What's the Difference between Beauty and the Beast (1756) the Book and Beauty & the Beast the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Beauty
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Belle
Portrayed by: Paige O'Hara
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The father
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Maurice
Portrayed by: Rex Everhart
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Beast
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Beast
Portrayed by: Robby Benson
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This Character does not appear.
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Gaston
Portrayed by: Richard White
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Beauty's sisters
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This Character does not appear.
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Beauty's brothers
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This Character does not appear.
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This Character does not appear.
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Lumiere
Portrayed by: Jerry Orbach
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This Character does not appear.
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Cogsworth
Portrayed by: David Ogden Stiers
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This Character does not appear.
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Mrs. Potts
Portrayed by: Angela Lansbury
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This Character does not appear.
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Chip
Portrayed by: Bradley Pierce
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The Fairy
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This Character does not appear.
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Beauty & the Beast Book vs Movie
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
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When Beauty departs to the palace, her brothers are truly concerned, but her sisters rubbed their eyes with onion so that they would shed fake tears when she left. |
This does not happen in the movie. |
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Beauty and her father returned to the palace where they found a table of food waiting for them. When the Beast roared, the father bid his daughter farewell. Beast asked if Beauty came willingly; she says yes. Beast then thanks the father for his honesty and tells him to leave in the morning, warning him never to return. |
Belle offers to stay at the palace over her father’s objections.
She rides on Phillipe the horse back to the palace. Beast accepts her offer.
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While Beauty and her father slept in the palace, she dreams of a fair lady who tells her actions shall not go unrewarded. She tells her father of the dream, he then leaves. |
Maurice returns home and is unable to convince the other townsfolk to help rescue Belle from the Beast. |
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Beauty believes that the Beast will eat her that night. However she wanders throughout the palace and finds a door that says “Beauty’s Apartment”. The apartment is furnished with a library and harpsichord. |
Beast sulks in his room when Belle refuses to eat with him.
Belle is given a tour of the castle by Cogsworth and Lumiere and offered a meal.
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Beauty opens a book and reads that she is queen and mistress here, “speak your wishes, speak your will”, swift obedience meets them still”. |
This does not happen in the movie. |