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Beauty and the Beast (1991)

★ 7.7 · 10,632 ratings on TMDB

The most beautiful love story ever told.

Beauty and the Beast poster★ 7.7

Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within.

DirectorGary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
CastAngela Lansbury, Bradley Pierce, David Ogden Stiers, Hal Smith, Jerry Orbach, Jesse Corti
GenresAnimation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
The emergence reading

Beauty and the Beast keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, love.

zero-distanceUSprejudiceidentitylove
Also inFilms about loveFilms about prejudiceFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Shrek (2001)E8/E9 · identity, loveThe Little Mermaid (1989)E8/E9 · identity, loveShrek 2 (2004)E8/E9 · identity, loveThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)E8/E9 · identity, loveFrozen (2013)E8/E9 · identity, loveTrolls (2016)E8/E9 · identity, love

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · identity, prejudice

Same people

Shared director or cast.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)dir. Gary TrousdaleAtlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)dir. Gary TrousdaleBeauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)Angela LansburyShrek the Halls (2007)dir. Gary TrousdaleBelle's Magical World (1998)David Ogden StiersJumanji (1995)Bradley Pierce