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Literature | Beauty and the Beast The hero and heroine of Madame Villeneuve's fairy tale. Beauty saved the life of her father by consenting to live with the Beast; and the Beast, being disenchanted by Beauty's love, became a handsome prince, and married her. (Contes Marines, 1740.) A handsome woman with an uncouth or uncomely male companion. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Similar tales include the story of Cupid and Psyche, and Madame D'Aulnoy's Le Mouton (The Ram).
In 1991 Disney produced an animated film of Beauty and the Beast with screenplay by Linda Woolverton, music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Howard Ashman. It won Academy Awards for Best Song and Best Original Score and was the first animated feature ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. This version gave Beauty a name(Belle), but not the Beast. It is now considered one of the Walt Disney Company's "classics".Plot summary
Beauty's father, caught in a storm, finds shelter in the Beast's palace. As he leaves, he plucks a rose to bring back to Beauty, offending his unseen host, who tells him he must now die. The father begs to be allowed to see his daughters again: the Beast says that if one of the man's daughters will return to suffer in his place, he may live. Beauty journeys to the Beast's castle, convinced she will be killed: instead, she is made mistress of the enchanted palace, and the Beast asks her to be his wife. She says she can be his friend, and will stay with him forever, but not as his wife, asking only to return to her home for a week to say farewell to her father. Her sisters entice her to stay beyond the allotted week, and she returns belatedly to the castle, finding the Beast lying near death from distress at her failure to return. She begs him to live, so that he may be her husband, and by this act the Beast is transformed into a handsome prince.Movie versions
A sumptuous French version of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) was made in 1946, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring his lover Jean Marais as the Beast and Josette Day as Beauty. The score was by Georges Auric. The film is notable for its surreal quality and its ability to use existing movie technology to effectively evoke a feeling of magic and enchantment.
In 1995 composer Philip Glass composed an opera meant as an alternative "soundtrack" to the movie, and some DVDs offer the ability to view the movie while listening to either version.
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Crosswords: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST |
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Screenplays | Here are my two most favorite characters from a fairy tale: Beauty and the Beast! (Sanford and Son; writing credit: Earl Barret; Ted Bergman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beauty and the Beast (2003) | |
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German | die schöne und das tier. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eautybay anday ethay eastbay la bella y la bestia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 41 55 54 59 41 4E 44 54 48 45 42 45 41 53 54 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01000001 01010101 01010100 01011001 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000001 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E A U T Y   A N D   T H E   B E A S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0041 0055 0054 0059 0041 004E 0044 0054 0048 0045 0042 0045 0041 0053 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3639355554592354838254423923639355354 |
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