I’ve only ever seen Disney’s 1991 version of Beauty and the Beast once – my friends gifted me VCD copies (ah, remember VCDs?) of their animated movies for my eighteenth (or nineteenth?) birthday because they were pitied me for not having watched any of the Disney cartoons when I was growing up. I did, however, read the storybook and I did have the chance to watch the 1946 French original (La Belle et la Bete) so I am somewhat familiar with the story. Given how much hype they’ve put into the 2017 adaptation, it seemed almost silly to try and…
