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Beast
Kickoff appearance	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Created by	Linda Woolverton (film adaptation)
Portrayed by	Terrence Isle of man (Beauty and the Creature originated role for Broadway) Jeff Bridges (Disney Dreams Portraits photographs) Dan Payne (Descendants) Dan Stevens (2017 alive action film)
Voiced by	Robby Benson
Title	Chief of the Castle
Occupation	Prince
Significant other	Belle
Children	Prince Ben (son; in Descendants just)
Relatives	Maurice (begetter-in-law)
Nationality	French

The Beast is a fictional graphic symbol who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 30th animated characteristic film Beauty and the Beast (1991), also as in the film's two straight-to-video followups Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas and Belle's Magical World. Based on the hero of the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the Beast was created past screenwriter Linda Woolverton and animated by Glen Keane.

A pampered prince transformed into a hideous fauna as punishment for his common cold-hearted and selfish means, the Beast must, in society to return to his erstwhile self, earn the beloved of a beautiful immature adult female named Belle who he imprisons in his castle. All this must exist done before the final petal falls from the enchanted rose on his twenty-first birthday. In all animated film appearances, the Beast is voiced by American actor Robby Benson. The 1991 blithe film was adjusted into a Broadway musical in 1994, with the function existence originated by American actor Terrence Mann. Dan Stevens portrays a live-action version of the character in the 2017 live-action adaptation of the original 1991 flick.

Development

Determining a suitable advent for the Beast proved challenging. Although entirely fictional, supervising animator Glen Keane felt it essential for the Fauna to resemble a creature that could mayhap be found on Earth every bit opposed to an alien. The initial designs had the Brute every bit humanoid simply with an animal head attached as per the original fairy tale, but soon shifted towards more unconventional forms. The earlier sketches of the Beast's character design are seen as gargoyles and sculptures in the Fauna's castle.^[1]

Inspired by a buffalo head that he purchased from a taxidermy,^[two] Keane decided to base the Animate being's appearance on a variety of wild fauna, cartoon inspiration from the mane of a lion, head of a buffalo, brow of a gorilla, tusks of a wild boar, legs and tail of a wolf, and body of a conduct. However, he felt it of import that the Fauna's eyes remain human. In fright that Glen Keane would pattern the Creature to resemble vocalism actor Robby Benson, Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg did not allow Keane to see Benson during product of the moving-picture show.

Characteristics

The Beast is not of any one species of brute, simply a chimera (a mixture of several animals), who would probably exist classified equally a carnivore overall. He has the head construction and horns of a buffalo, the arms and body of a bear, the eyebrows of a gorilla, the jaws, teeth, and mane of a lion, the tusks of a wild boar, and the legs and tail of a wolf. He also bears resemblance to mythical monsters like the Minotaur or a werewolf. He also has bluish eyes, the one concrete feature that does not change whether he is a beast or a human being.

As opposed to his original analogue, Disney gave him a more primal nature to his personality and mannerisms, which truly exploited his graphic symbol equally an untamed animal (i.due east. alternating between walking and crawling, creature growls). Producer Don Hahn envisioned that the Animate being's psychological state has become increasingly feral the longer he was under the curse, such that he would eventually lose his last vestiges of humanity and become completely wild if the spell could non exist broken. Hahn's thought doesn't manifest prominently in the finished 1991 animated film, since the Brute is only seen in a brief scene some fourth dimension afterwards his transformation while much of the narrative starts during the later on period of the curse.

In the original tale, the Beast is seen to be kind-hearted for the most function, and gentleman-like, with only an occasional tendency to be hot-tempered. Disney's interpretation of the Beast fabricated him more than constantly aroused and depressed, due to the shame from his unkind actions which led to his transformation, and specially his struggle of reconciling his hideous appearance with his inner humanity which fabricated him feel hopeless about breaking the curse. Supervising animator Glen Keane describes The Beast as "a twenty-one-yr-one-time guy who'southward insecure, wants to be loved, wants to beloved, but has this ugly exterior and has to overcome this."^[3] Upon his reform under his dear interest Belle, his personality changes to refined and more even-tempered, while naive about the world at the same fourth dimension.

To reflect his early personality, the Beast is seen shirtless, with ragged, dark greyness breeches, and a ragged reddish-colored cape with a gold colored circular-shaped squeeze. Despite the bodily color of his greatcoat being a dark reddish color, the Beast's greatcoat is more often referenced to be majestic (and in most of the Beast'south subsequent appearances afterward the pic, such equally The Enchanted Christmas, Disney's House of Mouse, or the Kingdom Hearts games, his cape is colored purple). The reason for this change in color is unknown, although the most probable reason is that the color purple is frequently associated with royalty. Later the Brute saves Belle from a pack of wolves, his dress style changes to go more formal and disciplined, reflecting a more refined personality as he attempts to win Belle's friendship and love. His virtually referenced form of clothes is his ballroom outfit, which consisted of a aureate vest over a white apparel shirt with a white kerchief, black dress pants trimmed with gold, and a royal bluish ballroom tail coat trimmed with gold, worn during the film's ballroom dance sequence.

The bluish tailcoat outfit is retained after he was restored back to human, which is meant to exist a stark contrast to the royal regalia and armor he was depicted in before his curse. His human course is that of a tall and slender young man with auburn pilus and soft cream-colored peel while too retaining his bright blue eyes. Every bit a homo he is simply known as the "Prince", as supervising animator Glen Keane stated that everyone on the production was too busy to give him an culling name, however some licensed works such as the trivia video game The D Show (1998) accept named him "Prince Adam". Disney has come up to embrace the proper noun, as seen in multiple pieces of merchandise as well every bit a plaque hung upwards in 2012 (and nonetheless hangs in that location equally of 2017) in Walt Disney World'southward Port Orleans Riverside Royal Rooms that conspicuously states his name as "Prince Adam."^[4]

Appearances

Beauty and the Animate being

A handsome young prince lives in a luxurious castle in France. He has everything he ever wanted, and as a event, he is spoiled, selfish, and unkind. Ane nighttime, his middle is put to the test when a ragamuffin adult female comes to the castle and asks for shelter from the freezing cold, with a unmarried rose as payment. When he shuns the beggar for her repulsive appearance, she then reveals her true form as a beautiful enchantress. Seeing her dazzler and realizing her ability, the Prince tries to apologize but she transforms him into a terrifying beast-similar creature for his airs as punishment. She besides casts a spell on the entire castle, transforming it into a dark, foreboding place, its lush green grounds into dangerous immortal wolf-infested wood, and the skilful-natured servants into anthropomorphic household objects to reflect their unlike personalities. Ashamed of his new appearance, the Beast conceals himself inside his castle with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world, and an enchanted rose that would act as the expletive's timer which would blossom until he turns 21. If the Beast could learn to honey another and earn her beloved in return earlier the final petal fell off the rose, the expletive would exist broken, merely if not he would remain a beast forever. The Animate being turns to despair as the years pass by, with picayune hope of achieving this.

Equally the enchanted rose reaches late bloom and slowly wilts, the first outsider is an erstwhile man named Maurice who accidentally stumbles upon the castle, being immune inside by the servants for shelter. Even so, the Beast detains Maurice in the belfry equally a prisoner for trespassing. Maurice's equus caballus returns to the village, and then takes Maurice'south daughter Belle dorsum to the castle. In the tower Belle confronts Beast and pleads with him to let her male parent go, offering herself equally a prisoner instead, to which the Fauna agrees in return for her hope never to go out. Being prodded by his servants into believing that she is the key to breaking the spell, the Beast shows flashes of pity for the first fourth dimension despite his overall gruff fashion. For instance, he feels some remorse for ejecting her begetter without a proper farewell, and every bit an atonement he lets her stay in a furnished room rather than the tower dungeon and places the servants at her disposal. When she enters the castle'due south forbidden west wing and about touches the rose, he frightens her into fleeing the castle via the wood, which he regrets upon realizing that he lost his temper, so he saves her from being killed past wild wolves. The Animate being and Belle come to capeesh each other when she brings him back to the castle and tends to his wounds. He strikes up a friendship with her, past giving her the castle library and learns kindness and manners from her. Eventually, the Brute falls in beloved with Belle, and placing her happiness before his own, he releases her to tend to her ill father, a conclusion that disheartens him upon realizing that she had not even so returned his love which means that the expletive remains unbroken.

A mob from the hamlet comes to storm the castle and kill the Creature, led by a rival suitor named Gaston. Fauna is likewise miserable from Belle's deviation to respond to a challenge from Gaston, although his servants manage to beat back the villagers. Upon seeing Belle's return to the castle, the Beast'due south mood is roused and he duels Gaston upon the castle rooftops. The Brute uses guile to make up for his lack of weaponry, and remains unfazed by frequent taunts from Gaston, who proclaims that handsome appearance is the entitlement to Belle. The Creature eventually overpowers Gaston and intends to driblet him until the hunter begs him non to. Not wanting to sink to Gaston's level of behavior, the Beast decides to show mercy and spare Gaston on the status that he immediately exit the castle. Belle and then shows up on the balcony and the Beast climbs upwards to run into her; all the same Gaston refuses to have defeat and stabs the Beast from behind. Gaston loses his balance and falls from the castle roof to his expiry, but Belle manages to catch the Beast and pull him up. The Beast, knowing he is mortally wounded, expresses his appreciation to Belle for returning and beingness able to encounter her ane concluding fourth dimension, before falling unconscious and obviously succumbing to his injuries. Belle is able to tell the Beast that she loves him earlier the final petal falls. So, Belle'south announcement of love for the Beast breaks the spell and transforms him back into the prince.

Beauty and the Fauna: The Enchanted Christmas

In this film, which takes identify not long later on the Beast rescued Belle from the wolves, much to Animate being'southward frustration, Belle wants to celebrate Christmas and throw a real Christmas party. Beast hates the thought of Christmas, for information technology was the very 24-hour interval most 10 years agone when the Enchantress cast the spell on him and the unabridged castle. (In contrast to the 1991 animated picture show where the Prince is depicted in stained-drinking glass windows wearing royal regalia and armor before being cursed, the Prince in Enchanted Christmas is dressed but in a white shirt and black breeches prior to his transformation.) While Beast sits most of the preparations out, a treacherous retainer plots to take Belle thrown out of the castle: Forte the Pipe Organ, since he is far more appreciated by the Beast while under the spell.

Unknown to Brute, Belle writes him a special book which he doesn't see until later on. She also meets Forte afterward on in a chance meeting. Forte tells her that Beast's favorite Christmas tradition was the Christmas tree. Belle becomes frustrated, for no tree she has seen on the grounds has been tall plenty to hang ornaments. Forte lies to Belle, saying that a perfect tree can be establish in the forest beyond the castle. Reluctant to go against Animate being's orders that she never go out the castle, Belle leaves nonetheless in guild to find the perfect tree. When Belle does non arrive to encounter Brute's Christmas nowadays to her, he begins to suspect that she isn't there at all. When Cogsworth, having been ordered to retrieve Belle, explains that the household cannot find her, Beast becomes enraged. He goes to Forte to ask for advice, and Forte lies that Belle has abandoned him. Beast manages to detect Belle and saves her in time from drowning subsequently she brutal through sparse ice.

Still believing that Belle disobeyed him by breaking her promise not to leave, Fauna locks her into the dungeons to rot. But when Forte goads him into destroying the rose to end his suffering, Beast finds Belle's volume in the West Fly and reads it, coming to his senses and realizing that all Belle wants is for him to exist happy. Releasing Belle from the dungeon and asking for her forgiveness, Beast prepares to bring together in the Christmas festivities. But Forte doesn't give up and even goes as far as to attempt to destroy the entire castle with Beethoven's 5th. Fortunately, Brute finds him in time and destroys his keyboard with Franz Schubert'due south Symphony No viii. Losing his balance (and his pipes), Forte falls from the wall he is leaned upwards against and is silenced forever. Later, the castle and servants are arrayed in Christmas decorations when Belle and the Animate being practice their famous ballroom dance from the first film.

The story flashes frontward to the first Christmas later the spell is broken. The Prince and Belle give Fleck, Mrs. Potts' son, a book to read, which he loves. As the Prince and Belle come out to the balustrade, he gives her a rose as a gift.

Belle's Magical Earth

In the last entry of the franchise, made up of four segments from a presumably failed telly series, Belle teaches the Animate being a matter or two about life itself, consideration and manners. He appears only in the first and quaternary segments, and in a cameo in the 3rd. In the starting time part, The Perfect Give-and-take, Beast and Belle have a bitter falling out at dinner when the Beast demands that Cogsworth open the windows to cool him downwards, despite the fact that he is the only one hot and there is a cold wind, and angrily strikes his retainer, Webster, a long-tongued lexicon. Despite Lumiere and Cogsworth's pleas, Beast refuses to apologise for his behaviour, until Webster, Crane and LePlume forge a letter of apology from the Creature to Belle. All is settled, until the Beast realises that it was a forgery. He furiously banishes Webster, Crane and LePlume from the castle, but Belle brings them back from the wood, and the Brute soon learns to forgive them, as their intentions were practiced.

In the 4th part, The Broken Fly, the Beast loses his temper with Belle again when she brings an injured bird into the castle, as he dislikes birds. Equally he tries to chase the bird out, yet, he falls over on the stairs and hits his head difficult, stripping him of his hatred for birds. However, his selfishness nonetheless remains, and he locks the bird in a cage in his room, demanding that it sing for him whenever he demands it. The bird, terrified, refuses, until Belle teaches the Animate being that the bird will only sing when happy. The Creature lets the bird out, and learns to consider others before himself.

Before on, in the third segment, Mrs. Potts' Party, the Fauna makes several cameos sleeping in his bed in the Due west Wing. Dialogue betwixt Lumiere and Cogsworth shows that he had spent the unabridged previous dark mending leaks in the castle roof, and is still resting. An argument between Lumiere and Cogsworth about Mrs. Potts' favourite flowers lead to them having to hide several bunches of flowers around the Creature'southward bed. At ane signal, the Animate being begins to aroma one of the flowers and about wakes up, just it is removed just in fourth dimension, and he falls comatose again.

In other media

Animal appears as a major Disney character in the bestselling video game series Kingdom Hearts.

Kingdom Hearts

In the showtime Kingdom Hearts, during a time in which the spell had not however broken, Creature'south dwelling is attacked by the Heartless, led by Maleficent, who take Belle convict. Determined to rescue Belle, Beast goes as far as to exploit the power of darkness and hazard his own life to transport himself to Hollow Bastion, where Belle is being held convict with the other six Princesses of Middle. Upon arriving in Hollow Bastion, Beast is confronted by Riku, who challenges him to a duel and easily defeats him. Beast is saved at the last minute by Sora, Donald and Goofy, who are looking for Kairi. Allying himself with Sora, since Donald and Goofy have temporarily joined Riku, Beast fights the Heartless and protects Sora while they work their way into the Hollow Baston castle. Entering the castle, Beast, Sora, Donald and Goofy fight their way through until they encounter and defeat Maleficent, who transforms into her dragon form and challenges them again, but to be defeated once more. The four heroes find Kairi, but the circumstances cause Sora, Donald, Goofy and Kairi to exit Hollow Breastwork, and Beast states that he will not leave without Belle. Subsequently, Animal encounters Sora once once again when he returns to Hollow Bastion to lock the Keyhole. During their 2d search, Beast and Sora discover Belle, who embraces Beast and presents Sora with the Divine Rose Keychain. In the Final Mix version of the game, Beast allies himself with Sora one time once more to fight and defeat Xemnas (then known as "Unknown").

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Beast is merely a figment of Sora's memories. He is once once again separated from Belle, courtesy of Maleficent, merely over again, Beast defeats Maleficent with Sora's help and rescues Belle.

Kingdom Hearts II

After Sora defeats Ansem, all the previously attacked worlds are restored, including Creature's Castle. After, Beast and Belle return to their abode to deport on with their lives. Withal, the peace is shattered once more when Beast is approached by Xaldin of Arrangement XIII to exercise his bidding. Xaldin is adamant to dispense Beast into becoming a Heartless. If that happens, Beast will not only get a stiff Heartless which Sora would have to destroy and feed to Kingdom Hearts, merely also leave behind a powerful Nobody for Xaldin to use equally he wishes (just like what happened to Xehanort). Manipulated and controlled, Beast is forced to allow the Heartless into the castle and lock the entire retainer staff in the dungeons, with Belle besides scared to intervene. Beast starts mistreating Belle. When Sora, Donald and Goofy arrive, they are encountered by Animate being, who attacks them without hesitation. Sora wins the boxing, and Beast comes back to his senses thanks to his servants who were released by Sora. Xaldin appears to flee. Subsequently on, during a ball, Xaldin returns and steals the rose, throwing Beast into a depression and causing him to ask Belle and Sora to go out his castle. All the same a pep talk from Sora spurs him back into action. Xaldin confronts them and sends his Nobodies at them. They fight the Nobodies off, but Xaldin escapes to the castle drawbridge with Belle and the rose. Belle manages to escape from Xaldin's clutches with the rose, and Xaldin is then killed by Fauna, Sora, Donald and Goofy. Belle gives Animate being the rose but he is more relieved that she wasn't injure. Beast then bids a grateful goodbye to Sora, and returns to a normal life with Belle, until the spell is finally cleaved and Beast turns back into a human at the end of the game (a scene witnessed during the game's credits following completion). Animal'due south Limit attack for Kingdom Hearts II is Twin Howl, where he and Sora violently roar together and slash at enemies furiously.

Kingdom Hearts 358/two Days

In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Beast appears forth with his homeworld once again. The missions in Beast'due south Castle chronicle some of the events that occurred betwixt Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II, such as Belle and Beast attempting to resume their normal lives and Creature'southward first come across with Xaldin.

Broadway musical

The Beast appears in the Broadway musical accommodation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, originally portrayed past Terrence Isle of man.^[five] Other actors who have taken on the office include Chuck Wagner (1997),^[5] James Barbour (1998), Jeff McCarthy (2004), and Steve Blanchard.^[6]

The D Show

The movie and others never made mention of his real name. A CD-ROM game^[7] said "The Prince'southward name is Adam."

Once Upon a Fourth dimension

In the 2011 ABC serial Once Upon a Fourth dimension, the show's version of "the Beast" is really some other fairy tale character, Rumplestiltskin (played past Robert Carlyle), who gains possession of Belle as part of a deal to save Belle'southward kingdom from losing a war.

Beauty and the Beast (2017 live action moving picture)

In March 2015, English language actor Dan Stevens was cast every bit the Beast in a alive-activeness adaptation of the film, which was released on March 17, 2017.^[viii] The Brute was portrayed with a "more traditional move capture puppeteering for the trunk and the physical orientation", where Stevens was "in a forty-pound gray suit on stilts for much of the movie". The facial capture for the Beast was done separately order to "communicate the subtleties of the human being face" and "[capture the] thought that occurs to him" which gets "through [to] the eyes, which are the last human element in the Beast."^[9]

The live-action portrayal closely follows the animated version, but with some differences. Unlike the original 1991 version where his bad nature is non explained, the 2017 version expands a backstory which reveals that the Prince was a adept-natured person whose mother died of an illness when he was a male child, leaving his cruel, vain, self-centered, and arrogant father to raise him. The harsh upbringing caused his cruel nature and he taxed the villagers of his kingdom unjustly. The curse' length in the live-action adoption is not mentioned as opposed to the 1991 version wherein its limit would reach by the end of the Creature'southward twenty-first year.

The Prince was hosting a debutante brawl at his castle when a beggar woman appeared at his castle and offered a unmarried rose every bit payment for shelter from an oncoming tempest. The Prince turned her away twice, prompting the beggar to reveal herself to exist an enchantress. The Enchantress placed a powerful spell upon the kingdom, turning the Prince into a beast and the servants into animated household objects, while also wiping all memory of the castle from the nearby village's inhabitants. If the Beast was unable to love another and earn that person'due south dearest in return, by the fourth dimension the last petal on the enchanted rose fell, he would remain a beast forever, and in addition his servants would become inanimate antiques.

The alive-activity version of the Beast is quite civilized in personality and mannerisms, in contrast to the Beast in the animated film which was originally quite primal in behavior. Although the Fauna does non seem to have go increasing feral the longer the enchantment runs, in dissimilarity to his blithe counterpart from 1991 (reflecting Don Hahn's original intent for the Beast eventually grow wild if he never met Belle), it is his transformed servants who are gradually losing their remaining humanity while the castle deteriorates.

The last rose petal falls before the expletive is cleaved; even so, upon seeing Belle profess her love for the Beast, the enchantress reveals herself and lifts the spell on the castle and its inhabitants. Afterward, Prince and Belle host a ball for all the villagers.

Reception

The Fauna has generally garnered positive reviews. MsMojo ranked the Creature second in the Top 10 Disney Princes video, praising his grapheme development in the motion-picture show.^[10] Dan Stevens'southward portrayal of the Beast is besides praised. Julia Alexander from Polygon praised Stevens' interim for making the Beast feel existent, commenting that "at that place are moments where you forget the beast isn't real — everything about him feels humane."^[eleven] Dana Schwartz from The Observer is less positive in the Animate being'southward 2017 portrayal. She commented that the Beast's less scary advent gave lesser affect when he revealed himself to Belle compared to the original. And the fact that the Beast wears a tailcoat and pants all the time makes it unbelievable for certain scenes since the Beast is characterized as "someone who'southward been an animal for then long he'southward forgotten how to be human."^[12]

References

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3. ^ Thomas, Bob: "Academy Recognition: Beauty and the Beast", pages 127-131. Disney'southward Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Hercules, 1997
4. ^ Good, Jeremiah (January 26, 2016). "The Purple Invitee Rooms of Port Orleans Riverside – LaughingPlace.com". LaughingPlace.com . Retrieved September 6, 2017.
5. ^ ^{a b} "Beauty and the Animate being at IBDB.com". www.ibdb.com. Archived from the original on September 2, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2007.
6. ^ Haun, Harry (July 31, 2007). "Playbill on Endmost Nighttime: Dazzler and the Beast — A Roaring Success". www.playbill.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2007.
7. ^ The D Show , Disney Interactive , 1998　ASIN　B000031VV3
8. ^ Borys Kit (March 4, 2015). "Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' Casting Dan Stevens as the Beast (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
9. ^ Erbland, Kate. "'Beauty and the Beast' Is a Technological Marvel, But for Its Actors, the Challenge was Daunting". IndieWire. Penske Business Media. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
10. ^ Mojo, Ms. "Top 10 Disney Princes". YouTube. Archived from the original on Dec 19, 2021. Retrieved February two, 2020.
11. ^ Alexander, Julia. "Beauty and the Animal review". Polygon . Retrieved February 2, 2020.
12. ^ Schwartz, Dan. "How 'Beauty and the Creature' Characters Changed from 1991 to 2017". The Observer . Retrieved February 2, 2020.

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