Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures with Mandeville Films, it is a live-action/animated remake of Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, itself an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's version of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as Belle and the Beast respectively, the film features a supporting ensemble and choir cast including Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson.
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- Hattie Morahan (Enchantress) and Emma Thompson (Mrs.Potts) both played the role of Elinor Dashwood in adaptions of Sense and Sensibility.Morahan in 2008 tv-series and Thompson in 1995 movie.Dan Steevens also played in the 2008 tv-series,as Elinor's (Hattie Morahan's) love interest Edward Ferrars.
- The 1991 animated version, Mrs. Potts was voiced by Angela Landsbury. In this version, It's Emma Thompson plays Mrs. Potts. Both ladies also starred together in "Nanny McPhee" 2005.
- During the West Wing scene, there is a painting of young Prince Adam with his parents, his pose is a replica of King Louis XV of France as a child by Rigaud.
- Emma Watson and Dan Stevens said that their favorite scene to film was the iconic ballroom scene.
- One of the wolves in the film has a scar on its face. This is a nod to both The Lion King (1994) and The Jungle Book (2016), in which both Scar and Shere Khan, villainous animals and cats, bear scars on their faces.
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