Artist directors who do not love special effects, light and shadow are the best magicians. As one of the most outstanding fantasy films in movie history, what the 1946 version of "Beauty and the Beast" creates is not just a dream-like fairy tale, but a wonderful dream come true. The meticulous editing makes the magic become reality, and the memories full of childishness appear in front of the eyes with simple and true images, once again giving adults the power to believe in dreams, want to dream, long for dreams, and like dreams.
"Children always believe what we say. They are always completely loyal to us. They believe that the roses collected from the garden will drag a family into conflict. They believe that the hands of humans and beasts will smoke when he kills them. A victim will make the beast feel very ashamed. When a young girl lives in his house, they believe that many other simple things will happen. I hope you have a little childlike innocence and bring us luck. Let me say four truly magical words, the childhood sesame opens the door-a long time ago..."
The hints given by the opening of the film make up for the shortcomings in the plot of the film. For example, the relationship between Belle and the beast has no turning point. It is not so much that it is done in a boat; or the source of the cursed golden key and the reason for the prince's curse are merely I mentioned it because I didn't believe in magic, and it didn't explain whether greed or belief led to cursing. However, looking at the emotions of reading fairy tales as a child, these problems seem to be easily solved: this story is Belle and the prince, then they will definitely fall in love with each other gradually, and then the bad guys will be punished, and the good guys will always be happy. That's enough. So the screenwriter didn’t explain at all why the beast often got blue smoke and scars, why Belle fell in love with the first man who proposed to him but agreed to the prince’s proposal (the prince and this man share the same face is the most difficult to explain) , He just let the prince who was restored to human form fly away with Belle, yes, the prince who was restored to human form flew back to his kingdom with Belle, and the man who became another beast stayed alone. In the castle, waiting for the arrival of the next greedy man.
The biggest attraction of this film is to rely on light, shadow and makeup to create the atmosphere of a fairy tale on earth. The dramatic physical performance and lines easily draw the audience back to a long time ago under the exquisite costumes and background: the night breeze floats the curtains on the corridor , The fragile girl walked deep into the castle step by step in fear of the moonlight. She didn't know at that time, people always panicked like this when love began.
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