I Totally Agree, In Fact I Would Have Liked The Author To Portray Rashta As Someone Who, Due To His Circumstances

I totally agree, in fact I would have liked the author to portray Rashta as someone who, due to his circumstances plus his personal flaws, makes bad decisions, and that the role of villain was Sovieshu, he has all the traits of an abusive husband. Here are traits of abusive partners from an article I read.

1. He often brags about his conquests in front of you or your friends. According to Sendra, “in addition to being disrespectful, he realizes his need to show that he can be with anyone. He will have no qualms about leering or making sexual advances at others.

2. Does not invest time, money or spaces in you. They show little willingness to share their spaces or include their partners in their daily lives. "It is not that they should do everything together, but this person shows little interest in being known by his environment," argues the author.

3. He has a disrespectful behavior. “He usually asks for favors in an authoritative way, regardless of his time or space. And he doesn't bother to say thank you. If they have an appointment, she puts him on hold without apologizing”, says the pedagogue.

4. He wants to be the protagonist. He often gets upset if you or others don't give him special treatment. He interrupts the talks, chooses the topics of conversation and ignores the talks that are not of interest to him. “He prioritizes his friends, his family, his activities and his wishes over his own or those of others,” explains Sendra.

5. The emotions of others do not matter. They usually say things like "Are you on your days?", just because you get angry about something or you don't agree with their position. They will always have an argument to minimize or make invisible the affective world of the other, attributing it to "pure sensitivity".

6. Controlling and possessive. Be careful who tells you how to dress, be attentive to your social networks and who you write to, check your cell phone and your computer, make judgments about your friends showing discomfort when they are not to your liking. He threatens to break up if you get fat. If you give him space, he will ask suspicious questions like "What will you do now?", "Who will you see?".

7. Tends to blame the other for not understanding him, for provoking his anger or for making him make mistakes.

8. You often compare yourself to others in terms of income, class, education, intelligence, and aesthetics, and you are no exception. Assume a position of superiority. It can be disqualifying when you feel in a position of power.

9. Use mockery, sarcasm and irony. Although he does not attack him directly, he tells anecdotes, allusions or jokes that mislead his partner, believing that it is just humor, when they hide mockery and sarcasm. He often uses a limitation or defect of his partner to ridicule him. Before the claim she will respond evasively: "Everything I say bothers you", "you can't stand anything".

10. Prioritizes your satisfaction and sexuality. Shows little interest in discovering the other's erotic desires and needs. If you are the one who is desirous, you will feel threatened, jealous. You can pressure with blackmail and manipulation to experience practices that you do not want.

11. He is a liar. His weakening strategy is to leave out certain details. Use silence and innuendo to create a misunderstanding that will later be used to your advantage. It seeks to destabilize and have control.

12. Deny the conflict. When you complain or want to explain some discomfort, he rejects direct communication and denies the claim and the existence of the conflict. It will make you feel like an exaggerated or irritable.

13. Will seek to separate you from your important links to become your whole life or generate intrigue to promote enmity and confrontation between you and yours.

14. Catches with the way you talk. He says one thing, but his way of acting indicates the opposite. He will tell you that he likes his friends, but when he is with them he will not speak to him and will make a face at them.

Sovieshu meets almost everything🤨.

Unpopular opinion:

I’m finding it a bit hard to see Rashta as “trash” when the woman was literally enslaved for all of her life because her father sold her to get rid of his gambling debt. Who in that position wouldn’t do anything and everything to make sure that they and their offspring wouldn’t face that same trauma.

Yes, she played part in the destruction of a (hollow) marriage but again when opportunities to rise in social society pop up most people take it. Not an excuse but it explains a lot.

Like her or not she is a victim of human trafficking who is trying to navigate a world that views her as lesser than. Would it be good to see her think of others who were/are in the same position and want to advocate for the ending of such a practice? Yes but again I see why she’s so #1.

What’s more: The author paints her in such an unsympathetic light I really wonder why they didn’t just make her dirt poor without the slavery background. Especially since they don’t really acknowledge it much in the world building anyways.

Have you that there is plan for Disney a beauty and the beast broadway revival? I really want a 18th century looking production and belle’s finale dress needs to be a white robe de cour and the yellow one a sack back gown.

You want an 18th century looking production, you say? How about the Danish production at Det Ny Teater, designed by Terry Parsons?

Or my personal favourite, the Stage Entertainment one designed by Miguel Angel Huidor - this might be the one you had in mind?

Sigh. All the beauty.

From design to costume: Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast costumes, as designed by Jacqueline Durran ( X ) ( X )

“Those costumes exist in people’s imaginations and all I wanted to do was to honor what they expect those costumes to be in a live action movie”

On the blue village dress: “We decided to take inspiration from the 1991 movie and enrich the world using historical details from 18th century France. (…) Belle has the pockets hanging on the outside of her costume. The pockets act as a sort of toolbelt where she keeps all the things useful to her in her day to day life, those are the two elements we really looked for. The pant-like bloomers are nice, as you can tell, but also again they were part of her being able to be more active, so that you don’t feel restricted by wearing a skirt because you can just pull it up and then just do whatever you were going to do.”

On the yellow ball gown: “Emma was quite categorical that she didn’t want a big princess dress. She wanted to have something she could move in and she definitely, adamantly would not be wearing a corset. The finished product is a lightweight combination of tulle, satin organza and taffeta, made to twirl and look as though it is made by/from the castle. I think in the movie, it’s difficult to see some of the detail, but the idea that Madame Garderobe gets the gold pattern from the ceiling and puts it around the dress, meant that we had to print a gold print on the dress”

The red snow attire: “That costume was made entirely from sustainable fabrics. We dyed it in vegetable dyes in our workroom, we had shoes made with eco leather and we did the whole thing from top to bottom to be as thorough as we could. People learned different skills in the work rooms to be able to do it, so they dyers learned to dye with strange vegetable dye. Sometimes it took two weeks to dye something because you’d have to leave it in there for that long to get a rich color”

http://people.com/movies/beauty-beast-costumes-making-of-details/

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From design to costume: Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast costumes, as designed by Jacqueline Durran ( X ) ( X )

“Those costumes exist in people’s imaginations and all I wanted to do was to honor what they expect those costumes to be in a live action movie”

On the blue village dress: “We decided to take inspiration from the 1991 movie and enrich the world using historical details from 18th century France. (…) Belle has the pockets hanging on the outside of her costume. The pockets act as a sort of toolbelt where she keeps all the things useful to her in her day to day life, those are the two elements we really looked for. The pant-like bloomers are nice, as you can tell, but also again they were part of her being able to be more active, so that you don’t feel restricted by wearing a skirt because you can just pull it up and then just do whatever you were going to do.”

On the yellow ball gown: “Emma was quite categorical that she didn’t want a big princess dress. She wanted to have something she could move in and she definitely, adamantly would not be wearing a corset. The finished product is a lightweight combination of tulle, satin organza and taffeta, made to twirl and look as though it is made by/from the castle. I think in the movie, it’s difficult to see some of the detail, but the idea that Madame Garderobe gets the gold pattern from the ceiling and puts it around the dress, meant that we had to print a gold print on the dress”

The red snow attire: “That costume was made entirely from sustainable fabrics. We dyed it in vegetable dyes in our workroom, we had shoes made with eco leather and we did the whole thing from top to bottom to be as thorough as we could. People learned different skills in the work rooms to be able to do it, so they dyers learned to dye with strange vegetable dye. Sometimes it took two weeks to dye something because you’d have to leave it in there for that long to get a rich color”

http://people.com/movies/beauty-beast-costumes-making-of-details/