I may have seen this a long time 以前 as I got the loan of it from a friend of mine and I absolutely loved it. The characters are brilliant, the whole story is superb as it deals with accepting a person for who they are on the outside and not 由 their appearance.

Here is some things about this film and what my favourite scenes are,charcthers I 爱情 and more. Enjoy.



Production
Early versions
Walt 迪士尼 sought out other stories to turn into feature films after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Beauty and the Beast was among the stories he considered.[4][11] Attempts to develop the Beauty and the Beast story into a film were made in the 1930s and 1950s, but were ultimately 给 up because it "proved to be a challenge" for the story team.[4] Peter M. Nichols states 迪士尼 may later have been discouraged 由 Jean Cocteau having already done his version.[12]

Decades later, after the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988, the 迪士尼 studio resurrected Beauty and the Beast as a project for the satellite 动画片 studio it'd set up in London, England to work on Roger Rabbit.[13] Richard Williams, who had directed the animated portions of Roger Rabbit, was approached to direct, but declined in favor of continuing work on his long-gestating project The Thief and the Cobbler.[13] In his place, Williams recommended his colleague, English 动画片 director Richard Purdum, and work began under producer Don Hahn on a non-musical version of Beauty and the Beast set in Victorian France.[13] At the behest of 迪士尼 CEO Michael Eisner, Beauty and the Beast became the first 迪士尼 animated film to use a screenwriter. This was an unusual production 移动 for an animated film, which are traditionally developed on storyboards rather than in scripted form.[14] Linda Woolverton wrote the original draft of the story before story boarding began, and worked with the story team to retool and develop the film.



Animation
Production of Beauty and the Beast had to be completed on a compressed timeline of two years rather than four because of the loss of production time spent developing the earlier Purdam version of the film.[6] Most of the production was done at the main Feature 动画片 studio, housed in the Air Way facility in Glendale, California. A smaller team at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida assisted the California team on several scenes, particularly the "Be Our Guest" number.[4]

Beauty and the Beast was the 秒 film produced using 锦标 (Computer 动画片 Production System), a digital scanning, ink, paint, and compositing system of software and hardware developed for 迪士尼 由 Pixar.[4][13] The software allowed a wider range of colors, as well as soft shading and colored line effects for the characters, techniques 迷失 when the 迪士尼 studio abandoned hand inking for xerography in the late 1950s.[6] 锦标 also allowed the production crew to simulate multiplane effects: placing characters and/or backgrounds on separate layers and moving them towards/away from the camera on the Z-axis to give the illusion of depth.

In addition, 锦标 allowed easier combination of hand-drawn art with computer-generated imagery, which before had to be plotted to 动画片 cels and painted traditionally.[4][17] The latter technique was put to significant use during the "Beauty and the Beast" waltz sequence, in which Belle and Beast dance through a computer-generated ballroom as the camera dollies around them in simulated 3D space.[4][6] The filmmakers had originally decided against the use of computers in favor of traditional animation, but later, when the technology had improved, decided it could be used for the one scene in the ballroom.[12] The success of the ballroom sequence helped convince studio executives to further invest in computer animation.


Music
See also: Beauty and the Beast (soundtrack)
Ashman and Menken wrote the Beauty song score during the pre-production process in Fishkill, the opening operetta-styled "Belle" being their first composition for the film.[4] Other songs included "Be Our Guest", sung to Maurice 由 the objects when he becomes the first visitor to the 城堡 in a decade, "Gaston", a solo for the swaggering villain, "Human Again", a song describing Belle and Beast's growing 爱情 from the objects' perspective, the 爱情 ballad "Beauty and the Beast", and the climatic "The Mob Song".

As story and song development came to a close, full production began in Burbank while voice and song recording began in New York City.[4] The Beauty songs were recorded live with the orchestra and the voice cast in the room rather than overdubbed separately, in order to give the songs an cast album-like "energy" the filmmakers and songwriters desired.[6]

During the course of production, many changes were made to the structure of the film, necessitating the replacement and re-purposing of songs. After screening a mostly animated version of the "Be Our Guest" sequence, story artist Bruce Woodside suggested that the objects should be 唱歌 the song to Belle rather than her father.[4] Wise and Trousdale agreed, and the sequence and song were retooled to replace Maurice with Belle.[4]

"Human Again" was dropped from the film before 动画片 began, as its lyrics caused story problems about the timeline over which the story takes place.[4] This required Ashman and Menken to write a new song in its place. "Something There", in which Belle and Beast sing (via voiceover) of their growing fondness for each other, was composed late in production and inserted into the script in place of "Human Again".[6] Menken would later revise "Human Again" for inclusion in the 1994 Broadway stage version of Beauty and the Beast, and another revised version of the song was added to the film itself in a new sequence created for the film's Special Edition re-release in 2002.[4][6]

Ashman died of AIDS-related complications on March 14, 1991, eight months prior to the release of the film. He never saw the finished film, and his work on 阿拉丁 was completed 由 another lyricist, Tim Rice.[13] A tribute to the lyricist was included at the end of the credits crawl: "To our friend, Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice, and a beast his soul. We will be forever grateful. Howard Ashman: 1950–1991".

A pop version of the "Beauty and the Beast" theme, performed 由 Céline Dion and Peabo Bryson over the end credits, was released as a commercial single from the film's soundrack, supported with a 音乐 video. The Dion/Bryson version of "Beauty and the Beast" became an international pop hit, reaching the 最佳, 返回页首 Ten of the singles charts in the United States and the United Kingdom.



My favourite scenes

#1 The Ballroom scene: This has to be one of the most loved scenes in any 迪士尼 movie as 你 see the 天使 on the ceiling, the movements of the camera as Belle dances with beast and the 音乐 由 Angela Lansbury was sweet and romantic.

#2 Please don’t leave me I 爱情 you: I loved this scene because Belle finally 说 that she loves the beast and with her tears the beast becomes human in the end.

#3 Be our guest: This scene was awesome I could sing it all 日 long as well as the Belle song.

#4 The 图书馆 scene: I liked how the Beast’s surprise for Belle was the 图书馆 and she was over the moon.

Hidden Message

Accept the person on the outside not the inside


Beauty & the Beast gets a 9/10 as it is the best 爱情 stories of the 90’s. I who was born in 1991 and I was 6 months old when this was released at the time is proud to have grown up watching these films. I may not own it yet but I cannot wait until the 1st of November 2010. Brilliant masterpiece that should be watched 由 the entire family.