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    Beauty and the Beast
    The Complete Script

    NARRATOR:     Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a
                 shining castle.  Although he had everything his heart desired,
                 the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind.  But then, one
                 winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and
                 offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter
                 cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at
                 the gift and turned the old woman away, but she warned him not
                 to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.  
                 And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness
                 melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress.  The prince
                 tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that
                 there was no love in his heart, and as punishment, she
                 transformed him into a hideous beast, and placed a
                 powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there.
                 Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself
                 inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to
                 the outside world.  The rose she had offered was truly an
                 enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first
                 year.  If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in
                 return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would
                 be broken.  If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for
                 all time.  As the years passed, he fell into despair, and lost
                 all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?

    (We have seen a progression of stained glass windows illustrating the narration,
    as well as BEAST shredding his portrait.  The camera slowly zooms out from the
    castle and we see the title.  Fade up on the home of BELLE.  She exits the front
    door and begins her walk into town.)

    BELLE:        Little town, it's a quiet village
                 Every day, like the one before
                 Little town, full of little people
                 Waking up to say...

    TOWNSFOLK 1:  Bonjour!
    TOWNSFOLK 2:  Bonjour!
    TOWNSFOLK 3:  Bonjour!
    TOWNSFOLK 4:  Bonjour!
    TOWNSFOLK 5:  Bonjour!
    BELLE:        There goes the baker with his tray like always
                 The same old bread and rolls to sell
                 Every morning just the same
                 Since the morning that we came
                 To this poor provincial town...
    BAKER:        Good morning, Belle!
    (BELLE jumps over to the bakery)
    BELLE:        Morning monsieur!
    BAKER:        Where are you off to?
    BELLE:        The bookshop! I just finished the most wonderful story, about
                 a beanstalk and an ogre and...
    BAKER:        (Ignoring her) That's nice...Marie, the baguettes! Hurry up!!
    TOWNSFOLK:    Look there she goes, that girl is strange no question
                 Dazed and distracted, can't you tell?
    WOMAN 1:      Never part of any crowd
    BARBER:       Cause her head's up on some cloud
    TOWNSFOLK:    No denying she's a funny girl, that Belle!
    (BELLE jumps on the back of a wagon and rides through town)
    DRIVER:       Bonjour!
    WOMAN 2:      Good day!
    DRIVER:       How is your family?

    WOMAN 3:      Bonjour!
    MERCHANT:     Good day!
    WOMAN 3:      How is your wife?

    WOMAN 4:      I need six eggs!
    MAN 1:        That's too expensive!
    BELLE:        There must be more than this provincial life!
    (BELLE enters the bookshop)
    BOOKSELLER:   Ah, Belle!
    BELLE:        Good morning.  I've come to return the book I borrowed.
    BOOKSELLER:   (Putting the book back on the shelf) Finished already?
    BELLE:        Oh, I couldn't put it down!  Have you got anything new?
    BOOKSELLER:   (laughing) Not since yesterday.
    BELLE:        (on ladder of bookshelf) That's all right.  I'll borrow...
                 this one.
    BOOKSELLER:   That one?  But you've read it twice!
    BELLE:        Well it's my favorite!  (BELLE swings off side of ladder,
                 rolling down it's track) Far off places, daring
                 swordfights, magic spells,  a prince in disguise!
    BOOKSELLER:   (handing her the book)  Well, if you like it all that much,
                 it's yours!
    BELLE:        But sir!
    BOOKSELLER:   I insist!
    BELLE:        Well thank you.  Thank you very much! (leaves bookshop)
    MEN:          (looking in window, then turning to watch her)
                 Look there she goes
                 That girl is so peculiar!
                 I wonder if she's feeling well!
    WOMEN:        With a dreamy far-off look!
    MEN:          And her nose stuck in a book!
    ALL           What a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle!
    (BELLE sits on the edge of a fountain, singing to the sheep and the washing
    woman in the background, who leaves)
    BELLE:        Oh! Isn't this amazing!
                 It's my favorite part because, you'll see!
                 Here's where she meets Prince Charming
                 But she won't discover that it's him 'til chapter three!

    WOMAN 5:      Now it's no wonder that her name means 'beauty'
                 Her looks have got no parallel!
    MERCHANT:     But behind that fair facade
                 I'm afraid she's rather odd
                 Very different from the rest of us...
    ALL:          She's nothing like the rest of us
                 Yes different from the rest of us is Belle
    (GEESE flying overhead, one is shot and plummets to the ground.  LEFOU runs
    over, holds out the bag, and misses catching the prize.  He returns to GASTON)
    LEFOU:        Wow! You didn't miss a shot, Gaston!  You're the
                 greatest hunter in the whole world!
    GASTON:       I know!
    LEFOU:        Huh.  No beast alive stands a chance against
                 you...and no girl for that matter!
    GASTON:       It's true, Lefou, and I've got my sights set on that
                 one! (pointing to BELLE)
    LEFOU:        The inventor's daughter?
    GASTON:       She's the one!  The lucky girl I'm going to marry.
    LEFOU:        But she's--
    GASTON:       The most beautiful girl in town.
    LEFOU:        I know--
    GASTON:       And that makes her the best.  And don't I deserve the best?
    LEFOU:        Well of course, I mean you do, but I mean...
    GASTON:       Right from the moment when I met her, saw her
                 I said she's gorgeous and I fell
                 Here in town there's only she (BELLE walks by and away)
                 Who is beautiful as me
                 So I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle
    BIMBETTES:    Look there he goes, isn't he dreamy
                 Monsieur Gaston, oh he's so cute
                 Be still my heart, I'm hardly breathing
                 He's such a tall, dark, strong and handsome brute
    (BELLE walks easily through the crowd of people in the town, GASTON struggles to
    catch up to her)
    MAN 1:        Bonjour!
    GASTON:       Pardon!
    MAN 2:        Good day!
    MAN 3:        Mais oui!
    WOMAN 1:      You call this bacon?
    WOMAN 2:      What lovely grapes!
    MAN 4:        Some cheese!
    WOMAN 3:      Ten yards!
    MAN 4:        One pound
    GASTON:       'xcuse me!
    MAN 4:        I'll get the knife!
    GASTON:       Please let me through!
    WOMAN 4:      This bread!
    MAN 5:        Those fish!
    WOMAN 4:      It's stale!
    MAN 5:        They smell!
    MAN 6:        Madame's mistaken!
    BELLE:        There must be more than this provincial life!
    GASTON:       Just watch I'm going to make Belle my wife! (TOWNSFOLK gather
                 around GASTON, and eventually surround him)
    ALL:          Look there she goes a girl who's strange but special
                 A most peculiar mademoiselle
                 It's a pity and a sin
                 She doesn't quite fit in!
    GROUP 1:      But she really is a funny girl
    GROUP 2:      A beauty but a funny girl
    ALL:          She really is a funny girl! That Belle!

    GASTON:       Hello, Belle.
    BELLE:        Bonjour Gaston.  (GASTON grabs the book from BELLE) Gaston,
                 may I have my book, please?
    GASTON:       How can you read this? There's no pictures!
    BELLE:        Well, some people use their imaginations.
    GASTON:       Belle, it's about time you got your head out of those books
                 (tossing book into the mud)  and paid attention to more
                 important things...like me! The whole town's talking about
                 it.  (The BIMBETTES, who are looking on, sigh.  BELLE has
                 picked up the book and is cleaning off the mud)   It's not
                 right for a woman to read--soon she starts getting ideas...
                 and thinking.
    BELLE:        Gaston, you are positively primeval.
    GASTON:       (Putting his hand around her shoulders) Why thank you,
                 Belle.  Hey, whaddya say you and me take a walk over to
                 the tavern and have a look at my hunting trophies.
    BELLE:        Maybe some other time.
    BIMBETTE 1:   What's wrong with her?
    BIMBETTE 2:   She's crazy!
    BIMBETTE 3:   He's gorgeous!
    BELLE:        Please, Gaston. I can't.  I have to get home and help my
                 father.
    LEFOU:        Ha ha ha, that crazy old loon, he need all the help he can get!
    (GASTON and LEFOU laugh heartily)
    BELLE:        Don't you talk about my father that way!
    GASTON:       Yeah, don't talk about her father that way! (He conks LEFOU on
                 the head.)
    BELLE:        My father's not crazy!  He's a genius!  (Explosion in background.
                 GASTON and LEFOU continue laughing.  BELLE rushes home and
                 descends into the basement.)
    BELLE:        Papa?
    MAURICE:      How on earth did that happen? Dog gonnit! (He pulls the barrel
                 off his waist, along with his pants.)
    BELLE:        Are you all right, Papa?
    MAURICE:      I'm about ready to give up on this hunk of junk! (kicking
                 machine)
    BELLE:        You always say that.
    MAURICE:      I mean it, this time.  I'll never get this boneheaded contraption
                 to work.
    BELLE:        Yes, you will.  And you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow
    MAURICE:      Hmmmph!
    BELLE:        ...and become a world famous inventor!
    MAURICE:      You really believe that?
    BELLE:        I always have.
    MAURICE:      Well, what are we waiting for.  I'll have this thing fixed in no
                 time.  (sliding under machine) Hand me that dog-legged clencher
                 there...  So, did you have a good time in town today?
    BELLE:        I got a new book.  Papa, do you think I'm odd?
    MAURICE:      My daughter?  Odd?  (Appears from under machine with bizarre
                 goggle contraption on his head distorting his eyes) Where would
                 you get an idea like that?
    BELLE:        Oh, I don't know.  It's just I'm not sure I fit in here.
                 There's no one I can really talk to.
    MAURICE:      What about that Gaston?  He's a handsome fellow!
    BELLE:        He's handsome all right, and rude and conceited and...Oh Papa,
                 he's not for me!
    MAURICE:      Well, don't you worry, cause this invention's going to be the
                 start of a new life for us.  (Comes out from under machine) I
                 think that's done it.  Now, let's give it a try.  (MACHINE
                 whirs and chops wood, just as it should)
    BELLE:        It works!
    MAURICE:      It does? It does!
    BELLE:        You did it!  You really did it!
    MAURICE:      Hitch up Phillipe, girl.  I'm off to the fair! (Log strikes
                 him in the head, knocking him out.  Fade to later in the day)

    BELLE:        Good bye, Papa! Good luck!
    MAURICE:      Good bye, Belle, and take care while I'm gone!
    (MAURICE and PHILLIPE continue on their journey until they become lost)
    MAURICE:      We should be there by now.  Maybe we missed a turn. I guess I
                 should have taken a...wait a minute.  (Lifts lantern to
                 illuminate sign giving directions to Anaheim and Valencia)
                 Let's go this way!
    (PHILLIPE looks right, at a dark, overgrown path, then left towards a more
    inviting route, then begins to go left)
    MAURICE:      Come on, Phillipe!  It's a shortcut.  We'll be there in no time!
    (PHILLIPE and MAURICE continue through the dark.)
    MAURICE:      This can't be right.  Where have you taken us, Phillipe?  We'd
                 better turn around...and...whoa...whoa boy, whoa Phillipe. Oh,
                 oh! Look out!
    (A swarm of bats fly out of a tree.  PHILLIPE runs through the forest avoiding
    everything until he almost runs over the edge of a cliff)
    MAURICE:      Back up! Back up! Back up! Good boy, good boy. That's good,
                 that's--back up!  Steady. Steady!  Hey now. Steady. (PHILLIPE
                 finally bucks him off.) Phillipe!  (PHILLIPE runs away, leaving
                 MAURICE on the edge of the cliff.) Phillipe?  Oh no! (He looks
                 up and sees WOLVES growling at him.  MAURICE runs away, being
                 chased by the WOLVES.  He stumbles down a hill, and lands at the
                 gate of a castle. He grabs the locked gate and tries to shake it
                 open.)
    MAURICE:      Help!  Is someone there?
    (The gate opens, and MAURICE runs in. He slams the gate in the faces of the
    WOLVES.  Leaving his hat on the ground as the rain begins to fall, MAURICE runs
    to the castle and bangs on the door.  It creaks open and he enters, cautiously.)
    MAURICE:      Hello? Hello?
    (Watching from a table near the entrance are LUMIERE and COGSWORTH)
    LUMIERE:      (Barely whispering) Old fellow must have lost his way in the
    woods.
    COGSWORTH:    (Also whispering) Keep quiet!  Maybe he'll go away.
    MAURICE:      Is someone there?
    COGSWORTH:    Not a word, Lumiere. Not one word!
    MAURICE:      I don't mean to intrude, but I've lost my horse and I need a place
                 to stay for the night.
    LUMIERE:      (looking at COGSWORTH like a child having just found a lost puppy)
                 Oh Cogsworth, have a heart.
    COGSWORTH:    Shush shush shhhhh!  (COGSWORTH puts hand over LUMIERE'S mouth,
                 who promptly proceeds to touch his lit candle hand to COGSWORTH's
                 hand.)
                 Ow ow Ow OW OW OUCH!!!!!
    LUMIERE:      Of course, monsieur, you are welcome here.
    MAURICE:      (looking around in confusion)  Who said that?  (He picks up the
                 candlestick for light, not realizing that the speaker is in his
                 hand)
    LUMIERE:      (Tapping him on the shoulder)  Over here!
    MAURICE:      (Spins around, pulling LUMIERE to the other side) Where?
    LUMIERE:      (Taps MAURICE on the side of the head.  MAURICE looks at LUMIERE.)
                 Allo!
    MAURICE:      Oh!!!! (Startled, he drops LUMIERE onto the floor.)  Incredible!
    COGSWORTH:    (hopping over)  Well, now you've done it, Lumiere. Splendid,
                 just peachy--aaarrrgghh!  (MAURICE picks up COGSWORTH)
    MAURICE:      How is this accomplished? (He fiddles with COGSWORTH)
    COGSWORTH:    Put me down! At once!  (MAURICE tickles the bottoms of
                 COGSWORTH's feet. He laughs.  He begins to wind the spring on
                 the back of COGSWORTH's head, twisting his face around with the
                 clock hands. MAURICE opens the front of COGSWORTH and begins
                 to play with his pendulum. COGSWORTH slams the door shut on
                 his finger.) Sir, close that at once, do you mind!
    MAURICE:      I beg your pardon, it's just that I've never seen a clock
                 that...aah...i mean...aah aah aah-chooo!!!! (MAURICE sneezes in
                 the face of COGSWORTH, who proceeds to wipe his face off using
                 his clock hands in a very anachronistic windshield wiper manner.
                 MAURICE sniffles, indicating the cold he has caught from being
                 in the rain.)
    LUMIERE:      Oh, you are soaked to the bone, monsieur.  Come, warm yourself by
                 the fire.
    MAURICE:      Thank you.
    (LUMIERE and MAURICE head towards the den, with COGSWORTH running after them.)
    COGSWORTH:    No, no, no, do you know what the master would do if he finds you
                 here. (BEAST is watching the action from an overhead walkway,
                 and rushes off as the trio enters the den.)  I demand that you
                 stop...right...there! (COGSWORTH tumbles down the steps. MAURICE
                 takes a seat in a large chair in front of a roaring fire.)  Oh
                 no, not the master's chair! (FOOTSTOOL rushes past COGSWORTH,
                 barking up a storm.) I'm not seeing this, I'm not seeing this!
    MAURICE:      (As FOOTSTOOL rushes up to him) Well, hello there, boy. (FOOTSTOOL
                 props himself up under the feet of MAURICE.  COATRACK enters and
                 removes his cloak.) What service!
    COGSWORTH:    All right, this has gone far enough.  I'm in charge here, and
                 (COGSWORTH  is run over by the (once again) anachronistic
                 IndyCar sounding teacart of MRS. POTTS)
    MRS. POTTS:   (Arriving by the side of MAURICE) How would you like a nice
                 spot of tea, sir?  It'll warm you up in no time. (Pours tea into
                 cup (CHIP), which hops over into MAURICE's open hand)
    COGSWORTH:    (from face down position on carpet) No! No tea, no tea!!!
    CHIP:         (As MAURICE sips the tea)  Ha ha!  His moustache tickles, momma!
    MAURICE:      (Startled by the cup) Oh!  Hello!
    (The door to the den slams open and a strong gust of wind blows into the room,
    extinguishing LUMIERE's flames and the fire in the fireplace.  COGSWORTH dives
    for cover.  MRS. POTTS begins to shake.  CHIP jumps back onto the tea cart and
    takes refuge from behind his mother)
    CHIP:         Uh oh!
    (BEAST enters.  We see him in full for the first time.  He is on all fours.  He
    looks around in the darkness.)
    BEAST:        (Growling his words)  There's a stranger here.
    LUMIERE:      (who has relit his flames) Master, allow me to explain.  The
                 gentleman was lost in the woods and he was cold and wet...
                 (LUMIERE's last sentence is drowned out by the very loud growl
                 of BEAST, which puts out his flames once again.  LUMIERE looks
                 down, dejected.)
    COGSWORTH:    (Coming out from under a rug) Master, I'd like to take this
                 moment to say...I was against this from the start.  I tried to
                 stop them, but would they listen to me?  No, no, no! (Again,
                 BEAST's growl drowns out COGSWORTH.)
    (MAURICE looks to one side of the chair, then to the other and sees BEAST.)
    BEAST:        Who are you!  What are you doing here?
    MAURICE:      (Very scared and backing away from the advancing BEAST) I was lost
                 in the woods and...(stares at BEAST)
    BEAST:        (Advancing on him) You are not welcome here!
    MAURICE:      I'm sorry
    BEAST:        What are you staring at?
    MAURICE:      (Cowering under BEAST) Noth-noth-nothing! (Turns to leave)
    BEAST:        (Racing around and blocking the entrance with surprising speed)
                 So, you've come to stare at the beast, have you?
    MAURICE:      Please, I meant no harm! I just needed a place to stay .
    BEAST:        I'll give you a place to stay!  (BEAST picks up MAURICE, carries
                 him out of the room and slams the door, plunging the den, along
                 with COGSWORTH, LUMIERE,MRS. POTTS, and CHIP into  darkness.
                 Fade out.)

    (Fade in to BELLE's cottage, seen from POV of GASTON and LEFOU.)
    LEFOU:        Heh! Oh boy! Belle's gonna get the surprise of her life,  huh
                 Gaston.
    GASTON:       Yep.  This is her lucky day!
    (GASTON lets go of a branch, which swings back and hits LEFOU in the mouth.
    GASTON turns to the band, wedding guests and others, apparently just out of
    sight of BELLE's cottage.)
    GASTON:       I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding.  But first, I
                 better go in there and... propose to the girl!  (MINISTER, BAKER,
                 and OTHERS laugh heartily.  Camera pans quickly to show BIMBETTES
                 crying their eyes out.  To LEFOU) Now, you Lefou.  When Belle and
                 I come out that door--
    LEFOU:        Oh I know, I know! (He turns and begins directing the band in
                 "Here Comes the Bride." GASTON slams a baritone over his head.)
    GASTON:       Not yet!
    LEFOU:        (From inside the instrument, with his lips sticking out the
                 mouthpiece) Sorry!
    (Cut to interior of cottage.  BELLE is sitting in a chair reading her new book.
    There is a knock at the door.  She puts the book down and walks to the door.
    She reaches up and pulls down a viewing device.  She peeks through and sees an
    anachronistically accurate fish-eye view of GASTON.  She moans, and pushes the
    door open.)
    BELLE:        Gaston, what a pleasant...surprise.
    GASTON:       Isn't it though? I'm just full of surprises.  You know, Belle.
                 There's not a girl in town who wouldn't love to be in your shoes.
                 This is the day...(GASTON pauses by a mirror and licks his teeth
                 clean.) This is the day your dreams come true.
    BELLE:        What do you know about my dreams, Gaston?
    GASTON:       Plenty.  Here, picture this.  (GASTON plops down in the chair and
                 props his mud-covered feet up on BELLE's book. He begins to kick
                 off his boots and wiggle his toes through his hole-y socks.)  A
                 rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill roasting on the fire, and my
                 little wife, massaging my feet, while the little ones play with
                 the dogs.  (BELLE looks positively disgusted.  GASTON gets up
                 next to her face.)  We'll have six or seven.
    BELLE:        Dogs?
    GASTON:       No, Belle!  Strapping boys, like me!
    BELLE:        Imagine that. (She picks up her book, places a mark in it, and
                 puts it on the shelf.)
    GASTON:       And do you know who that wife will be?
    BELLE:        Let me think.
    GASTON:       (Corners BELLE ) You, Belle!
    BELLE:        (Ducking under GASTON'S arms) Gaston, I'm speechless.  I really
                 don't know what to say.
    GASTON:       (Pushing chairs and things out of the way until he reaches BELLE
                 and traps her against the door) Say you'll marry me.
    BELLE:        (Reaching for the doorknob) I'm very sorry, Gaston, but I just
                 don't deserve you. (She twists the knob and the door opens (this
                 time outward).  BELLE ducks under GASTON as he tumbles out the
                 door and into the mud.)
    (The wedding band begins to play "Here Comes the Bride."  GASTON's boots are
    thrown out of the door (now opened inward) and the door is slammed shut.  LEFOU,
    who is directing the band, looks down and sees GASTON's legs sticking out of the
    mud, and a PIERRE's head sticking up.  LEFOU cuts off the band, and GASTON's
    head pops up, with the pig on top of him.  He tilts his head, and the pig slides
    down his back.)
    LEFOU:        So, how'd it go?
    GASTON:       (Picks up LEFOU by the neck) I'll have Belle for my wife, make no
                 mistake about that! (GASTON drops LEFOU into the mud.)
    LEFOU:        (To PIERRE) Touchy!
    PIERRE:       Grunt Grunt.
    (GASTON walks off, dejected, and the focus returns to the cottage. BELLE pokes
    her head out the door.)
    BELLE:        (To the chickens) Is he gone? Can you imagine, he asked me to
                 marry him.  Me, the wife of that
                 boorish, brainless...
                 Madame Gaston, can't you just see it
                 Madame Gaston, his little wife
                 Not me, no sir, I guarantee it
                 I want much more than this provincial life...
    (BELLE walks into the pen and feeds the animals, then runs off singing into an
    open field overlooking a beautiful valley)
                 I want adventure in the great wide somewhere
                 I want it more than I can tell
                 And for once it might be grand
                 To have someone understand
                 I want so much more than they've got planned
    (PHILLIPE runs into the open field. BELLE looks at him, disturbed that MAURICE
    is not with him.)

    BELLE:        Phillipe!  What are you doing here?   Where's Papa? Where is he,
                 Phillipe?  What happened? Oh, we have to find him, you have to
                 take me to him!
    (BELLE unhitches the wagon from PHILLIPE.  Cut to exterior of the castle gate.
    (How PHILLIPE brought BELLE there is a mystery, seeing as PHILLIPE never made it
    to the castle with MAURICE.))
    BELLE:        What is this place?
    (PHILLIPE snorts, then begins to buck as if something is scaring him.  BELLE
    dismounts and comforts him.)
    BELLE:        Phillipe, please, steady.  (She enters the gate and sees MAURICE's
                 hat on the ground.) Papa.
    (Cut to interior of castle with COGSWORTH and LUMIERE discussing events.)
    COGSWORTH:    Couldn't keep quiet, could we.  Just had to invite him to stay,
                 didn't we?  Serve him tea, sit in the master's chair, pet the
                 pooch.
    LUMIERE:      I was trying to be hospitable.
    (Cut back to door opening and BELLE entering castle.)
    BELLE:        Hello?  Is anyone here?  Hello? Papa?  Papa, are you here?
    (We follow as BELLE ascends the grand staircase and searches for her father. Cut
    to kitchen where MRS. POTTS is standing next to a tub of hot water. CHIP hops
    in.)
    CHIP:         Momma.  There's a girl in the castle!
    MRS. POTTS:   Now, Chip, I won't have you making up such wild stories.
    CHIP:         But really, momma, I saw her.
    MRS. POTTS:   (Disgusted) Not another word.  Into the tub. (She lifts CHIP
                 into the tub.  FEATHERDUSTER  enters)
    FEATHERDUSTER:
                 A girl!  I saw a girl in the castle!
    CHIP:         (poking his head out from the water) See, I told ya!
    (Cut back to LUMIERE and COGSWORTH bickering)
    COGSWORTH:    Irresponsible, devil-may-care, waxy eared, slack-jawed--
    BELLE:        Papa?
    (COGSWORTH and LUMIERE turn to look at the new arrival)
    LUMIERE:      Did you see that? (Running to the door and poking his head around
                 the corner with COGSWORTH)  It's a girl!
    COGSWORTH:    I know it's a girl.
    LUMIERE:      Don't you see?  She's the one. The girl we have been waiting for.
                 She has come to break the spell! (He chases after her.)
    COGSWORTH:    Wait a minute, wait a minute!
    (BELLE advances down a narrow hallway.  COGSWORTH and LUMIERE sneak up behind
    her and open the door that leads to the tower where MAURICE is being kept. The
    door creaks open and BELLE hears the sound)
    BELLE:        Papa?  Papa? (COGSWORTH hides behind the door and LUMIERE rushes
                 off.) Hello? Is someone here?  Wait!  I'm looking for my father!
                 (She begins up the stairs, but doesn't realize that LUMIERE is
                 watching her.)  That's funny, I'm sure there was someone...
                 I-I-Is there anyone here?
    (MAURICE's voice echoes from his cell)
    MAURICE:      Belle?
    BELLE:        (Rushes up to the cell to find him) Oh, Papa!
    MAURICE:      How did you find me?
    BELLE:        Oh, your hands are like ice.  We have to get you out of here.
    MAURICE:      Belle, I want you to leave this place.
    BELLE:        Who's done this to you?
    MAURICE:      No time to explain. You must go...now!
    BELLE:        I won't leave you!
    (Suddenly, BEAST grabs BELLE's shoulder and whips her around.  She drops the
    torch she was carrying into a puddle and the room is dark except for one beam of
    light from a skylight.)
    BEAST:        What are you doing here?
    MAURICE:      Run, Belle!
    BELLE:        Who's there? Who are you?
    BEAST:        The master of this castle.
    BELLE:        I've come for my father.  Please let him out!  Can't you see he's
                 sick?
    BEAST:        Then he shouldn't have trespassed here.
    BELLE:        But he could die.  Please, I'll do anything!
    BEAST:        There's nothing you can do.  He's my prisoner.
    BELLE:        Oh, there must be some way I can...wait!  Take me, instead!
    BEAST:        You! You would take his place?
    MAURICE:      Belle!  No!  You don't know what you're doing!
    BELLE:        If I did, would you let him go?
    BEAST:        Yes, but you must promise to stay here forever.
    (BELLE ponders the situation and realizes she can't see the captor)
    BELLE:        Come  into the light.
    (BEAST drags his legs, then his whole body into the beam of light.  BELLE looks,
    her eyes growing wider until she can stand no more and falls back to MAURICE.)
    MAURICE:      No, Belle.  I won't let you do this!
    (BELLE regains her composure, then steps into the beam of light, giving her a
    very virgin-ish look)
    BELLE:        You have my word.
    BEAST:        (quickly) Done!
    (BEAST moves over to unlock the cell, and BELLE collapses to the floor with her
    head in her hands.  We hear the door being unlocked, then MAURICE rushing over
    to BELLE.)
    MAURICE:      No, Belle.  Listen to me.  I'm old, I've lived my life--
                 (BEAST grabs him and drags him downstairs)
    BELLE:        Wait!
    MAURICE:      Belle!
    BELLE:        Wait!
    (Cut to ext. of castle.  BEAST drags MAURICE towards PALLENQUIN)
    MAURICE:      No, please spare my daughter!
    BEAST:        She's no longer your concern.  (BEAST throws MAURICE into the
                 PALLENQUIN.) Take him to the village.
    (The PALLENQUIN breaks the ivy holding it to the ground, then slinks off like a
    spider with MAURICE inside)
    MAURICE:      Please, let me out, please!
    (Cut to BELLE looking out cell window at the PALLENQUIN crossing the bridge over
    the moat.  She begins to cry. Cut to BEAST walking up the stairs.  LUMIERE is
    still at his post.)
    LUMIERE:      Master?
    BEAST:        (angrily) What!
    LUMIERE:      Since the girl is going to be with us for quite some time, I was
                 thinking that you might want to offer her a more comfortable
                 room. (BEAST growls angrily at him.) Then again, maybe not.
    (BEAST enters the cell where BELLE is still crying.)
    BELLE:        You didn't even let me say good bye. I'll never see him again. I
                 didn't get to say good-bye.
    BEAST:        (feeling bad) I'll show you to your room.
    BELLE:        (surprised) My room? (Indicating the cell) But I thought--
    BEAST:        You wanna, you wanna stay in the tower?
    BELLE:        No.
    BEAST:        Then follow me.

    (BEAST leads BELLE to her room.  As they proceed, BELLE begins to lag behind.
    She looks at the hideous sculptures on the walls and the light casting shadows
    on them.  Frightened, she gasps and runs to catch up with BEAST, who is carrying
    LUMIERE as a light source. BEAST looks back at BELLE, and sees a tear form at
    the corner of her eye.)

    LUMIERE:      Say something to her.
    BEAST:        Hmm?  Oh.  (To BELLE)  I...um...hope you like it here.  (He looks
                 at LUMIERE for approval.  He motions BEAST to continue.)  The
                 castle is your home now, so you can go anywhere you wish, except
                 the West Wing.
    BELLE:        (looking intrigued) What's in the West Wing?
    BEAST:        (stopping angrily) It's forbidden!

    (BEAST continues, and BELLE reluctantly follows. Cut to int. of BELLE's room,
    dark.  The door opens and light spills in.)

    BEAST:        (Tenderly) Now, if there's anything you need, my servants will
                 attend you.
    LUMIERE:      (whispering in his ear) Dinner--invite her to dinner.
    BEAST:        (Growing angry) You...will join me for dinner.  That's not a
                 request!
    (BEAST leaves, slamming the door behind him.  BELLE, terrified, runs over to the
    bed and flings herself onto it, finally breaking down and crying.  Fade to
    tavern in the town.)

    GASTON:       Who does she think she is?  That girl has tangled with the wrong
                 man.  No one says 'no' to Gaston!
    LEFOU:        Darn right!
    GASTON:       Dismissed.  Rejected.  Publicly humiliated.  Why, it's more than I
                 can bear. (turns chair away)
    LEFOU:        (Runs in front of him) More beer?
    GASTON:       (Turns chair away again) What for?  Nothing helps.  I'm disgraced.
    LEFOU:        Who, you?  Never.  Gaston, you've got to pull yourself together.

                 Gosh it disturbs me to see you, Gaston
                 Looking so down in the dumps
                 Every guy here'd love to be you, Gaston (cheering from the
                 gallery)
                 Even when taking your lumps

                 There's no man in town as admired as you
                 You're everyone's favorite guy
                 Everyone's awed and inspired by you (LEFOU turns chair back to
                 forward)
                 And it's not very hard to see why!

                 No one's slick as Gaston, no one's quick as Gaston
                 No one's next as incredibly thick as Gaston
                 For there's no man in town half as manly
                 Perfect, a pure paragon!
                 You can ask any Tom, Dick, or Stanley
                 And they'll tell you who's team they'd prefer to be on!
    (LEFOU has pulled a man's belt off, whose pants fall to the ground.  LEFOU jumps
    up and wraps the belt around GASTON's neck, who flexes and breaks it off. LEFOU
    continues to dance around. OLD CRONIES pick him up and swing him around.)

    OLD CRONIES:  No one's been like Gaston, a king-pin like Gaston
    LEFOU:        No one's got a swell cleft in his chin like Gaston
    GASTON:       As a specimen, yes, I'm intimidating!
    OLD CRONIES:  My, what a guy that Gaston!
    (OLD CRONIES swing LEFOU back and forth into the camera.  LEFOU tickles GASTON's
    chin, who stands with pride)

    OLD CRONIES:  Give five hurrahs, give twelve hip-hips
    LEFOU:        Gaston is the best and the rest is all drips!
    (LEFOU swings up his arm in dance and throws a mug of beer in GASTON's face, who
    socks LEFOU in the face)

    ALL:          No one fights like Gaston, no one bites like Gaston
    WRESTLER:     In a wrestling match, nobody bites like Gaston
    BIMBETTES:    For there's no one as burly and brawny
    GASTON:       As you see I've got biceps to spare
    LEFOU:        Not a bit of him scraggly or scrawny
    GASTON:       That's right! And every last bit of me's covered with hair!
    (GASTON fights with the men, then lifts a bench with the BIMBETTES on it.  He
    drops the bench on LEFOU, then turns to the camera and reveals his hairy chest.)

    OLD CRONIES:  No one hits like Gaston, matches wits like Gaston
    LEFOU:        In a spitting match, nobody spits like Gaston!
    GASTON:       I'm especially good at expectorating! Ptooey!
    ALL:          Ten points for Gaston!
    (GASTON plays a chess game with a man, then hits the board, sending it and
    pieces all over.  He takes a bite of leather from the belt once wrapped around
    his neck, chews it and spits it into a spittoon, which falls and gets stuck on
    the head of LEFOU.)
    GASTON:       When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs
                 Every morning to help me get large!
                 And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs
                 So I'm roughly the size of a barge!
    (GASTON juggles a number of eggs, then swallows them whole.  LEFOU attempts the
    trick, and is hit in the face by three eggs.)
    ALL:          No one shoots like Gaston, makes those beauts like Gaston
    LEFOU:        Then goes tromping around wearing boots like Gaston
    GASTON:       I use antlers in all of my decorating!
    (GASTON takes three shots at a beer barrel, which begins leaking into the mugs
    of onlookers.  He returns stomping to his chair, where we see the fireplace
    surrounded by the heads of the animals he has killed. The mystery cut of music
    is here! Cut to ending of "Gaston Reprise")

    ALL:          My what a guy! Gaston!!!!!!!
    (The OLD CRONIES have picked up the chair and carry GASTON around in it.  LEFOU
    tries to flee, but they toss the chair into its normal place, and LEFOU is
    pinned underneath.  MAURICE bursts in frantically)

    MAURICE:      Help! Someone help me!
    OLD MAN:      Maurice?
    MAURICE:      Please!  Please, I need your help! He's got her.  He's got her
                 locked in the dungeon.
    LEFOU:        Who?
    MAURICE:      Belle. We must go.  Not a minute to lose!
    GASTON:       Whoa!  Slow down, Maurice.  Who's got Belle locked in a dungeon?
    MAURICE:      A beast! A horrible, monstrous beast!
    (MAURICE has gone from person to person, pleading his case, until he is thrown
    at the feet of GASTON. A moment of silence, then the OLD CRONIES begin to laugh
    and mock him.)
    CRONY 1:      Is it a big beast?
    MAURICE:      Huge!
    CRONY 2:      With a long, ugly snout?
    MAURICE:      Hideously ugly!
    CRONY 3:      And sharp, cruel fangs?
    MAURICE:      Yes, yes.  Will you help me?
    GASTON:       All right, old man.  We'll help you out.
    MAURICE:      You will? Oh thank you, thank you!

    (The OLD CRONIES pick up MAURICE and help him out by throwing him through the
    door.)

    CRONY 1:      Crazy old Maurice.  He's always good for a laugh!
    GASTON:       (Very pensive)  Crazy old Maurice, hmm?  Crazy old Maurice.  Hmmm?
                 Lefou, I'm afraid I've been thinking.
    (LEFOU is still under the chair.)
    LEFOU:        A dangerous pastime--
    GASTON:       (finishing line) I know,
                 But that wacky old coot is Belle's father
                 And his sanity's only so-so

                 Now the wheels in my head have been turning
                 Since I looked at that loony old man
                 See I promised myself I'd be married to Belle,
                 And right now I'm evolving a plan!
    (GASTON picks LEFOU out from under the chair and holds his head close, and
    whispers)
    GASTON:       If I...(whisper)
    LEFOU:        Yes?
    GASTON:       Then I...(whisper)
    LEFOU:        No, would she?
    GASTON:       (whispering)...GUESS!
    LEFOU:        Now I get it!
    BOTH:         Let's go!
    (They begin a waltz around the floor as they sing)
    BOTH:         No one plots like Gaston, takes cheap shots like Gaston
    LEFOU:        Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston
    ALL:          So his marriage we soon'll be celebrating!
                 My what a guy, Gaston!!!
    (Camera zooms out through window to snow covered square, empty except for
    MAURICE)
    MAURICE:      (to no one in particular)  Will no one help me?

    (Fade back to the bedroom of the castle where BELLE is still crying.  There is a
    'clink clink clink' at the door.  She gets up and walks over to

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