Beauty And The Beast: 20 Fiendishly Clever Easter Eggs You Probably Missed

Even if you didn't have the time to actually sit and watch the entire film, you can still gain a fairly broad indication of how the story will unfold from the first few seconds of screentime.

As the prologue unfolds, the camera captures the beautiful stained glass window that celebrates Prince Adam (at this point an 11 year old boy, according to the film's lore, but still clearly trusted with a ginormous sword, nonetheless). At the bottom, the family crest has the Latin phrase 'vincit qui se vincit', which basically translates as 'He conquers, who conquers himself.'

Therein lies a condensed version of the film's central message: that in order to truly change the world, one must change from within. The most Disney of all Disney messages.

There's also another playful language Easter Egg elsewhere, as any French person will tell you that Gaston's annoying sidekick Lefou's name pronounced in French sounds a lot like the words for "idiot", "fool" and "the insane."