Split vs. Beauty and the Beast
Did you know that the 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast is basically M. Night Shyamalan's Split for kids? Let me tell you why.
A reclusive young man who calls himself "the Beast" (Kevin Wendell Crumb/the Prince) kidnaps an introverted young woman (Casey Cooke/Belle), along with those close to her (Marcia and Claire/Maurice), and imprisons them in his large home (Kevin kidnaps the girls and imprisons them in his underground home, intending to sacrifice them to a ruthless split personality called "the Beast"/the Beast imprisons Maurice in his castle for attempting to take a rose from his garden, and Belle, Maurice's daughter, later allows herself to be imprisoned in exchange for his freedom). During their incarceration, the captives meet their captor's equally twisted "family," (Kevin has 23 split personalities, who each take turns controlling Kevin's body/the Beast's servants have been magically transformed into inanimate objects) including a ladies' man (Dennis/Lumière), a maternal British woman whose name starts with "P" (Miss Patricia/Mrs. Potts), a young boy (Hedwig/Chip), and their supervisor (Barry/Cogsworth). The main character later finds out about her captor's condition after finding a shocking item in his possession (Casey finds Kevin's computer, which contains videos of his numerous personalities/Belle sneaks into the Beast's quarters in the West Wing, where she finds an enchanted rose), then tries to run away from him, only to be attacked by wild animals (Kevin transforms into a powerful personality known as the Beast, which cannibalizes Marcia and Claire before chasing Casey through the halls of his lair/the Beast angrily orders Belle to get out of his castle, but saves her after she is attacked by wolves while fleeing). Meanwhile, an elderly woman who knows what's going on (Dr. Karen Fletcher/Agathe) heads over to the kidnapper's home to talk some sense into him (Dr. Fletcher gets suspicious when the personalities email her for help and subsequently goes over to Kevin's lair to investigate/in the prologue, Agathe offers the Prince a rose in exchange for shelter from a storm), just as he starts to turn into a monster (Dr. Fletcher is snapped in half by the Beast before she can save Kevin from himself/the Prince is appalled at Agathe's crone-like appearance and rejects her, to which she responds by cursing him into a Beast and his staff into objects, in their case for failing to rein him in). The behaviours of the two leads are traced back to their issues with their parents, in which one parent died (Kevin's father died in the train crash in Unbreakable, while Casey's father died of cancer/the Prince's mother died under unspecified circumstances, while Belle's mother died of the Plague) and another parent raised them in an unfriendly environment (Kevin's personalities are the result of the abuse he endured at the hands of his obsessive-compulsive mother, while Casey was raised by her Uncle John, who sexually abused her/the Prince was brought up by his narcissistic father, who raised him to be just like him, while Belle was raised by her protective widower father). Back in the present, the main character brings out the good in her captor (Casey invokes Kevin's real name to salvage the original personality/Belle treats the Beast's wounds, and the two bond over their shared love of literature, eventually beginning a relationship), while a local hero (David Dunn/Gaston) finds out about the kidnappings and decides to hunt down the monster responsible (David finds out about Kevin in a diner, setting the events of Glass in motion/Gaston rallies the villagers to kill the Beast with the intention of forcing Belle to marry him). In the ensuing confrontation, the kidnapper is shot twice with a firearm (Kevin, having been dormant for years with no knowledge of what happened during that time, begs Casey to shoot him with a nearby shotgun before the Beast comes back/Gaston, after the Beast spares his life, shoots him in the back, but the footbridge crumbles beneath him, causing the jealous soldier to fall to his death), but ultimately survives (the other personalities push the Beast to the front, and the bullets do little more than pierce his flesh/the Beast dies and the objects become inanimate when the last petal of the rose falls, but Belle tells Agathe that she loves him, leading the enchantress to undo the curse). In the end, the kidnapper and his eccentric entourage become public knowledge (Kevin's crimes make the news, which a diner patron compares to the crimes of Mr. Glass, the main villain of Unbreakable/the Prince and his employees come back to life as humans and reunite with their loved ones, whose memories of the castle were previously erased by the curse).
It's the same story!
A reclusive young man who calls himself "the Beast" (Kevin Wendell Crumb/the Prince) kidnaps an introverted young woman (Casey Cooke/Belle), along with those close to her (Marcia and Claire/Maurice), and imprisons them in his large home (Kevin kidnaps the girls and imprisons them in his underground home, intending to sacrifice them to a ruthless split personality called "the Beast"/the Beast imprisons Maurice in his castle for attempting to take a rose from his garden, and Belle, Maurice's daughter, later allows herself to be imprisoned in exchange for his freedom). During their incarceration, the captives meet their captor's equally twisted "family," (Kevin has 23 split personalities, who each take turns controlling Kevin's body/the Beast's servants have been magically transformed into inanimate objects) including a ladies' man (Dennis/Lumière), a maternal British woman whose name starts with "P" (Miss Patricia/Mrs. Potts), a young boy (Hedwig/Chip), and their supervisor (Barry/Cogsworth). The main character later finds out about her captor's condition after finding a shocking item in his possession (Casey finds Kevin's computer, which contains videos of his numerous personalities/Belle sneaks into the Beast's quarters in the West Wing, where she finds an enchanted rose), then tries to run away from him, only to be attacked by wild animals (Kevin transforms into a powerful personality known as the Beast, which cannibalizes Marcia and Claire before chasing Casey through the halls of his lair/the Beast angrily orders Belle to get out of his castle, but saves her after she is attacked by wolves while fleeing). Meanwhile, an elderly woman who knows what's going on (Dr. Karen Fletcher/Agathe) heads over to the kidnapper's home to talk some sense into him (Dr. Fletcher gets suspicious when the personalities email her for help and subsequently goes over to Kevin's lair to investigate/in the prologue, Agathe offers the Prince a rose in exchange for shelter from a storm), just as he starts to turn into a monster (Dr. Fletcher is snapped in half by the Beast before she can save Kevin from himself/the Prince is appalled at Agathe's crone-like appearance and rejects her, to which she responds by cursing him into a Beast and his staff into objects, in their case for failing to rein him in). The behaviours of the two leads are traced back to their issues with their parents, in which one parent died (Kevin's father died in the train crash in Unbreakable, while Casey's father died of cancer/the Prince's mother died under unspecified circumstances, while Belle's mother died of the Plague) and another parent raised them in an unfriendly environment (Kevin's personalities are the result of the abuse he endured at the hands of his obsessive-compulsive mother, while Casey was raised by her Uncle John, who sexually abused her/the Prince was brought up by his narcissistic father, who raised him to be just like him, while Belle was raised by her protective widower father). Back in the present, the main character brings out the good in her captor (Casey invokes Kevin's real name to salvage the original personality/Belle treats the Beast's wounds, and the two bond over their shared love of literature, eventually beginning a relationship), while a local hero (David Dunn/Gaston) finds out about the kidnappings and decides to hunt down the monster responsible (David finds out about Kevin in a diner, setting the events of Glass in motion/Gaston rallies the villagers to kill the Beast with the intention of forcing Belle to marry him). In the ensuing confrontation, the kidnapper is shot twice with a firearm (Kevin, having been dormant for years with no knowledge of what happened during that time, begs Casey to shoot him with a nearby shotgun before the Beast comes back/Gaston, after the Beast spares his life, shoots him in the back, but the footbridge crumbles beneath him, causing the jealous soldier to fall to his death), but ultimately survives (the other personalities push the Beast to the front, and the bullets do little more than pierce his flesh/the Beast dies and the objects become inanimate when the last petal of the rose falls, but Belle tells Agathe that she loves him, leading the enchantress to undo the curse). In the end, the kidnapper and his eccentric entourage become public knowledge (Kevin's crimes make the news, which a diner patron compares to the crimes of Mr. Glass, the main villain of Unbreakable/the Prince and his employees come back to life as humans and reunite with their loved ones, whose memories of the castle were previously erased by the curse).
It's the same story!
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