QuoteSome people use their imagination. By the way, thank you, for saving my lifeHes no monster, Gaston, you are I love you. Now, its no wonder that her name means beauty Her looks have got no parallel. But behind that fair faade,Im afraid shes rather oddvery different from the rest of us. Shes nothing like the rest of us,Yes, diffrent from the rest of us is Belle Lyrics from the townsfolk in BelleBelle is the female protagonist of Disneys 1. Beauty and the Beast. She is an intelligent and undeniably beautiful young woman whose traits are looked down upon in her small French village. As a result of her status as an outcast, Belle yearns to break out of the small minded community to experience a life of adventure. Belle is also the fifth official member of the Disney Princess line up. Background. Official Description. Far off places, daring sword fights, a prince in disguise, Belle longs for so much more than a normal life in this small, provincial town a town where girls dont aspire to more than marrying well. Still, adventure is the last thing on her mind when she rides her horse, Philippe, into the forest to find her beloved father, who is missing. Thinking only of her father, she makes a bargain with a Beast who holds her father captive in his castle. Working with headphones on usually means youd rather not be bothered, but sometimes it means youre just listening to something while you work. If you want to be. Though the Beast now holds the key to Belles prison, he doesnt have the key to her heart, and her yearning spirit wont be kept prisoner. But after he risks his own life to save hers, she begins to see past his appearance. She realizes that deep inside him there might be something more than she or he has ever dreamed. Development. When production first started on Beauty and the Beast, Belles characterization was initially slightly closer to that of the original tale, being slightly timid yet also caring. She also had a sister named Clarice as well as a snobbish aunt named Marguerite who would have been the movies equivalent of Belles wicked sisters from the original tale. However, after the 1. Disney Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg ordered for it to be rewritten from scratch, both due to viewing it as too dark and dramatic, and because he envisioned a Broadway like film with a feminist twist to the original tale. To accomplish this, he hired Linda Woolverton, who at the time had just started film screenwriting and her only other experience with Disney was writing some episodes of their various Saturday Morning cartoons. Woolverton based Belle on Katharine Hepburns role of Jo March from the film adaptation of the book, Little Women, and avoided using the Jean Cocteau film as a template for Belle and the film, even going as far as to avoid seeing the film. She also gave Belle a love of literature to show her open mindedness. She also made sure to make Belle a feminist in order to have her stand apart from Ariel in The Little Mermaid, as she did not want another insipid princess, taking notes from the womens movement to create her character. Personality. Belle reading. Whole Maggie And The Ferocious Beast Movie Online. Belle has gained a significant amount of intelligence over the years due to her love of books, which have provided her with an elevated vocabulary, an active imagination, and an open mind. She is very confident and outspoken in her opinions and seldom likes being told what to do. Despite all this, she does not have very many friends. Her smarts and free thinking attitude make her stand out from her fellow townspeople, who regard her as a little odd behind her beauty. Unlike most characters in the film, Belle is not concerned about her or others appearances and is able to look past how people appear and see into their hearts. This is how Belle manages to break the Beasts curse and restore love and laughter to the castle. Belle is somewhat a free woman for her time and refuses to be mistreated, undermined, humiliated, demeaned, or controlled by anyone, especially and specifically Gaston in fact, he makes it quite clear that his ideal marriage with Belle includes her having six or seven good looking sons with him, massaging his feet, cooking his dinner, scrubbing the floors, doing dirty work, and above all, no reading, as he considers intelligence in women to be ridiculous. This is taken one step further in his song in the musical in which he sings that womankind occasionally serves a purpose in marriage, specifically extending the family tree. However, Belle willingly listens to, takes advice from, and admires her father Maurice since, throughout most of her life, hes the only person who has believed in her unconditionally. She also considers the opinions and directions of the Beast, because, like Maurice, he is able to treat her as an equal the Beast eventually learned how throughout the course of the film. She also seemed to have a good relationship with the bookseller, presumably because of his encouraging her to pursue her love of literature. Gaston, meanwhile, views Belle and all women of the village as ornamental only serving to make him look even better. She is quite resolute when it comes to stating and upholding her opinions and maintaining her ideas. Even though Belle says that she dreams of adventure, she also states that she wishes for a friend who accepts her for who she is. This is because everyone in town criticizes her for doing her own thing and does not understand her, which makes her feel like she does not fit in. However, despite this, even when people gave her a hard time, she never changed, but came to a better understanding of herself. This made the biggest difference when she broke the spell and charmed the Beast just by being herself. In the Disney Comics New Adventures of Beauty and the Beast, set a few years before the events of the first film, Belle was also shown to be somewhat bigoted in her views, refusing to associate herself with the boys in her village due to unfortunate experiences with them in the past then slightly amending it to exclude her father after the latter jokingly asked their pet pig, Pierre, if he heard Belle consider him no different than the pig. The same serial also implies that despite her love of fairy tales, she herself did not believe in the supernatural, as when trying to explore a certain part of the Black Forest before encountering an owl, she mentioned in her thoughts she knew there were not any mythical creatures in there.