
Beauty and the Beast: The Forgotten Art of StoryThe films that really awakened my interest in filmmaking, storytelling and fantasy in general at a young age were Star Wars, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast.
I got to musing that Beauty especially represents surprisingly the epitome of animated storytelling truly in my opinion. So many modern films, animated and otherwise, could take a few tips from this seminal Disney classic.
Beauty and the Beast had a strong female lead:
And by strong I don't mean physically, I don't mean grouchy and argumentative, and I don't mean always perfect at everything she attempted. Belle was in a lot of ways a female character modern films seem to shun with