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aparrotandaqrow · 8 months

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You know who I think about in far too much depth sometimes?

That little clock guy from Beauty and the Beast. Cogsworth.

This scene specifically. He is so proud of himself when he tells this joke. And he's so proud of the castle.

We see pretty explicitly in the film that the castle servants are lonely, and desperate for something new, after 10 years of the curse. But think about what the curse means for someone like Cogsworth, and what this little joke he tells implies.

He's so damn proud of the castle. He's so eager to take Belle on a tour, and tell her all about the castle's history, and not just its history, but its art history. And he's probably not the first of his family to serve in this castle; his family has probably lived and worked in this castle for generations. The heritage of the castle is as much his own family legacy as it is the Prince's.

He was so ready with that joke; it was a polished and rehearsed line. You get the sense this is a practiced tour; he gave it to dignitaries and guests frequently before the curse. And he hadn't had a chance to use it on anyone for ten years.

I dunno, I'm just struck by what it must have felt like for this man, for the curse to not only mean his physical transformation and confinement, and isolation from the outside world, but also to lose the ability to tell the story of his family home to guests from near and far. So much of his purpose was wrapped up in telling the castle's story, and for ten years he couldn't really do that—when all the other guests were transformed into representations of their purpose (brightening a room through entertainment, cleaning up, cooking, etc), all he can do is mark time, unable to tell his defining story.

And then Belle walks in, and he cannot resist but tell the stupidest fucking joke that he's been holding in for 10 years.

#disney #beauty and the beast #cogsworth #I dunno I feel a connection with this sad little man desperate to share his favorite pun #I think we should pay more attention to his character

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capturingdisney · 6 months

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firawren · 6 months

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Beauty and the Beast 1991 text posts, part 10 out of ?

#beauty and the beast memes #beauty and the beast 1991 #batb 91 #beauty and the beast #text posts #belle #the beast #gaston #cogsworth #disney #my stuff

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fizzy-dizz · 7 months

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Kith

#beauty and the beast #lumiere #cogsworth #lumiworth #disney #artz #HAD TO DO IT...#hc cogsy makes a lil cuckoo noise #normal abt them so so normal abt them #batb #animation #flipaclip #me when disney r cowards so i do the job MYSELF 💪

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lovewillthaw-j · 6 months

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Mrs Potts, Chip, Cogsworth, Plumette and Lumiere in Once Upon A Studio!

#beauty and the beast #disney 100 #lumiere #cogsworth #once upon a studio #disneyfeverdaily #disneyedit #disneynetwork #disneydaily #disneygifsdaily #disneyfilms #disneysource #fyeahdisney #animated disney gifs #animationsdaily #dailyanimatedgifs #dailyflicks #filmtvcentral #tvfilmsource

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mlmshipbracket · 2 months

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ROUND 1: POLL #47

HeavyMedic/Red Oktoberfest art by ma2ereki on Tumblr

ROUND 1 POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Lumière/Cogsworth:

Mikhail”Misha” [Heavy]/Dr. Ludwig [Medic]:

NO PROPAGANDA SUBMITTED

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megan-the-artoonist · 2 months

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Dan Abraham (Instagram @sharktooth72), co-director of Disney’s “Once Upon a Studio,” recently shared a deleted gag from the short. Cogsworth walks down a hall of framed photos and Lucky the Dalmatian hops out to say hi before being followed by the 100 others. This storyboard sketch was so cute that I drew it out as if it were fully animated.

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#once upon a studio #disney once upon a studio #disney 100 #disney #disneyart #walt disney animation studios #cogsworth #beauty and the beast #lucky dalmatian #101 dalmatians #Instagram

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jessadamsdraws · 9 months

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I had a thought. Do you think Belle had a hard couple of days adjusting after the curse was broken. Like we don't really know how long she was their for (and my personal headcannon she was their for months) so anytime they called/ talked to her she'd always look down.

just a funny thought I had in my head.

#fanart #my art #fan art #art #digital art #comic #cartoon #batb fanart #beauty and the beast #beauty and the beast 1991 #batb lumiere #batb headcannons #lumiere #batb #cogsworth

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loudeaglecollective · 1 month

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🤨🏳️‍🌈?

#disney #beauty and the beast #batb #cogsworth #batb 1991 #🏳️‍🌈?#meme #Batb meme #batb enchanted christmas

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intothewestwing · 3 months

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my cosworth redesign | i made all the servants human-sized in my rewrite

#beauty and the beast #beautyandthebeast fanfic #beauty and the beast retelling #beautyandthebeast #cogsworth #cogsworth art

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artist-issues · 3 months

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Wait, hold up. You wanna run that by me again? People are saying he didn’t deserve to be turned into a beast? When he literally was rude for no reason to that “old lady”?

Yup. Like he was just a teenager, he should be cut some slack, she was setting him up.

But it’s like

Yeah

She was setting him up because she knew he had no love in his heart. Do you know how horrible a King with no love in his heart would be when the Prince grows up? Do you know how awful the “little poor provincial town” would have it in the shadow of a Prince who reaches adulthood with the kind of character and heart that shuts old women out in the cold? The Enchantress did. So she cursed him so that he’d develop into a kind, gentle, loving man. There’s a reason the curse lasted until his twenty-first birthday. That’s adulthood. He had till then to learn to love.

And you know what else?

Of course the castle and servants would be cursed too.

That’s the Beast’s first lesson: you’re being cursed because when you have no love for anything but yourself, it’s the people closest to you who suffer for it. His household is a living object lesson for him to be faced with, day after day, for ten years, about how the consequences of your actions affect more than just you—they affect the people who depend on you. Really important lesson for the King of a kingdom to learn.

And even if that weren’t enough, which it is, don’t come griping to me about the servants being cursed for something the Prince did. Riddle me this: why is the Prince answering the door? Why isn’t a footman doing that? Why isn’t Lumiere doing that?

Why is it they’re turned into furniture instead of little beasts? Why is the first scene they’re introduced in an old MAN begging for shelter from the bitter cold, and choosing to welcome him in despite “The Master?”

Why is their big number “Be Our GUEST?”

The answers to those questions aren’t given but it’s strongly implied that, instead of doing their jobs, and instead of standing up to their Master up to and including the incident with the Enchantress, they used to just stand to the side, making no sacrifices, taking no risks.

The theme of the movie is “true love is self-sacrifice.” Hospitality is one of the most self-sacrificial practices you can engage in. You’re literally making yourself vulnerable: you’re inviting someone into your home, you’re putting their comfort before your own, you’re giving them your hard-earned food and heat and drink and time, you’re allowing them to come into your sanctuary, your safe space, and judge it while you make them comfortable. Be Our Guest, indeed! Standing up to the Master, indeed! They’ve learned their lesson by the time Belle and her father are on the scene.

The thing is, we love to try and excuse away the responsibility of the main character because we love to try and excuse away our own character flaws. Blame it on trauma. That’s not the point. The point is, for the story to work, and for the fictional kingdom to have a happy ending with a Prince who’s like that, the Beast has to grow out of his character flaws. He has a problem, and it needs solving—how he got the problem is irrelevant.

And there’s just so little chance that a Prince, who has everything in life that he could ever want and is dependent on nobody, for anything, would ever feel the need for love. Or worse, he’d never feel the need to correct himself, or change, or grow in any way. He needed to have some discipline—some MAJOR discipline, some KINGDOM-SAVING discipline—in order to even be the kind of guy that could notice a peasant girl’s self-sacrificial loving nature, much less value her and fall in love with her.

Thank goodness for the Enchantress and the Curse. Or else this fairy tale could’ve turned into the French Revolution.