Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is a ‘dose of weaponised nostalgia’

When you’ve only imagined a story in its animated form, it can be weird to see real people performing the story. This makes the first and second acts feel longer than they need to without providing any emotional attachment. Yet who’s to say any other follow-up is safer?

The threatened Russian ban follows a ban on the film by a U.S. drive-in theatre in rural Alabama which said they would not “compromise on what the Bible teaches”. “Cinderella” got the live action treatment in 2015, though it dropped its classic musical numbers. The other three were last year’s “Captain America: Civil War”, “The Dark Knight” (2008) and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (2009).

This is surprising, considering Disney did so well in making the nearly entirely CGI “Jungle Book” adaptation feel real.

Not every moneymaker needs to be broadened outward. Just as the film’s newfound queerness and feminism broaden the diversity of the film, they help to reanimate and give it a fresh edge for a more progressive world. But the response has been overwhelming, with some people vowing to boycott Disney and many more lauding them for the decision.

The Disney live-action remake of “The Beauty and the Beast” brings back a sense of nostalgia and familiarity to anyone who has seen the original, all the while bringing a touch of something new to this timeless classic.

I can understand hesitation for Beauty and the Beast. There was a lot of conversation about the War of the Austrian Succession that didn’t interest me. When adapting or rebooting a film, the reason behind said adaptation or reboot should be that this new take has the potential to tell the story in a different way; otherwise, you end up with something along the lines of Gus Van Sant’s remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”.

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Condon had the right idea and, beneficial to the studio’s shareholders, he was listened to.

Disney’s smash hit “Beauty and the Beast” is showing no signs of slowing down, setting a pre-summer record gross for a film playing on a Tuesday. It’s trying to be humble by creating a “kids'” movie (more on that later), but doing so in such an extravagant way that it appeals to a substantially older audience with its excessive sumptuousness.

Ultimately the film will appeal to children and their parents, who will enjoy the colorful theatricality of the live-action drama.

At least for the time being Disney hasn’t made any indication they’re thinking of also branching out for crossovers.

In case you’re wondering, here are the six things you probably didn’t know about the original Beauty and the Beast.

According to Deadline, Sean Bailey, who serves as the Walt Disney Studios’ President of Production, revealed that there are now “no plans for a sequel” and the studio “won’t try to force one” upon audiences.

Mr Pang ran an LGBTI festival in Malaysia from 2008 until the government shut it down in 2011 and he said pushing for real LGBTI rights in Malaysia was getting more hard and the arguments had been reduced to things like “Beauty and the Beast“.