Both Disney and supervising animator Andreas Deja initially struggled with the concept of animating a handsome villain, which had never been attempted by the studio before. [41] CNN agreed that Gaston is one of "Disney's scariest villains", writing, "the only thing worse than a cocky, demanding guy who can't take a hint is a cocky, demanding guy who organizes a mob to kill your boyfriend", concluding, "He may not have looked scary, but he was obviously the movie's real beast. ranked the character the sixth best Disney villain. tis the best song from the movie 8D i love this song XD lolGaston (c)DisneyBeauty and the Beast (c) Disney Anything you could imagine...they could draw! Gaston appears in the Broadway musical adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, which premiered at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 18, 1994. [citation needed]. [35] Following Gaston's success, Deja would develop a reputation of animating Disney villains, continuing with Jafar from Aladdin (1992) and Scar from The Lion King (1994). However, she refuses his proposal when he throws a wedding party without her prior knowledge. "[66] Additionally, author Jerry Griswold wrote in his book The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook that Gaston's hypermasculinity potentially "amounts to a resistance to his own homosexuality" (after all, he is in love with himself), comparing him to Lester Burnham's homophobic neighbor in the film American Beauty (1999). He generally served as comic relief and effectively the "protagonist" of the village B-stories, where he is trying to come up with some scheme to get Belle to marry him, only for the triplets to interfere and sabotage his plans in order to get him to focus on them over Belle. [5] This version of Gaston was abandoned along with much of the original film treatment's elements, including Marguerite,[5] at the behest of Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. "[94] Featured among Collider's "9 Most Wicked Animated Villains", contributor Matt Goldberg hailed Gaston as "a delightful caricature of an idiotic jock. "[88] Jaime N. Christley of Slant Magazine dismissed the character as juvenile and little more than the film "reducing every aspect of its source material to the level a kindergartner would understand". [65] The film makes sure that Gaston's opinions about women are viewed as little more than "boorish";[64] Woolverton wanted Gaston to teach young boys "how not to treat women. Directed by Richard Stanton, it featured Madlaine Traverse as Henriette Caillaux and Eugene Ormonde as Gaston Calmette. "[27] Gaston's expressions were exaggerated to the point of which they exceeded normalcy, essentially "overacting. "[29] The final version was decided via a contest, in which the animators vied to determine who could best design Gaston's chest hair. [6] She was defended by the prominent attorney Fernand Labori who persuaded the jury that her crime, which she did not deny, was not a premeditated act but that her uncontrollable female emotions resulted in a crime of passion. Directed by Steve Rash. [43] Gaston's bodybuilder physique serves as a deliberate exaggeration upon "the stereotyped image of male beauty";[47][48] The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook author Jerry Griswold compared the character's appearance to actors Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger,[49] while the Chicago Tribune's Gene Siskel described him as a "Robert Goulet clone on steroids. [18] Additionally, Gaston's death was originally intended to have resulted from him being eaten alive by wolves after surviving his fall from the Beast's castle, suffering only a broken leg;[20] this idea was ultimately discarded and eventually resurrected for Scar's death in The Lion King (1994). [27] White agreed that Gaston is "full of himself, of course, but he's not recognizably villainous" until his opinions and expectations of Belle are further explored. It featured a deposition from the president of the Republic, an unheard-of occurrence at a criminal proceeding almost anywhere, along with the fact that many of the participants were among the most powerful members of French society. Imagined by screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who based the character on the ex-boyfriends she dated in her past, Gaston was developed specifically for Disney's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast because the studio felt that the film could benefit from a strong villain, who is lacking in the original fairy tale. [49] Decorated with fur and horns, Gaston's chair resembles the Beast when viewed from behind. [55], From very early during the film, audiences are led to expect that Gaston's obsession with Belle will eventually drive him to battle the Beast, Belle's love interest and protector. The publication of his letter severely tarnished Caillaux's reputation and caused a great political upheaval. He was an arrogant and chauvinistic hunter who was greedily determined to have Belle's hand in marriage, even by force if necessary. [66] Simon Brew of Den of Geek was very receptive towards the character: "thanks to a mix of humour, believable character development, compelling motivation and the excellent voicing work of Richard White (proving you don't need a big movie star on voice duties), he's an utterly compelling antagonist, and an extremely interesting one. She refused to be transported to the police headquarters in a police van, insisting on being driven there by her chauffeur in her own car, which was still parked outside. [22] Because White continued to perform on Broadway while working on Beauty and the Beast, Disney would accommodate his stage career by hiring a studio to work wherever he was located. He privately offers to put a stop to it if he lets him marry Belle, but Maurice still refuses. [13] Deja incorporated physical attributes of several of Disney's "classic" villains into Gaston's design, specifically the wide chest and square jawline of Captain Hook from Peter Pan (1953). Maurice appears, claiming that Belle has been imprisoned by the Beast. Gaston is one of several elements unique to Disney's animated adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. They also shared his egomania to some extent but were comparatively kinder than their father. "[67] Hal Hinson of The Washington Post felt that Gaston was "overbearing" because "everything about him is comically exaggerated and satirized to the point that you feel as if the cleft in his chin might swallow you whole. You're in a room by yourself and are invited to be as creative as you can be. Bored with his peaceful life after returning from the war, Gaston pursues Belle, determined to marry her, as she is the most beautiful girl in the village and the only one good enough for him. Ungrateful and unrepentant, Gaston stabs the Beast in the back when he sees him embracing Belle, but loses his balance when the Beast swings his arm backwards at him; consequently, Gaston falls to his death. [21] Frus elaborated, "few viewers predict that" Gaston "will finish the film snarling like an animal ... before falling to his death", concluding that the character "does not need to magically turn into a beast at the end because, as a male, he is already 'beastly'. Considered to be one of Disney's most famous villains, Gaston is frequently ranked within the top-tens of Disney villain rankings released by several media publications. The script was rewritten by Stephen Chbosky. Evans will reprise his role in an upcoming Beauty and the Beast spin-off/prequel series for Disney+. "[57], Gaston is Disney's most chauvinistic villain to-date, although this trait is approached with humor, making him at times a comic relief character early on,[51] unlike Disney's previous villains. The second time was in the fifth season, where he befriended Belle. She published a reference book in 1935 in which she established an inventory of the work of this artist. In 1908, she divorced Claretie; Caillaux had more difficulties in divorcing his wife, but he eventually did so and they married in October 1911. [6] Gaston, a character who does not exist in the original fairy tale,[7] was among several elements borrowed from the live-action version of the story,[6] based on a character Cocteau himself had created specifically for his film: Avenant,[6] portrayed by French actor Jean Marais who also plays the Beast in a dual role. [52] Richard Corliss of Time observed that the character's "bigotry, for wanting to marry Belle because she's the prettiest girl in town...corrodes into malevolence when he consigns Belle's eccentric father to an asylum and leads the ignorant villagers on a torches-and-pitchforks crusade," which has been compared to scenes from the horror film Frankenstein (1931). [53] In the end, Gaston becomes the monster the Beast was originally depicted as,[51] and his failure "to transform into a New Man" ultimately results in his own death. In the early 1930s she was awarded a diploma of the École du Louvre for her thesis on the sculptor Jules Dalou. [21] The character is also void of both magical powers and political influence. He becomes jealous, snaps, and decides to gather a band of villagers to kill the Beast, playing off their fears that the Beast might wreak havoc on their village. Let's take a look at the 8 most evil female characters in Disney's animated classics. This time, however, he simply tries to convince the villagers the castle was evil and of dark magic, and thus needed to be destroyed, and to that end tried to abduct Mrs. Potts, Chip, Cogsworth, and Lumiere to act as proof. [1] By the end of the film, Gaston has essentially traded places with the Beast, the latter of whom was originally depicted as the story's antagonist. [47] Gaston intimidates and threatens anyone opposed to his ideas,[48] and actively attends male social gatherings via which he can exercise his "alpha male" status. In the novel, Gaston and the Beast are portrayed as childhood friends, with the curse erasing Gaston's memory of the prince. while walking by, rudely interrupting people's conversations and this phrase is frequently used as rip-offs by other characters. [75] The role was originated by actor Burke Moses, who received a nomination for a Drama Desk Award and won a Theatre World Award. [56] Obsessed with his own virility,[41] Gaston shares several opinions associated with "the hyper-masculine male",[48] boasting many "traditionally heroic" qualities and beliefs. [13] However, some filmmakers continued to contest whether or not Gaston was actually a strong enough villain. In addition to Parmenides, the famous successors of Thales and Pythagoras include Zeno of Elea (see below), Hippocrates of Chios (see below), Plato of Athens (ca 428-348 BC), Theaetetus (see below), and Archytas (see below). [2] They had two children. [24] This process allowed the animators to incorporate White's acting performance into Gaston. [21] Further distinguishing Gaston from the villains in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Sleeping Beauty (1959), respectively, the character does not undergo a hideous physical transformation before he dies. He is also in Descendants: Isle of the Lost, the tie-in novel to Descendants, where he has four kids. Unlike in the animated movie, Gaston's death is shown on screen. Gaston sulks in the tavern until LeFou cheers him up with a song. She felt the only way for her husband to defend his reputation would be to challenge Calmette to a duel, which, one way or another, would destroy her and her husband's life. When the headmaster and Clothilde catch Belle teaching a girl how to read, they rouse some of the villagers into destroying the laundry invention she made which Le Fou informs Gaston about. Deja ultimately based Gaston's appearance on those of handsome soap opera actors in order to create a grotesque version of the Prince Charming stock character, while some of White's own operatic mannerisms were incorporated into the character. (Another version has Hippasus banished for revealing the secret for constructing the sphere which circumscribes a dodecahedron.) [11], Acte de naissance nº 213, année 1874, état civil de Rueil, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henriette_Caillaux&oldid=1017114301, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 April 2021, at 22:19. His blackmail plan fails when Belle proves the Beast does exist, and she says that he is her friend, and that he is a better person than Gaston. [96] Oh My Disney ranked Gaston's line "The most beautiful girl in town, that makes her the best! Gaston is a fictional character in Walt Disney Pictures' 30th animated feature film Beauty and the Beast (1991) and the film's major antagonist. The first was in the first season, where he was Belle's fiancé and attempted to save Belle from Rumplestiltskin, but got transfigured into a rose. [4], After being shown into Calmette's office, Henriette Caillaux exchanged a few words with him, then pulled out a .32 Browning automatic pistol she had been concealing within the muff and fired six shots, Calmette was hit four times and was critically wounded. "[25] Although White did not feel like it was necessary for him to physically "become" his character in order to voice him, in retrospect, he admits that he acted much more like Gaston during recording sessions. Voiced by American actor and singer Richard White, Gaston is an arrogant and aggressive hunter whose unrequited feelings for the intellectual Belle drive him to murder his adversary, the Beast, once he realizes she cares for him instead. "[21] Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman hailed Gaston as "a wonderful character",[80] while The Daily Beast lauded the character as "a triumphantly funny villain". At 5pm on 16 March 1914, she entered offices of Le Figaro, wearing a fur coat and with her hands in a fur muff,[3] and asked to see Gaston Calmette. [7] She died in 1943. [74], A live-action version of Gaston appears in two episodes of the fantasy television series Once Upon a Time, in which he is first portrayed by Sage Brocklebank and later by Wes Brown. A 1985 made for French television film called L'Affaire Caillaux and a 1992 book titled Trial of Madame Caillaux by American history professor Edward Berenson recount the event. [53] Greg Garrett, author of The Gospel According to Hollywood, determined that Gaston serves as "a reminder that what the world loves is not worth emulating". [1] Ultimately, Gaston and the Beast embody bad and good masculinity, respectively;[70] the characters are used "to play the New Age sensitive man off against the macho man," according to Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature author John Stephens.[71]. Belle is the only one in town who actually dislikes Gaston for the person he is inside. "[4] In fact, Gaston was originally intended to resemble more of an annoying than antagonistic character, while the main villainous role belonged to Belle's aunt Marguerite instead, who plotted to force Belle into marrying Gaston. [9] Before and during World War I, Joseph Caillaux had indeed been an advocate of peaceful compromise with Germany, and at the end of 1917 while the war was still going on, he was charged and convicted of treason. [32] Medium contributor Brett Seegmiller strongly believes that "Gaston is one of the best villains in the Disney canon" because audiences both respect and fear him, as well as the best leader in his opinion. [66] E! [14][28] Deja explained, "I understood him from a story point of view, but visually was hard", and at times argued with Katzenberg over whether or not the character was handsome enough. "[31] Deja recalled that he was constantly "walking a fine line by drawing and animating Gaston in subtle ways, yet he also had to be able to articulate emotions like arrogance, anger and evil. "[86][87] In her book From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture, author Elizabeth Bell reviewed Gaston as a "Chauvinist Pig, the kind that would turn the women of any primetime talkshow audience into beasts themselves. Gaston has appeared in the television series Disney's House of Mouse, and was voiced again by White. "[21] Deja also exaggerated Gaston's proportions to help audiences believe that the character could actually physically face the beast head-on. [51] The scene in which Gaston sits in his large chair in the village tavern is a reference to him and the Beast's similarities. The police agreed to this and she was formally charged upon reaching the headquarters. Intrigued, Gaston offers to help Maurice free her as means of gaining both Maurice and Belle's favor. [46] Determined to win Belle as a trophy wife,[61] Gaston never attains her;[51] the character's ego is sorely bruised when his vision of a provincial life is threatened by Belle's rejection,[53] only augmenting his determination to marry her at whatever cost,[11] and bringing his insecurities to the forefront for the first time. He was depicted in a lighter manner compared to the original movie, where it is implied that his love for Belle was genuine. Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d /, PORT-lənd) is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in Northwestern Oregon. [22] His initial audition was first recorded on audio cassette, a copy of which was then forwarded to Disney. ST JOHN’S (AP): Prime Minister Gaston Browne has sought to downplay opposition concerns over remarks he made regarding the persons being evacuated from St Vincent and the Grenadines, where the erupting La He also appears in an expanded role in Serena Valentino's 2014 book The Beast Within: A Tale Of Beauty's Prince, which takes place prior to the start of the original film. "[27] To make Gaston a multi-dimensional character, Deja worked to incorporate various "expressions—the sarcasm, the broadness and the expressiveness—that the handsome leading man seldom gets to show". [32] One particular challenge of animating a realistic-looking character like Gaston was the difficulty of having him express certain emotions that would not result in him looking too "cartoony," but at the same time trying to instill the character's performance with "life. Calmette received a letter belonging to Caillaux that journalistic etiquette at the time dictated should not be published. [63] Opposed to the idea of women reading, Gaston believes that he'll be able to "cure" Belle of her thirst for intellect after marrying her,[64] although at the same time these same passions appear to heighten his interest in her. [81] The New York Times' Janet Maslin described Gaston's "fatuousness" as "well conveyed" while praising White's performance, writing that the actor "do[es] wonders in bringing ... Gaston to life. Movies included Gaston at number 11 on their ranking of "the 12 most famous Disney villains from worst to best", awarding him "points for not only being a huge jerk, but for also trying to blackmail Belle into marrying him ... and for leading a mob to kill Beast. With DJ Qualls, Mary Cobb, Rhoda Griffis, Preston Jones. "[1], Beauty and the Beast parodies the idea of excessive masculinity, a trait shared by both Gaston and the Beast. [18] The writers also briefly deliberated having Gaston kill himself once he realizes that Belle will never love him, but this idea was also quickly discarded. [8][9] Similar to Cocteau's addition of Avenant, Gaston was created for the animated adaptation because Disney felt that the story could potentially benefit from a legitimate villain, which the original text lacks,[10] in addition to instilling Beauty and the Beast with a more prominent element of danger. [3] Gaston Calmette died six hours after being shot.[5]. Gaston breaks up the activity as Pére Robert helps Belle pick up her laundry. Voiced by American actor and singer Richard White, Gaston is an arrogant and aggressive hunter whose unrequited feelings for the intellectual Belle drive him to murder his adversary, the Beast, once he realizes she cares for him instead. The letter seemed to suggest that improprieties had been committed by Caillaux. Gaston debuted in Beauty and the Beast as an arrogant hunter who is determined to marry Belle, whom he considers to be the village's most beautiful woman. He confronts the Beast alone and shoots him in the back, claiming Belle sent him. [57] Time's Richard Corliss called Gaston "a way-too-handsome galoot" and "Dudley Do-Right gone wrong. However, Belle appears and the Beast fights back, holding Gaston over a chasm; Gaston begs for mercy and is spared. Status: Asset Freeze Targets REGIME: Afghanistan INDIVIDUALS Name 6: ABBASIN 1: ABDUL AZIZ 2: n/a 3: n/a 4: n/a 5: n/a. However, when Gaston begs for his life, the Beast decides to be the better man and have mercy, and climbs back up to Belle. Directed by Gaston Biraben. "[14][33] Creating the character's chest hair, which he exposes during his performance of "Gaston", was a fiercely debated subject among animators. In the Melbourne stage production of the film, he was played by Hugh Jackman. [52] Ultimately, although Gaston mortally wounds the Beast, he is still unable to kill the human who continues to thrive within him. He also had a mention in Kinect: Disneyland Adventures, and also appeared briefly as a disguise for the villain Misrabel in Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion. He's in love with the face in the mirror, and the pathology of male vanity is a very '90s idea. "[45], Beloved by nearly every character in the film, most of whom revere him as the town's most eligible bachelor,[29][46] Decent Films film critic Steven D. Greydanus agreed that Gaston initially resembles "merely the ultimate dumb jock". [66] While dubbing Gaston's characterization "one of the movie's cleverest touches", at the same time Stephen Hunter of The Baltimore Sun felt that the character lacks the charisma of some of Disney's earlier female villains, namely the Evil Queen and Cruella de Vil from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1964), respectively. When told he was away but would return within an hour, she sat to wait. Henriette Caillaux (5 December 1874 – 29 January 1943) was a Parisian socialite and second wife of the former Prime Minister of France, Joseph Caillaux. [18] After Woolverton re-wrote Belle into a more liberated Disney heroine, the animators struggled to realize the screenwriter's vision and briefly depicted the character shoving Gaston into a closet after he proposes to her, an idea Woolverton strongly contested and fought to have written out of the film in favor of Belle rejecting her suitor's proposal in a less "bitchy" way. [48] While the Beast maintains "a heart of gold" despite being hideous in appearance, Gaston boasts a handsome exterior but remains "rotting on the inside";[51] the Beast risks becoming like Gaston on the inside if he fails to change his ways. In 1907 she began having an affair with Joseph Caillaux while both he and she were still married. [33] According to Den of Geek's Simon Brew, Gaston is "animated really carefully, as it would have been easy to slip, and allow us to see the less jovial, more sinister side of his character earlier. [47] Extremely egotistical, Gaston appears to pride himself as the greatest at any task he attempts. [15], In addition to eliminating Belle's sisters, screenwriter and creator Linda Woolverton introduced Gaston as a "blockheaded suitor" for the heroine,[16] basing the character on boyfriends she had dated in the past. [1] Under Richard and Jill Purdum's direction, Gaston originally resembled a "foppish aristocrat" as opposed to the strong, arrogant hunter he would ultimately be revised into;[2][3] The Huffington Post described early drafts of Gaston as "a weaselly, sort of wimpy character. He also had a section dedicated to himself in the tongue-in-cheek book Villain Files alongside the other Disney villains, with it implying that his meeting Belle was during archery practice. [17] Several darker elements originally conceived for the film were ultimately written out of the final version, among them the idea of Gaston himself first visiting the insane asylum in which he plans on imprisoning Belle's father Maurice. Gaston serves as a foil personality to the Beast, who was once as vain as Gaston prior to his transformation. ", "Ranking the 12 most famous Disney villains from worst to best", "20 Best Disney Villains Of All Time, Ranked", "Disney's 9 Most Wicked Animated Villains", "Does the Mob Song from Beauty and the Beast prove that Gaston is the best Disney villain?

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