Beauty and the Beast was the film that inspired me to draw. Glenn Keane's animation on the transformation was so inspiring and divine that I said to my very young self I wanted to be an artist and make something beautiful.
Like the Nostalgia Critic review I saw during his Disneycember, I loved the way they actually made the characters like Belle is a timeless bookworm, Gaston the lovable bad-guy, Beast as the tragic character, and the supporting cast to be quite entertaining. The poster on the left is an amazing example for why this film is so damn good is that it's a great love story. The architecture of this film is indeed the 1700s of France with a great big castle that has a haunting look when you first see it. The songs are one of the best and finest from Alan Menken and the great Howard Ashman who sadly during the film's production died of AIDS. "Giving a Mermaid her voice and a Beast his soul" was what I remember from the credits of the film since he was indeed the one who gave them life. I recall this film being so richly great with the music that it was the first Disney film to even making it to broadway with Tony nominees and wins.
It lasted from 1994-2007 which had a cast of many celebrities on it's run(Donny Osmond, Nick Jonas, Debbie Gibson, Toni Braxton, Johnathan Freeman, Susan Egan, ect.). The idea of having it all open by stain glass window was an intresting was to have an intro. The thing I even like the most about this film was that film is that unlike the Fairy Tale films from the past we were able to get an actual development with the characters and this was the very first time the two didn't love each other until the very end of the film. Lastly I would like to point out on why I love this movie is that even when you compare this films to then or now with the Disney films, this is the most timeless of the bunch. This film is defiantly a Tale as old as Time.
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