Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast”

Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumonts Beauty and the animal is focused on the love of a lady friend for her father however that eventually ends with a reward of getting married to a beautiful prince. While Jean Cocteaus 1946 spud sport focuses much on the romantic office and relations between the Beauty and the Beast. Jean Cocteaus film Beauty and the Beast is based on the text version of Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumonts Beauty and the Beast. Though Cocteaus film version give somewhat touching view. The film version of Cocteau mirrors the 17th century settings and the themes of a typical f behaviory tale.On one side there be evil sisters of the beauty (good hearted youngest daughter) and on the other side a wicked man missing to marry the beauty. In the film he created a fantastical frame of mind. The castle of the Beast is not on the earth hence, Belle is shown floating in the air while reaching the castle. Cocteaus movie creates an imaginary and dream-world by making the prog ress of the movie in slow motion. Different scenes especially when Belle moves to castle are in slow-motion gives view of a majestic world. The acting and characters in the film are remarkable.With terrific dialogues it gives the magical perfection to the film with lost love, admiration, sense of duty, capitulate and romantic feelings. Of course, as written text we can only read the story and imagine what is being said but with film version it is rather different to view. The film version shows all the scenes and dialogues in real(a) environment. The camera settings are such that can add to the fantasy. The shots and scenes at the castle are do very graceful. As compared to the written text version we cannot get the exact view of the settings.What we get from reading the literature of Jeanne-Maries story our focus in on the themes and endings. However, Cocteaus film version gives details of each and every scene in addition, actors acting and background settings, and dialogues di verges the thoughts of the viewers from the real focus of the story. The audience of the movie may get involved with the imaginary scenes and dialogues. The film version by Cocteau shows the interaction of the Belle and the Beast much precisely. The literature of Jeanne-Marie was construe as the love of the daughter for her father.She went to Beast castle not with the hope of falling in love but only to save her fathers life. She was ready to give away her life in place of her father. However, she got a beautiful prince in return while her father is also saved. The film of Cocteau is more focused on the romantic relations between the beauty and the beast. Shes being unaware that the Beast is the prince, falls in love with him because his kind attitude and gentleness. Soon discovers him to be the prince both got married and lives a happy life while the evil sisters get their punishment for being too mean and wickedness.Conclusion The Beast is actually a very beautiful prince who sh owed up to the Belle at the very last moment. Though the film version was superficially a different one, it good discriminates the reality from fantasy. Both the fairy tale and film version are similar in many cases but different at many contexts. However, the film version is based on the text of Jeanne-Marrie has some remarkable scenes and cinematography not present in written text. References Jeanne-Marrie. Beauty and the Beast. Retrieved form http//www. pitt. edu/dash/beauty. hypertext markup language