ping!: tale as old as time~

how words should define it?

it's beautiful. really.

it's an old movie but i haven't got the chance nor the urge to watch it. unlike snow white, cinderella and the likes, they were so easy to find and therefore plenty of opportunities for me to catch up with them, but the case was different with this tale as old as time.

Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757.

In 1991, Walt Disney Feature Animation produced a musical animated film entitled Beauty and the Beast, directed by Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale, with a screenplay by Linda Woolverton, and songs by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman. Like the 1946 version, the Disney version also names Beauty "Belle" and gives her a handsome suitor (here named Gaston) who eventually plots to kill the Beast. Other aspects of the story are changed or added as well: In the Disney version, Belle's father (here called Maurice) is an inventor, not a merchant, and Belle is his only daughter. Belle is befriended by the Beast's servants, who have been transformed into household objects. There is also an element of Bluebeard in it, in the sense that she is told, early on in the Beast's castle, not to go in a certain chamber, but disobeys him out of curiosity. Beauty and the Beast won Academy Awards for Best Song and Best Original Score, in addition to becoming the first animated film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was also one of only two animated films included in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions list, which announced the 100 greatest love stories of all time, and is now considered one of the Walt Disney Company's classic animated films.

the urge didn't come (and i call myself an avid cartoon fan) up until mr. j (my language development lect.) put on the video of Beauty and the Beast theme song. then it occured, YOUTUBE! (hahaha...technology-literate konon:P)

and then i started watching. 9 parts altogether (10mins each). truth to be told, i watched it once when i was 4 i think. but i watched it halfway and the story was so complicated for my young, undisturbed mind (then-lah).

i never thought the story was so beautiful. i especially love all of the talking furnitures and clock and candles! haha. disney doesn't make it as cute as this anymore.

go enjoy. especially if you haven't.