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Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third in the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, who was also credited in the English version as well as in the French version, and ideas from the 1946 French film.Beauty and the Beast focuses on the relationship between the Beast (Robby Benson), a prince who is magically transformed into a monster as punishment for his arrogance, and Belle (Paige O'Hara), a beautiful young woman whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, Beast must win her love in return otherwise he remains a monster forever. The film also features the voices of Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Angela Lansbury.
Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Beauty and the Beast into an animated feature film during the 1930s and 1950s. Following the success of The Little Mermaid (1989), Disney decided to adapt the fairy tale, which Richard Purdum originally conceived as a non-musical. Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg eventually discontinued the idea and ordered that the film be a musical similar to The Little Mermaid instead. Beauty and the Beast was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, with a screenplay by Linda Woolverton story first credited to Roger Allers. Lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote the film's songs. Ashman, who additionally served as an executive producer on the film, died of AIDS-related complications eight months before the film's release, and the film was dedicated to his memory.
[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...