I am sick and tired of people saying how beautiful of a love story "Beauty and the Beast" is and how sweet and pure hearted Bell was for seeing the true beauty of the Beast which nobody else could see. FUUUUCCCKKK THAAATTT!!! What I got from this horrible movie was a teenage girl who got Stockholm Syndrome and fell for her kidnapper. Only hollywood and Walt Disney could brainwash America and turn a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein a hostage expresses adulation or positive feelings towards their captor into a supposedly "classic" love story and the first animated movie ever to receive an Oscar nod for Best Picture.
Lets just say this were real life, and a big 6'7" hairy Dominican dude with a thick accent kidnapped a white man for trespassing, freed him in exchange to take his white teenage virgin daughter hostage, she eventually falls in love with him, and then a group of white men attempt to storm his mansion to free the girl and were killed by the Dominican dude in the process, the police would be sticking the lethal injection needle in Ricardo's vein before they even read him his Miranda Rights. Plus the police would not believe that Dominican Ricardo could afford a mansion through legitimate means and would suspect he was a drug dealer. Even if they didn't have any evidence to the contrary, I'm sure the fine boys in blue would have no problem planting a brick of Yayo on Ricardo to make the case sweeter and stick.
Moreover, even IF the girl did say she loved him and didn't want him to go to jail, everyone in society would say she's young, she doesn't know what she's talking about and she's been brainwashed. But Walt Disney throws a blue tux on Sabertooth from X-Men, and has some candle-sticks and tea-pots singing and dancing and Whalaahh, it's the greatest love story ever told!!! Besides the awful message in this movie, the adult-content alone warranted a Showgirls NC-17 rating. Get your head out of your asses Motion Picture Association of America.