Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week joined by special guest Andy Melhuish, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This time, Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise’s Beauty and the Beast.
Once upon a time, a tired traveller came upon an isolated castle. Imprisoned by a foul-humoured beast, the man’s daughter was forced to trade her father’s freedom for her own. However, over time, the young woman comes to realise that there may something human lurking beneath the creature’s monstrous exterior.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 248th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 5th September 2018.
- Beauty and the Beast at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Read Andy’s writing at Eloquent Bear.
- Larry Rohter at The New York Times on the Disney Renaissance, May 1991.
- The cast of Beauty and the Beast talk to MTV about the development and legacy of the film, October 2016.
- Glen Keane talks to Animated Views about animating the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, October 2010.
- Time Bobby, Comedy Bang Bang #150, March 2012.
- Megan Garber at The Atlantic on how Hollywood romantic comedies encourage unhealthy behaviour, November 2016.
- Richard Alleyne at The Telegraph on how romance movies create unrealistic expectations, December 2008.
- Melanie Hamlett at Paste Magazine on the problematic subtext of Beauty and the Beast, March 2017.
- Jackson McHenry at Vulture on the “exclusively gay moment” in the live action Beauty and the Beast adaptation, March 2017.
- Carol de Giere at Musical Musings on the power of the “I Want” song, May 2013.
- Alan Menken talks to Entertainment Weekly about several of his Disney compositions, January 2015.
- Don Hahn talks to Den of Geek about how Harold Ashman changed the way that Disney stories worked, November 2010.
- Dan Rather at The Los Angeles Times on the AIDS metaphor at the heart of Beauty and the Beast, March 1992.
- Bill Condon talks to Attitude about the gay subtext in Beauty and the Beast, March 2017.
- James Grebey and Alexis Nedd rank “Disney villain deaths” at Buzzfeed, July 2014.
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