Plumette is a supporting character who appears in the 2017 live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast, based on the character Fifi from the 1991 animated film.
Background
Her personality is also quite different compared to Fifi. Instead of merely flirting with Lumière and trying to make each other jealous, they are devoted to one another. Furthermore, her appearance as a feather-duster is stylised to resemble a peacock, enabling her to levitate and giving her the figure of a swan.
Role in the film
She is one of the castle residents who lives with the prince, who is selfish and unkind. Later, as the prince is transformed into a hideous beast as punishment, Plumette and all the other castle residents are transformed into objects as the Enchantress has cast a spell all around the castle.
Plumette appears in the form of an anthropomorphic feather duster just as she helps clean the room for Belle, and during a relationship with Lumiere, she explains that she has been burnt once by him. Plumette and the other objects tell the Beast to talk to Belle kindly, to which Belle refuses to accept the Beast's offer because he locked her in the tower just as the Beast angrily leaves and uses the Enchanted Mirror to show him, Belle. Later, Plumette and the other feather dusters participate during the musical number "Be Our Guest", satisfying Belle.
Plumette and the other objects participate during the musical number "Days in the Sun" and after the sequence, it is found out that after the last petal falls, the Prince will remain a Beast forever and all the castle servants will become inanimate objects. Plumette and the other objects sing during later participate "Something There" centering on the relationship between Belle and the Beast.
Back at the Beast's Castle, Plumette and the other castle servants prepare a formal suit for the Beast just as the Beast and Belle start a romantic relationship. As Belle leaves the castle to find her father, Plumette, Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts are worried about Belle planning to find her father just as they all leave sadly, as the Beast sings the musical number "Evermore".
As Gaston sends an angry mob to kill the Beast, Plumette joins the battle and fights against Gaston and his villagers. After the battle stops, the last petal falls, and Plumette is transformed into her inanimate form as the castle residents become inanimate objects.
When Agathe uses her magic to restore the Enchanted Rose, Plumette is transformed back into her human form along with the other castle servants. Plumette and Lumiere greet each other with a kiss that results in the latter's head catching fire the former immediately douses out. Plumette and the other castle servants dance together in the ballroom during the reprise of the musical number "Beauty and the Beast".
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