the beast ( 1988 film )
this article is about the 1991 animated film. for the 2017 live - action film, see beauty and the beast (2017 film) .
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with the headline: review / film; long - lost twin brothers: beauty and the beast .
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film of the same name. the film tells the story of a prince who is transformed into a
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it’s a film about the soviet invasion of afghanistan made by americans in 1988. kevin reynolds—the man behind the disastrous flop waterworld— directed it. stephen baldwin plays a major supporting role .
the beast
was quite the little
time capsule
for me .
willow is a 1988 film directed by ron howard and based on a story by george lucas. the film centers on the struggles of willow ufgood, a young nelwyn farmer who must protect the baby elora danan from an evil queen, who she is prophecized to one day overthrow .
in previous drafts, belle was intended to meet with some servants in the beast' s library shortly after being given it by the beast, although it was cut for time .
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whom he imprisons in his castle. to become a prince again, the beast must love belle and win her love in return, or he will remain a beast forever .
on its face, the beast is the kind of movie that sensible people would dismiss as cheesy schlock. just another red scorpion or delta force. that’s probably why the beast suffered at the box office .
hollywood' s pecuniary interest in pandering to the dreams of diverse social audiences is one reason that patriarchy is played out in easily resolved family melodramas. however, below the surface of these harmless films is the beast of a wounded patriarchy, a beast whose corporeal image is embodied in the horror film. according to film historian and critic
songs include mrs. potts singing “beauty & the beast” and the entire cast performing “be our guest. ”
while the servants and the mob battle for control of the castle, gaston wanders off by himself and, finding the beast, attacks him. by being too depressed to speak, the beast unintentionally reinforces the preconception that he is dumb. the beast regains his will when he sees belle arriving at the castle. after winning a heated battle, the beast spares gaston' s life and climbs up to a balcony where belle is waiting. unknown to them, gaston has secretly followed the beast and, still consumed by his lust for belle and jealousy of the beast, stabs him from behind, mortally wounding the beast, but this proves to be his downfall as he loses his balance and falls off the balcony to his death .
when the film was released in theaters, it was distributed by mgm and lucasfilm the 1988 vhs was released however, by rca / columbia pictures home video (the mgm logo was kept). imagine entertainment' s logo was not shown on the film, the vhs or the dvd. the film is currently being distributed by 20th century fox home entertainment (as they have a home media deal with mgm) .
other changes helped the film, like introducing a time limit for the beast to find love (thus adding some drama to the story) and turning gaston into a more formidable adversary .
the theatrical version only has the song
beauty and the beast
at the end credits. the imax and special edition versions have the song and the unused score
death of the beast
due to having longer credits involving the addition of
human again
.
the 1991 disney classic ,
beauty and the beast ,
however, underwent a more dramatic transformation than most, as the original version of the film was completely scrapped well into the filmmaking process, leading to a completely new film having to be created in less than the normally allotted production time of a disney animated film. amazingly enough (in a good way), one of the key areas of contention with the original version of the film was that the heroine of the film wasn' t enough of a feminist !
beauty and the beast is apparently the first movie to use the title twice, including at the end, the next being the lion king and tarzan .
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more dark dreams: some notes on the recent horror film .
it is evident to many interpreters of the horror film genre that the problem of patriarchy is central to the thematics of such films. as one commentator on the horror film has noted (
beauty and the beast was released on november 13, 1991. the film was a significant commercial and critical success, earning over $ 424 million in box office earnings throughout the world. beauty and the beast was also nominated for several awards, and won the golden globe award for best motion picture - musical or comedy (for the first time in an animated movie), with two other awards for its music. famously, beauty and the beast was the first ever animated film to be nominated for the academy award for best picture, and was the only animated film to hold this honor until 2009, when the academy awards switched from 5 best picture nominations to 10, and pixar' s animated film up was nominated. beauty and the beast received a total of six nominations, including best picture, best original score, best sound, and three nominations for its song. it ended up winning two, for best original score and best original song for the song
beauty and the beast
.
originally, gaston was going to stab the beast a second time before beast knocked him off. in addition, an even earlier rendition of the scene had him ready to kill beast with his blunderbuss, with belle preventing him by smashing him in the head with a slab. gaston would land onto the ground, and then be mauled by the wolves that belle and maurice encountered earlier .
beauty and the beast is the first disney animated classic (other than 101 dalmatians, the lion king and two toy story films) to feature the 2006 walt disney pictures logo and the walt disney animation studios logo at the beginning of the film on current releases .
well what held this film back was the english audio for a film depicting a russian tank crew. i would have dubbed it over into russian and used english subtitles .
stefan kanfer writes in his book serious business that in this film
the tradition of the musical theater was fully co - opted ,
such as in the casting of broadway performers angela lansbury and jerry orbach. ign named beauty and the beast as the greatest animated film of all time, directly ahead of wall - e .
a pop version of the
beauty and the beast
theme, performed by céline dion and peabo bryson over the end credits, was released as a commercial single from the film' s soundtrack, supported with a music video. the dion / bryson version of
beauty and the beast
became an international pop hit, reaching the top ten of the singles charts in the united states and the united kingdom .
the beast of war, or as it' s widely known to american viewers under the us release title of the beast, is a 1988 war film that followed a russian tank crew during the russian occupation of afghanistan that finds itself separated from their fellow tankers and relentless pursued by mujaheddin fighters. the film was shot in israel, using the middle eastern landscape, and more importantly, israeli armorers. the very real ti - 67 tanks (israeli - modified t55 tanks featuring a larger 105mm gun vs. the original 100mm gun) used as well as the authentic soviet weaponry were all provided by israel, with cooperation from the idf. while the t55 tank was well obsolete in the russian army by the time frame of this film, however it was nice to see authentic soviet armor in a western movie .
upon the theatrical release of the finished version, the film was universally praised, with roger ebert giving it four stars out of four and saying that
beauty and the beast reaches back to an older and healthier hollywood tradition in which the best writers, musicians, and filmmakers are gathered for a project on the assumption that a family audience deserves great entertainment, too .
the film received mostly positive reviews, among them some of the best notices the studio had received since the 1940' s. rotten tomatoes, a film review aggregator, shows beauty and the beast with a 94% approval rating averaged from 108 reviews of the original theatrical release and later theatrical and home video versions. the use of computer animation, particularly in the
beauty and the beast
ballroom sequence, was singled out in several reviews as one of the film' s highlights .
when the beast of war was being filmed in 1987 (released in 1988), the russo - afghan war was still ongoing, and thus a topic of debate, but the quaint perception of the mountain tribes of afghanistan as' victims of soviet oppression' is now out of date. views of afghanistan, its peoples and the outer tribal areas have changed in recent years with the current us involvement in the country and the radicalization of the mountain regions towards militant islam. an attempt to paint the russian invasion (1980 - 1988) as a mirror of the american action in vietnam (1965 - 1973) seems awkward and glosses over the very real differences .
the beast is a criminally under - appreciated gem from director kevin reynolds, containing a resurgent immediacy in light of the recent wars going on in the middle east .
first, some background. the film version of the beast was released in september 1988, about 6 months before the end of the soviet - afghan war. on one side was the soviet army and the allied afghan forces, and the other side was the mujahideen insurgents, many of whom later became members of al qaeda (for one, osama bin laden). one of the most influential turning points in the war was the introduction of the stinger missile, used by the mujahideen – who were funded by us congressman charlie wilson thereby supported by the united states against the soviet union as this was the tail - end of the cold war .
a powerful, emotionally - charged war story pits russian soldiers against afghan rebels with spectacular action sequences. labeled a traitor by his commander, a peace - minded tank driver is left to die in the desert until the enemy' s leader rescues him. together they work to kill off the beast, a seemingly invincible tank. © 1988 columbia pictures industries, inc. all rights reserved .
walt disney had been trying to adapt
beauty and the beast
into a film going way back to the earliest days of walt disney full - length animated features, like
snow white and the seven dwarfs .
it seems that the 1946 film adaptation by jean cocteau dulled disney' s enthusiasm for the project at the time and it fell to the wayside for decades. when disney studios began to ramp up their production of new feature films in the late 1980s, however ,
beauty and the beast
was back on the table. screenwriter jim cox first took a crack at the film in 1988, but disney studios chairman jeffrey katzenberg turned it down, noting that, while good, it was too close to the original fairy tale. after an attempt to land the director of the animated parts of
who framed roger rabbit? ,
richard williams, disney settled on a colleague of williams', richard purdum .
meanwhile, belle refuses the beast' s
invitation
to dinner, and the beast orders his servants not to let her eat, but lumière serves her dinner anyway (in the song
be our guest
) and cogsworth gives her a tour of the castle. however, she wanders off on her own and finds the west wing, which the beast had forbidden her to go into. she goes in anyway, discovering many broken items, including a shredded portrait of a young prince and the enchanted rose. before she can touch it, the beast sees her and angrily screams at her to get out .
according to the film' s director taika waititi, it took nearly two years of planning to secure the rights to the song .
the new live - action remake of beauty and the beast is now in theaters nationwide. the reboot has big shoes to fill as the original 1991 disney film was an undeniable blockbuster, earning more than $ 425 million at the box office worldwide. the original film' s music, composed by 11 - time grammy winner alan menken, garnered acclaim and multiple accolades, including grammy and oscar recognition .
amazing story, great characters and cinematography. this film really captures the action and atrocities of the soviet - afghan war .
in the special edition dvd release, the second disc contained jump 5' s music video for beauty and the beast. the newly - released diamond edition contains jordin sparks' version of the song .
( 1988) ,
brings together a number of social themes - male rage against wife and child resulting from economic failure, the emergence of violence from past guilt, and the more conservative idea of the inefficacy of civil institutions in the face of the evil in human nature
( p. 173) .
in kevin reynolds' the beast, george dzundza plays a cruel russian tank commander who gets lost in the wilderness during the war in afghanistan. as the enemy closes in, the glazed - eyed dzundza must rely on his survival training to see him through this crisis. meanwhile, one of dzundza' s men (jason patric), abandoned and left to die by his demonic commander, joins the afghan cause. filmed in israel, the beast (aka the beast of war) was adapted from a play by william mastrosimone .
the film' s animation screenplay was written by linda woolverton with story written by roger allers, brenda chapman, chris sanders, burny mattinson, kevin harkey, brian pimental, bruce woodside, joe ranft, tom ellery, kelly ashbury, and robert lence, directed by gary trousdale and kirk wise, and produced by don hahn. the music of the film was composed by alan menken and the lyrics for the film were written by howard ashman (who also served as the film' s executive producer), both of whom had written the music and songs for the little mermaid, a previous disney film .
urltoken the beast: george dzundza, stephen baldwin, stephen bauer, jason patric, kevin reynolds, john fiedler, colgems productions ltd. : movies & tv
human again
was dropped from the film before animation began, as its lyrics caused story problems about the timeline over which the story takes place. this required ashman and menken to write a new song in its place .
something there
, in which belle and beast sing (via voiceover) of their growing fondness for each other, was composed late in production and inserted into the script in place of
human again
. menken would later revise
human again
for inclusion in the 1994 broadway stage version of beauty and the beast, and another revised version of the song was added to the film itself in a new sequence created for the film' s special edition re - release in 2002 .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans. it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
now, on beauty and the beast’s 25th anniversary (the film was released nationally in the u. s. on november 22, 1991), cartoon brew looks back with hillin at how the cg ballroom shots were achieved, how another scene nearly adopted the same approach, and what technical solutions were required to finalize the work .
ashman and menken wrote the songs during the pre - production process in fishkill, the opening operetta - styled
belle
being their first composition for the film. other songs included
be our guest
, sung to maurice by the objects when he becomes the first visitor to the castle in a decade ,
gaston
, a solo for the swaggering villain ,
human again
, a song describing belle and beast' s growing love from the objects' perspective, the love ballad
beauty and the beast
, and the climatic
the mob song
.
so it’s no wonder the ambitious and sprawling straight outta compton plays a little fast and loose with details as it recounts the explosive rise, bitter breakup, and enduring impact of the seminal gangsta rap group behind incendiary 1988 anthems like “gangsta gangsta, ” “straight outta compton, ” and “fuck tha police. ”
it’s a cult classic now. and for good reason. the beast is incredible. it’s a fantastic tank movie … and one of the best films out there about the soviet invasion of afghanistan .
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, horror films that frame an era (1980 - 1992) of right - wing politics, an authoritarian parental figure emerges as the beast within the troubled father protagonist. before investigating the sociological and psychological meanings of the troubled father protagonists in each film, i want to discuss the sub - genre category of horror that these films represent .
beauty and the beast 2 - disc special edition (platinum edition) dvd was released on october 8, 2002. it was fully restored and remastered with an all - new remixed soundtrack. the special edition includes a deleted song called
human again
. the special edition dvd went to the disney vault (out - of - print) on january 31, 2003 along with its sequel (beauty and the beast: the enchanted christmas). on october 5, 2010, beauty and the beast was released on disney blu - ray and again in disneydigital 3d .
the film was notable for employing more dwarfs than any production in many years, and was widely praised by the
little person
community for employing warwick davis as the lead. the film also used morphing special effects to transform an old sorceress into various animals, a revolutionary effect for the time .
ashman died of aids - related complications on march 14, 1991, eight months prior to the release of the film. he never saw the finished film, and his work on aladdin was completed by another lyricist, tim rice. a tribute to the lyricist was included at the end of the credits crawl :
to our friend, howard, who gave a mermaid her voice, and a beast his soul. we will be forever grateful. howard ashman: 1950–1991
.
the film' s 15 - song soundtrack garnered an impressive total of seven grammy nominations at the 35th grammy awards for 1992. it ended up netting four awards: best album for children, best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal and best song written specifically for a motion picture or for television for peabo bryson and celine dion' s
beauty and the beast
duet, and best instrumental composition written for a motion picture or for television for the instrumental version of
beauty and the beast .
this list collects every film from the starting list that became they shoot pictures don' t they' s 1000 greatest films. this…
a boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. he plans to run his own investigation. the so called beast however is also used as a metaphor for every day problems the townsfolk face .
july 25 – august 5 | this “tale as old as time” is the story of belle, a beautiful and intelligent young woman who feels out of place in her provincial french village. when her father is imprisoned in a mysterious castle, belle’s attempt to rescue him leads to her capture by the beast, a fearsome monster who was long ago trapped in his gruesome form by an enchantress. the only way for the beast to become human once again is if he learns to love and be loved in return. the beast’s enchanted household — lumiére, cogsworth, mrs. potts, and chip — watch anxiously as belle and the beast befriend one another. their feelings grow ever deeper. but will they confess their love for one another before it is too late ?
jim hillin: i had just finished work on jetsons: the movie for hanna - barbera around 1988. beauty and the beast producer don hahn got a hold of my name and had his office call me up, and asked if we could have a phone conversation. well, we tried to have that while i was on a plane to boston, but we couldn’t hear each other over the sound of the engines. but when i got back to l. a. i went over to disney and had an interview .
epic music cue :
anakin vs. obi - wan
sets the perfect moody backdrop for the moment the entire film led up to: the first duel between master and apprentice .
purdum and a group of animators got together and worked up the basic idea of the film. however, while working on the film, disney was also in the midst of releasing
the little mermaid ,
which was a smash success. one area, though, where the film was criticized was with regards to the lead heroine, ariel, who was seen by some as not having a whole lot of agency of her own throughout the film (she is manipulated by either her father, king triton, or the evil witch ursula for much of the movie and her prince, eric, has a more dynamic role in the film). whether fair or not (the eventual screenwriter for
beauty and the beast ,
linda woolverton, argued that the criticism of ariel was unfair, as
ariel was willing to give up her watery heritage and plunge into the unknown. there was actually a lot of pluck in her
), the critique rang in katzenberg' s head when it came time to see what purdum had come up with. he did not like what he saw and had the whole film scrapped and started over. purdum quit .
his contributions to the beast are many. he negotiated the sale of two soviet t - 55 tanks from israel, ran a training course for the actors and kept the tanks working on set. his production diaries are as entertaining as the movie is .
how powerful was “kokomo”? along with “don’t worry, be happy, ” this sunny taste of tropical bliss made the soundtrack for an otherwise unremarkable tom cruise film one of 1988’s biggest albums. the song also resuscitated the flagging fortunes of the beach boys, earning them a record for the longest span between no. 1 chart hits (from 1966’s “good vibrations” to this one). still, one demographic had ample cause to resent “kokomo”: travel agents besieged by morons trying to book trips to the fictitious paradise. —steve smith
william mastrosimone’s excellent script elevates the beast above standard ’80s action dreck. mastrosimone was in afghanistan in 1986. he watched afghan mujahideen pulled russian tankers from their t - 62 and execute them .
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), the
horror of personality
has been a major sub - genre. the
horror of personality
film, seminally represented in hitchcock' s
the late eighties were hugely important for walt disney animation studios, as the studio found itself flush with exciting new talent and producing the kind of films that walt disney himself could be proud of. in 1987, during the whirlwind production of the groundbreaking live action / animation hybrid who framed roger rabbit? , a proposal was floated to resurrect an idea that walt had batted around since the snow white and the seven dwarfs days: the classic fairy tale beauty and the beast, told in classic animated fashion. and while we now recognize the film that was released, finally, in 1991 to widespread critical and commercial approval as an immortal classic, the first attempt to get the film off the ground was unsuccessful. but in its failure, it paved the way for the film that we cherish today .
the review of this film by whpratt1 is completely wrong. this film is not critical of the mujahadeen, but rather shows them struggling to fight for their freedom. the soviet army is the oppressive evil presence. this film was made during the cold war, when americans saw a line drawn in the sand between communism and capitalist democracy. in the film, the soviets are clearly the bad guys, and the mujahadeen are fighting the good fight. the main character comes to understand this during the film, finally telling his soviet commanding officer that
we' re the nazis this time .
during the soviet invasion of afghanistan, the united states funded, supplied, and trained mujahadeen forces. american stinger missiles were used to shoot down soviet helicopters. the most famous mujahadeen fighter trained by the united states would come to be osama bin laden. he would participate in the fight against the soviet army, much to the approval of the united states. this film pays tribute to the mujahadeen for valiantly defending themselves against america' s enemy. the fact that the united states has invaded afghanistan makes the film much more interesting to watch. it is ironic that these militants once praised by hollywood are now our enemies. the lesson this film should teach us now, albeit inadvertently, is that we should be careful who we glorify and who we vilify. humans will be humans, and will fight for what they * believe * is right, sometimes whether it actually is right or not .
a short magazine lee - enfield no. 1 mk iii * bolt - action rifle is among the collection of weapons used by the afghan mujahideen in the film. a lee - enfield is seen in the hands of taj (steven bauer), the leader of the small afghan mujahideen group and it was his main weapon in the film. taj is also seen holding his lee - enfield rifle when he swears badal (revenge) to allah when he was standing at the crushed remains of his brother. the weapon' s main role in the film is being cannibalized for parts by koverchenko to repair the damaged rpg - 7 launcher. another lee - enfield can be seen being cleaned by one of the villagers just prior to the raid by the soviets at the beginning of the film .
despite this, many critics have noted that disney borrowed a lot from jean cocteau' s famous and influential 1946 film adaptation of the fairy tale, as that film was the first to include a magic mirror, castle servants, and a love triangle. none of these elements were in the original fairy tale .
his first big success with a film soundtrack came with 1988’s rain man. but his first brush with semi - fame came before that with the buggles, the one - hit - wonder ’80s new wave band known for “video killed the radio star, ” the first music video ever broadcast on mtv. zimmer recently staged a mini - buggles reunion onstage in london, complete with a rap - off (a rap - off! hans zimmer rapping !) and a pair of white - rimmed glasses famous from the music video for every member of the orchestra .
the oscar - winning composer behind so many memorable film scores, from ‘the lion king’ to ‘the dark knight, ’ opens up about his spellbinding world tour and summer hit ‘dunkirk. ’
the beast
( a tank) tells the saga of a band of afghan warriors in foot pursuit of a crippled russian tank across afghan desert. the film, a drama with some action and no large scale battles, manages to whet the interest, build suspense, deliver some wartime ironies, and provide slivers of insight into what war in afghanistan must be like - something much more relevant today than during the russian occupation. an interesting film which doesn' t take sides most likely to be appreciated by guys into war dramas .
coming back from the disastrous florida screening, hahn announced that everything the team had worked on would be thrown out. but there was a silver lining: they would be granted a research trip to paris. after the trip they didn’t go back to london; instead they returned to los angeles. quietly, the artists were assigned to other projects. hahn, woolverton and the purdums continued working on beauty and the beast, now with the help of ashman and menken. but richard purdum wasn’t happy with the way the production was headed; . in 1989, the purdums left the project and a pair of relatively unproven directors, kirk wise and gary trousdale, who had overseen the “cranium command” short film for epcot, were assigned to take over beauty and the beast. many of the creative principles involved in the original version, including deja, keane and woolverton, remained on the film and contributed to its overwhelming success .
production of beauty and the beast had to be completed on a compressed timeline of two years rather than four because of the loss of production time spent developing the earlier purdam version of the film. most of the production was done at the main feature animation studio, housed in the air way facility in glendale, california. a smaller team at the disney - mgm studios theme park in lake buena vista, florida assisted the california team on several scenes, particularly the
be our guest
number .
) ,
the longevity of the horror genre may testify to the injustice and illness of' patriarchal' society and its individual psyches
( p. 105). another student of the horror film (
ice cube and dr. dre’s buddy f. gary gray (friday, the italian job) directs the period biopic with an insider’s eye and a nose for emotional gut punches that key into why the story of five young men from south central rapping about police brutality and hood unrest in 1988 still resonates today, in an era of trayvon martins, michael browns, and sandra blands .
while soundtracks to films such as saturday night fever (1977), flashdance (1983) and purple rain (1984), among others, had previously earned album of the year grammy nominations, the soundtrack for beauty and the beast marked the first time — and only time to date — an animated film soundtrack received a nomination in the category. which album ended up winning the award for 1992? eric clapton' s unplugged .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
) has identified
an authoritarian, often crippling parental figure
( p. 164) as a key generic component of the horror film. in both
that de palma and kubrick are able to reveal the danger in the regressive quest to restore the patriarchal past is a testament to the power of their cinematic visions and the horror of personality genre. nonetheless, identifying the beast as merely the return of the repressed neglects the on - going divided self that plagues both america and american men. if we can
maurice' s latest invention is a wood - chopping machine. when he rides off to display the machine at the fair, he loses his way in the woods and stumbles upon the beast' s castle, where he meets the transformed servants lumière (who was turned into a candelabra), cogsworth (who was turned into a mantle clock), mrs. potts (who was turned into a teapot), her son chip (who was turned into a teacup), and fifi (who was turned into a feather duster). after getting used to seeing talking objects, the servants warm him by the fire, only to be found by the beast, who is not happy to find a trespasser in his castle and frightens his servants. the beast imprisons maurice, but belle is led back to the castle by maurice' s horse, philippe, and offers to take her father' s place. when the beast agrees to this and sends him home, maurice tells gaston and the other villagers what happened, but they think he has lost his mind, so he goes to rescue her alone, but gets lost on his way back to the beast' s castle .
betsy hearne, the editor of the bulletin of the center for children' s books, writes that the film belittles the original story' s moral about
inner beauty ,
as well as the heroine herself, in favor of a more brutish struggle ;
in fact ,
she says ,
it is not beauty' s lack of love that almost kills disney' s beast, but a rival' s dagger .
among the creepiest pieces of music ever composed, john carpenter' s main theme for 1978' s halloween represents a perfect example of the seamless marriage of music and film .
the ak - 47 is one of the more common weapons in the film, used by both the soviets and the afghan mujahideen alike. in the film, soviets use mostly aks - 47 folding stock rifles, while the afghans have both folding and fixed stock models. in the real war, the soviet forces almost exclusively used the 5. 45mm ak - 74 / aks - 74 rifles, the 7. 62x39mm ak variants relegated to the communist afghan regime soldiers. so the use of the 7. 62x39mm aks for the soviets is historically anachronistic .
with the release of the official trailer for the live - action remake of beauty and the beast having been last week, i' ve seen many mixed emotions about the cast for the upcoming film. as most of you know, i' m a die - hard disney nerd, however, beauty and the beast reigns supreme among my favorite films of all time, not just in the realm of disney. i had to watch the trailer about four times before i could get through it without crying, and personally, i' m very excited about the cast. however, since many viewers seem to not be so familiar with all of the personnel involved in the film, i thought i would give a little crash course on each of them, while also providing some other films to take a look at to view their previous work. the remake of b & b is hitting theaters everywhere march 17th, 2017 .
the film was released from the disney vault on october 5, 2010, as the second of disney' s diamond editions, in the form of a 3 - disc - blu - ray disc and dvd combination pack; representing the first release of beauty and the beast on home video in high - definition format. this edition consists of four versions of the film: the original theatrical version, an extended version, the new york film festival storyboard - only version, and a fourth iteration displaying the storyboards via picture - in - picture alongside the original theatrical version. the bonus material contains never - before - seen art, making of video, and interviews along with new games activities. a two - disc dvd edition was released on november 23, 2010. it was also announced that disney would release 3d blu - ray in october 2011 .
the beast is a russian tank involved in a war between russia and afghanistan, and when we first are introduced to it it is destroying an afghan village and killing many of its inhabitants. the russian soldiers inside range in character from the deeply sympathetic (jason patric) to the bloodthirsty (george dzundza), and the rest of the film details acts of betrayal and suspicion among them while attempting to escape from afghan foot soldiers seeking vengeance for their atrocity .
the scrapped version did not have the enchanted objects of beast' s castle speaking. it also had a younger sister and an aunt for belle who pushed her to marry gaston, who was a weaselly, sort of wimpy character at first .
i knew nothing about this film when i decided to watch it - i was interested in tank warfare, and movies about that are thin on the ground. the first pleasant surprise was that (in the print that i saw) the afghans' dialogue is subtitled (rare in a pre - 2000 hollywood film), and that the russian characters speak plain american english. no clunky russian accents, just dialogue between characters who all speak the same language. at first the
plot
, such as it is, seemed pretty predictable. that may be true, but the way the film presents the plot is not predictable. all the praise the film gets in these reviews is merited - the acting is good, the story is believable, and what drives the story comes as a surprise. it may be a low - budget film, but if i had known about it when it came out, it would have put my butt in a theater seat somewhere, and i would have loved every minute .
originally, beast was to have brought back a deer he had killed in the forest to the castle and eat it in an animalistic manner, but it was cut because it would have resulted in the audience viewing him with disgust, and not with intended sympathy .
frightened, belle tries to escape, but she and philippe are attacked by wolves. suddenly, the beast miraculously arrives at her rescue and fends off the wolves, showing that he may have some feelings towards her. after belle nurses his wounds, he gives her the castle library as a gift, and they become friends. later, they have an elegant dinner and a romantic ballroom dance. however, afterwards, belle feels lonely at missing her father. when beast lets her use the enchanted mirror, she sees her father dying in the woods as he struggles to come to her rescue, and with only hours left before the rose wilts, the beast allows her to leave, giving her the mirror to remember him by. this horrifies the servants, who fear they will never be humans again .
in the stained glass image at the beginning of beauty and the beast it looks as though the prince has two pedigree looking dogs; one white and one brown. but throughout the movie, there is one dog depicted and when returned to its true form it looks more like a mutt, that is sultan .
belle finds maurice and takes him home, but gaston arrives with a lynch mob led by monsieur d' arque of the local insane asylum. unless she agrees to marry gaston, monsieur d' arque will lock her father up. belle proves maurice sane by showing them the beast with the magic mirror, but when belle furiously confronts gaston after he mocks her for being in love with a
monster
by saying that he is the real monster, gaston becomes jealous, snaps, and arouses the mob' s fear of the beast, leading them to the castle to kill him. gaston locks belle and maurice in their basement, but chip, who stowed away in belle' s luggage, chops the basement door apart with maurice' s machine, allowing belle and maurice to hurry back to the beast' s castle on phillipe .
this is an excellent movie depicting the russian occupation of afghanistan and the difficulties and hostilities from the people towards the russian army. the action is very real as the tank crew (the beast) try to join their own forces after getting lost during operations. i found the movie exciting, realistic and very impressive acting by the cast. i highly recommend this movie to anyone interested in war action and specially the afghan war .
just two years following the release of her first album in english, dion won her first grammy for 1992 for best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal for her ironically romantic duet of
beauty and the beast
with bryson .
perhaps the one duet that gave my career the biggest boost in the early days was singing' beauty and the beast' with peabo bryson ,
said dion .
while there was a definite contrast between our voices in our solo parts, when we sang together, our voices became one. this is the true magic that comes with singing duets .
the golden - voiced canadian has won five grammys to date, including record of the year for another film song :
my heart will go on
from 1997' s titanic .
as belle finds out that the beast truly loves her as he lies on the ground, apparently dead from his injuries, she begins weeping over his loss and sadly whispers that she loves him, just as the final petal from the enchanted rose falls off, breaking the spell. belle watches in amazement as the beast is revived and turned back into a human. belle studies him carefully, recognizing him as the man from the portrait in the west wing, and seeing that he still has the same eyes, she says
it is you !
the two kiss, turning the servants human and transforming the castle back into its original elegance. the last scene shows belle and the prince dancing in the ballroom as her father and the servants happily watch them, while lumière and cogsworth enter a feud .
in addition, caps allowed an easier combination of hand - drawn art with computer - generated imagery, which before had to be plotted to animation cells and painted traditionally. the latter technique was put to significant use during the
beauty and the beast
waltz sequence, in which belle and beast dance through a computer - generated ballroom as the camera dollies around them in simulated 3d space. the filmmakers had originally decided against the use of computers in favor of traditional animation, but later, when the technology had improved, decided it could be used for the one scene in the ballroom. the success of the ballroom sequence helped convince studio executives to further invest in computer animation .
a peculiar challenge exists when you are writing a film for a large corporation such as walt disney studios is that there are so many executives to answer to on each movie that it is difficult to maintain a cohesive voice for any given film. therefore, it is unsurprising to note that a number of disney films have undergone rather dramatic makeovers from their original screenplays. for instance, as we noted in a movie legend revealed from a while back, elsa in frozen was originally the villain of that film .
admit that father no longer knows best, especially when promoting an outmoded patriarchal order, then perhaps we can escape from the ni. htmlares that populate both the american horror of personality film and america itself .
real life: the film conveniently dovetails this real - life incident with dr. dre’s personal family drama, but members of n. w. a. did get harassed by cops outside of audio achievements while recording straight outta compton in 1987. curiously, however, arabian prince—a part of the early incarnation of n. w. a. who worked on the album before slowly fading out of the group—has very little presence in the film .
the very real ti - 67 tanks (israeli - modified t55 tanks featuring a larger 105mm gun vs. the original 100mm gun) used as well as the authentic soviet weaponry were all provided by israel, with cooperation from the idf. the t55 tanks were well obsolete by the time frame of this film, however it was nice to see authentic soviet armor in a western movie. when the film was made in 1987 (released in 1988), the russo - afghan war was still ongoing, and thus a topic of debate. a nice example of a real authentic soviet armored vehicle in a western movie. actually an israeli ti - 67 tank, standing in for a t55 (the same tank except for a larger main gun), there are numerous beautiful shots of the tank in action and get a real understanding of the mechanisms and functions of the vehicle. an armored vehicle lover' s dream. at one point, koverchenko and the mujahideen take advantage of the limited elevation range of the tank' s main gun; a notorious weakness of soviet tanks operating in the mountains of afghanistan.
the beast ( also known as the beast of war ) is a 1988 american war film directed by kevin reynolds and written by william mastrosimone , based on his play nanawatai . the film follows the crew of a soviet t-55 tank which was lost during the soviet invasion of afghanistan . the film has enjoyed a cult-favorite status in spite of its low box office statistics . 
the beast (also known as the beast of war) is a 1988 american war film directed by kevin reynolds and written by william mastrosimone, based on his play nanawatai. the film follows the crew of a soviet t-55 tank which was lost during the soviet invasion of afghanistan. the film has enjoyed a cult-favorite status in spite of its low box office statistics.
the beast (also known as the beast of war) is a 1988 american war film directed by kevin reynolds and written by william mastrosimone, based on his play nanawatai. the film follows the crew of a soviet t-55 tank which was lost during the soviet invasion of afghanistan. the film has enjoyed a cult-favorite status in spite of its low box office statistics.