From the Fairy Tale to Movies: A Textual Analysis for 《Beauty and the Beast》

• Main Authors: CHIU, FANG-CHI, 邱芳祺
• Other Authors: LIU, CHUN-HAO
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pw94s8

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 語文教育學系碩博士班 === 107 === In recent years, the Walt Disney Company has been releasing live-action movies non-stop remade from their own animated films. Other film companies have also released live-action movies from fairy tales. Thus, the adaptation of fairy tales has become a trend. This study uses three contemporary "Beauty and the Beast" movies and the original "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tale in the18th century as the research text, to discuss in depth the evolving of fairy tales to movies, and the adaptation of the films to fairy tales. This study analyzes the four texts from the characters and the plots. Chapter III discusses the characters and plots of the fairy tale. Chapter VI provides characteristic analysis of the three films based on the archetypes proposed by Christopher Vogler and compares it with that in the fairy tale. Chapter V gives readers insight into the three films in regards to the plots, based on the ideas of the Hero’s Journey from Christopher Vogler, and makes a comparison to those in the fairy tale . Chapter VI combines the previously mentioned analyses and proposes the common theme of the four texts. The outcome of the analyses discovers that the characters in each movie correspond to the archetypes by Vogler. The plots among the four texts are similar to the Hero’s Journey of Vogler. We can observe a sense of improvement in terms of the roles of the heroines in these stories. The moral lessons are rendered by the story; nevertheless new concepts are to be seen with it through time.