Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Beauty And The Beast is one of Disney's greatest animated achievements. Its massive success reinvigorated the Disney animation juggernaut which had been dormant for decades, launching the release of smashing blockbusters such as Aladdin and The Lion King.
Taking home two Oscars for Best Music (Original Score and Original Song), the film launched a trend in Disney animation by blending musical numbers with cartoon choreography, an aspect that would become a staple of film after film for the remainder of the decade. In short, Beauty And The Beast is a landmark production just as remarkable today as when it was first released.
Following the Disney tradition of transposing well-known fairy tales from the pages of a book to the sparkle of the big screen, Beauty And The Beast follows the life of Belle (Paige O’Hara), a beautiful bookworm maiden who captivates her town’s most eligible bachelor, Gaston (Richard White). Dissatisfied with life in her small French villa, Belle grows especially tired of the conceited and self-absorbed Gaston, who is unable to fathom the idea that Belle does not welcome his affections.
Meanwhile, The Beast lives in solitude in a long-ago abandoned castle, having had a spell cast upon him because of his inability to love. The spell turned the handsome prince into an ugly beast, and it turned all of his servants into dinnerware, candlesticks, and other inanimate objects. When Belle’s father, Maurice (Rex Everhart) makes a wrong turn, he inadvertently unites the lives of Belle and The Beast. After spending much time with Belle, the bitter and hardened Beast begins to soften. He and Belle fall in love, but Gaston and his fellow village marauders arrive at the castle walls and demand the return of Belle, threatening to kill The Beast.
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Article comments
1 - Aaman
Fantasia had music as an integral part of the animated film long before Beauty and the Beast
2 - Brent
Strictly speaking Fantasia was an attempt at illustrating classical music with animation. Disney features had always used music and original songs of course. Songs are used in Snow White, Lady & the Tramp, and most notably The Jungle Book What Beauty and the Beast did most effectively was to create a musical done in animation rather than with live actors.
3 - Evan
the saddest part in Beauty and the Beast is when Gaston died becuse at the beginning he was a good guy but he became a bad guy when he black mailed Belle into marrying him
4 - Cigs
That is absolute garbage that this got a B. It is not only one of the greatest animated movies, but one of the greatest movies of all time.
5 - J
I really liked the animated disney movie beauty and the beach is, this movie is the best disney animated movie I've ever seen, plotting, animation coupled with sound effects that made him worthy to become one of the nominations. hopefully after this will come back the other disney animated films.
6 - custo
That is absolute garbage that this got a B. It is not only one of the greatest animated movies, but one of the greatest movies.