I keep seeing this advertisement around
Jan. 8th, 2012 03:36 pmand it keeps bothering me. I remember seeing the Yul Brynner movie as a kid, and loving the costumes and pageantry but being uncomfortable with it all the same (and that goes at least quintuple for Anna Lenowens' actual memoir). I think it's probably possible do to a more sensitive, deconstructed version of that musical (see e.g. the thoughts here), but advertising it as Disney's Beauty and Beast is really going the wrong direction!