In the prologue, told through stained glass windows, an old beggar woman arrives at the castle of a French prince. The woman asks for shelter from the cold, and in return, offers the young prince a rose. Repulsed by her appearance, the prince turns her away. The beggar warns him not to judge by appearances, but the Prince ignores her and shuts the door on her. The woman then throws off her disguise, revealing that she is a beautiful enchantress. The Prince tries to apologize, but she has already seen the lack of kindness in his heart. She conjures a powerful curse, transforming him into a hideous beast, his servants into anthropomorphic household items, and the entire castle and all its surroundings into a dark, forbidding place, so that he will learn not to judge by appearances. The curse can only be broken if the Beast learns to love another and receives the other's love in return before the last petal of the enchantress's rose withers and falls; if not, he will be doomed to remain a beast forever. As the years pass, the Beast sits in his castle wallowing in despair, convinced that no one could ever love him.
Years later, a beautiful young peasant woman named Belle lives in a nearby village with her father, Maurice, who is an inventor. Belle is seen as "odd" by the other townsfolk due to her preference for reading books. She is the
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He invites himself in to propose to her and gives her an image of their life together -- "A rustic hunting lodge, my little wife massaging my feet, while the little ones play on the floor with the dogs; oh, we'll have six or seven [strapping boys, like me]". Belle attempts to politely decline when Gaston corners her against her front door and tries to kiss her. As she opens the door to move out of the way, he falls through the door frame and into the mud in front of the entire town. This serves as a hard blow to Gaston's
Once she makes her declaration, a bird-like figure enters her window it transforms into her would-be lover; the handsome knight of the ‘other-world’. This knight declares his love for the Lady and says that he has loved her from afar for a long time, but now that she has called for him he can be her beloved. He is the most attractive man she had ever beheld; they begin their relationship, but he warns the Lady that although he will come whenever she calls, but that she must not call too often, or they will be caught. Their relationship continues, and the Lady does not listen to the knights warning. The husband grows suspicious and sets his sister (the guardian of his wife) to spy on the Lady; the sister witnesses the transformation of the knight
After getting lost in the forest for a couple of nights, she finally gets to the castle but everything is strange. The gates don't open to invite her in, the lights in the garden are dim and the stable would not open. She runs in to the castle and desperately tries to find her Beast. Upon finding him, she realizes that she loves him and the enchantment is broken. Her beast becomes the handsome man, whose portrait she had seen in the gallery. They agree to marry and her whole family is sent for, including the sister's fiancée and a lady neighbor. The new couple descends down the stairs to the awaiting and excited crowd.
Referring back to fairytales like Beauty and the Beast film which involves the beast who magically got turned into a beast as a disciplining act because of his selfishness. Then a beautiful young women by the name of Belle, got imprisoned in the castle. The beast is very fond of Belle since he first laid eyes on her. During the movie Belle being the catalyst for the Beast’s need of wanting to change. But he distances himself from her because he has two mindsets. Which is a man and the other is a raging beast. The beast is going through trying to
This foregrounds potential of narcissism within Beauty. The Beast allows Beauty to go back to London to be with her father under the condition that she must return before winter is over. While in London, she, “[sends] him flowers, white roses in return for the ones he had given her; and when she left the florist, she experienced a sudden sense of perfect freedom, as if she had jus escaped from an unknown danger” (48). With this gesture, Beauty feels all her debts are settled and she no longer has an obligation to the Beast. When she puts on her robe of fur, she becomes her own beast, showing a parallel between her and the Beast.
The Beauty and the Beast starts with a lively music in the castle which immediately set us into action. A castle full of expensive housewares and beautiful ladies wearing white gowns dancing to the music represent perfection. The ball is interrupted by a knock from an unexpected beggar who offered the insensitive prince a rose for shelter. The loud thunderclap and the way the chandelier lights were blown off by the wind intensified the scene. When he refuses, the beggar transformed into an enchantress and changed him into a hideous beast and his servants into housewares. The camera angle which showed the shadow figure of the prince turning to a beast was amazingly done. She casts a spell on the rose and it would only be broken if he could learn to love another and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fell. On the other hand, Belle starts the film in a small lively village which implies peacefulness and security. Belle is a simple, creative girl wanting to leave her monotonous village life to explore new things and go to an adventure. This came true when her horse Philippe went home anxiously without Maurice, her father. The way the horse neighed repeatedly implied that something is wrong. Belle, without hesitation, stormed off to the castle where her father was imprisoned and took his place as
The Prince stereotypes the role of women being in need of a destined lover. He is the one that identifies Cinderella as the one in the dress, though excluding behavior, her appearance dazzles him for two nights at the ball. Most importantly, he’s not the hero of the fairytale, but readers can interpret the fairy godmother as the savior of Cinderella’s demise. The role of magic comes in part with the acceptance of achieving the imagery of an elegant woman, impressing the Prince who gains interest in her. The
Belle had the choice to either escape back to her village and leave the Beast to die, or nurse him back to health and remain a prisoner. She decided on the
Belle was kind to the Beast, and then she found her prince. It took courage to look into the eyes of someone that took away everything and see the good.
Knowing this as we all do, Belle had always loved fairy tales. They made her feel special, like a princess – despite her own bad situation. You see, she lived in a huge mansion with long corridors, huge chandeliers, and butlers. This doesn’t sound bad, but what she saw of it on a typical day was the dark cellar and the wash room. She and her family were servants here, though treated more like slaves. The only time she was ever able to just be a child was when the household was out at the latest ball or party. Then Belle would sneak up into the library that was filled floor to ceiling with all kinds of books, and spend hours with the fairy tales. So, what was it that she discovered that dark day in the woods?
In the movie, Belle is faced with many different obstacles, mostly from Gaston, and handles them with grace and strength. When Gaston is pressuring her to be his wife she puts her foot
Gaston possesses all the qualities of a perfect villain, especially his slyness. He did not lose his slick personality, even during his last moments, and has no gratitude for those who save his life. Near the end of the movie Beauty and the Beast, Gaston reaches the Beast’s castle, and attempts to kill him. The Beast was able to kill Gaston,
The Beast allowed her, her own room to live out her days instead of a cell. This was this first action that started to soften his heart. Over time the selfish Beast began show kindness and care toward Belle. It was also through time that Belle also softened toward the Beast, realizing that he wasn’t a dangerous Beast, but in fact a caring and hurting Beast. Eventually the two fell in love despite their physical differences, and the two kissed. Belle broke the curse, and the enchantress lifted the spell off of the castle and all of people within it.
In Short, in the motion picture Beauty and the Beast (2017), there is the Beast who is cursed by an enchantress at the beginning of the movie because he had no love in his heart and she turned him into a hideous Beast. The only way that the Beast can become human again is if he falls in love and revives the same love in return before the last Rose petal drops. The character
American Translation, the prologue talks about a daughter who invited her mother to check her new bedroom. However, her mother kind of overly reacted when she saw a mirror at the foot of her bed, so her mother puts another mirror, which faced the original one because she thought that this would multiply her “peach blossom luck”.
He allows it on the condition that she returns exactly a week later. Beauty agrees to this and sets off for home with an enchanted mirror and ring. The mirror allows her to see what is going on back at the Beast's castle, and the ring allows her to return to the castle in an instant when turned three times around her finger. Her older sisters are surprised to find her well fed and dressed in finery. They are envious when they hear of her happy life at the castle, and, hearing that she must return to the Beast on a certain day, beg her to stay another day, even putting onion in their eyes to make it appear as though they are weeping.