Building Beauty’s Beast

Robert Greenberger

Robert Greenberger is best known to comics fans as the editor of Who's Who In The DC Universe, Suicide Squad, and Doom Patrol. He's written and edited several Star Trek novels and is the author of The Essential Batman Encyclopedia. He's known for his work as an editor for Comics Scene, Starlog, and Weekly World News, as well as holding executive positions at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

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  1. mike weber says:

    Boy, Disney is really going all-out with the PR campaign for the re-release.

    Personally, i was really irritated with the traditional-Disney approach of taking the title and one or two minor points from the original story and throwing out what makes it a great story in the first place.

    The way that Disney turns the story inside out would be as if Welles began the movie by explaining fully what “Rosebud” is … or Hitchcock revealed the secret of Norman’s mother first; the whole point of the original tale as old as time is that the person reading or hearing it knows no more of the Beast than does Beauty.

    Cocteau’s 1947 film is so much better than the Disney in its presentation of the story (and in its true evocation of the “sense of wonder”) that there is really no comparison. (In my op[inion, i hasten to add.)

  2. mike weber says:

    Boy, Disney is really going all-out with the PR campaign for the re-release.Personally, i was really irritated with the traditional-Disney approach of taking the title and one or two minor points from the original story and throwing out what makes it a great story in the first place.The way that Disney turns the story inside out would be as if Welles began the movie by explaining fully what "Rosebud" is … or Hitchcock revealed the secret of Norman's mother first; the whole point of the original tale as old as time is that the person reading or hearing it knows no more of the Beast than does Beauty. Cocteau's 1947 film is so much better than the Disney in its presentation of the story (and in its true evocation of the "sense of wonder") that there is really no comparison. (In my op[inion, i hasten to add.)