History Trivia / BeautyAndTheBeast

** Speaking of "Human Again" Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson ad-libbed their little "Twoe?--Two" exchange.

*** Gaston [[HiroshiFujioka is]] ''[[KamenRider the friggin' original Kamen Rider]]'' and [[Advertising/SegataSanshiro SEGATA SANSHIRO!]]

** Also, in the final fight, Gaston falling off the castle was [[DrivenToSuicide intended to be deliberate]], with Gaston actually letting go after stabbing the Beast (there were originally supposed to be two stab wounds that he inflicted), and while falling he was also going to [[LaughingMad laugh like the Joker]] in TheDarkKnight under similar circumstances. For some reason, this was vetoed. Also, Gaston's line before nearly being hung over the edge was "It's over, Beast! Time to die!", but they changed it to "Belle is mine!" in order to fit Belle back into the scene and also to omit violence. There was apparently also supposed to be a scene where Gaston and D'Arque go into the actual asylum area.

** Lumiere is [[Series/LawAndOrder Lennie Briscoe]].

** Many scenes were storyboarded but never animated. Those include Maurice actually visiting the fair (with a song called "The Invention Convention") before getting lost on the way home, a scene where Gaston visits the Asylum and a scene where the Beast is seen dragging a carcass of an animal he killed. Both where considered too gruesome for the film and the ideas were dropped.

** RichardWilliams was approached to direct the film after the success of ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. However, he turned it down to work on the [[DevelopmentHell long-into-production]] ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''.

*** Actualy, Richard White (the voice of Gaston) was in the 1991 "Phantom" musical that came after Andrew Lloyd Weber's version. This I found on [[TheOtherWiki The Other Wiki]].

** In European French, the Beast is [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Super]][[JusticeLeague man]], while Lumiere is DukeNukem.

* DuelingMovies: ''AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'' and ''RockADoodle'' were in theaters at the same time, with ''Fievel'' even opening on the ''same weekend'' as ''Beauty''. Needless to say it wasn't much of a fight - all other movies were pretty much Curb-Stomped as audiences flocked to the one with a story that broke through the AnimationAgeGhetto, with watershed animation and with Broadway-caliber songs, as well as the still-evolving idea that such an important female character could be anything other than a DistressedDamsel.

* The Beast [[FacePalm Face Palming]] at several points in the movie come from Robbie Benson doing it in recording sessions when he was getting tired and hoarse.

** Scheduling conflicts with ''StarTrek: The Next Generation'' forced Patrick Stewart to turn down the role of Cogsworth.

*** Actualy, RIchard White (the voice of Gaston) was in the 1991 "Phantom" musical that came after Andrew Lloyd Weber's version. This I found on [[TheOtherWiki The Other Wiki]].

*** Gaston [[HiroshiFujioka is]] ''[[KamenRider the friggin' original Kamen Rider]]'' and [[SegaSaturn SEGATA SANSHIRO!]]

** RichardWilliams was approached to direct the film after the success of ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. However, he turned it down to work on the [[DevelopmentHell long-into-production]] ''TheThiefAndTheCobbler''.

* Linda Woolverton drew her inspiration for the screenplay, not from Jean Cocteau's La belle et la bête, but from Little Women, admitting that there's a lot of Katharine Hepburn in the characterization of Belle.

* Many scenes were storyboarded but never animated. Those include a scene where Gaston visits the Asylum and a scene where the Beast is seen dragging a carcass of an animal he killed. Both where considered too gruesome for the film and the ideas were dropped.
* Disney was originally going to have Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid also provide the voice for Belle. However, it was decided that Belle needed a more "European" sounding voice. Howard Ashman remembered working with Paige O'Hara and suggested she try out for the part.

* PlayingAgainstType: Somewhat in reverse for Ron Perlman. In this show he conclusively showed that he could do subtle drama very well, but subsequently got invariably {{Typecast}} as a grim yet wisecracking {{Badass}}, virtually without exception. Even his {{Hellboy}} character spends more time making deadpan quips and kicking the butts of his enemies than romancing his partner Liz.

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** Cogsworth is [[{{MASH}} Major Winchester]]

** Disney was originally going to have Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in ''TheLittleMermaid'' also provide the voice for Belle. However, it was decided that Belle needed a more "European" sounding voice. Howard Ashman remembered working with Paige O'Hara and suggested she try out for the part.

* The first stained glass window seen in the prologue has the Latin phrase 'vincit qui se vincit', which means, in a subtle prefiguring of the arc of the whole story, 'He conquers, who conquers himself'.