eggs for the Directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise.
Also, I had a thought when watching this movie for I don't know the 100th time.
Isn’t it kinda messed up that the prince was the one that was superficial, and judging
people based on their looks, but everyone that worked for him was punished by the spell?
That would be kinda like if when they caught Alex Rodriguez the baseball player doing drugs,
and fired him and the entire team, and the landscapers, and the radio announcers, and
the ticket sellers, and the camera man, just because of one guy.
Bugs Life: you fired!
You Fired!
Oh will you shut up?
You Fired!
Crazy Nate: The evil little witch lady should of just put the spell on him.
Anywho, getting off on a tangent.
Did you notice Belle’s dad invented wind powered running water?
See the wind mill, and the buckets on a conveyor belt?
And they didn’t have febreeze back then, so Belle hung flowers in her house to make
it smell goody good.
Also Beauty and the Beast was set in the mid 1700’s time era, but that umbrella looks
kinda like it was way ahead of it’s time, even for Maurice’s inventions.
It kinda looks store bought.
But do you know who does have an umbrella like that?
Mary Poppins!
In this scene I was thinking Maurice should invent pepper spray to have against creepers
like Gaston.
Growing up with sisters I recognize this scene as a easter egg to the movie sound of music.
When Maurice gets lost in the forest he looks up at an old sign for directions.
This looks like a useless sign, with all the words faded off.
But, if we sprinkle a little bit of Disney Magic on it to connect the missing parts of
the letters, you will see that is Valencia, and Anaheim.
We all know know that Pixar likes hiding it’s address in movies just like The Incredibles
and Finding Dory.
Well so does Disney.
Disney land is located inside Anaheim California.
So then why Valencia?
Cal Arts is located in Valencia, remember?
That's the famous art school most animators came from, and we know it more for the famous
A113 easter egg.
So this is like a level 10 easter egg to A113.
All this confirms that Beauty and the Beast didn’t take place on another planet far
far away.
It took place in our world.
Once we see the beast you might notice something, Gaston and Beast both have blue eyes, and
both of them wear red, symbolizing their evilness.
It isn’t until after beast shows compassion by savings Belles life and the wolves rip
the red right off him, do we see him wear blue.
Then him and Belle match.
Meanwhile back in Budweiser land, and the red shirt club.
Notice he killed a bald eagle on the wall?
Pretty sure they are endangered species.
Well good thing it’s NOT a bald eagle…
don’t worry it’s worse than that.
He shot the rare gold eagle from Rescuers down under.
Just in case you're still on the fence if Gaston is evil or not.
He also shot and killed the guy from Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
Mrs. Pots: Cheer up child, it will turn out all right in the end.
Crazy Nate: Thanks Mrs. Pots…
Spoiler alert!
Speaking of Mrs. Pots, I don’t know if CPS cares or not, but there is child labor laws
to keep kids from working so late.
Chip was already in bed and exhausted, then had to get up and do a song and dance for
Belle.
Of course it wasn’t Belle’s fault, she just wanted to make a sandwich or something.
She isn’t picky.
If you look closely in the west wing, you will see a skeleton.
what’s or WHO’s skeleton it is, I don’t know…
But I will let you use your imagination.
And maybe a med student can tell us what kind of bone that is.
haha
This part wasn’t in the script, it was improvised.
Also in the Library, we see King Triton from Little Mermaid.
Hook from Peter Pan. and Even Mickey Mouse himself is hiding in the Library.
not to mention we see a resemblance to the Disney Castle in the painting.
Remember Belle’s dress was a shout out to Wizard of Oz, well that wasn’t the only
plug they put in there for the movie.
When Beast is getting cleaned up they put another cameo in there of the Cowardly Lion
from Wizard of Oz.
If you are wondering as dark and dirty as the castle is, how in the world you missed
this room, and was it always clean, and if it wasn’t clean when did they have time
to clean it?
Well you didn’t miss anything, well anything that made it to final production at least.
There was a deleted scene where they cleaned the place up.
And naturally it was a full song and dance with the the musical “Human Again.”
Who knows why they really cut this scene, but it introduced a lot of characters that
we didn't see before.
It also points out that the Beast doesn’t know how to read.
So probably one of the reasons was it didn’t support the story, and just muddied the water.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is the first snowman we see in Disney
History.
In the final battle you will see a guy is stuck in the lions mouth.
And right there is one of the Buzzards from jungle book.
The best easter egg is at the very end when Gaston fights dirty and attacks Beast from
behind, Beast knocks him off the cliff.
But since it’s a Disney movie no one actually dies… right? he just lands in the water
or something?…
Well even Disney has a great evil sense of humor.
let’s rewind a little bit and watch that scene a little closer, this time look at Gaston’s
eyes.
They secretly tell you what his fate really is going to be when he hits that bottom.
That’s all the easter eggs that I could bring together for this movie.
Let me know if you plan to watch the new Beauty and the Beast with Emma Watson.
And remember Gents and gentlets, if your life seems to be falling apart all around you,
that doesn’t mean you wont have a happy ever after in your future, so share a smile
today, they are contagious.