Inspiration for Gaston comes from Jean Cocteau’s 1946 masterpiece La Belle et la Bête, in which the antagonist, Avenant, is hellbent on marrying Belle and killing Beast. With the omission of Belle’s sinister relatives, Disney realised they needed to create a villain to ramp up the stakes. Other versions saw Beauty with several roguish brothers who were hellbent on fighting Beast. Beauty’s sisters were more superficial and demanded that their father return with gifts of jewellery and gowns, while Beauty asked for only a single rose. In the earliest incarnations of the classic tale, Beauty wasn’t an only child and her father was a merchant rather than an inventor.
It was soon after adapted by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 and it is this version of the fairy tale that Disney took most inspiration from. Here are 30 facts about Beauty and the Beast to celebrate – one for each year since its release: There are many versions of the classic taleīeauty and the Beast has its roots in 1740 a novel by French writer Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. While 1989’s The Little Mermaid is often cited as the beginning of Disney’s renaissance era, it was Beauty and the Beast that brought the animation studio out of the wilderness of the 1980s and firmly back into the record books. Since its release in UK cinemas back in October 1992, the beloved movie has been followed by sequels, stage adaptations and live-action reimaginings. Disney’s animated classic Beauty and the Beast is celebrating its 30th birthday.
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