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Attention Getter: How many times can you retell “a tale as old as time”?
Reason to Listen: Disney’s 2017 live-action film “Beauty & the Beast” is an elegant, expensive remake of the classic 1991 animated film of the same name, but all the overwhelming detail of the new blockbuster can't hide the lack of anything truly new to express.
Topic Statement: The new Beauty & The Beast is a familiar crowd-pleaser which makes it easy enough to discount its shortcomings.
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Beauty & the Beast is a recently released film directed by Bill Condon.
Both the 2017 and 1991 films are adaptations of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 18th century fairy tale.
The film features an ensemble cast that includes A-lister Emma Watson and newcomer
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As a result, theatres in Alabama, Kuwait, Malaysia, and Russia have all attempted to ban the movie.
In both films and the original fairytale, the story takes place in the mid to late 18th century France.
The 2017 remake has an abundance of dazzling costumes with marvelous detail, and it is clear which era they try to mimic. While it's difficult to narrow down the exact year that the story takes place, Beauty and the Beast does an amazing job of replicating that 18th Century French look with its costumes.
For this adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, Disney chose Anthony Van Laast to choreograph the dance scenes.
Although there was plenty of CGI in this live action remake, many characters had to go through months of training in order to get the dance scenes right.
Most of the songs on the soundtrack were composed by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and derived from the Broadway musical.
While arrangements from the original movie are included on the soundtrack, new songs featuring Ariana Grande and John Legend make for a more modern twist on the record. Celine Dion also makes an appearance on this 2017 soundtrack, after contributing to the 1991 animated film's
As one grows up, childhood is solely based on things like obtaining the latest toys, learning how to ride a bike, but most importantly watching Disney movies on Saturday mornings. “Beauty and the Beast” focuses on building traits like kindness, self-esteem, and love. In the original story, by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont, the moral is that one should not be quick to judge others by their appearance, but instead learn who they are as a person. In 1991, Walt Disney altered Beaumont’s story and produced a touching, animated movie, also titled Beauty and the Beast. Disney’s main alterations to the plot can be seen in the significance of the rose, the Beast’s emotions, and their ending.
The two main characters in this book are of course Beauty and the Beast. The two characters seem to contrast in this book with different personalities. At the beginning of the book, the Beast seems fierce and is shown to be a real monster.
Caitlyn Jenner has plans to tell her story in a new memoir that she is working on. According to Koco, Jan. 19, 2016, Caitlyn just signed a book deal with Grand Central Publishing, which is scheduled to come out in the spring of 2017.
In Disney classics, if characters like the Beast can be misconstrued by Belle, everyday people could commit a similar crime. Beauty and the Beast was more than a story about love, it was a story about misjudgement. In a way, I have my own version, except mine did not end in a happily ever after.
Throughout our lives, we carry and value our own beliefs. As we face different challenges, we may be persuaded into making certain choices. However, no matter how convincing a person may be, in the end we always have the last word. Nobody likes being told what to do but we do like to hear other opinions for a different perspective. The proper way of using rhetoric is through a confident tone that is knowledgeable of their topic. The speaker should have integrity and be selfless in the sense that they are understanding towards their audience.
If children or adults think of the great classical fairy tales today, be it Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, or Cinderella, they will think Walt Disney. Their first and perhaps lasting impression of these tales and others will have emanated from Disney film, book, or artefacts (Zipes 72)
When most people think of the movie, "Cinderella';, they think of the animated Disney version with the little mice and the happy ending where Cinderella marries the prince and they live happily ever after. While the movie "Ever After'; is based on "Cinderella';, it is not animated, but still has many of the same characteristics as the Disney version. Of course it is not exactly the same, and since it is not animated there are many differences.
Produced in 2009, The Frog Princess is a Disney animation inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, The Frog Prince. Both The Frog Princess and The Frog Prince deal with a multiplicity of issues, all of which contribute to supporting positive messages and morals (Ceaser, 2009). However, though The Frog Princess is based on a classic fairytale, it is far from being the same. The writers at Disney have taken a classic fairytale and created a “Monster” (Prince, 2001). This essay will examine the evolution of the original Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, the messages both main characters represent, and how the adaptation to fit a modern child readership diminishes a classic fairytale. Through discussing these arguments, this paper will prove that Disney’s adaptation into The Princess and The Frog is counter-productive in representing the original story’s messages, morals, and values.
In today’s modern age, young children are being raised by their TV screen. Reining from the original tales of Perrault and the Grim Brothers, the Disney princess line has been a staple on the screens since the 1930s (Do Rozario 1). However, these princesses have gone through dramatic changes to remain relevant to todays youth. The effects that can be influenced by the roles expressed in these types of films send mixed messages to the audience, causing them to ask themselves whether or not they should believe what the princess is expressing on the screen.
Considering that, by viewing a Walt Disney film, they will alter their perspective as a result of identifying themselves as being similar to a princess. The unrealistic tale of Walt Disney films motivates children to act in a different way. In these issues we tend to investigate the perception of children towards viewing the films. As well as identifying themselves with specific fictional characters shown in Walt Disney films. Furthermore, we can discern the different emotions of female children within viewing it.
Knowing that writers of fairy tales do not necessarily set them in the same era that they live in, the publishing year of the Cinderella version does little to help. Indeed, the Perrault and Disney accounts of Cinderella begin with the classic fairy tale formula “Once upon a time,” emphasizing the ambiguity of time (Lang 1, Cinderella). However, the style of clothing worn by the stepsisters in the Perrault version such as a “red velvet suit with French trimming” and the origin of their accessory kits from “Mademoiselle de la Poche” suggest a location in a minor French kingdom (Lang 1). In fact, it is repeated several times in the Disney adaptation that Cinderella resides in a château that has gradually become a shadow of its former splendour (Cinderella). Intuitively, it also appears to be a decidedly French principle that members of the nobility must dress at the height of fashion. Furthermore, the stepsisters’ lavishness and blatant disregard for cost while the story mentions the existence of a king suggest that the Perrault version is actually set sometime between the 15th and 17th centuries, perhaps during the late Middle Ages or the Renaissance period
The sun dried grass crunched under David’s feet as he reached the mailbox, sweat plastering his golden hair to his forehead. The rural landscape of Shark Bay is bone dry; the lingering heat wave serving as a slap in the face with the wind blowing what is left of his fields into whirlwinds of dirt. His was once a land of luscious green landscape, the soft air turned branches into wind chimes as the trees swayed. These same trees have been bleached by the heat ridden gusts carving tortured sculpture in their trunks. Some might now see this world as one of desolate wasteland but David grew up with the land, this land was a living, growing friend that he knew, loved, and cared for as much as he did his wife and children.
One of the most loved Disney movies of all time, the 1991 animated movie Beauty and the Beast directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale features talking teacups, enchanted castles, gorgeous animation, catchy songs, and large helping of traditional gender roles. The countless favorite of many children and adults, many people know the story well. Belle, the bookish, dreamy, and beautiful daughter of an inventor is the talk of the town and the fixation of the most handsome guy around, the pushy and egotistical Gaston. After sacrificing herself for her father, Belle becomes imprisoned in an enchanted castle. Everyone in the castle is under a spell due to the selfish prince who lived there due to his failure to see what was inside of people. As a result, he is turned into a hideous beast and all of his servants are turned into household objects. To break this spell, he must fall in love with a girl and have her love him in return, despite his hideous exterior. But unfortunately for the Beast it’s not only his exterior that’s hideous. He treats Belle with no respect, even going so far as to threaten and yell at her. He eventually changes her heart with the help of his enchanted friends and she changes his through her kindness. Gaston tries his utmost to make Belle his own, entrapping her and fighting the Beast, but eventually he is unsuccessful, the good guys win, and the whole castle and its inhabitants are transformed by love and everybody lives happily ever after.
Disney’s recent film adaptation of The Beauty and the Beast makes progress toward a more inclusive representation of the LGBT community in Disney’s works. There are still issues with the film however, many of the claims made in the Jeffords article still hold true in this adaptation of the story. One issue mentioned by Jeffords on page 167 is when he discusses the fact that Disney’s earlier introduction of the Beast’s curse focuses the story more on the Beast and less on Belle. The new movie does a respectable job at defining the story and character of Belle; however, the audience is introduced to the story of the beast at the very beginning of the film. In agreeance with Jeffords’ argument, the early introduction of the Beast/prince and his
Brumley, Jared Writing 121 Mr. Rodger March, Beauty and The Beast Beauty and The Beast, is a classic for most children in America. This film has a stunning storyline, mixed in with great music, and a classic love tale. Looking deeper into a gender based lens you’ll see that many of the roles within the cast have many traits that you’d expect out of a Disney film. The main characters are the finest examples of this. The trait of being gentle and kind as a female drives this story even further with being male, being portrayed as a large, strong, angry person.