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...even then, before the $315 million rolled in (not to mention the record $450 million in home-video sales it has racked up in the past two weeks), it didn't look like a high-stakes gamble; Disney animation has been a sure thing ever since Beauty and the Beast. At the same time, Spielberg was preparing to send forth The Flintstones (domestic gross: $135 million), and that was a pretty sure thing too. Lesser men than he had observed that the boomer market was about to turn into a nostalgia market; how could you go wrong with a movie...
...said that the phrase "Jewish writer" is an oxymoron, since for her "Jewish" implies civic responsibility, while a fiction writer is a "wild, untamed beast...
They had finally conquered the beast...
...story combines elements of two familiar fairy tales. Like Cinderella, la Belle dotes on her ineffectual father and is cordially loathed by her two homely sisters, Felicie and Adelaide. When Dad is captured by a ferocious monster, Belle offers herself up in his place and eventually turns the Beast back into a handsome prince through the power of love...
...comes together seamlessly. The restless, relentless energy of the score -- tempered, for the first time in Glass's career, by some fetching love music -- pulls one into the film in a way that mere background music never could. By the final shot, of a sublime Beauty and her transformed Beast borne magically aloft and soaring through the clouds, the audience is as enchanted as the characters. Even Wagner, who knew something about magic himself, might have been impressed...