KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -During the movie, we find out all the petals have nearly fallen off the rose, and the curse has been in place for 10 years. This makes sense if the Beast is nearly 21-and was thus cursed when he was 10-11 years old.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the animated Disney version, Lumiere says the castle has been cursed for ten years. The prologue also says that the enchanted rose would bloom until the Beast’s “twenty-first year.” So that means that during the main storyline, the Beast/Prince is twenty or twenty-one years old and was cursed when he was eleven.

Detailed explanation-3: -Less than a year. Maybe six months. Belle’s father was imprisoned for taking a rose around fall, and Belle goes after him not much long after. We see it snows because Belle and Beast have a small snowball fight, and Lefou was covered by snow when Gaston told him to wait outside Belle’s house until she returned.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Beast was once a human prince, but his selfishness and arrogance led him to mistreat a beggar woman who happened to be the Enchantress in disguise. In response, she cursed him to live out the rest of his life as a beast until he could learn to love and be loved in return.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Prince in Beauty and The Beast was NOT eleven-years-old when he was cursed. 1. The Lines “Until his twenty first year” (said by the narrator) and “Ten years we’ve been rusting” from Be our Guest are the only reason people think the prince was eleven.