THE PLOT:
The Beauty and the Beast is a movie based on a story called La Belle et La Bete. It takes place in the late 18th Century. At the Princes proposal to Belle, an elderly women offers him a rose as a present, which doesn't except. He turns away discusted by her apperance. She turns into an entrantrace and punishes him by turning him into an ugly beast and all of his servants into household furniture. She gives him a magic mirror and the rose. The rose will bloom until his 21st birthday, he has until then to love and be loved before the all the roses petals have fallen off. Belles father maurice is imprisoned by the Beast and Belle goes looking for him at the castle and then offers to stay instead of her father. Belle walks into the west wing where she is forbiden to go and she stumbles upon the enchanted rose. Belle tries to escape but her and her horse Phillipe get attacked by wolves, however the Beast comes to the rescue. The Beast gives Belle the castle library and they become friends. The Beast lets her go and she brings Maurice home and then Gaston tries to make her marry her by blackmailing her. Gaston and some of the villagers go to the Beast's castle to try to kill him. The servants and the villagers fight for control of the castle as Gaston goes of trying to find the Beast to kill him himself. Gaston follows the Beast and stabs him from behind, but loses his footing and falls of the balcony to his death. The Beast is then lying on the floor dying from his wounds and Belle leans next to him and says she loves him. Then the Beast and the servants turn back into humans.
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