Beauty And The Beast Remake: 8 Deleted Scenes You Need To See

8. Bread And Jam For Agathe

One scene that was cut from Beauty and the Beast’s opening musical number shows Belle on her morning market rounds in the provincial town when she stops to greet Agathe, the village vagabond.

During the heart-warming exchange between these two characters, who don’t share any interactions with each other in the final film, Belle offers bread and jam to Agathe, who gratefully accepts.

This scene serves to emphasise Belle’s compassionate nature, partly due to her own status as an outcast within the small-minded community of villagers, who treat the beggar-woman as an outsider.

Agathe is a minor yet crucial character in the film; as the enchantress in disguise she habitually rewards good people, which perhaps explains the reason she helps Belle’s father after finding him close to death in the woods.

This deleted scene may also answer the question of what happened to the baguette that Belle bought from the baker, which mysteriously vanished from her pocket partway through the first song.

Sometimes you have to separate the wheat from the chaff, though.