On Sunday night, after reminiscing about old Disney feature-length cartoons we used to watch over and over as kids, Diane and I watched Beauty and the Beast<\/i> while putting together wedding favors (a major percentage of this wedding is DIY). I have to say the film has aged remarkably well. Some of the animation wasn’t quite as sparklingly good as I remembered it, but I think we’re spoiled by new technology and computer animation. There is a warmth and authenticity to the film’s palette that is very endearing. She and I both agreed that a lot of the drama seemed much more compressed than we remembered as kids; that is, emotional moments seemed more drawn out, with more dramatic impact, when we were younger. Maybe our attention spans have grown? The film’s 90-odd minutes seemed much, much longer when I was 10. <\/p>\n
That said, the romance in the film has actually grown more affecting now that I have more personal experience with that range of emotions. When I was younger those feelings were on the horizon, tentatively experienced but still very far off. I didn’t shy away from those scenes–far from it–but I didn’t understand them to the degree I do now. The humorousness of the slapstick in the film, on the other hand, has lessened sharply :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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