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Mar 17, 2017 · Beauty and the Beast: Directed by Bill Condon. With Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad. A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.
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- Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- Bill Condon
- 2017-03-17
Nov 13, 1991 · Disney's beloved modern classic, the first animated feature film in the history of the Oscars nominated for Best Picture (1991). The music you'll never forget, the characters who will fill your heart and the magical adventure about finding beauty within all come to spectacular life.
- Jerry Orbach
- 84 min
Starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as Belle and the Beast respectively, the film features a supporting ensemble and choir cast including Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson.
- $1.266 billion
- Alan Menken
- $160–255 million
Beauty and the Beast focuses on the relationship between the Beast, a prince who is magically transformed into a monster and his servants into household objects as punishment for his arrogance and cruelty, and Belle, a young woman whom he imprisons in his castle in exchange for her father's freedom. To break the curse, the Beast must learn to ...
- $424 million
- Alan Menken
- $25 million
- Don Hahn
- Plot
- Analysis
- Broader Themes
- Commentary
- See Also
- Further Reading
- External Links
Villeneuve's version
A widowed merchant lives in a mansion in a city with his twelve children (six sons and six daughters). All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest daughter, Beauty, is the most gorgeous among all of them. Beauty is the loveliest, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while her elder sisters, in contrast, are cruel, selfish, vain, spoiled and jealous of Beauty. The merchant and his children become poor when their house burns down and his ships get lost in a storm at sea and...
Beaumont's version
Beaumont greatly pared down the cast of characters and pruned the tale to an almost archetypal simplicity.The story begins in much the same way as Villeneuve's version, although now the merchant has only six children: three sons and three daughters of which Beauty is one. Unlike Villeneuve's version, Beaumont's version treats the merchant as Beauty's biological father and there is no indication of her being royalty by birth. The circumstances leading to her arrival at the Beast's castle unfol...
Lang's version
A variant of Villeneuve's version appears in Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book. Most of the story is the same, except at the beginning where the merchant himself is not at sea, but his ships are. His mansion is burned in a fire, along with his belongings, forcing him and his family to move to their country home in the forest. His ships are lost at sea, captured by pirates, etc., except one, which returns later. Unlike the other two versions, the sisters in Lang's story are not jealous of Beau...
The tale is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as type ATU 425C, "Beauty and the Beast". It is related to the general type ATU 425, "The Search for the Lost Husband" and subtypes. In a study about the myth of Cupid and Psyche, Danish folklorist Inger Margrethe Bobergargued that "Beauty and the Beast" was "an older form" of the animal husb...
Harries identifies the two most popular strands of fairy tale in the 18th century as the fantastical romance for adults and the didactic tale for children. Beauty and the Beast is interesting as it bridges this gap, with Villeneuve's version being written as a salon tale for adults and Beaumont'sbeing written as a didactic tale for children.
Tatar (2017) compares the tale to the theme of "animal brides and grooms" found in folklore throughout the world,pointing out that the French tale was specifically intended for the preparation of young girls in 18th century France for arranged marriages.The urban opening is unusual in fairy tales, as is the social class of the characters, neither r...
Ralston, William. "Beauty and the Beast". In: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 4. (July–December 1878). London: Henry S. King & Co. pp. 990–1012.
"The Story of the Beauty and the Beast", James Planché's translation of Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve's original version of the fairytale, on Project Gutenberg.The story of beauty & the beast; the complete fairy story translated from the French by Ernest Dowson on Internet Archive. Ernest Dowson's translation of de Villeneuve's original fairytale."Beauty and the Beast", the revised and abridged version by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, at the website of the University of Pittsburgh.- ATU 425C (Beauty and the Beast)
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- Die Schöne und das Biest
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Mar 17, 2017 · Rating: PG. Release Date: March 17, 2017. Genre: Family, Fantasy, Live Action, Musical, Romance. Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is a live-action re-telling of the studio’s animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating ...
Summaries. A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner. Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast.
