10 Movies That Made You Root For Monsters

10. Beauty And The Beast – The Beast

It’s obvious that Disney wants us to see village sex pest Gaston as the villain of Beauty and the Beast and while he’s undoubtedly a tw*t of the highest order, when you really think about it the Beast isn’t much better himself.

Not only does he take poor, unassuming Maurice hostage in his dungeon for merely trying not to get eaten by wolves but when Belle bravely comes looking for her father he forces her into trading his freedom for her captivity. Maybe things were different in rural 18th century France but nowadays that kind of carry-on would land you a kidnapping charge or two.

He might give Belle the odd concession here and there like giving her a nice room instead of having her sleep in his dungeon or allowing her access to his library but he’s still essentially holding her prisoner against her own will until she falls in love – or rather falls in Stockholm syndrome – with him.

And let’s not forget what got the Beast into his predicament in the first place: being a spoilt brat to an enchantress just because he thought she was old, ugly and poor. Can we really say for sure that a decade living as a bear-lion-wolf hybrid has changed him or is he still the same man-child he always was except now with a penchant for kidnapping old dudes and young girls?