Beauty and the Beast and the Witch

From the word go, the setup for this story is wild: An old indigent lady knocks on the door of a castle, and the prince answers the door. The lady offers him a rose in exchange for a night in the castle, and the prince says no. The old lady says, "Surprise, I'm actually hot, you messed up! You should've let me stay in your castle when you thought I was a random old lady!"

She curses the crap out of the prince, turns him into a man bear pig with horns, and tells him that if he doesn't find someone to love him by the age of 21, a magic rose will lose all its petals and he'll be a beast forever.

Just a badass witch running around knocking entitled princes down a peg or two.

But it's far more wild than that…

Ten years.

They've been waiting ten years, and only then does the rose start to wilt, in advance of the Beast's 21st birthday.

The prince was E-le-ven when he was cursed. The little dude refused to let the random old lady into the castle when he was a child. Where were his parents? Why didn't someone else answer the door?

Trying to chase Belle's dad away, then throwing him in the dungeon seems very reasonable! The last rando adult knocking on his door in the middle of the night asking for a bed to sleep in turned him into a beast at 11!

He was turned into a beast before he went through puberty! Did he go through puberty as the beast? Ahhhh! No wonder he's socially inept. He has no table manners. He doesn't know how to talk to girls. He feels bad about Belle missing her dad. He gets depressed and resigns himself to being a beast when Belle leaves. The mind of an 11 year old raised by people scared of him, yearning for honest love from anyone!

Maybe entitled princes need this level of intervention at an early age in order to beat the odds and become caring people, but damn did that witch go hard. Hardcore man, hardcore.

Anyways, great movie.