Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* Gaston's rousing [[Crowd Song|"Mob Song"]] where he paraphrases both [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] ("If you're not with us, you're against us") and [[William Shakespeare (Creator)|William Shakespeare]] ("Screw your courage to the sticking place!") to rally a, well, mob to, as the song is also known as, "Kill the Beast".

** Menken's incidental music ''between'' the songs also had its awesome moments. When Belle discovers that her father may be dying out in the cold, the Beast looks at the wilting rose and, in a moment of utter anguish, decides to let Belle go anyway, knowing it will probably doom his only chance to remove his curse. The music that plays at that moment is utter [[Awesome Music (Disney film)|Awesome Music]].

* And one must not forget: Menken's songwriting partner since practically the start of his musical career, Howard Ashman. Some time before ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]'' won Oscars for Best Song and Best Score, Ashman was diagnosed HIV-positive. When he was put to work for ''Beauty and the Beast'', Ashman was noted to be irritable and would soon not even be able work in the studio. But did he give up his work? Not at all; he would instruct recording sessions via telephone even when he was weak and he wrote what are probably some of the most memorable songs in cinema, period, during the last year of his life (the title song's lyrics undoubtedly being his [[Magnum Opus]]). Even though he never lived to see the finished film, Ashman's sheer dedication to his work counts as this trope, a [[Tear Jerker]], and a great [[Heartwarming Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Heartwarming Moments]]. Dedications often refer to him as the man 'who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul'.