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taotrooper) wrote2007-09-25 04:04 pm
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About FPS
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yaired, gingetsu and hamsterfactor, and more recently with river_nile about this subject. I saw something on fandomsecrets about it as well. So I might as well make a post about it.
Most girls and young women who are either Disney freaks or lived their childhood during the early 90s, including me, suffer from what I like to call FPS.
Stands for Fugly Prince Syndrome.
If you've watched Beauty and the Beast (Disney version), you might remember how the Beast was like. Mmmm Beast. He starts very rude and wild, but as the movie continues he turns into a gentleman and overall a nicer guy. I mean, Disney has the quality to push some buttons and awake the little furry in all of us (two words: Robin Hood), but you couldn't feel guilty for liking the Beast -either as just a character, or finding him actually attractive. Because even if he was scary and excessively hairy, he wasn't really ugly (at least from the fairytale point of view), and in objective comparison you'd rather marry him than Gaston. So lots of girls crushed on the Beast, and that's cool. He's manly yet cuddly. And ironically cute.
The thing was the ending. I mean, the obvious conclusion was him turning back, not only because of the original fairytale, but because at that time for a Disney film there had to be a happy ending. Probably lots of viewers wouldn't find a problem with a different outcome, supposing Beast could survive Gaston's stab, and Belle saying the magic words AFTER the rose withered completely. She wouldn't mind living with Beast all furry (the servants would mind, but duh) forever. And that's fucking romantic of her.
But the real issue wasn't the Beast to turn human again, no. The issue was that the prince form was, to put it in a polite way, not attractive. He looks like a boyband member on steroids, and doesn't even feel like the Beast when wearing the ball blue outfit. If I were Belle, I'd have a harder time to believe he's my beastie boy; a single glance on the eyes -cue West Wing portrait flashback- isn't really enough. C'mon, tell me something about me only Beast knows! Growl at me! Eat porridge with your bare hands! DO SOMETHING MORE! WTF did you turn into, Jesus?!
Thus, we'd much rather this lame guy to turn back into the beast, even if the movie's supposed message was not being this shallow about appearances. So, that's the irony of FPS: we'd do the Beast, as long as he doesn't turn into that.
(Funny enough, when my mom saw me covering my eyes during the transformation sequence, every freaking time I watched the movie, she was convinced I was strange. B-b-but it was painful to seeeeee!For some reason the worse part for me was the feet. I never quite explained it to her so she assumed I had a crush on the prince. THE OTHER WAY AROUND, MA. I never corrected her because I thought I was being unreasonable until I saw I wasn't alone on this.)
And another thing. This bloke's canon name was Adam. WTF. Shouldn't he have a more French-sounding name? It's not even original! "Prince Adam" makes me think of He-man, and my brain breaks and wonders if there are crossovers.Moral of the story: all princes called Adam are just unsexy.
yaired, gingetsu and hamsterfactor, and more recently with river_nile about this subject. I saw something on fandomsecrets about it as well. So I might as well make a post about it.Most girls and young women who are either Disney freaks or lived their childhood during the early 90s, including me, suffer from what I like to call FPS.
Stands for Fugly Prince Syndrome.
If you've watched Beauty and the Beast (Disney version), you might remember how the Beast was like. Mmmm Beast. He starts very rude and wild, but as the movie continues he turns into a gentleman and overall a nicer guy. I mean, Disney has the quality to push some buttons and awake the little furry in all of us (two words: Robin Hood), but you couldn't feel guilty for liking the Beast -either as just a character, or finding him actually attractive. Because even if he was scary and excessively hairy, he wasn't really ugly (at least from the fairytale point of view), and in objective comparison you'd rather marry him than Gaston. So lots of girls crushed on the Beast, and that's cool. He's manly yet cuddly. And ironically cute.
The thing was the ending. I mean, the obvious conclusion was him turning back, not only because of the original fairytale, but because at that time for a Disney film there had to be a happy ending. Probably lots of viewers wouldn't find a problem with a different outcome, supposing Beast could survive Gaston's stab, and Belle saying the magic words AFTER the rose withered completely. She wouldn't mind living with Beast all furry (the servants would mind, but duh) forever. And that's fucking romantic of her.
But the real issue wasn't the Beast to turn human again, no. The issue was that the prince form was, to put it in a polite way, not attractive. He looks like a boyband member on steroids, and doesn't even feel like the Beast when wearing the ball blue outfit. If I were Belle, I'd have a harder time to believe he's my beastie boy; a single glance on the eyes -cue West Wing portrait flashback- isn't really enough. C'mon, tell me something about me only Beast knows! Growl at me! Eat porridge with your bare hands! DO SOMETHING MORE! WTF did you turn into, Jesus?!
Thus, we'd much rather this lame guy to turn back into the beast, even if the movie's supposed message was not being this shallow about appearances. So, that's the irony of FPS: we'd do the Beast, as long as he doesn't turn into that.
(Funny enough, when my mom saw me covering my eyes during the transformation sequence, every freaking time I watched the movie, she was convinced I was strange. B-b-but it was painful to seeeeee!
And another thing. This bloke's canon name was Adam. WTF. Shouldn't he have a more French-sounding name? It's not even original! "Prince Adam" makes me think of He-man, and my brain breaks and wonders if there are crossovers.
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Also, ROBIN HOOD OMG ♥ (and damnit, Ghibli's Sherlock Holmes! *shakes fist*)
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I don't get why the foxy one is one of the sexiest Robin Hoods ever for me, right with the Men in Tights one. LOL Cary Elwes.