Wonder – The Beauty in the Beast
What a frightening thing the first day of school can be?especially when you?ve been home schooled your whole life because you have a deformity that cannot be hidden. Wonder is a story of outcast and friendship.
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Marshall: Fighting Injustice Together
Before Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, he was a lawyer for the NAACP assigned to defend Joseph Spell against the charges of rape and attempted murder of a white woman. In Marshall, director Reginald Hudlin (House Party, Django Unchained) sets up Chadwick Boseman (42, Black Panther) and Josh Gad (Frozen, Murder…
Disney Parables -Beauty & the Beast: Struggling with ‘The Other’
Whether you are a fan of the French original, the 1990s animated version, or the Dan Stevens/Emma Watson live-action remake,?Beauty & the Beast?has a narrative that reminds us of the cost of inhospitality. As the story begins, we find a cold-hearted prince refusing sanctuary to an old beggar woman (or so he thinks) as she…
Beauty and the Beast: Looking for the ‘Deep Truths’
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We see what we are looking for; our view of a person ? or a movie ? depends, to a great extent, on who we are. Beauty and the Beast is about seeing beauty despite outward appearances. Ironically, the villagers can see only Belle’s outward beauty ?…
David Ortiz’ Papi on Baseball, Patriots Day, & Boston Strong
Tom Brady might be New England but David Ortiz is Boston. While the three-time World Series champion might have been “just” a talented designated hitter on an American League team fighting decades of failure to the world before Patriot’s Day 2013, afterward, he was the galvanizing face of a city that stood against terrorism, fear,…
3.15 Retelling BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
This week, Steve welcomes ScreenFish newbie Derek Wong to delve into the tale as old as time when they chat about Disney’s remake of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Can the 2017 version live up to the legacy of the original? What does it mean to be timeless?Has true beauty changed? All this and more, only…
Collateral Beauty: Good Out of Suffering
Howard Inlet (Will Smith) finds himself lost in his own grief after his daughter dies. Two years later, his friends (Ed Norton, Michael Pena, and Kate Winslet) set out to discredit him so that they can save the advertising company, having him declared out of his mind. They hire a private investigator, who discovers Inlet…
Beauty and the Beast: A Mixed Transformation
Lots of people will flock to see a good film that doesn?t quite reach the bar set by its predecessor.
Beauty and the Beast – Now the Live Action Version
The film?s key message is found in the love story between Belle and the Beast. It teaches that love is found when we are open to one another as Belle and the Beast eventually open themselves to know and be known. But there is also the whole theme of how do we welcome those who are different from us. Failure to do so is what led to the Prince being transformed into the Beast in the first place.
Beauty and the Beast’s New (Or Not So New?) LeFou
The big news to hit the internet in the past couple weeks?was news about Disney crossing boundaries into uncharted territory. But will the actuality meet the hype? Sometime during post-production, Emma Watson (Belle), Dan Stevens (Beast), and director Bill Condon were interviewed by Attitude, the British magazine directed toward a gay audience. Just before the…