Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

FranceThings get a little funky as far as the time and place goes in Beauty and the Beast. But, at the same time, they have a large bearing on how the story unfolds—and might even explain a few w...

Third-Person OmniscientBeauty and the Beast doesn't play a lot of games with its narrative technique. Third-person omniscient allows it to move around at will, showing us whatever we need to see an...

Fairy Tale; Romance; Folk Tale, Legend, and Mythology; QuestYeah, we know you know it's a fairy tale. But we're still gonna talk about it.Beauty and the Beast is based on a classic 18th-century tal...

The title stems from a legitimate tale as old as time: "La Belle et la Bête." Translation? You guessed it: "The Beauty and the Beast." Why? Familiarity, mainly. Movie titles serve as marketing fir...

The ending is just about what we'd expect from a Walt Disney production. They take their happily ever after seriously in the House of Mouse, and there's little doubt that Belle and her restored bea...

GOh, come on, guys, this is Disney we're talking about here. For a movie this romantic, it's incredibly chaste. The violence is implied (we don't get to see the no-doubt satisfying moment when Gast...