![]() ![]() It didn’t really become popular for another 16 years, when Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont published an abridged version that removed much of the backstory for both leads, and also changed Belle from a lowly merchant’s daughter into a princess, much to her own surprise. ![]() It was first published in 1740 in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins as La Belle et la Bete, written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, a minor French author granted immortality for her connection to this particular story. (After all, it’s not as if the two could be connected in some way… Oh, wait.) But in the rush to make the show palatable to modern audiences, the makers of the new Beauty and the Beast seem to have forgotten what the original story was actually about.Īlthough Angela Lansbury would tell you that it’s a “tale as old as time,” the story of Beauty and the Beast is actually around three centuries old. Ostensibly a remake and updating of the 1987 show of the same name - which was itself a reinterpretation of the famous fairy tale - the new series not only adds a procedural element to the proceedings by making the Beauty of the title a cop, but also introduces two different strains of conspiratorial back story with (1.) the mystery of who killed Beauty’s mother ten years ago, and (2.) the second mystery of who is behind the genetic tampering that made the Beast an uncontrollable monster when he gets mad. ![]() Follow be forgiven if, having watched the first episode of the CW’s Beauty and the Beast, you assumed that the show’s producers were trying their hardest to convince you that it’s worth paying attention to. ![]()
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