This week our focus is he 2017 live-action version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. After some…contrasting reviews, we talk about how this film is a lot darker and more serious than the original, how it has a lot more to it (both good and bad), and how it might be a different sort of fairy tale to the 1991 film.
Next Time
Next in line for our Disney focus is he 1992 version of ALADDIN.
Recent Media
HORTON HEARS A WHO! (2008): Theodor Seuss Geisel, Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX (2019): Simon Kinberg, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender
SNOWPIERCER (2020–): Jacques Lob, Josh Friedman, Jennifer Connelly
THE TOWN (2010): Chuck Hogan, Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall
Recommendations
COLOSSAL (2016): Nacho Vigalondo, Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudekis
FAST & FURIOUS 6 (2013): Justin Lin, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker
A LIFE LESS ORDINARY (1997): Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz
MR HOLMES (2015): Bill Condon, Mitch Cullin, Ian McKellen
Footnotes
This is an interesting presentation on one of the ideas Rob mentions early on: prezi.com/tovwsqhae1zq/the-art-of-metacommentary. Here’s more about the character of LeFou (including his name): villains.fandom.com/wiki/LeFou. And here’s more on the openly gay take on this character, including a very interesting idea from the director himself about one possible allegorical interpretation of the film: people.com/movies/beauty-and-the-beast-disney-first-openly-gay-character-lefou. And here’s a good response from Josh Gad to some negative criticism of LeFou: edition.cnn.com/2017/03/07/movies/josh-gad-gay-beauty-and-the-beast-character/index.html. And the final line of this short piece is particularly good: www.vulture.com/2017/03/heres-the-exclusively-gay-moment-in-beauty-and-the-beast.html. (Can you tell I went down an ‘internet hole’ reading about LeFou’s modern incarnation??) Finally, Rob may not have especially warmed to the result, but this was a really interesting article about the CGI transformation of Dan Stevens: www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/beauty-and-the-best-movie-dan-stevens-special-effects.
Find Us On Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-prestige-417454
Follow Us - https://www.twitter.com/prestigepodcast
Follow Sam - https://www.twitter.com/life_academic
Follow Rob - https://www.twitter.com/kaijufm
Find Our Complete Archive on Kaiju.FM - http://www.kaiju.fm/the-prestige/
1.20 - Small Batch: TRAINWRECK (2015)
1.19 - WORLD WAR Z (2013) & Invasion
1.18 - BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012) & Childhood
1.17 - LOOPER (2012) & Sci-Fi
1.16 - STATION AGENT (2003) & Isolation
1.15 - INSIDE OUT (2015) & Stereotypes
1.14 - ANTMAN (2015) & Origin Stories
1.13 - THE MONUMENTS MEN (2014) & Ownership
1.12 - DEAR WENDY (2005) & American Imperialism
1.11 - FLIGHT (2012) & Addiction
Reviews With Friends I
1.9 - JURASSIC WORLD (2015) & Nostalgia
1.8 - THE APARTMENT (1960) And Endings
1.7 - CLERKS (1994) & Slacker Cinema
1.6 - DIE HARD (1988) & Masculinity
1.5 - MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) & Myth
1.4 - WARRIOR (2011) & Sports Films
1.3 - RESERVOIR DOGS (1991) & Tarantino
1.2 - ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012) & The Other
1.1 - AVENGERS 2 (2015) & The Art Of The Sequel
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Multiverse Fancast
Cinema: A to B
I Finally Watched...
Blank Check with Griffin & David
Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast