The most notable one is Gaston Reads X, which features Gaston reading any random famous book/manga and mocks it.

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while walking by, rudely interrupting people's conversations and this phrase is frequently used as rip-offs by other characters. “His dedication to the community has been remarkable, and he will be difficult to replace.”. Apparently, he does not know much about reproduction either, as not very many women give birth to many children at one time (assuming that he wants his boys to be born all at once). A park spokeswoman said that the flames were contained by around 9:48 p.m., and no injuries were reported.
[59] Prior to Gaston's debut, virtually every Disney villain before him had been unattractive in appearance; Den of Geek writer Simon Brew holds Gaston accountable for changing the reputation of future Disney villains. [66] Simon Brew of Den of Geek was very receptive towards the character: "thanks to a mix of humour, believable character development, compelling motivation and the excellent voicing work of Richard White (proving you don't need a big movie star on voice duties), he's an utterly compelling antagonist, and an extremely interesting one. His ultimate goal is the same too—marry the prettiest girl in town and make her his "little wife" and his "property". The L.A. Times’ endorsements in the November 2020 election. Over the past year, Rob Walker, the character actor who reportedly plays the park's Gaston has been quietly building a cult following. Despite his death, Gaston has recently been enjoying a considerable degree of fan popularity on the Internet, with the character himself becoming a minor internet meme. [14][28] Deja explained, "I understood him from a story point of view, but visually was hard", and at times argued with Katzenberg over whether or not the character was handsome enough. At the start of the film and musical play, Gaston did not seem truly evil, but simply conceited, male-chauvinistic, boorish and rude (he even felt it was not right for women to read, as he desires a woman to be brainless so she can easily obey a man's orders without objection; he also views Belle and all women of his village as "property", as confirmed in his song in the musical). [34] Colors were used to indicate characters' emotions and affiliations in the film; while Gaston is dressed in red to represent evil, Belle and the Beast wear blue to depict goodness. [22] His initial audition was first recorded on audio cassette, a copy of which was then forwarded to Disney. [2] It is this sexist viewpoint that drives him away from Belle (the woman he wishes to marry), who looks at him as brainless and boorish as a result, while every other woman in the village (especially Claudia and her sisters) doesn't seem to notice or care. [1] Mania.com's Rob Vaux observed that Gaston is "small-minded" in comparison to other Disney villains because his ideas tend to resemble those of school bullies, particularly one whose ego has been inflated "by the people around him," as opposed to "grand schemes;"[32] the character has no known desire to conquer the world, lacking ambitions beyond simply marrying the woman he is attracted to. He accosts her at her home, subtly offering his hand in marriage for when Maurice dies, but she turns him down. With the villagers gathered outside the house, D'Arque has his men drag Maurice towards their carriage, while Gaston makes Belle his offer - he will clear up the "misunderstanding" if she marries him.

Furious and humiliated, Gaston storms off but not before vowing to make Belle his wife regardless of her refusals and throwing LeFou into the mud to boot. Staples was listed as living on Oak Park Way near Lake Frederica for part of 2014, according to public records.

He hopes by doing this, it would coerce Belle into marrying him, as he tells Lefou that after Maurice dies there will be no one to take care of Belle except for him. [44] The Huffington Post's Lauren Duca agreed that Gaston is "more aggressively intolerable than horrifying. [92] TVOvermind also ranked Gaston sixth despite his lack of magical powers "because of his overwhelming douchebaggery" whose "general intolerance makes for a terrific villain. She arrived at the unloading zone semi-conscious. Gaston has blue eyes the same eye colour as his rival. He also implied that this version of Gaston is darker than the original. Here, he plots to manipulate the villagers into believing the Beast's castle is evil and should be destroyed. The fire was out in about 30 minutes.

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[1] Ultimately, Gaston and the Beast embody bad and good masculinity, respectively;[70] the characters are used "to play the New Age sensitive man off against the macho man," according to Ways of Being Male: Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature author John Stephens.[71]. Too 'kind and gentle' to fight back? (However, he was actually perceiving women in a way that was true to the time period of the movie, as women were expected to raise families and be subservient to men at that time, not read or think, due to clear misinterpretation of the scriptures in the Bible, which states that a husband is to love and care for his wife the same as he loves his own body and treat her as a treasure given to him by the Lord, rather than as his personal slave and housekeeper).[1]. The second is. Why it's more than I can bare!
Gaston’s department had come under fire for its handling of a Christmas Eve accident at Disneyland. ", "Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment", "Beauty and the Beast (United States, 1991)", Evans’ Gaston in New ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Photo, "Where Are the Stars of Disney's Beauty and the Beast Now? Gaston is based on the Avenant character from the 1946 Beauty and the Beast film. Instead of ignoring the Bimbettes like in the film, he pays more attention to them (saying that their 'rendezvouses' will continue after his marriage to Belle, implying adultery) but still wants Belle as his wife, making them very upset (to the point of wailing and crying like infants).

This was the first suicide known to be committed at the Disneyland Resort. They also differ in their height: Gaston is tall throughout the movie, while ZIM starts off very short but seem to grow some at the series progresses. slipping and falling) that is not a direct result of an action by any party.

He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh.”.

A narcissist who sees himself as superior to everyone around him, Gaston is boorish, uncultured, a…

Downtime for each attraction differed, with Space Mountain closed the longest at one month. Let me go! In the musical, Gaston mentioned women as being "He-Man's property." eye color, hair color, etc.) "[59] According to the Orlando Sentinel, Gaston is the 12th-greatest Disney villain. ", "I say we rid the village of this beast! He is hailed as a local hero and the "greatest hunter in the whole world", desired by many of the young women of his village (he is even described as "cute, dreamy, and handsome" by the Bimbettes in the first opening number), but he is boorish, uncultured and egotistical (the townsfolk don't seem to notice or care, however). ", (bullies the Beast) "What's the matter, Beast? Gaston is one of several elements unique to Disney's animated adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. At the unload area, she was unable to exit the vehicle. Although concept materials, as listed above, give Gaston the surname of LeGume, the Bimbettes during the song of "Belle" refer to Gaston as "Monsieur Gaston," and Belle in the reprise twice sarcastically refers to herself as "Madame Gaston," suggesting that Gaston is his surname in the final version.

"[66] Additionally, author Jerry Griswold wrote in his book The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook that Gaston's hypermasculinity potentially "amounts to a resistance to his own homosexuality" (after all, he is in love with himself), comparing him to Lester Burnham's homophobic neighbor in the film American Beauty (1999).

Similarly, in his debut scene, he sings "Right from the moment when I met her, saw her I said she's gorgeous and I fell," suggesting that he fell for Belle at first sight, which is further supported in a flashback in one of the comics. Shocked and grieving associates remembered Gaston as a highly respected law-enforcement officer and community leader. He was depicted in a lighter manner compared to the original movie, where it is implied that his love for Belle was genuine. On April 2, 2012, a 23-year-old man was found near the northwest corner of the Mickey & Friends parking structure, and was pronounced dead at the scene. Considering the management of asylums of the 18th century (the time that the film takes place), this is an extremely harsh threat. In the early concept art (revealed on the diamond edition of BatB) Gaston was a wealthy marquess. A subsequent lawsuit against the park was dismissed. However, this was edited out due to the dark nature of the scene. Voiced by American actor and singer Richard White, Gaston is an arrogant hunter whose unrequited feelings for the intellectual Belle drive him to murder his adversary, the Beast, once he realizes she cares for him instead. He privately offers to put a stop to it if he lets him marry Belle, but Maurice still refuses. [18] Additionally, Gaston's death was originally intended to have resulted from him being eaten alive by wolves after surviving his fall from the Beast's castle, suffering only a broken leg;[20] this idea was ultimately discarded and eventually resurrected for Scar's death in The Lion King (1994).