beauty and the beast ( 2009 film )
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french film la belle et la bête (“beauty and the beast”) 2014, film trailer .
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this article is about the 1991 animated film. for the 2017 live - action film, see beauty and the beast (2017 film) .
with beauty and the beast hitting theaters this weekend, you should relive this silly saturday night live sketch from 2009 starring kristen wiig as belle and gerard butler as the beast .
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the archetypal story of “beauty and the beast” was transformed into an animated feature film by disney in 1991 .
beauty and the beast (2009). stars: estella warren, rhett giles. director - david lister. fairytale adventure. moria - the science - fiction, horror and fantasy film review .
“beauty and the beast” or “cannon movie tales: beauty and the beast” is a american / israeli musical film directed by eugene marner. it’s part of the 1980 film series cannon movie tales production company: golan - globus productions cast: rebecca de mornay as beauty
emma watson chats with the beast in disney & apos; s
beauty and the beast ,
now playing .
activity 1. reading the beauty and the beast fairytale | activity 2. finding parallels in other fairytales | activity 3. looking at text - to - film transition with disney’s beauty and the beast | activity 4. finding other beauty and the beast archetypes | extension activities | about the image
beauty & the beast broke new ground while recapturing the spirit of disney traditionalism .
disney' s been flirting with an adaptation of the story since 2009, though initially it was planned as a film version of the broadway musical .
film of the same name. the film tells the story of a prince who is transformed into a
“ beauty and the beast ” easily dominated a polarized and quieter than average weekend at the chinese box office .
also attending this year will be page o’hara, who provided the voice of belle in disney’s classic animated film “beauty and the beast. ” in honor of the groundbreaking film’s 25th anniversary, o’hara and the film’s producer, don hahn, will participate in a discussion after a screening of “beauty and the beast. ” hahn also will join the discussion after a screening of “waking sleeping beauty, ” a critically acclaimed 2009 documentary narrated by hahn that traces the rise of disney animation from 1984 to 1994 .
“beauty and the beast” made history as the first full length animated film nominated at the oscars for best picture (it lost to “silence of the lambs”) and the only one to do so when there were only five nominees. the film remained the only animated film nominated for best picture for 18 years until “up” (2009) made the 10 films nominated. the original “beauty and the beast” won two oscars: best original score (alan menken) and best original song for the title song “beauty and the beast” (menken and howard ashman). besides best picture the film was also nominated at the oscars for best sound and two more for best original song: “belle” and “be our guest. ”
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long before there was a golden globe for best animated film, “beauty and the beast” won the globe for best comedy / musical picture along with best original score (menken) and best original song for the title song “beauty and the beast. ” the film also won four grammys: best instrumental composition written for a motion picture or for television; best song written specifically for a motion picture or for television for the title song “beauty and the beast; ” best pop performance by a duo or group (celine dion and peabo bryson, “beauty and the beast”) and best pop instrumental performance (for the song “beauty and the beast”) along with receiving nominations in major categories: album, record and song of the year for “beauty and the beast. ”
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 .
beauty and the beast is an australian fantasy tv film directed by david lister. it’s based on “beauty and the beast” by gabrielle - suzanne barbot de villeneuve. production company: amecican world pictures, limelight international voice cast: estella warren as belle
i highly recommend this book to anyone who has seen jean cocteau' s fil version of
beauty and the beast
the book is the diary of the film .
beauty and the beast is an american romantic fantasy musical film directed by bill condon. production company: walt disney pictures cast: emma watson as belle
beauty and the beast (deutsch: die schöne und das biest) is a deutsch romantic fantasy film directed by marc - andreas bochert. production company: discina cast: cornelia gröschel as elsa, beauty
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
.
pay attention to how the trailer sets up the contrast between belle and the beast as “opposites. ” how would you describe beauty in this story? what about the beast ?
beauty and the beast is certainly adequate holiday entertainment for children and their more indulgent parents... but the film has little of the technical facility, vivid characterization and emotional impact of disney past .
view the film, pay special attention to the scenes where “belle meets the beast” and
belle returns home .
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beauty and the beast is an american animated musical romantic fantasy film directed by gary trousdale and kirk wiseby. production company: walt disney pictures voice cast: paige o’hara as belle
the live - action adaptation of 1991 disney classic beauty and the beast is gearing up for a 2017 release on 17 march .
the book provides insights into the making of cocteau' s classic film. the incredible film obviously stands alone, but knowledge of the period and the various aspects and ...
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
.
beauty and the beast 2017 is an adaptation of the 1991 disney animation and so will broadly follow the plot of that film, which itself was loosely based on the french fairytale by jeanne - marie leprince de beaumont .
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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 .
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 .
beauty and the beast (french: la belle et la bête) is a french romantic fantasy film directed by jean cocteau. production company: discina cast: josette day as belle
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“beauty and the beast” still is the only animated film to pick up a best - picture nomination for an academy award, and it helped usher in what has been termed the disney renaissance. hahn also produced “the lion king, ” which became the highest - grossing traditionally animated film in history .
moscow (ap) – children under age 16 won’t be able to go to the new disney film “beauty and the beast” in russia because it includes a gay character, the russian culture ministry said tuesday .
the “gay moment” controversy that dogged the film in some other territories was not an important factor in china. chinese regulators boasted that they had admitted the film intact and without one of the age warnings permitted under the new film promotion law .
“if you see the 2017 version of # beautyandthebeast, make sure you also catch the 2009 one starring kristen wiig and me, ” gerard posted on instagram today to re - promote the clip .
* * beauty and the beast: 25th anniversary edition. walt disney studios: september 20, 2016 run time: 92 minutes the full script of the film is available, if you would like to access the text version .
you are acting as a director in charge of a remake of a theatrical or film production of beauty and the beast. think about how the archetypes of “the beauty” and “the beast” fit into modern life. outline how you would update the beauty and the beast story for today’s world. then, elaborate on this plan. feel free to be creative as you like in your response–you can choose to sketch a storyboard, write verses to a song you’d want in your film, write an essay, act out a scene, choreograph a dance, etc. !
beauty and the beast: rated pg the fantastic journey of belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. despite her fears, she befriends the castle' s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the beast' s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true prince within .
beauty and the beast (french: la belle et la bête) is a french fairy tale by jeanne - marie leprince de beaumont .
belle (or beauty) is a romantic and beautiful young girl who seeks adventure, and offers her own freedom to the beast in return for her father’s .
beauty and the beast cast member audra mcdonald is photographed at the montage hotel in beverly hills, california, u. s. march 5, 2017 .
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 twist on the morality tale of forbidden love between the beautiful belle and the feared beast. as the villagers are being brutally murdered and the beast is hunted down as the one responsible for the mayhem, belle and beast team up to defeat the real killer; the power - hungry witch' s malevolent troll .
the archetypes of the beautiful, good - hearted girl and the wild, monstrous man reappear in a variety of forms in art and entertainment today (including the live - action remake of the disney film, starring harry potter actress emma watson as belle). list the aspects of the “beauty and the beast” tale you recognize in the following examples. what traits of the archetypal “the beauty” and “the beast” characters are emphasized, and what has been left out? why might those choices have been made by the writer, composer, or director ?
( 2017). the live - action remake of the disney film starring emma watson and dan stevens .
disney' s effort to turn their animated wonders into live action slogs continues apace with beauty and the beast, an ugly mess of cartoonish cgi .
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 .
beauty and the beast (french: la belle et la bête) is a franco - german romantic fantasy film directed by christophe gans. production company: eskwad, pathé, studio babelsberg cast: léa seydoux as belle
beauty and the beast remains one of disney' s very best animated masterpieces. featuring a timeless story, memorable characters, and beautiful music, it' s an unforgettable film that has been admired by millions of fans for the last 25 years .
from the producers of “the lion king”, the award - winning production of disney’s “beauty and the beast” comes to singapore in march 2015. this new touring production has been put together by the original creators of the broadway production, including the tony award® winning costumes from ann hould - ward. disney’s “beauty and the beast” features the animated film’s academy award® - winning score with music by alan menken and lyrics by the late howard ashman, with additional songs with music by alan menken and lyrics by tim rice .
a dark twist on the morality tale of forbidden love between beautiful belle and the feared forest beast. as villagers are being brutally murdered and the beast is hunted down as the one responsible for the mayhem, belle and beast team up to defeat the real killer the power - hungry witch' s malevolent troll .
a lovely film that ranks with the best of disney' s animated classics .
this launchpad explores how a classic and well - loved fairytale­ “beauty and the beast” can be distilled into archetypes of character and plot. it offers you a guide to recognize and analyze these archetypes when they appear in other stories and mediums .
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 .
what beauty and the beast rises or falls on is the love story, and here, allowed to slow down to let in intimate moments, the movie catches fire. it' s an exhilarating gift .
disney’s beauty and the beast is the classic story of belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the beast, who is really a young prince trapped in a spell placed by an enchantress. if the beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former self. but time is running out. if the beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity .
and the prince / beast donning some rather fabulous locks in a behind the scenes shot reveals on facebook .
read one of the following versions of the “beauty and the beast” archetypal tale from another cultural tradition. these stories and others like them are available in the folklore and mythology electronic texts repository, edited and / or translated by d. l. ashliman at the university of pittsburgh .
the amateurs
has been selected for the brooklyn film festival 2013! the dates will be announced shortly .
some have found cocteau' s litany of illnesses that he and others suffered while filming
beauty and the beast
tedious and skipped over them as seemingly irrelevant. unfortunately, those who do so may miss the entire point of cocteau' s masochistic esthetic, namely, the necessity for the artist to suffer and triumph over all adversity for the sake of his art. that suffering is part and parcel of his art, suffering is art, just as
beauty and the beast
suffered during the filming and triumphed as a lasting work of art. cocteau' s suffering at the time mirrored the enormous technical difficulties encountered while making the film. the entire surreal struggle of cocteau and of others involved in the film is wonderfully captured in his journal and any serious student of either cocteau or the film will profit by reading it .
nothing to say except extraordinary a phenomenal insight into both cocteau and the this amazing film! love it and shared with many .
a dark twist on the morality tale of forbidden love between beautiful belle and the feared forest beast. as villagers are being brutally murdered and the beast is hunted down as the one... see full summary »
emma watson will play belle, the woman who is taken to live in the beast' s castle. it' s a casting decision pretty much everyone was happy with, including paige o' hara who voiced belle in the 1991 beauty and the beast animated classic .
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 .
here is your first look at disney’s “ beauty and the beast, ” the live - action adaptation of the animated classic directed by bill condon. a previous oscar winner for best adapted screenplay (“gods and monsters” in 1998), condon has extensive work in musicals. he also received an oscar nominationfor best adapted screenplay for “chicago” (2002). click through our photo gallery above for your sneak peek at the 2017 “beauty and the beast” cast before the film is released on march 17 .
beauty and the beast
technically works, but of course it does: it' s the original movie again – just with more clutter there that wasn' t there before .
the story and characters you know and love come to spectacular life in the live - action adaptation of disney’s animated classic beauty and the beast, a cinematic event celebrating one of the most beloved tales ever told. experience the fantastic journey of belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff, and learns to look beyond the beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart of the true prince within .
if time allows, find your own representations of “the beauty” and “the beast” archetypes in contemporary art, advertisements, television, etc. , and use them to consider the same questions. what helped you recognize the archetypes in these works ?
the film that ranks seventh on the list of the 100 best animated films of the american film institute is full of tender scenes, delectable musical sequences and of course a phenomenal story... [ full review in spanish ]
director bill condon revealed he' d included a
gay twist
into the narrative of beauty and the beast via lefou, played by josh gad - gaston' s right hand man .
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 .
beauty and the beast ,
which stars emma watson in the belle role and dan stevens as the beast, had the year' s biggest thursday preview of the year with $ 16. 3 million, which added to its $ 64. 1 million friday earning. that' s the largest opening day for a pg movie, passing 2009' s
harry potter and the half - blood prince .
the movie then took in $ 64. 8 million on saturday (the fourth - best saturday take ever, beating the $ 62. 2 million earned by
iron man 3
in 2013) .
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
.
the film’s brief scene in question involves the character of lefou (josh gad), the timid and lovable sidekick to the preening villain gaston (luke evans) .
read this 18th - century version of “beauty of the beast” by jeanne - marie leprince de beaumont, which was published in the young misses magazine in france in 1756. respond to the following :
just in time for election season, the award - winning documentarians behind “the war room” will attend the 29th virginia film festival .
the announcements were made at the virginia film festival’s annual stakeholders meeting & reception, which took place tuesday evening at the local .
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 .
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 .
hong kong - made animation, “mcdull: kung fu kindergarten” took fifth place with $ 2. 58 million. the limited, re - release of the 2009 movie, lifts its lifetime theatrical total to over $ 11. 4 million .
this time it' s no fairy tale! a dark twist on the morality tale of forbidden love between beautiful belle (estella warren: planet of the apes) and the feared forest beast. as villagers are being brutally murdered and the beast is hunted down as the one responsible for the mayhem, belle and beast team up to defeat the real killer, the power - hungry witch' s malevolent troll .
“you know, the curse will be broken. and you can stop being a beast, ” he says .
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 .
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additionally, many of the musical numbers in the film are spectacular. during the classic song, “be our guest, ” lumière leads the kitchenware in a performance that ends in fireworks from a champagne fountain. “be our guest” is not the only song from the 1991 version, composed by alan menken, that made it into the remake. beloved fan favorites like “something there” and “beauty and the beast” are also included in the film. one of the best numbers is “gaston, ” sung by lefou (an ideally cast josh gad), disney’s first openly gay character. the whole bar comes together in a dance routine to boost the ego of the already vain gaston (luke evans). what is more exciting about the music of the film is that menken and his writing partner, tim rice, wrote three new songs exclusively for the film .
our australian short film
please
is open to the public now! the original version without subtitles will follow in the next days .
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 .
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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what you gain in an extra, faked dimension you lose in lively, genuine beauty .
beauty and the beast. walter crane (british, liverpool 1845–1915 horsham). engraved and printed by edmund evans (british, southwark, london 1826–1905 ventnor, isle of wight). the metropolitan museum of art, new york, new york .
one alabama drive - in theater has canceled plans to show the film, which opens next week and stars emma watson as belle .
beauty has now been transformed into a modern girl. no problem with this, excepting that the films conception of beauty is to promptly put her into a leather bustier and mini - skirt and have her run around kicking the ass of the counts soldiery (in fact, regularly defeating them despite the fact that they are armed and armoured and she comes without the use of any weapons or protection excepting her ability to create herbal smoke bombs). the part of beauty is cast with canadian swimmer / model estella warren whose greatest role up to this point was as the human love interest in
i love fairy tales, they' re in every culture and history and now, they' re apart of my favourite medium, film .
there' s a part when mcdonald' s wardrobe bombards belle with animated cloth and fabric, decorating her into a human christmas tree of powdered wigs and gaudiness. that' s pretty much
beauty and the beast
: the magic and beating heart still there, just buried a little extra under needlessness, redundancy and excess .
compare what you see in the 1991 disney animated feature film with the leprince de beaumont version of the tale you originally read in activity 1 .
yesterday, beauty and the beast posted $ 6. 1m taking its two week tally to $ 347. 9m. if the emma watson movie hits its weekend forecasts, pic will raise to $ 390. 4m at the domestic b. o .
“oh darling, i can hardly wait for your transformation, ” gerard says as the beast .
“beauty and the beast” easily dominated a polarized and quieter than average weekend at the chinese box office. it earned a very solid $ 42. 8 million in its opening three days, according to local box office service ent group. disney reported the figure as $ 44. 8 million. with an average of 100, 000 screenings per day, “beauty” was [ … ]
in 1993, audra mcdonald was a recent graduate of juilliard, and auditioned to be in the ensemble of the new broadway musical beauty and the beast. she wasn' t cast .
i was devastated about that ,
she says over the phone from her home in new york. she had seen the original disney film in her early 20s, while she was performing on the road .
i walked in sort of skeptical and snarky, and walked out in tears .
does a poor job of conducting it. the promo for the film tries to make it sound like one of the modern adult fairytale adaptations  see
following the live - action version of
the jungle book
earning close to $ 1 billion worldwide last year, the studio looks to have another cash cow in the making with
beauty and the beast
breaking the record for the biggest opening weekend ever for march with an estimated $ 170 million, according to variety .
( 2001). in estella warrens interpretation, beauty is no weeping willow but comes with the sunny disposition of a california beach girl. it does seem a difficult swallow to reconcile this with the image of the peasant girl that the script writes beauty as being .
dan stevens, who was super - posh matthew crawley in downton abbey and then a buff psychopath in the guest, will play the beast .
walt disney animation studios' magical classic beauty and the beast returns to the big screen in disney digital 3d (tm), introducing a whole new generation to the disney classic with stunning new 3d imagery. the film captures the fantastic journey of belle (voice of paige o' hara), a bright and beautiful young woman who' s taken prisoner by a hideous beast (voice of robby benson) in his castle. despite her precarious situation, belle befriends the castle' s enchanted staff - a teapot, a candelabra and a mantel clock, among others - and ultimately learns to see beneath the beast' s exterior to discover the heart and soul of a prince. - - (c) disney
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 .
the first animated film to ever earn a best picture oscar nomination, this is as good as anything ever produced by the studio .
the message of this film is about love. and it' s about the fact that love conquers all, and love can transform. and you see the beast not only become worthy of being loved, but he also learns to love himself. and that' s the main message of this film ,
she says .
the film is incredibly diverse – every race, colour, creed, orientation. at its heart it' s still a family film, but it' s about seeing into who each of us truly is on the inside and celebrating that. i just feel bad for those who are going to not see it because they think there' s some subversive message there .
it is a story that everyone knows — the tale as old as time. yet, somehow, the live - action digital remake of “beauty and the beast” still dazzles and leaves the audience longing to be a part of its enchanting world, even after 26 years. it is a difficult task to take a disney masterpiece and make it unique and fresh, but director bill condon (“dream girls, ” “gods and monsters”) does exactly that in his first film with walt disney pictures .
catherine and vincent track a mysterious beast while keeping their individual agendas from one another in a clever game of cat - and - mouse .
but he’s still getting work. it’s not like he has nothing ahead. a film is a film…he’s still going to be making millions per even if it’s a pos project that few may see .
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 .
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 .
our favourite bookish - peasant - turned - princess will soon be gracing the big screen once again. harry potter star emma watson will star in disney' s live - action take on beauty and the beast as belle, while dan stevens will play the beast and luke evans will play gaston. the official trailer is making us so excited for the movie' s premiere on march 23, 2017. the fairy tale has come a long way from its 18th - century french origins. let' s look at the evolution of the fairy tale in pop culture, from classic books to the latest film and tv interpretations !
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 .
“beauty and the beast” tells the story of belle, whose father has been taken prisoner by a terrifying beast, a prince under a magic spell. the disney original animated version was released on november 22, 1991 and became an instant classic. two of television’s favorites and past tony winners angela lansbury voiced ms. potts and jerry orbach voiced lumiere. thanks in no small part to the original music and score, condon convinced disney that a live action version would need to be a musical because the audience would miss the songs .
set in the 1800s, the french fairy tale epic features lea seydoux as belle and vincent cassell as the beast in a plot closer to the original story and reminiscent of cocteau’s 1946 version, though it received mixed reviews .
beauty and the beast was the second film produced using caps (computer animation production system), a digital scanning, ink, paint, and compositing system of software and hardware developed for disney by pixar. the software allowed a wider range of colors, as well as soft shading and colored line effects for the characters, techniques lost when the disney studio abandoned hand inking for xerography in the late 1950' s. caps also allowed the production crew to simulate multiplane effects: placing characters and / or backgrounds on separate layers and moving them towards / away from the camera on the z - axis to give the illusion of depth, as well as altering the focus of each layer .
speaking of, well, speaking up, mcdonald has been vocal about political and social issues, especially marriage equality (she joined twitter in 2009 specifically to promote that cause with the handle @ audraequalitymc), so she' s pleased to be in the first disney movie to feature (however subtly) an openly gay character. although it does sadden her that there' s been a negative response from some groups to that aspect of the film .
i wish i had read carefully that the book was a translation from french before ordering. still, the story behind the making of the most important film of french cinema is amazing and makes appreciating it more complex and layered. highly recommend .
one cannot help but to compare this
beauty and the beast
with the disney cartoon, given that it hews so closely to the original cartoon version. at times in the beginning, the films seemed shot - for - shot duplicates. in that light, the live - action music, characters and singing just aren' t as
big
as those in the animated film. however, making such a comparison, is not fair to this live - action version, which itself is very fine. the sets and costumes are spectacular. the cgi is (mostly) impressive. (just avoid looking at the beast' s face throughout the film and you' ll think it was faultless .) the music is marvelous on its own, even if most of the new numbers are lackluster. this version is a definite five - star film on its own, which would be clearly evident it it didn' t have to measure up to its predecessor .
directed by french poet jean cocteau, this surrealist fantasy takes the story of true love taming a savage, lonely heart seriously and portrays it with lavish visuals and dreamlike effects. the film inspired stevie nicks’ 1983
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 best performance in the film comes from australian actor rhett giles who plays with an intent seriousness and panache that is determined to write bad boy villainy across the film, even if in the end he comes across as trying to channel russell crowe. on the other hand, fellow australian vanessa gray plays the role of the witch with a breathy campiness that is tiresomely one - dimensional .
belle and the beast, kids know it, adults enjoy it also, but this new take on the story sees a scantily clad belle and a beast who looks like an elderly 4 times a week sunbed user, the acting is appalling, the direction is akin to that of a blind man trying to describe an object he has never encountered, in this movies case - talent -, bad script, poor acting and a frankly diabolical cast make this a terrifyingly dull and slow moving film, unsuitable for anyone with an iq score. please be aware that this is a great film for the mentally infirm and the members of our thc squad who no doubt will be enthralled to find this in the bargain bin at the nearest (every) gas station. avoid this film, i urge you, although, if you don 't believe me, go ahead and rent it from your local rental store, just don 't complain when the film is over and you realise you slept through it all .
matthias weidenhöfer matthias weidenhöfer was born in achim, germany. he studied acting at the film university in potsdam - babelsberg. as an actor he appeared in several movies and tv shows, including
tatort: der himmel über kiel
,
die unsichtbare
,
tatort: brüder
,
unter gaunern
,
alarm für cobra 11
and
der staat gegen fritz bauer
. in 2013 matthias weidenhöfer produced the feature film
männer zeigen filme & frauen ihre brüste
in which he also starred. the film premiered at the zürich film festival and screened all over germany. he has two sons and lives in berlin .
goes from a fairytale about the love of a virtuous heroine transforming a man cursed to a beast - like appearance into an adventure with beauty as a kick - ass heroine who runs around the kingdom accompanied by the beast as they try to defeat an evil lord and a witch who has raised a goblin to kill people. in many ways, this is not too much of a stretch from the tv series
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friday night, saturday morning short film | | germany 2010 written & directed by antoine dengler with: florens schmidt, matthias weidenhöfer and others .
the clutter on the page continues on screen too .
beauty and the beast
was always going to be a bigger cg chore than something like
cinderella ,
but condon often pushes too hard on the photo - realistic theatrics. lumiere' s face is eerily indecipherable through his overly done design, while plumette the feather duster comes in some perplexing, alienating bird form. and the less said about mcdonald' s wardrobe and tucci' s harpsichord, the better. overall, let' s just say the beast' s castle rests somewhere in the uncanny valley of france .
king maximilian xiii is dying and there is in - fighting amongst his relatives as to who will be his heir. the ruthless count rudolph eliminates the other contenders to align himself in position. the washerwomans daughter bella is in the woods looking for herbs when the legendary beast that is said to haunt the area appears and shoots an arrow to kill a wolf that is about to attack her. when count rudolph hears bellas story, he makes her accompany him on a hunt for the beast. the witch lady helen approaches rudolph and offers to make him king if he will take her as his consort. she raises a troll by means magical and sends it to slaughter people in the village. the beast is blamed for the killings. bella determines to investigate, following clues to find the beast in the forest. she realises that it is human and sensitive but has a hideous face, which it hides from the villagers. it denies all knowledge of the killings. rudolph and helen conduct further killings and seek to have the beast blamed and then executed for these .
if you would like to more deeply investigate criticisms of the disney film and discuss how the archetypes in the story have been modified to better suit the societal values of the time, complete the extension activity linked below: belle as a
new kind of disney heroine .
during the course of production, many changes were made to the structure of the film, necessitating the replacement and re - purposing of songs. after screening a mostly animated version of the
be our guest
sequence, story artist bruce woodside suggested that the objects should be singing the song to belle rather than her father. wise and trousdale agreed, and the sequence and song were retooled to replace maurice with belle .
at the film’s march 2 premiere in los angeles, director bill condon suggested that describing lefou as disney’s first gay character went too far .
emma watson was cast this week as belle in disney’s upcoming live - action version of beauty and the beast, part of disney’s series of live - action reimaginings of its animated fairy tales that includes maleficient and cinderella. watson had previously been attached to an adaptation of the classic story from guillermo del toro, and, according to watson, this version from disney will feature the music and lyrics of alan menken and howard ashman from 1991’s animated classic.
beauty and the beast is a 2009 australian fantasy film directed by david lister and starring estella warren , rhett giles , and victor parascos , and loosely based upon the fairy tale of the same name . the film was released in 2009 on video under that title and aired in 2010 on syfy television as beauty and the beasts : a dark tale . 
beauty and the beast is a 2009 australian fantasy film directed by david lister and starring estella warren, rhett giles, and victor parascos, and loosely based upon the fairy tale of the same name. the film was released in 2009 on video under that title and aired in 2010 on syfy television as beauty and the beasts: a dark tale.
beauty and the beast is a 2009 australian fantasy film directed by david lister and starring estella warren, rhett giles, and victor parascos, and loosely based upon the fairy tale of the same name. the film was released in 2009 on video under that title and aired in 2010 on syfy television as beauty and the beasts: a dark tale.