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Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period, the film is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and uses some ideas from the 1946 film of the same name. The film centers around a prince who is transformed into a Beast and a young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, the Beast must love Belle and win her love in return, or he will remain a Beast forever.
The film's animation screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton with story written by Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders, Burny Mattinson, Kevin Harkey, Brian Pimental, Bruce Woodside, Joe Ranft, Tom Ellery, Kelly Ashbury, and Robert Lence, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn. The music of the film was composed by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, both of whom had written the music and songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid. The film was dedicated to Ashman, who died before this film and the next Disney movie Aladdin were finished.
[chorus:]
I've made some big mistakes
and I wanna take them back
I finally see right from wrong
I need for you to listen,
and tell me how you feel
before this time and chance is gone
but I'm falling far now
I can't see the bottom
and it's only autumn
falling fast
have I taken for granted this time tonight?
close your eyes and fall asleep
inside these open arms
I promise not to hold too tight
you're painting an inaccurate picture of it all
you're only seeing black and white
but if I only could show you
the promise I gave you
was given only in the earnest in my eyes
I could sleep this night
and I'm waiting for the chance to
be the man inside your life
but until then I'll just sit and wonder
what could have come from
every glance inside your eyes
[chorus]
but if I only could show you
the promise I gave you
was given only in the earnest in my eyes
I could sleep this night
and I wonder
what could have changed,
changed your mind
but I'm falling far now
(and I wonder)
I can't see the bottom
(what could have changed)
and it's only autumn
falling fast
(changed your mind)
have I taken for granted this time?
but if I only could show you
(and I wonder)
the promise I gave you
was given only in the earnest in my eyes
(what could have changed)
I could sleep this night
(changed your mind)
and I wonder
what could have changed
changed your mind [x2]
ah, ah, ahhh...