The years of 1989 - 1994 were and will probably always be the glory days of Disney animation in my generation. They brought us The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King, and this, perhaps the most critically acclaimed; Beauty and the Beast. During his lifetime, Walt Disney tried multiple times to adapt the classic tale, but it never progressed to the production phase. However, by 1989 buoyed by the success of The Little Mermaid, Walt’s nephew Roy E Disney spearheaded another approach to the film, and the rest is, as they say, history.

Belle, a Parissian daughter to the town inventor/ crackpot Maurice is a beautiful, well read and sophisticated woman whom finds herself continually harassed by Gaston, the burly but simple town jock. After her latest refusal of Gaston’s advances, enraging him, she becomes lost in the nearby woods and comes across a grand castle. The enchanted members of the castle take her in and give her safety from the weather. But the unkind Beast doesn’t take kindly to guests, as evidenced by locking up her father whom has also strayed to the castle. Offering to exchange her captivity for her father, both the Beast and Belle find themselves warming to each other and there may be more to them both than they thought.



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