Belle (Beauty and the Beast 2017)

Belle is the titular female protagonist of Disney's 2017 film Beauty and the Beast. Not only is she a bookworm, but an inventor as well, whom she uses her inventions for everyday chores, which in turn provides her with time to catch up on her reading.
She is loosely based on Beauty from the original fairy tale, but is mostly based on the character of the same name from the 1991 animated film.
==Background==
Her backstory with Maurice is also expanded upon, as this version of the story confirms that the death of Belle's mother was the result of the black plague, forcing Maurice to take Belle (who was still an infant at the time) and flee Paris for safer havens towards the town of Villeneuve in the French countryside. As a result of his wife's passing, Maurice is somewhat overprotective of Belle and has reservations over her dreams of experiencing adventure within the outside world. As such, he created music boxes that represent different countries to allow her to "see the world" without actually having to leave their provincial town of Villeneuve. The fate of her mother (with her father's vague response on the former), left Belle puzzled and led her to seek out for answers; something that she would not discover for many years later, upon her time with the Beast, which he later showed her through a book given by the Enchantress as a means of traveling anywhere it desires, which she used it to transport them toward her childhood home in Paris and found out her mother's tragic fate, causing the Beast to realize his misjudgment of Maurice and made an apology to Belle for his earlier mistreatment to her father. The discovery of her mother's tragedy would be crucial for having Maurice and Belle making amends with each other, with Belle's widen understanding of why Maurice was so overly protective of her.
===Personality===
Belle is independent, headstrong, outspoken, and straight-forward. She is also kind, caring, positive, reliable, well-mannered, honorable, empathetic, graceful, brave, imaginative, logical, bibliophilic, spirited, and can sometimes be impulsive, rude and discourteous.
===Physical appearance===
Belle is stunningly beautiful. She has medium length light brown hair, hazel eyes, rosy cheeks, and a sculpted figure. She wears 3 dress: blue, pink, white and yellow and wears a gold necklace around his neck and in one scene her hair is tied in a bun. She wears brown boots with her dresses.
==Role in the film==
Belle is introduced in the opening of the film, singing the musical number named after her. While exploring the surrounding landscape, the people all seem to show interest in her. Encountering Gaston, he requests her to go on a date with him, to which Belle decides not to. Belle walks into her father Maurice in his workshop just as Maurice explains to Belle that the village is small, which is safer than larger villages and after a conversation between Belle and her father, Belle asks him for a rose like the one in his painting just as Maurice storms off to the marketplace to find a rose for her. As Maurice leaves, Belle returns to the village around her, teaching a nearby girl how to read, to which she then approaches Gaston again who tells her to give advice to the villagers, explaining to her that she would never marry him even though the village around Belle's world is small. After the conversation, Belle sings a reprise of the song named after her, longing for a great adventure in the world around her.
When Philippe arrives towards Belle, the horse is worried that he recently discovered something mysterious her father Maurice encountered, causing Belle to ride on him to get to the Beast's castle. Arriving there, Belle encounters Lumiere and Cogsworth, who are commenting about Belle's plan to break the curse. Belle uses Lumiere as a torch to protect herself in order to find her father. Encountering Maurice, he warns her to escape before the Beast finds her. Belle then asks the Beast to find her father, to which the Beast denies her father's actions. Approaching the Beast, Belle spends a minute alone with the Beast, requesting him to see her father just as Belle notices the Beast taking her father away. Afterward, Lumiere escorts Belle to her room, who later introduces himself to Belle, just as Cogsworth approaches his conversation with Belle.
While exploring outside, Lumiere tells Belle that she can explore any part of the castle except for the West Wing just as Belle is taken to her new room in the castle, to which it is known that the castle is now her new home just as Belle encounters Plumette, Madame De Garderobe, and Froufrou inside her new room as she encounters them in awe.
The Beast then requests Belle for a dinner invitation in the dining area, but she rejects his offer for locking her in the tower. She later gets an invitation from Mrs. Potts to go to the dining area, explaining that she would feel better after dinner just as Belle is told to go to dinner to which Belle is taken to the dining area where Lumiere and the other objects perform the musical number "Be Our Guest" in front of Belle, satisfying her.
After the musical number "Be Our Guest", Mrs. Potts talks to Belle, telling her that the Beast is willing to be set free by finding someone to fall in love with. After talking to Mrs. Potts, she tells her to go to bed. Belle go to the West Wing, then looks at the damaged picture of the royal family's castle and arrives at the spot where the Enchanted Rose is at, only for the Beast to confront her as he angrily roars at her to get out of the castle. Belle then plans to leave, but Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Froufrou try to stop Belle from leaving, but Belle leaves. Escaping, Belle rides on Philippe while a pack of wolves prepares to attack. The Beast then arrives and fights against the pack of wolves, shooing away the wolves. Belle comforts over the injured Beast as he is taken to the castle, where he is told to help her only if he controls his temper. While taking care of the Beast, Mrs. Potts tells Belle the Beast about his tragic loss of his mother and having to be raised by his abusive father just as the Beast calms himself while resting. Later after singing the musical number "Days in the Sun", Lumiere explains to Belle that if the last petal falls, the Prince will remain a Beast forever and the castle residents become inanimate objects.
With the Beast healed, he takes Belle to the library as she looks at the library around her in excitement. Later, Belle and the Beast walk outside together just as the couple looks at the frozen lake around them. Belle then teaches the Beast how to be gentle to Philippe and later sings the musical number "Something There" just as she and the Beast start a relationship with them. Later, Belle thanks the Beast for saving her from the wolves just as Belle talks to him about the villagers thinking Belle is funny. Back at the library, the Beast shows Belle a book from the Enchantress related to the curse she cast on her. Belle later takes the Beast into Paris, where she sings to him that her childhood in Paris is gone just as she remembers her tragic flashback about her mother who died from the plague just as the Beast apologizes to her for calling her father a thief.
Belle wears a ball gown at the Beast's castle while the Beast wears a formal suit just as she and the Beast dance together during the musical number "Beauty and the Beast" as Mrs. Potts sings in front of the dancing couple.
Belle tells the Beast that her father taught her how to dance as the couple arrives at the balcony. Showing empathy to Belle, the Beast gives her the Enchanted Mirror to Belle help her find her father. Upon seeing Maurice being attacked by an angry mob, Belle is tasked to find her father and rescue her.
As Belle leaves the castle to find her father, Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, and Plumette are worried about Belle planning to find her father just as they all leave sadly, as the Beast sings the musical number "Evermore". Belle walks across Gaston in front of Maurice who is being threatened just as Belle shows proof about the Beast to the townspeople. During this moment, Belle finds out that Gaston betrayed her about the Beast being a hideous monster as Gaston is aggressively planning to kill the Beast as Belle is locked into the carriage. Afterwards, Gaston sends an angry mob to kill the Beast. Belle and Maurice plan to escape the carriage in an attempt to warn the Beast that Gaston has sent in the mob to kill him. Belle then rides on Philippe to return to the castle.
Arriving back at the Castle, Belle notices Gaston hurting the Beast just as Gaston tries to finish his plan to kill the Beast. After the Beast reunites with Belle, she comforts him after being injured. Gaston, however, falls to his death while Belle tries to protect the Beast. Belle ends up crying over the Beast's motionless body as the last petal falls.
As the last petal falls, Agathe arrives at the spot where Belle cries over the Beast's dead body as Agathe uses her magic to restore the Enchanted Rose as the Beast is transformed back into his normal form, the Prince, whom Belle manages to recognize as her beloved by looking into his eyes before sharing a kiss with him. With the spell broken and the castle fixed, the Prince and Belle dance in the ballroom with the other castle residents.
== Trivia ==
* Her actress, Emma Watson, was set to star in a different film adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, directed by Guillermo del Toro, but later joined the Disney version when that project was put on indefinite hold.
==Gallery==
==See also==
*Belle
*Belle French
*Belle (Descendants)
==External link==
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