Ladies and gentleman, it seems that Disney has just announced on Disney Insider that Emma Watson will be playing Belle in their Live-Action Beauty and the Beast film. Woo! Let's all eat the gray stuff to celebrate!! Ah, but this blog post is not over just yet...
I love Emma Watson from playing Hermione Granger in Harry Potter to growing up into a young woman, making that phenomenal speech about gender equality. I think she could pull off the role and give a great performance of belle, although, I'm not that satisfied with that casting choice.
I'm sure most of you are reading this and saying: "What do you mean you weren't Satisfied with Emma Watson being casted as Belle?? What's wrong with Emma, Danay?"
Well, I was discussing this film with one of my friends, Amy K., and told her about Emma being the chosen one and she stopped me. She wasn't satisfied with it either and that's when she brought up another actress who could be PERFECT for the role of Belle: Emmy Rossum
Emmy Rossum is a wonderful actress and, if Disney plans on making this a musical, she could sing as well! But mostly, I would choose her, appearance wise. I think her face is more rounder than Emma and I feel like, her eyes give off that Belle-like aura. But then, again, this is just my opinion.
I still have faith in Emma Watson though.
But you know what....we ARE talking about Beauty and the Beast here. Appearance shouldn't matter at all. It's about the actress within, right? Neither of these women are bad actresses and neither of them are ugly. They're both beautiful! Yet...I still think Emmy looks more like Belle. Just sayin'.
Overall, I'm going to be real with you lovely people. Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney movie. It teaches us to find beauty within and not focus on one's physical appearance, and that's why I admire this wonderful tale. However, I wasn't exactly jumping for joy at the fact that they were making a live-action version. First, there was Maleficent, and now Cinderella, which comes out in March, and there's word of a Live-Action Cruella De Vil & a Jungle Book movie coming soon. Every thing is being turned into Live-Action, but I just want Disney to work on something new, whether it's live-action or not.
Hmmm...perhaps, these Live-Action films are a way of stalling for their bigger and more original ideas to come. I just hope this film is worth filming and that Disney succeeds. We shall see.
Tale as old as time, right?
