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= __The Original Tale:__ Beauty and the Beast =

= Main Characters = = = =  =

Sherri Stoner: used as a model to create Belle

Beast has same haircut as the lion in Wizard of Oz



Gaston has skull in his eyes when he falls


 * __Other Versions of Beauty and the Beast:__ **

// 1757 version by Jeanne-LePrince de Beaumont: // http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beauty.html (A merchant has three daughters. The two oldest sisters are greety, but the youngest sister, Belle, is beautiful and pure. One day the merchant goes on a trip and asks his daughters what gifts he should bring home on his return. Belle asks for a rose. On his way home he comes across a castle. This castle has a beautiful rose garden and the merchant takes a rose for Belle. Suddenly a beast catches him in a the act and threatens to kill him. He beast lets him go, if the merchant brings Belle back to the beasts castle. Although she doesn’t like the beast at first, she learns to love him. One day she gets homesick and leaves that castle to see her family. She leaves with a mirror and ring. The mirror gives her the ability to see the beast at all times and the ring gave her the ability to go to the beast whenever she wanted. One day she looks in the mirror and sees that the beast is dying. She uses the ring the visit the beast and sobs over his dying body. Her tears transform the beast into a handsome prince and the two live happily ever after.)

//French Version 1946 :// (Same story as the 1757 version. However, there is another man : Avenant. He desires Belle but she sees through his handsome exterior. Another difference between this story and the early version is the magical gifts that the beast gives Belle. In this one he gives her a glove that can transport her wherever she wishes and a golden key that unlocks Diana's Pavilion, the source of the Beast's true riches. In the end, Avenant attacks the beast and kills him, but then turns into a beast himself. The beast is revived into a prince and him and Belle live happily ever after. - The American, 1991 version was made after this version.)

//Walt Disney's Version:// http://www.fpx.de/fp/Disney/Tales/BeautyAndTheBeast.html

__**The significance of the red rose in Beauty and the Beast:**__ So, the story uses the rose to symbolize a stop-watch that counts down time by unfolding layers, hoping the Beast will someday look under all of his layers to find a way to win the love of another who inner beauty is already exposed.

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1. Belle's dress is loosely based off of Dorothy's dress in the Wizard of Oz. 2. 1,295 painted backgrounds and 120,000 drawings were used in the movie 3. Belle is the only person in the town who wears blue, this was to symbolize how she was different from everyone else. She then later goes on to meet the Beast, who also wears blue. 4. Songs take up 25 minutes of the film 5. Tiny Toon Adventure script writer, Sherri Stoner, was used as the model of Belle. 6. When Gaston is falling at the very end, there is a close- up of his eyes. For a few frames, a tiny skull flashes in each of his eyes. 7. When the beast is getting his hair cut for Belle, the hairstyle he is given is the same as the Lion's in the Wizard of Oz. 8. The scene at the end of the film, with Belle and the Prince dancing is reused animation from Sleeping Beauty, of Princess Aurora and the Prince dancing. 9. It was the first of Disney's animated feature films to be scripted by a women, Linda Woolverton. 10. Tours of Beauty and the Beast have played in 21 countries and 115 cities around the world and producers say that more than 35 million people have seen the show.
 * __ 10 Interesting Facts about Beauty and the Beast __**