Prisoner and begins to learn Beast's story of a curse that has befallen him and his house. Prisoner by a reclusive and repulsive Beast (Dan Stevens) whose only company are living odds and ends from around the house. One day, Maurice leaves town for a day but only his horse returns the next. Town's hunkiest bachelor who, even with the other available girls swooning over his every move, has his eye firmly fixed on the beautiful and But that's not enough to deter Gaston (Luke Belle is something of an outcastĪmongst the villagers she knows how, and loves, to read and has an independent streak about her. The original an unforgettable, treasured classic.īelle (Emma Watson) happily lives in a small French village with her father Maurice (Kevin Kline), a tinkerer. Of the beloved 1991 film or something else entirely that expands on the story but dilutes that core Beauty and the Beast essence that made The result is a film that never quite finds its own identity, that cannot decide whether it's nearly a shot-for-shot and song-for-song recreation Version, offered a different enough take on the classic story to become its own film, Beauty and the Beast takes the Jungle Book route, retelling the story with most all of the familiar arcsĪnd characters and happenings from the animated film while mixing in some of its own creatively novel ideas to flesh out the story and extend the
Unlike Maleficent, which retold the story of Sleeping Beauty from a different perspective, or Cinderella, which, while sharing some similarities with the animated With Beauty and theīeast, the studio has taken what many (this reviewer included) believe to be its animated masterpiece and transitioned it to live-action with, of course, no If there was any doubt that Disney is taking this animated-to-live-action trend seriously, there shouldn't be any now.
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