Children who have watched the 91 version of the animated version will feel that this is the most restored version of all the live-action Beauty and the Beast versions, and it is almost the same as the animated version!
Many storyboards and lines are simply restored one-to-one, because Disney, the owner of IP, wants to tell everyone that this version of Beauty and the Beast I created is the most perfect version that is most well-known and acceptable to the audience! Yet it is so.
The original version of Beauty and the Beast did not emphasize the power of love and the importance of inner beauty as much, but more on civilization and savagery, the importance of evolution. But even so, it has more connotations than other delicate princess series.
Disney, which has always been female, integrated the original version with the Grimm Brothers version to a perfect degree. Root Disney's feminism in the core of the story.
I think that's why this is my favorite of all fairy tales. That's right. It's no longer a beautiful and weak princess who fights mobs and is rescued by a prince, no longer is a patriarchal brainwashing lie where women depend on men. It is a story about a princess who really dares to fight against ignorance, panics, appreciates the inner beauty of others, and saves the prince. Of course, it is also a story about running into the most ideal state! If all the pictures of netizens were like beasts and real people like princes, the world would be so beautiful! But the reality is just the opposite [laughs].
This is a story about equality, about creation, about civilization, about love, about courage, about educating people to get rid of external glitz and focus on the heart!
Film Belle always asks me if I'm a weird person. She is not surprised, she is just unwilling to be content with the status quo, not obeying the hijacking of patriarchal marriage, not escaping from ignorance, brave in self-exploration, good at discovering beauty, and releasing the power of love~~~
The whole film is from a female perspective ~ at the same time as possible to complete the equal dialogue.
I'm honored that the first fairy tale I read in my life was Beauty and the Beast, which established a strong core of my feminism, but I'm not a feminist.
What it brings to me is that I am more willing to understand the world and not be easily bound by universal values. Don't give up your inner pursuit easily, don't easily compromise when you conflict with the world's values, and don't despise the power of love, and don't miss a beautiful soul because of judging people by appearance.
It's all like magic~It's the magic that irrigates the soul~It's the magic that drives miracles~This is the magic of fairy tales~It's the phrase "animation is magic" in Mr. Walt Disney's mouth~
It is also the magic that when we grow up and become beasts, we can one day become human when we meet true love~
JRR Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, once said that adults need the comfort of fairy tales more than children. Because the perfect ending of a fairy tale can comfort adults in the struggles of life.
Finally, borrow the classic lines of the film to end:
"Love can turn a man into a beast; it can also make an ugly man noble.
She had warned him not to be fooled by appearances, because inner beauty was the real beauty. "
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