Beauty and the Beast (1946)

Josette Day: Belle

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• Avenant : Belle, you weren't made to be a servant. Even the floor longs to be your mirror! You mustn't go on slaving day and night for your sisters.

  Belle : If our father's ships hadn't been lost in the storm, then perhaps I could enjoy myself like them. But we're ruined, Avenant, and I must work.

  Avenant : Why don't your sisters work?

  Belle : My sisters are too beautiful. Their hands are too white.

  Avenant : Belle, you are the most beautiful of all! Look at your hands.

  Belle : Avenant, let go of my hand. Please go. I must finish my work.

  Avenant : I love you. Marry me.

  Belle : No, Avenant, you mustn't speak of that again. It's no use.

  Avenant : You don't like me.

  Belle : It's not that, Avenant.

  Avenant : Well, then?

  Belle : I must remain a maid and stay with father.

  Avenant : I'll carry you away from this stupid life!

  Belle : Let me go!

• La Bête : Besides being hideous, I'm not quick-witted.

  Belle : You're quick enough to recognize it.

• Belle : You are the master.

  La Bête : No. There is no master here but you.

• Belle : The Beast let me come to see you.

  Belle's Father : Then that monster has a soul?

  Belle : He suffers, Father. One half of him is in constant struggle with the other half. He's more cruel to himself than he is to human beings.

• Ludovic : Get your hands off her! You want a black eye?

  Belle : It's all right, Ludovic. He was asking me to marry him.

  Ludovic : What did you say?

  Avenant : Your sister doesn't want me!

  Ludovic : Bravo, Belle. I'm a scoundrel, and proud of it, but I won't stand to see you marry one.

  Ludovic : [to Avenant]  Consider yourself warned. Now clear out, you hoodlum!

  [Avenant punches Ludovic in the face] 

• La Bête : I have a good heart, but I am a monster.

  Belle : There are men far more monstrous than you, though they conceal it well.

• Belle : What are you doing at my door at this hour? God, you're covered with blood!

  La Bête : Forgive me.

  Belle : What should I forgive you for?

  La Bête : For being a beast. Forgive me.

• Belle's Father : Belle, I saw him. That face is hideous.

  Belle : At first I was indeed afraid, Father. Now, I sometimes feel like bursting out laughing. But, then I look into his eyes and they're so sad, that I have to turn away from crying.

• Belle's Father : You manage to feel sorry for him?

  Belle : I bear his presence, because I'd be happy if I could make him forget his ugliness.

  Belle's Father : Your goodness will cost you dearly, my Belle.

  Belle : Father, that monster is good.

• Belle : Can such miracles really happen?

  La Bête : You and I are living proof.

• Belle : My Beast! My Beast! My Beast. My Beast! My Beast! My Beast! Answer me, my Beast! Answer me, my Beast! My Beast. My Beast! My Beast! Oh, my Beast! Forgive me. Answer me, my Beast Look at me. Your glove will revive you. Help me. I am the monster, my Beast.

• Belle : Are you happy?

  La Bête : I'll have to get used to it.

• La Bête : You won't be frightened?

  Belle : I don't mind being frightened - with you.

• Belle : What's the matter?

  La Bête : I'm thirsty, Belle.

  Belle : Drink from my hands.

  La Bête : It doesn't repulse you to let me drink from your hands?

  Belle : No, Beast. I like it. I'd never want to cause you the slightest harm.

  La Bête : But still - you dream of being far away from me.

• Ludovic : Does he crawl on four legs? What does he eat and drink?

  Belle : I've given him water to drink on occasion. He would never eat me.

• Belle : The key! The key. Where's the key?

• La Bête : You're a strange girl, Belle. A strange girl.

  Belle : At your service.

• Belle : He's entrusted me with the key to his treasure. He has complete confidence in me. *I'd* be the monster if I were not to return.

• Belle : Don't tempt me.