Believe It Or Not...
Beauty and the Beast contained 1,295 painted backgrounds,
120,000 drawings...
370 men and women were involved in the film's production
...of whom, 43 were animators.
Songs take up twenty-five minutes of the film...
..only five minutes were without any musical score at all.
Lumiere's 'flames' required around 19,000 separate drawings...
...while the Ballroom was a photorealistic CGI computer model.
The crystal chandelier shown at the start of the Ballroom sequence is also a 3D digital
construct, containing 158 individual light sources to simulate candles.
In its first 15 weeks on release, Beauty and the Beast took $113m (about £75m);
worldwide, it grossed $347.9 million ($202 million outside the USA)
..the film received 6 Oscar nominations; 3 for Best Song ('Beauty and the Beast',
'Belle' and 'Be Our Guest'), Best Picture, Best Sound, and Best Original
Score.
Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best
Picture!
Not content with just being nominated, Beauty and the Beast won Oscars for Best
Song ('Beauty and the Beast') and Best Original Score.
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Why does Belle wear blue?
No, I didn't know either. I used to link to a big trivia site here - which
naturally answered the above question - however, that site appears to be
no more. So - for those who never got to see it and therefore the answer
to the question - Belle wears blue because it contrasts with the colours
of the clothing of the other villagers, making her stand out as 'different'.
Most of the other village characters wear fairly rustic garments of brown,
red, yellow or green - Belle wears blue and white and is certainly a head-turner! |
