Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast is a Disney musical romantic fantasy film featured in Film Theory.

Film Information
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third in the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. It tells the tale of an arrogant young prince (Robby Benson) who, after refusing an old woman hospitality, is turned into a beast after the old woman reveals herself to be an enchantress, and punishes him for his arrogance, as well as turning all the castle's staff into sentient household objects. Eventually, after locking away an old man who stumbled across his castle, his daughter, a young woman named Belle (Paige O'Hara), is imprisoned as well. However, Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out of his isolation as the two begin to fall in love, as the only way to break the curse is to fall in love before the enchantress's magic rose loses all its pedals, lest he become the Beast for the rest of his life. A live-action reboot will be released in 2017.

Film Theory

 * Beauty and the Beast's OVERLOOKED Tragedy

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