However, he ended up not acknowledging that the Bimbettes were in love with him other than in general terms, not taking the hint that they wanted him to return the love, which resulted in many of his plans being foiled.
Despite it taking place after making plans with the Asylum Warden to falsely incarcerate Belle as well as forcing LeFou to remain on lookout for either Belle or Maurice's return, he seemed to come up, either by himself or with LeFou's input, with various plans to impress and get Belle to marry him, such as a wife auction, killing a bear, and going to the bookstore, implying that he may have put aside that plan temporarily.
In addition, one of the plans had Gaston deciding against killing the bear immediately due to it hibernating, implying he was capable of honor, although mostly because he wanted to impress Belle.
In addition, in the same issue, he also attempted to fight the bear head on when it was prematurely awoken by the Bimbettes in a plan to stop Gaston from marrying Belle , although he got shoved out effortlessly.
Generally speaking, in the movie Gaston is an ambitious, rude, conceited, and male-chauvinist individual that views women not as equal beings with complementary marital duties as God intended but instead views women as one of a man's possessions, especially and specifically as a wife after marriage, women were viewed and treated as a man's property during the time period of the film, with marriage seen as an act of ownership comparable to a man buying livestock and a house during the same era rather than an act of professing love, commitment and companionship like today.
He believes that women were created to serve and obey men in all things - especially cooking, cleaning, taking care of children and overall total obedience to her husband, with no thinking whatsoever. All of these views against women as equal human beings are what we would and should now consider to be outdated and of the so-called "caveman" mentality.
This is strongly implied in the musical version when he says to the Silly Girls that their "rendezvouses" will continue after his marriage to Belle, implying adultery. This shows that Gaston is a noncommittal, lecherous man that views all women, even and especially wives, as chattel and not as human beings.
Had Gaston actually succeeded in marrying Belle, he would control and mistreat her, as well as isolate her from her father in real life, Gaston would have had to get Maurice's explicit permission to marry his daughter, as a daughter was a father's property first.
Additionally, the changing of surnames after marriage for a woman further showed that she became nothing more than a man's property rather than as a life partner for him, as women were in most cultures and for a very long time not considered to be even human and worthy of equal treatment and respect in marriage, as aforementioned. Gaston is shown to possess a tremendous amount of physical strength, evidenced by his effortlessly lifting up a bench with three females the Bimbettes on it, as well as holding it up with only one hand.
He later effortlessly rips off an ornament from the castle to use as a makeshift club during his battle with the Beast. In the video game, Beauty and the Beast: Belle's quest , Gaston is revealed to be so strong, that he moves a boulder on his own, proving that whether "pebble or boulder, there is nothing that he can't move". He is also able to fire his blunderbuss with pinpoint accuracy, noted by LeFou proclaiming, "Wow! You didn't miss a shot, Gaston!
He is also shown to be skilled at stealth attacks, as implied in the song "Gaston" with the lyrics: "No one's slick as Gaston", and confirmed when he manages to stab the Beast in the back while the latter was distracted with joy that Belle returned even though he had to climb up several areas to reach him.
Gaston is the local hero of a small French village at an unknown point in French history presumably the mid-to-late 18th century. He owns a large tavern where he and the villagers drink and talk. Inside, there is a large portrait of him along with "trophies" from his hunt consisting mostly of animal antlers.
He also says he eats five dozen eggs every morning to help make him " roughly the size of a barge " even though he earlier mentions to Belle that he would have his latest kills roast over the fire. He starts off in the film shooting down a waterfowl headed south with perfect accuracy implying that he had just returned from a hunting trip and declaring his intent to marry Belle after acknowledging from LeFou his popularity with the females in the village.
He then started pursuing Belle throughout the village as she returns home after buying a book from the local bookstore. Their meeting starts off well, but Gaston's remarks about women reading and thinking drive Belle away from him, and she goes home, leaving him displeased. In addition, Gaston, after LeFou, learning Belle was going to help her father, mocked her father, scolded LeFou for mocking Maurice although it was implied that he mostly did that in an attempt to make Belle proud rather than out of any genuine concern for Maurice.
The next day, however, Gaston organizes a wedding outside Belle's cottage in an attempt to "surprise" her, complete with various decorations and a wedding cake. He forces his way into the cottage and attempts to strong-arm her into marrying him, again making sexist remarks about women and housewifery he even envisions the home they would live in as a " rustic " hunting lodge, with his latest kill roasting over the fire and Belle massaging his feet while their children—six or seven boys —play on the floor with their dogs.
While he attempts to corner Belle, she manages to open the door that he has pinned her against. This causes him to lose his balance and fly headfirst into a large mud pond complete with cat-tail plants in front of Belle's cottage, where we find out that a pig is there too. Mad and humiliated, Gaston storms off but not before vowing to make Belle his wife regardless of her refusals and throwing LeFou into the mud to boot. Later, during a snowstorm, the villagers in the tavern, along with LeFou, sing a song about Gaston's greatness to cheer him up after being rejected by Belle.
Then, all of a sudden, Maurice butts in and warns the villagers about a monstrous beast who has locked up Belle as a prisoner in the tower of his castle. Thinking he is talking nonsense, the villagers throw him out of the tavern, but Gaston realizes that he can use Maurice's outrageous claim to his advantage.
In a surprising display of animalistic cunning, he bribes the owner of the local asylum, Monsieur D'Arque, to threaten to throw Maurice into the asylum in order to pressure Belle into marrying him. Considering the management of asylums of the 18th century the time that the film takes place , this is an extremely harsh threat. LeFou is ordered to stay there and wait for their return. When Belle and Maurice eventually return to the cottage, LeFou informs Gaston right away, and he sets his plan into motion.
With the villagers gathered outside the house, D'Arque has his men drag Maurice towards their carriage, while Gaston makes Belle his offer - he will clear up the "misunderstanding" if she marries him. Frightened and grossed-out, Belle refuses, and Gaston allows Maurice to be dragged away.
Belle, however, manages to prove her father's loco claims about a beast inhabiting a huge castle in the woods to be true by using a magic mirror that the Beast gave her. Gaston gets even more frustrated after his plan fails and shocked that Maurice was telling the truth, but he becomes increasingly envious when Belle begins referring to the Beast as "kind and gentle", realizing that she prefers a "monster" over himself.
When he refers to the Beast with this insult, Belle furiously retorts back that he is the real monster which makes him snap. In his envy and snootiness, Gaston rudely snatches the mirror from Belle and successfully convinces the villagers that the Beast is a threat to the village and therefore must be brought down right away.
Locking Belle and Maurice in the basement to keep them from warning the Beast, Gaston leads a lynch mob to assault the Beast's castle and leave no one alive. Gaston bypasses the ensuing battle between the rioters and castle servants and encounters the Beast by himself. He fires an arrow into him, tosses him out of a window onto a lower section of the roof and tortures him.
When Beast doesn't reply, having lost his will to live since Belle's departure to rescue her lost father, who was searching for her , Gaston uses a makeshift club to try kill the Beast. The Beast, however, regains his strength when he sees Belle return she got away from the basement and viciously fights back.
Though roughly even with his adversary, Gaston learns that he cannot rely on brute strength to kill the Beast soon after, and instead begins torturing him in order to aggravate him enough to let his guard down, pushing the final button by claiming that Belle can never love a monster. The plan works but it backfires at once: the Beast lunges forth, snapping fiercely at him, and then holds the scared hunter at his mercy by holding him above a chasm by the throat.
With his life at stake, Gaston abandons his pride and pathetically begs for his life, and the Beast accepts, ordering Gaston to leave and never come back. In spite of this, when Gaston sees the Beast embracing Belle, his great hatred and envy arises again, which leads to his ultimate downfall. Determined to kill his rival once and for all, Gaston stabs Beast in the side with a knife while dangling precariously from the balcony, before The Beast swung his arm backwards and Gaston dodged it and was about to stab The Beast again but lost his balance and plunged into the deep chasm to his death.
As for The Beast, Belle's heart revived him and he was turned back into a human, along with the rest of the castle servants, including Mrs. Potts, Chip, Cogsworth, and Lumiere, of course. Gaston's role and personality in the musical based on the film is pretty much the same—a pompous, sexist, egotistical, boorish, brutish, brainless and chauvinistic caveman who loves only himself.
His ultimate goal is the same too—marry the prettiest girl in town and make her his " little wife " and his " property ".
Instead of ignoring the Bimbettes like in the film, he pays more attention to them saying that their 'rendezvouses' will continue after his marriage to Belle, implying adultery but still wants Belle as his wife, making them unsatisfied to the point of wailing and squallling like infants.
During the proposal scene where there's no wedding party outside unlike the movie , Gaston gives Belle a miniature portrait of himself as a present. In addition to the song Gaston , the song Me is performed by him in which he conceitedly proposes to Belle.
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No one is as beautiful as Gaston. See this in the app Show more. Top Photos. Even when the Beast overwhelms him, Gaston will not tolerate losing Belle to this "monster". This drive will blind him to the dangers of climbing a balcony, which overlooks a deep abyss, causing him to fall to his death.
In the film, Gaston's vocabulary skills are slightly inconsistent; when Belle refers to him as being "positively primeval" early in the film, the latter apparently takes it as either a compliment, clearly not knowing what the term actually means, or a joke. However, in the "Gaston" song, he accurately uses the word "expectorating" in reference to his skills at spitting "expectorating" being a more fancy way of saying the term "spit".
Gaston's view of women is extremely sexist and misogynistic even by standards of the time in which the film takes place. While he appears charming to all the other women of the village, such as the Bimbettes who, being products of an upbringing in the village, grew up to see nothing wrong with Gaston's behavior, completely mesmerized by his muscles and handsome face , Belle is the only woman in the entire town to be able to see him for what he really is from the very start of the film.
He believes that women like Belle are not supposed to be smart, think for themselves, or get ideas, and he even tosses Belle's book into the mud in an attempt to get her to focus on "more important things" namely, himself. Because of this, Gaston's attempts to charm Belle always fall flat because of his chauvinistic, boorish behavior. His sexism and misogyny is also shown by the fact that he does not seem to even consider the possibility of fathering any daughters, as he states he wants "six or seven strapping boys" like himself.
Gaston suffers from obsessive love , which is shown by his intense infatuation with Belle. Indeed, he is so obsessed with her that he ignores all the other pretty women in the village who would be happy to be his "little wife", even ironically, those who technically matched Gaston's standards of how women should behave.
When Gaston is singing about wanting to marry her in the opening song, he says "When I met her, saw her, I said she's gorgeous and I fell", implying that he fell in love for Belle at first sight. The Marvel Comics serial likewise strongly implied that he had feelings for Belle since they were children. These facts imply that another reason for his relentless pursuit of Belle is to satisfy his pride after it had been hurt by her rejection of his marriage proposal. Gaston is also adulterous at least in the musical , as he states to Claudette and her sisters that his " rendezvouses " with the girls will continue after he marries Belle, which makes it clear that he does not know or care that marriage is a one-woman commitment or that is it supposed to be based on love and devotion rather than ownership of property.
Notably, at the start of the film and musical play, Gaston did not seem truly evil; rather, he was simply conceited, male-chauvinistic, boorish, and rude than a true villain.
But as time goes on, his pride, arrogance, and obsession with Belle becomes so intense that it turns him into a twisted, sadistic, ruthless, murderous monster. With his obsession consuming him, Gaston becomes manipulative at this point; his speech to get the mob to kill the Beast in order to protect the village is nothing more than a ploy to get them to help him infiltrate the castle.
All he wants is to kill his rival so he can have Belle as his property. By the time of his death, Gaston feels that if he can't have Belle, nobody can. In an earlier version of the story, he was even going to commit suicide after killing the Beast as he knew that no matter what he did, Belle would never love him. As noted throughout the film, Gaston possesses an athletic build, a double square chin, and a handsome appearance. He has icy blue eyes and his black hair is long and tied with a crimson band into a ponytail.
He generally wears yellow hunting gloves, although he discards them by the midpoint, but wears them again towards the end of the film. Gaston also wears a red tunic and black tights, alongside black boots.
He mainly carries a quiver of arrows on his back and sports a cape during cold evenings and his final battle with the Beast. He also has a lot of hair on his chest. During the failed wedding attempt, Gaston wears a red tailcoat trimmed with gold fabric, a waistcoat, black ribbon tie, breeches, black boots, and white tights with rose socks with gray toes and heels the right one has a hole where one of his toes are revealed. As a child, Gaston's hair was slightly disheveled with its ends standing on top, although he retained the ponytail.
In addition, he possessed freckles, and his outfit consisted of a shirt, pants, and elf-shoes. Gaston is a professional hunter and the local hero of a small French village at an unknown point in French history. He owns a large tavern where he and the villagers drink and talk. Inside, there is a large portrait of himself along with "trophies" from his hunt consisting mostly of animal antlers.
He also says he eats five dozen eggs every morning to help make him " roughly the size of a barge " even though he earlier mentions to Belle that he would have his latest kills roast over the fire. He starts off in the film shooting down a waterfowl headed south with perfect accuracy implying that he had just returned from a hunting trip and declaring his intent to marry Belle after acknowledging from LeFou his popularity with the females in the village. Gaston then started pursuing Belle throughout the village as she returns home after buying a book from the local bookstore.
Their meeting starts off well, but Gaston throwing Belle's book into a mud puddle and making sexist remarks about women like Belle reading drive her away from him. When he tries to take away her book again and force her to come with him to the tavern and look at his trophies for a date, Belle takes her book back, rejects his invitation, and continues her way home, leaving Gaston disappointed. In addition, when LeFou mocks Belle's father Maurice after she says she has to get home to help him, Gaston laughs with him at first.
But when Belle defends her father against the two men, Gaston scolds LeFou for mocking Maurice although he does this in an attempt to impress Belle rather than out of any genuine concern for Maurice. The next day, however, Gaston organizes a whole wedding outside Belle's cottage in an attempt to "surprise" her, complete with various decorations, a priest, and a wedding cake. Without waiting for her to open the door first or be given her permission to come inside, Gaston forces his way into Belle's cottage and keeps walking towards her, trying to make her keep her eyes on him and block her attempts to get away.
He dirties her book for the second time by putting his mud-covered boots on it before kicking them off, and again makes sexist remarks about women and housewifery he even envisions the home they would live in as a " rustic " hunting lodge, with his latest kill roasting over the fire and his "little wife" massaging his feet while their children—six or seven strapping boys —play on the floor with their dogs. When Gaston finally makes his "proposal", in which he effectively says Belle will be his little wife as if he is not giving her a choice in the matter , he attempts to corner Belle and plant a kiss on her.
Disgusted by the thought of being his wife, Belle uses her wiles to keep Gaston at bay by slyly luring him towards the door, and when he pins her against it, she takes advantage of him keeping his eyes closed while he tries to kiss her by opening it and swinging around behind him. This catches Gaston off guard and causes him to fall forward into a swamp of mud complete with cat-tail plants in front of the cottage, where it's revealed that Maurice and Belle's pig Pierre is there, too.
Furious and humiliated, Gaston storms off, but not before vowing to make Belle his wife, regardless of her refusals, and throwing LeFou into the mud. Later that night, during a snowstorm, Gaston is in the tavern sulking after being rejected and humiliated by Belle, so the villagers along with LeFou, sing a song about Gaston's greatness to cheer him up.
Maurice suddenly interrupts and warns the villagers about a monstrous beast who has locked up Belle as a prisoner in the tower of his castle. Thinking he is talking nonsense, the villagers, amid Gaston ambiguously affirming that they'll "help [Maurice] out", throw him out of the tavern into the snow.
Gaston then realizes that he can use Maurice's outrageous claim to his advantage. In a surprising display of animalistic cunning, he bribes the owner of the local asylum, Monsieur D'Arque , to threaten to throw Maurice into the asylum in order to pressure Belle into marrying him. While D'Arque realizes that even Maurice's nonsense about a beast and his odd inventions do not make him dangerous, he is willing to accept the bribe, mostly because he liked the despicability of the plot.
Considering the management of asylums of the 18th century the time that the film takes place , this is an extremely harsh threat. However, just before Gaston and LeFou barge into Belle and Maurice's cottage, Maurice leaves for the castle on his own. Gaston orders LeFou to stay outside the cottage and wait for their return.
When Belle and Maurice eventually return to the cottage, LeFou immediately informs Gaston, and he sets his plan into motion. With the villagers gathered outside the house, D'Arque has his men drag Maurice towards their carriage, while Gaston slinks out of the shadows and slyly makes Belle his offer - he will clear up the "misunderstanding" if she marries him.
Horrified and disgusted, Belle refuses, and a smug Gaston allows Maurice to be dragged away. Belle, however, manages to prove her father's apparently insane claims about a beast inhabiting a huge castle in the woods to be true by using a magic mirror that the Beast had given her, showing him to Gaston and the entire village.
Gaston grows even more frustrated after his plan fails and is shocked that Maurice was indeed telling the truth, but becomes increasingly jealous when Belle begins referring to the Beast as "kind and gentle," realizing that she prefers a "monster" over himself. The final straw is when he refers to the Beast with this insult and Belle angrily retorts back that he is the real monster.
In his jealousy and pride, Gaston furiously snaps and snatches the mirror from Belle, spitefully declaring that she is just as crazy as her father.
He then successfully convinces the villagers that the Beast is a threat to the village and therefore must be brought down immediately. Shocked, Belle tries to stop him, but perceiving that Belle is against him, Gaston has her and Maurice locked in the basement to keep them from warning the Beast. Mounting his horse, he leads a lynch mob to attack the Beast's castle and leave no one alive while declaring that he himself is to take down the Beast.
They even carve a battering ram from a tree in the woods to use for breaking in. As they enter, the rioters are attacked by the castle servants. Gaston bypasses the ensuing battle and confronts the Beast alone in the West Wing. He fires an arrow into him, tosses him out of the window before kicking him over the balcony and onto a lower section of the roof and taunts him. When the Beast doesn't respond, having lost his will to live since Belle's departure to rescue her lost ill father, who was searching for her , Gaston breaks off a nearby castle statue and uses it as a makeshift club to try to kill the Beast.
Just as he is about to deliver the first blow, Belle arrives outside the castle she had escaped from the basement with help from Chip , who stowed away with her and calls up to Gaston, urging him not do this terrible thing, but the hunter ignores her.
Seeing Belle regains the Beast's strength and determination to keep fighting for his life as he grabs the club, viciously using strength and animal ferocity, much to Gaston's sudden surprise. The newly reemerged Beast stands tall to his full, imposing posture and towers above his attacker, growling like a dangerous animal. For the first time, Gaston is faced with prey that imposes a challenge of fighting back.
The colour drains from his face and a look of shock and horror phases him once he sees the opponent standing before him is more dangerous than he first thought. Though roughly even with his adversary, Gaston soon realizes that he cannot rely on brute strength alone to kill the Beast, as he is faced with a creature as powerful as a bear, with the agility and speed of a wolf, claws and teeth of a lion, head of a buffalo, climbing of gorilla and most passionate of motives: love.
The two struggle atop a tower roof before the Beast roaringly leaps forward and drags Gaston with him. The two eventually land and Gaston kicks him off. He then swings down his club on what he assumes to be his enemy, only to discover it to be a gargoyle statue. Gaston then walks cautiously while aggravating the Beast, who utilizes the surrounding statues and darkened rain clouds as cover.
Honestly it was unheard of and that's just how society back then was. It was sexist and "a woman's job" definitely wasn't to be reading books if you were a peasant girl such as Belle in 18th century France. Is it completely rude?
Absolutely yes, but any other villager would've done the same thing. In modern society, this is completely wrong and not okay, but back then? This is how men treated women, it was socially acceptable then, which is why Belle and Maurice are ridiculed and teased for going after science and books. Maybe because it reminds him of his parents or a servant who used to read to him.
He did own a HUGE library right in his castle. Royalty were sophisticated and of course loved literature, but to normal-everyday- people a girl reading was just odd, like all of the villagers in the opening song say!
So, tossing Belle's book was a bit over the top, but I can really see anybody doing this to her. It was just how Gaston and the other villagers were raised. You could argue that Gaston was wrong for wanting to kill the beast and that it was pure jealousy over him not being able to get Belle.
But let's remind ourselves about the Beast in the beginning of the story. Belle's father got lost in the woods and wandered into Adam's castle, where Beast ended up imprisoning him for NO reason at all. When Gaston learns about the beast from Maurice and Belle herself, Gaston's natural hunter instincts come in. We all know Gaston shoots more than just ducks, because he "uses antlers in all of his decorating," so we know he at least shoots deer as well and who knows what else!
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