{"id":9129,"date":"2014-06-05T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9129"},"modified":"2014-06-04T23:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T03:49:24","slug":"beauty-and-the-beast-1946-jean-cocteau-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9129","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to know what to say about a movie I&#8217;ve seen a bunch of times and read a whole book about. Looked gorgeous in the theater. To the IMDB!<\/p>\n<p>Belle&#8217;s dad was in <em>Tumultes<\/em>, which I just found a copy of.<\/p>\n<p>Cinematographer Henri Alekan later shot at least two Ruiz movies and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/589\">La Belle Captive<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Josette Day retired soon after this, but not before costarring with Marais again in Cocteau&#8217;s <em>Les Parents Terribles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the sisters I&#8217;ve seen in both <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8967\">Les Anges du peche<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/617\">Rules of the Game<\/a><\/em> and didn&#8217;t recognize.  The other was in <em>Les Biches<\/em> and the finale of <em>City of Lost Children<\/em> (Miette, age 82).  Belle&#8217;s brother Ludovic starred in a Clouzot movie a couple years later.<\/p>\n<p>The movie puts much faith in its makeup effects, lot of Beast close-ups.<\/p>\n<p>JC during production: &#8220;I wonder whether these days of hard work aren&#8217;t the most delicious of my life.  Full of friendship, affectionate disagreement, laughter, profiting from every moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to know what to say about a movie I&#8217;ve seen a bunch of times and read a whole book about. Looked gorgeous in the theater. To the IMDB! Belle&#8217;s dad was in Tumultes, which I just found a copy of. Cinematographer Henri Alekan later shot at least two Ruiz movies and La Belle Captive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,1787,323],"class_list":["post-9129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-fairy-tale","tag-jean-cocteau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9152,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions\/9152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}