History Awesome / BeautyAndTheBeast

''(Beast considers Gaston for a moment…'' ''[[WhatYouAreInTheDark before pulling him back to safety)]]''\\

** Leading up to that, Gaston has the Beast cornered. There's nothing he can do to protect himself. But when Gaston says "It's over, Beast: ''BELLE IS MINE''!", [[DeathGlare a fierce expression creeps into his eyes]] before he tackles him. It's almost as though he was spurred by the righteous fury that Gaston has the gall to bluster that [[EntitledToHaveYou Belle shall now belong to him]].

* Meta-example: The fact that this is the ''first'' '''ever''' ''animated movie to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.'' Sure it didn't win, but it did what was considered to be impossible for animation at the time and establish it as a medium of story-telling and not [[AnimationAgeGhetto kid fodder]]. It remained the only animated feature ever to be nominated for the award for 18 years. Its nomination is believed to be the reason the Animated Feature category was eventually added.
** The Oscar for Best Animated Feature was added a decade later. Some have speculated that the Academy added this category specifically to ''prevent'' animated movies from ever being nominated again for Best Picture. And it ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} didn't]] [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 work.]]''
** To this day, it remains the ''only'' hand-drawn animated feature to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. All of the other animated films that have been nominated have been computer animated films.
** Also the only animated film to be nominated for Best Picture when the field was only at five. A feat no other animated film accomplished. The field was already extended to ten when ''Up'' and ''Toy Story 3'' were each nominated.
** The idea that many agree it should have won Best Picture over ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''.

** Hell, the entire castle siege in general was amazing (As well as [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]], considering it was an angry mob of simple-minded townsfolk armed with torches and pitchforks against an entire castle of servants transformed into ordinary household objects who turn out to be NotSoHarmless). You try and fight against drawers of living cutlery with a ''very terrifying cooker'' as their leader, a hat rack with incredible boxing skills, a pile-driving wardrobe, a cannibal chest, a living candelabra, a scissor toting clock and an ApronMatron teapot who utilizes her tea cup children into ''scalding'' people. Not to mention the pans who strike down at one, the jugs throwing produce into the eyes of another, a trunk who eats the Baker, and Lord knows what else these guys did. It's no wonder the villagers just fled; the Beast was a single scary foe they'd psyched themselves up for, but the servants were a MookHorrorShow ''army'' they had never prepared to face period, much less win against.
** Let's not forget Mrs. Potts's PreAssKickingOneLiner as she prepares to pour tea on a villager: "UP HERE, YA SCURVY SCUM! ''NOW!''"

** Preceding all that? Just as the VillainSong ends and they break in, it's quiet and dark, almost too much so (the villagers even seem a little suspicious) - still, they keep moving slowly, with [=LeFou=] grabbing a 'mere' candlebra to see...
--->'''Lumiere:''' (shouting) NOW!!!\\
(the lights instantly come on, at the same time as every single one [[RoarBeforeBeating roars before blindsiding the villagers]])

* The latter half of the fight between the Beast and Gaston. After seeing Belle has returned to him the Beast regains his will to live and utterly ''dominates'' Gaston, with the size and strength of a grizzly bear combined with the intelligence and agility of a human. For an instant, Gaston looks like he realises he's bitten off more than he can chew.

* The Beast gets his when he reduces Gaston to a sniveling wretch:
-->'''Gaston:''' Don't hurt me, please! I'll do anything! ANYTHING!\\
'''The Beast:''' [[GetOut Get out...]]

** Of special mention must go to Creator/JamesBaxter (yes, that [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AdventureTimeS5E19JamesBaxterTheHorse James Baxter]]) who animated Belle and the Beast ''by hand''.

** She hadn't wanted to perform the song after hearing Alan Mencken's demo recording, which sounded much more like a pop song -- that somebody had sent her in error. She came around once they played her Howard Ashman's demo recording, which was slower and more like the final recording, which is what they'd intended her to sing like.

* The fact that this is the ''first'' '''ever''' ''animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture.'' Sure it didn't win, but it did what was considered to be impossible for animation at the time and establish it as a medium of story-telling and not [[AnimationAgeGhetto kid fodder]]. It remained the only animated feature ever to be nominated for the award for 18 years. Its nomination is believed to be the reason the Animated Feature category was eventually added.

** In the Broadway adaptation, Gaston goes as far as to give Belle a ForcefulKiss directly after his threat to marry him. She gives him a BitchSlap in retaliation, and he almost punches her for this, but only stops because the rest of the mop is still watching and are horrified of this. In most stage plays, Belle ''stands completely still'' as he’s aiming to punch her, knowing Gaston will only care more about saving his reputation, as if she’s saying “Go ahead, you son of a bitch, hit me, see how ''that'' goes”.

** Hell, the entire castle siege in general was amazing (As well as [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]], considering it was an angry mob of simple-minded townsfolk armed with torches and pitchforks against an entire castle of servants transformed into ordinary household objects who turn out to be NotSoHarmless). You try and fight against drawers of living cutlery with a ''very terrifying cooker'' as their leader, a hat rack with incredible boxing skills, a pile-driving wardrobe, a cannibal chest, a living candelabra, a scissor toting clock and an ApronMatron teapot who utilizes her tea cup children into ''scalding'' people. Not to mention the pans who strike down at one, the jugs throwing produce into the eyes of another, a trunk who eats the Baker, and Lord knows what else these guys did. It's no wonder the villagers just fled; the Beast was a single scary foe, but the servants were a MookHorrorShow ''army''.

** Lumiere's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome has to be when he saves his beloved Babette by ''scorching the backside off of the villain ripping her apart''.

'''Phillipe the horse proceeds to violently kick open the doors...''' '''with Belle on his back'''.

** Hell, the entire castle siege in general was amazing (As well as [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]], considering it was an angry mob of simple-minded townsfolk armed with torches and pitchforks against an entire castle of servants transformed into ordinary household objects who turn out to be NotSoHarmless). You try and fight against drawers of living cutlery with a ''very terrifying cooker'' as their leader, a hat rack with incredible boxing skills, a pile-driving wardrobe, a cannibal chest, a living candelabra, a scissor toting clock and an ApronMatron teapot who utilizes her tea cup children into ''scalding'' people. Not to mention the pans who strike down at one, the jugs throwing produce into the eyes of another, a trunk who eats the Baker, and Lord knows what else these guys did. It's no wonder the villagers just fled; the Beast was a single scary foe, but the servants were a MookHorrorShow ''army'' to them.

* The ballroom. Even after 20 years it can still hold up. The fact that Belle and the Beast are perfectly animated to go along with the 3D camera certainly helps.

* Belle tricking Gaston into falling out the door and into the mud.