I found perhaps the most odd scene of the movie to be the swap of identities between the beast and the theif. In de Beaumont's story, Belle is a little off put by the transformation of the beast, at first not identifying the newly transformed prince. However, in the Cocteau's film, Belle has to not only struggle with this but also with seeing a confessed loved one's face on the beast. Cocteau's version heightens the confusion of the original story's transformation and by doing so emphasizes Belle's unconditional love of the beast. However, along with this comes this unnerving baggage of a lover who becomes a mish-mash of identities, as if Belle handpicked the qualities she liked from each love and combined them into an uber-mate. Looking over this detail though, the transformation helps cement the magic of the story and in a way is a rebirth of the flawed thief romance into the pure one of the beast.