| Beauty and the Beast is
a memorable movie that won 5 academy awards including: Best Picture, Best
Song, and Best Original Score. It also won Best Picture for
the Golden Globe awards. |
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| Belle, a
book-loving, heroin, has a peculiar father. When he was riding in
the woods he is captured by a Beast. Belle tells the Beast to take
her instead of her father. So she remains in the castle with the
Beast and his many enchanted servants including a talking candle, Lumiere.
The Beast is under a spell that can only be broken when the Beast learns
to love and is loved in return. At first Belle only saw the Beast on
the outside, but the longer she was there the more she began to understand
him. |
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| Belle helps the Beast
with his temper, and they start to fall in love. But Gaston, another
villager is jealous and goes on a hunt to kill the Beast. Belle
makes it just in time to confess her love to the Beast. The spell is
broken and the Beast turns into a prince. All of the enchanted
characters turn into people and the Beast and Belle get married.
They live happily ever after (as most Disney movies end) |
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Beauty and the Beast was
released on November 22, 1991. It was 84 minutes long. It was
directed by Gary Busdale and and Kirk Wise. The movie was also nominated
for 7 acadamy awards; it won 5 of the 7. |
| The casts consists of:
Paige O' Hara (Belle), Robby Benson (Beast), Rex Everhart (Maurice),
Richard White (Gatson), Angela Landsbury ( Mrs. Potts), Jerry Orbach (Lumiere),
David Ogden Stiers (Clogsworth), and Michel Pierce (Chip). |
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The production of
the movie took 3 and a half years. Through trips to France, 600
animators, artists and technicians, and many other editors and vocalists
this movie became the success that it is. The movie raised over 140
million dollars. |
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