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(From Disney UK) The Sound Track (2017) Belle (Emma Watson), a bright, beautiful and independent young woman, is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in its castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the beast's hideous exterior, allowing her to recognize the kind heart and soul of the true prince that hides on the inside.-WWW Release date: March 17, 2017 (USA) We watched this at the Commercenter on the 16th of March Director: Bill Condon Featured songs: Beauty and the Beast and Something There Music composed by: Alan Menken Original award winning motion picture soundtrack  If I am not mistaken I watched the 1990s version with my Elim Community brothers and sisters somewhere in Mega Mall.  PG and RJ, along with their nannies, plus my "surrogate" sister, Queenie, were with me.  Queenie and I never stopped singing.  We even bought the soundtrack and I "fell in love" with Robb...

When I was a little girl I often wondered why Walt Disney changed all the endings and twists of popular fairy tales and the like. As I was watching this film, I understood.  He wanted to give joy, or at the very least, happiness, to everyone. Yes, the movie is only 95% true, more or less, making Pamela Lyndon Travers more human, added the very cheerful Ralph(and his daughter, Jane) to make her less obnoxious and did not mention her adopted son, Camillus. Yes, they did give P.L. Travers a  spoonful of sugarcoating , but hey, it's the movies.  How real is reel?  The screenplay, for me, was wonderfully weaved.  Kelly Marcel and her co-writer, Sue Smith, researched it well and gave P.L. Travers a heart. Annie Rose Buckley overshadowed everyone.  Yes, Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks were the stars of the movie and they played their roles well. Paul Giamatti was even very lovable here, but little Annie Rose captured the hearts of the moviegoers, at t...