![]() In the reprise, the final verses in the film version imply that the entire village (except for the Bimbettes) knew and agreed with Gaston’s plans of blackmail.The song is an allegory for enabling someone’s vices instead of correcting them. During the song, LeFou, and the villagers stroke Gaston’s ego rather than tell him how he can improve himself as a person.In the live-action movie, Gaston lifts LeFou and a bar patron on his shoulders. In the animated film, Gaston flexes his muscles when singing how he’s roughly the size of a barge.However, the test lyric was so well received during development that they were included in the final song release. The original version of the song had different lyrics.In the initial draft of the lyrics, it was intended initially for LeFou to sing the lyrics “In a wrestling match, nobody bites like Gaston” and “For there’s no one as burly and brawny.” However, in the song’s final version, the lyrics were sung by Stanley and the Bimbettes, respectively.Linda Woolverton’s first draft of the film and song took the tune from similar melodies in the operetta The Student Prince.it just occurred to me that I am illiterate and I never had to actually have to spell it out loud before. There’s just one guy in town who’s got all of his down.Īnd his name is G-A-S-T- I believe there’s another T. Who’s a super success don’t you know that you guessed. Then goes tromping around wearing boots like Gaston In a spitting match, nobody spits like Gaston In a wrestling match, nobody bites like Gaston!Īnd ev’ry last inch of me’s covered with hair ![]() Give five “hurrahs!” Give twelve “hip-hips!” No one’s got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston No one’s neck’s as incredibly thick as Gaston’sĪnd they’ll tell you whose team they prefer to be on Gaston, you’ve got to pull yourself together. That girl has tangled with the wrong man! However, Gaston is inspired by Maurice’s supposedly far-fetched tale to force Belle into marrying him and sings a reprise of the song with LeFou, to whom he explains his plan: to throw Maurice in the asylum in an attempt to force Belle into marrying him. ![]() Believing he’s lost his sanity upon dishing out such a seemingly implausible story, he is thrown out of the tavern. At first, Gaston is annoyed by LeFou’s attempts, but after a sequence where he recreates his battle victories with the men in the tavern, he regains his confidence, and the song cheers him up.Īfter the song, Maurice barges into the tavern, frantically seeking assistance to rescue Belle from the Beast. Throughout the song, LeFou boasts about Gaston’s greatness and gets the entire crowd to join in about how much they admire him. “Gaston” starts in a positive light to comfort Gaston, but it quickly becomes apparent that he is self-centered, obnoxious, prideful, and dismissive of intelligence. To lift his spirits, LeFou and the villagers sing about how Gaston is good at everything and that he compares to no one. After Belle humiliates him while rejecting his marriage proposal, Gaston sulks at the fireplace within his tavern. The song does not introduce Gaston but elaborates on the character’s personality. “Gaston” is a song sung by Gaston (Richard White), LeFou (Jesse Corti), Gaston’s Buddies, The Bimbettes, and the Villagers in Beauty and the Beast.
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