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Beastly (2011)

★ 6.3 · 2,862 ratings on TMDB

Love is never ugly.

Beastly poster★ 6.3

A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love.

DirectorDaniel Barnz
CastAlex Pettyfer, Dakota Johnson, David Francis, Erik Knudsen, Gio Perez, LisaGay Hamilton
GenresDrama, Fantasy, Romance
The emergence reading

Beastly keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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

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Same subject, different rung

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

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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