Diary entries forBeauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
"vous n'aurez pas peur?" "j'aime avoir peur... avec vous" this was so beautiful <3 i am so in awe with the costumes, especially each of belle's dresses.
Beauty and the Beast
mds a fera é mt feia
Beauty and the Beast
Adoro como as melhores e maiores histórias de terror são, antes de tudo, histórias de amor. Gosto como essa adaptação do conto de fada leva em consideração toda a questão social, de aparências, família, status social e moralidade, mas ainda sim não abandona o tom fabulesco e fantasioso. A fera é um grande leão que vive em um castelo cercado por uma floresta e toda a magia reside nas paredes, nas estruturas, nos móveis. A cena da Bela entrando no Castelo a primeira vez e a forma como ela desliza quando se move a torna uma princesa de conto de fadas. A transição de roupa de uma simples empregada pra uma princesa é algo tão sútil, mas tão suave e lindo que em nenhum momento você dúvida da veracidade desse mundo fantasioso. O designe de produção mais fantabuloso que transforma a arquitetura em um ser vivo com partes que observam e interagem e isso se estende pra humanidade que o filme transmite o tempo todo. A cena em que Bela se aproxima da Fera e dá água na boca dele é tão somente o afeto pelo monstro enquanto tem toda uma erótica implícita no momento que é simples ao mesmo tempo que é gigante. Bonito, assustador e fantástico.
Beauty and the Beast
love
Beauty and the Beast
cono pode o fera ter um cara de gatinho chorão, da uma vontade de abraçar ele
Beauty and the Beast
só tem estética
Beauty and the Beast
omg getting back to a brass tacks fairy-tale! Tears of diamond, debts owed, and warrings of nature and desire. The kind of feature-length swoon that drives towards more of a reflecting question mark than any pat answer to sell more Disney plushies.
Beauty and the Beast
I ended up the year with this movie to embrace the new year with something that 2016 has forgotten; Magic.
Beauty and the Beast
Pure 70's Czechoslovak-gothic-fantasy-fairytale spectacle from Juraj Herz, mostly known for the bizarrely creepy The Cremator, working his magic with an adaptation of the French folk tale. There hasn't been a reworking as horrifying and as submersed in fog as this one. Everyone knows the story of Beauty and the Beast, and there's no surprises where it'll end up. Yet, Herz does a lot to swoop viewers into the gothic-horror romance he manages to execute. Absolute magic. Genuinely in awe with what I saw here.
Beauty and the Beast
"There are men far more monstrous than you, though they conceal it well." This is easily the superior Beauty and the Beast. Imagine having the confidence to make another live-action movie, when this gem of a film already exists. Almost everyone in this film is a fashion icon, including the beast. The costumes are splendid. The entrance of the castle is enchanting & innovative (so many ideas in this are); elevating any frame that chooses it for the background to extremes of coolness. The candle lighting sequence as Belle's father makes his first appearance there...*chef's kiss* Also, love how you can practically hear the castle saying 'Ahhh, here comes the answer to our prayers' when Belle enters, because of how brilliantly Cocteau shoots and scores it. Disney gave her friends (that were working on their collective agenda); and Jean Cocteau wrote her a beast who from the get go treated her with respect, and wanted her to hold all the power she could, that the basic framework of this tale could allow. And was always gentle and nice to her, instead of learning to be, making this particular pairing easier to buy into? The exchange at the end, thematically makes sense, but the actual mechanisms I don't understand. Because the beast had a weird reaction upon hearing the name Avenant, so did he know his likeness? Is there a darker element to that plot line where he knew this could happen, so he purposefully gave her the keys (a body for a body)? Or was it just a case of 'it be like that sometimes'? Wait. I suddenly hear Jean's voice echo through the universe, asking me once again to suspend my disbelief and look at it with child-like simplicity. And you know what? I'm fine with that. Horror vibes seep through every once in a while. Even the rare glimpses we get of the woods are to die for and infused with atmosphere — mysterious, magical forest that looks like a perfect combination of real and dreamlike. I wish there was a Jean Cocteau Fairytale Cinematic Universe!!
