Beauty And The Best Remake: 6 Iconic Elements They Left Out

The Beauty and the Beast remake was a sure-fire hit for Disney in its ever-expanding strategy of "Le'ts redo all our classic 'toons, but for realsies this time!" But reception of the film has been surprisingly split.

But while some have found it to be, at best, unnecessary, for the most part, audiences worldwide are embracing it as a magical update on the classic tale as old as time. The new songs are great, the character designs intricate and imaginative, and Gaston’s IRL pompadour is more than satisfactorily pomp’d.

Given that the '91 animated movie has become such a classic, fans may have found themselves waiting for certain things to happen, certain details to reveal themselves as the remakers avoided messing with the formula too much. You know, those little "Je ne sais quois," as LeFou would say, that made the cartoon so special.

While many of the things did in fact happen, they tended to be big set pieces, but there were a few iconic tidbits missing from this film that would have been wonderful to see in live-action.

Everyone in the animated village thinks that Belle is super weird because she likes to read books with hardly any pictures in them.

Sure, maybe that’s just what people would have thought about a literate woman during this time period, but the animated Belle isn't doing herself any favors by reading to sheep.

It would have been beyond amazing to see Emma Watson interact with some big bushy real-life sheep. Not impossibly fluffy, weightless CGI sheep. Living, breathing, possibly cloned, actual sheep.

Maybe having a herd of wooly creatures on a soundstage isn’t par for the course anymore, but having live animals on set would have made the movie better and everyone knows it. The blooper reel alone would have made it worthwhile.