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''Beauty and the Beast'' () is a 2014 Franco-German romantic fantasy film based on the traditional fairy tale of the same name by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Written by Christophe Gans and Sandra Vo-Anh and directed by Gans, the film stars Léa Seydoux as Belle and Vincent Cassel as the Beast.〔(Vincent Cassel et Léa Seydoux : Une relecture grandiose de La Belle et la Bête )〕 The film was screened out of competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival and was released in France on 12 February 2014 to positive reviews, becoming a box office success. International reviews were more mixed. It was nominated for the People's Choice Award for Best European Film at the 27th European Film Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EFA Opens Vote for People's Choice Award )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=European Film Academy opens vote for People's Choice Award 2014 )〕 It also received three nominations at the 40th César Awards, winning Best Production Design for Thierry Flamand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Kristen Stewart Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cesar Awards: 'Timbktu' Sweeps, Kristen Stewart Makes History )〕 ==Plot== In France, 1810, a widowed merchant (André Dussollier) is forced to sell his town house and many of his belongings after his ships are lost at sea, leaving him bankrupt. He moves to a simple house in the countryside with his six children, though the only one happy with the change is his youngest daughter, Belle (Léa Seydoux). One day news arrives that one of the merchant's ships is intact, so he and his eldest son return to town in the hopes of collecting the goods that will restore their wealth. However, the goods are seized by the local authorities, and the merchant is forced to flee into the forest when Perducas (Eduardo Noriega) threatens to harm him over his son's debts. While lost in the forest, the merchant stumbles upon the magical domain of the Beast (Vincent Cassel). The merchant takes treasure from the castle, but is captured by the Beast for stealing a single red rose for Belle. The Beast allows the merchant to go and say goodbye to his children, but says he must return to take his punishment, or his entire family will be killed. Feeling responsible, Belle steals her father's horse and returns to the castle to take her father's fate. At the castle, Belle is given luxurious goods and allowed to roam the grounds, but must return every evening at 7 for dinner with the Beast. At dinner, the Beast asks Belle if she will love him, but she rejects his advances. At night, Belle has vivid dreams about the castle as it used to be, and of the Prince who used to live in it. The Prince was in love with a Princess (Yvonne Catterfeld), who agreed to bear him a son if he promised to stop hunting an elusive golden deer in the woods, saying that his obsession keeps him away from her. Belle asks the Beast if he will allow her to see her family one more time by making a deal with the beast. She proposes to have a dance with him, recalling one of her dreams she had earlier. He agrees and while dancing, Beast once again asks for her love. She cruelly and cold heartedly rejects his advances. The same night, she accidentally sees the Beast carrying his prey into his room. The Beast throw the prey in front of a portrait. Before feasting, he pulls off the cloth covering the portrait, revealing the Prince and the Princess in the portrait. Belle watches the Beast hungrily feast on his meal and is shocked. She attempts to escape by running into the enchanting forest. Beast catches up with her and chases her to a frozen lake. The Beast pulls her dress and she falls to the ground. The Beast climbs on top of her and sounds of the frozen lake cracking can be heard due to both of their weights. The Beast tries to kiss Belle but, the frozen lake cracks and she slumps into the lake. Beast catches her and brings her to the surface and back to the castle. When Belle wakes up, the Beast agrees to let her return home for one day but, warns her that if she doesn't return the next day as promised, he will die. Belle returns home, where she finds that her father is bedridden and her siblings are hiding from Perducas and his minions. Belle's eldest brother sees her clothing and assumes there is more treasure to be found. He goes to Perducas and his men, bargaining the treasure in the castle for his family's safety. The group travels to the castle where they raid its treasure, which includes a golden arrow held by a statue. Belle has a final dream about how the Prince broke his promise and killed the golden deer in the woods with a golden arrow. While dying, the golden deer transformed into the Princess, who revealed that she has been a forest nymph all along, allowed to take human form in order to find the thing that humans call love, and her father is the god of the forest. As punishment, the god of the forest transformed the Prince into the Beast, the dogs into small odd creatures, and his friends into statues, saying that the spell can only be broken if someone loves him as he is. Belle awakens and learns that her brothers and Perducas have gone to the Beast's castle. She races after them, arriving just as the Beast is killing the intruders. The Beast stops his attack when Belle begs for mercy, and Perducas uses the golden arrow to stab the Beast, mortally wounding him. Belle has her brothers, now regretful, carry the Beast into the castle to a well of magical healing water. Dying, the Beast asks whether Belle could ever love him, and she replies that she already does. The Beast sinks into the water, and when he rises up he has transformed back into the Prince. The film ends with the story being told by Belle to her two young children. They are living in the same countryside house with Belle's father, and Belle goes outside to greet her husband, the Prince, who has just returned. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beauty and the Beast (2014 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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