Careless Whisper

Thank you.

female awesome meme; 9/10 disney ladies: belle (beauty and the beast) “i want much more than this provincial life!”

But don’t you see, this is the girl we have been waiting for! This is the one who will break the spell! 

But there’s something in him that I simply didn’t see

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

“Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme…”

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946)

“I’m chagrined I was so adamant about keeping it on the sweet moment – Belle mooning over Beast. [Story supervisor] Roger Allers suggested having them throw snowballs, and I insisted that would mess it up. I was out sick one day, and Roger added that ending behind my back, which was wonderful and fun.”

– Brenda Chapman, story artist on Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Quote via Charles Solomon’s amazing book, ‘Tale As Old As Time: The Art and Making of Beauty and the Beast’

make me choose: @sidarine asked the little mermaid or beauty and the beast

                                                              tale as old as time                                                                 true as it can be                                                               barely even friends                                                             then somebody bends                                                                   unexpectedly                                                               just a little change                                                            small to say the least                                                              both a little scared                                                            neither one prepared                                                           beauty and the beast

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) dir. gary trousdale + kirk wise

belle + books “Belle is not baking a cake!” Linda Woolverton was on her way to becoming the studio’s first credited female screenwriter, and she was increasingly frustrated with many of the male writers she worked with. She stared disbelievingly at the storyboards in front of her. In her script she had written a scene where Belle puts pushpins in a map to signify all the areas of the world she wants to explore. The writers adapting her scene into storyboards had changed the setting and action, placing Belle in a kitchen decorating a cake. It was the kind of editorial change that made her lean over and literally bang her head on the table before her in exasperation. - The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

All I wanted was to teach a child to read. — The only children you should concern yourself with… are your own.

Beauty and the Beast (2017) dir. Bill Condon