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When Walt Disney released its animated version of "Beauty and the Beast" in 1991, the moviegoing public was enchanted. The film was a box office success and critics unanimously praised Disney for its originality and innovation. Yet while the Disney version had undeniable charm, behind it stood the specter of an immensely superior film, Jean Cocteau's 1946 "La Belle et la Bete...
...Belle et la Bete" remains the definitive film adaptation of the familiar story, an extraordinary and profoundly influential movie. Disney, in fact, "borrowed" the look and many other aspects of its cartoon from Cocteau's film. To see Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" is to see why movies were invented. Cocteau's oneiric masterpiece is a perfect demonstration of what movies can give us that other media can't; it is a dream that seizes us and pulls us into a world that operates under its own logic. We find ourselves in a landscape where beauty seems...
...farm where Beauty's family lives, is a tribute to the Dutch painter Jan Vermeer. Cocteau achieves a heightened sense of realism through careful composition and austere lighting. He presents a vision of simplicity and common sense, the antithesis of the world inside the palace of the Beast, where fantasy reigns supreme. There, candelabra are held by human hands protruding from the walls, a magical mirror contains the visage of a beloved and an enchanted white steed roams the halls. The palace in the midst of the dark woods is a creation straight out of the work of Gustave Dore...
Toto Riina, whose underlings dubbed him "the Short One" and whose enemies called him "the Beast," had been on the run for 23 years. Suspected of ordering at least 150 killings, he was convicted in absentia in 1987 of murder and drug trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Some sources suggested he had undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance, but apart from grayer hair and a more pronounced paunch, the man captured last week bore an unmistakable likeness to an FBI computer-generated drawing based on the last known photograph of Riina, from...
Although the ancient hunter lacked the flexible lower jaw and other advanced features of its more ferocious descendants, the overall shape and internal structure of its bones provide strong evidence that the beast was a true dinosaur. "This fossil confirms our suspicions that dinosaurs began as small, carnivorous, bipedal animals," says Paul Sereno, an assistant professor of anatomy at Chicago and a leader of the expedition. "We are just a couple of steps away from the ancestor of all dinosaurs." The scientists named the find Eoraptor, or "dawn stealer," because it appeared at the dawn of the dinosaurs and, considering...