Another Pressing Question
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toast_zombie, and a few other friends and I were hanging out watching movies when the conversation turned, like most conversations do after a while, to the topic of the name of the Beast in Disney’s version of Beauty and the Beast.
We all had our own ideas. I pointed out that Disney did give him an official name—but only obscurely.* Frankly, though, my own reaction to learning the official name was to realize that I had always, for reasons unknown to even me, assumed that his name was—well, in the interest of Science, I’m not actually going to reveal it yet.
Why, you ask? Well! After our debate, I decided to see what all of you thought. So! I ask you all to answer it for me—which name would you give the Beast?
[Poll #1449965]
The multiple-choice question is a list of names my friends and I have offered for him, as well as the name Disney themselves gave him. You’re also welcome to suggest your own!
And if you want to know whose was whose, you can always click the cut—but y’all will vote first so as not to taint the experiment, right? Right.
My sister calls him Andy.alietf, back in the day, suggested Harold (ETA: She apparently got this from zimwifepgk There is no evidence to suggest that zimwifepgk got it from Agnes, however). I suggested Henry as a joke, but to tell you the truth when I heard he had an official name my response was, “Wait, his name isn’t Rene?”
His official name is Adam. Very French, that.
No matter what, though, I go with “Beast” most of the time. That’s the guy I’m for, anyway.
*Fun Fact: The writers only realized they’d never given him a name near the end of production, and pretty much said, “Well, fuck it.”
toast_zombie, and a few other friends and I were hanging out watching movies when the conversation turned, like most conversations do after a while, to the topic of the name of the Beast in Disney’s version of Beauty and the Beast.We all had our own ideas. I pointed out that Disney did give him an official name—but only obscurely.* Frankly, though, my own reaction to learning the official name was to realize that I had always, for reasons unknown to even me, assumed that his name was—well, in the interest of Science, I’m not actually going to reveal it yet.
Why, you ask? Well! After our debate, I decided to see what all of you thought. So! I ask you all to answer it for me—which name would you give the Beast?
[Poll #1449965]
The multiple-choice question is a list of names my friends and I have offered for him, as well as the name Disney themselves gave him. You’re also welcome to suggest your own!
And if you want to know whose was whose, you can always click the cut—but y’all will vote first so as not to taint the experiment, right? Right.
My sister calls him Andy.
alietf, back in the day, suggested Harold (ETA: She apparently got this from zimwifepgk There is no evidence to suggest that zimwifepgk got it from Agnes, however). I suggested Henry as a joke, but to tell you the truth when I heard he had an official name my response was, “Wait, his name isn’t Rene?”His official name is Adam. Very French, that.
No matter what, though, I go with “Beast” most of the time. That’s the guy I’m for, anyway.
*Fun Fact: The writers only realized they’d never given him a name near the end of production, and pretty much said, “Well, fuck it.”
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Date: 2009-08-28 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-28 07:56 pm (UTC)Oh, well. It's not like Disney worked very hard on it, anyway.