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How much did Emma Watson get paid for Beauty and the Beast? ›

Emma took home $15 million for Beauty and the Beast, because duh, Disney pays. Interestingly, her base salary was $3 million and the other $12 million came from bonuses based on how well the film did at the box office.

The original printed version of Beauty and the Beast is credited to a French writer called Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. She included it in a 1740 story collection called The Young American or Tales of the Sea. She claimed that a chambermaid told it to a young lady, while on board a ship to America.

Beauty and the Beast has its roots in 1740 a novel by French writer Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. It was soon after adapted by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 and it is this version of the fairy tale that Disney took most inspiration from.

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. It is based on the 1756 fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, while also containing ideas from the 1946 French film directed by Jean Cocteau.

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Perhaps most notably, Watson also refused to wear a corset under her character's iconic yellow dress. Watson told Entertainment Weekly that she wanted to play an "active" princess, and that a corset would restrict her movement.

This is the story of Petrus Gonsalvus, of his family, as well as of those who, just like them, were turned into objects of wonder or entertainment by a discriminatory and exploitative ruling class. The Beast of this story is Pedro González, born in 1537 in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

The inscription roughly translates to "he conquers who conquers himself." When analysing this phrase it's clear to see that it represents the moral of the story in some way, as the Beast must conquer his own demons before he can truly be the leader he needs to be for his kingdom.

Gaston, a character who does not exist in the original fairy tale, was among several elements borrowed from the live-action version of the story, based on a character Cocteau himself had created specifically for his film: Avenant, portrayed by French actor Jean Marais who also plays the Beast in a dual role.

Seeing this, Beauty is distraught, realizing that she loves him. Despite this, she remains calm and fetches water from a nearby spring, which she uses to resuscitate him. That night, she agrees to marry him.

What is the deeper meaning of the Beauty and the Beast? ›

The moral of Beauty and the Beast is that we should value inward characteristics such as kindness over other superficial qualities, such as wit and appearance. This moral is presented by showing that Beauty valued the inward characteristics of Beast, and fell in love with him despite his outward appearances.

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Belle is thought to be around the age of 17 in the film, with Prince Adam as the Beast being 21-years-old.

Her turn in the blockbuster “Beauty and the Beast” earned her an initial $3 million to play Belle. But her negotiated box office percentages netted Watson another $12 million.

She reportedly earned $30 million combined for the final two installments of the franchise, making her total take-home from the series at least $62 million.

In honor of the home release of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, be our guest and check out this behind-the-scenes clip about the casting of Emma Watson. "Emma Watson was our first -- and really our only -- choice for Belle," director Bill Condon said, "for a lot of reasons: her talent, her beauty, her intelligence."

It grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2017 and the tenth-highest-grossing film of all time. Amongst Disney's live-action remakes, it is the second-highest-grossing readaptation to date.