Beauty and the Beast (2017) ft. Allyssa Swearingon of Gleeboot

Episode 11: The Beauty and the Beast (2017) (feat. Allyssa Swearingen)

 

This episode, we talk about the 2017 live-action remake of “Beauty and the Beast,” which is exactly the same as the 1991 animation but worse. We cringe at the movie answering all the thought experiments no one really wanted answers to, rate how sexy the bad-CGI beast is, and scream about how this movie was marketed as “more feminist” but is actually way less feminist. Plus, Cullen takes us on some adventures in Norway and Germany with animal bridegrooms and kidnapped, drugged husbands — some other iterations of the Beauty and the Beast story.

 

Check out Allyssa (IG: @a.m.swearingen) and her amazing art! If you want more Allyssa takes, check out our co-hosted podcast, Gleeboot (IG and TikTok: @gleebootpod)! 

 

Research for this episode:

 

• “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, translated by George Webbe Dasent and D. L. Ashliman
• “The Singing, Springing Lark” by The Brothers Grimm

 

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Research & Writing by Cullen Callaghan. 

This episode was edited by Hannah Sylvester.

 

Cover Art by William Callaghan

Intro Music "Not My Fantasy Quest" by Scott Little.