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Walt Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast was an instant classic, in my opinion it is not only the finest animated movie ever made, but deserves a spot on the list of the all time greats. Although not the highest money maker of Disney production, or the most remembered by children (those honors go to The Lion King) Beauty and the Beast nevertheless earned the most enthusiastic notices ever by the critics and was recognized with a Best Picture Oscar nomination (considering the weak competition, it deserved to win the award). I believe that everyone that was born in 1991 has seen beauty and the beast. I know we were supposed to pick something that we haven't watched but i'm going to be honest here and admit I haven't seen it since I was about five; so I decided to refresh my memory.
The tale of Beauty and the Beas is an old one, dating back centuries before the modernized remake there was an original by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, which screenwriter Linda Woolverton based this script. Understandably, the people at Disney have added their own spin by changing certain plot details, modernizing Belle's character (she's a feminist), and adding a array of talking objects. In the Beast's castle, everything has a voice: candlesticks, clocks, pots, cups, wardrobes, and feather dusters. The film makers obviously took their inspiration for this from Jean Cocteau's classic 1946 adaptation, where although the objects in the castle did not sing or dance around, there was a sense of enchantment. If you watch that film and then this one the similarities, especially in the look and feel of the castle, are impossible to miss!
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