A Bela e a Fera Article: What Beauty and the Beast meant to me growing up

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What Beauty and the Beast meant to me growing up

posted by Takuya

Beauty and the Beast have always been my favorito animated movie and it really had a big influence on me as a kid since it was one of the filmes my parents bought for me when i was a baby.

I think that the reasons i liked it so much is because i was very simple in my view of good and evil, i mean that Belle was a good character and Gaston was a evil character, but the Beast was a character that didn´t fit into my view of good and evil, it was that mystery that sparked my intrest.
Another reason i liked the film was the Beast and his servants they were so amazing and imaginative that i couldn´t get enoght of the movie.

Now when i am nineteen years old i still like the movie but i have begun to understand how great it is and the message and the morale that the story has aswell.

Now when i watch it i cant help but have a great feeling of admiration toward the talented people that worked on the film because it has a great story, an amazing artstyle with wonderful music.

To get to the point the movie has affected my way of thinking about characters and it inspires me to write and draw, and i can say this if i am lucky enought to write a story half as good as this one then i have succeded with a miracle.

Cherry9090, LisaForde and 4 others like this

Princess-Yvonne Ouuuhh! you write beautifully! "Beauty and the Beast" means a lot for me too!

FullMoonFever Beautiful article ^^ Very touching ^^

MusicMaker95 Great writing. This is one of the few movies Disney made better when they turned it into a movie.

juicyjossy9 I was not a child anymore when I got introduced to this wonder; I actually lived it with my then 8-year-old child… The irony of this particular episode of my life is that it was not my daughter who identified to it, but me. So much that it was a big chunk in the turning point of my life. I was given the real “meaning of beauty”. Or was it the “beauty of its meaning”? Beauty is a matter of interpretation. Beauty is in the eyes of the one who sees through them. When we become bored and tired of what we see, it’s probably because we lost the time to take the time to “see”, so that we can follow the fast flow pace, allowing us more and more time “just to look”. This story humbled me by making me realize that I could not learn a thing I genuinely thought I already knew… It did that just by letting me tune my eyes, my ears and my heart to its whispers. This is when I saw the beauty in ugly. And this is when I understood why and how I flew into love 38 years ago – not fell in … I felt like a feather, I could only fly! “It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.” ~ Khalil Gibran Toby, you will now understand why I share entirely your passion for this movie. I understand very well why you could secretly wish to experience this feeling of falling (or flying?) in love this way: through a slow pace in which you could just take the time to “see” the love growing between you and your partner and its message “to love someone for what’s in their soul and not for their outward appearance” and because you think “that is an important lesson that everyone could learn from and take to heart.” I have a strong feeling that someday reading you will be for many people, of course including me, the little warm path to follow for a much better place. Toby, you already succeeded; it is only a matter of letting the world know about it. You did an awesome job! You’re a genius of the heart. Mine, as a child, as a woman, as a mother and as a granny, really needed this today. Thanks for posting this. Your parents and your friends should be very proud and happy of breathing around you. Huggz :) p.s.: I always say what I mean and I always mean what I say. =)

LisaForde Brilliant article.

smg42 Very nice article

LoopyLuna96 Very good! ^^ It meant a lot when I was growing up, too.

Cherry9090 beatifuly wroten