Beauty and the Beast is a tale for the ages. We’ve read it in fairytale books and watched it in numerous TV and movie adaptations. Maybe the most memorable of this classic was the iconic 1991 Disney animation. With its infectious songs and beautiful graphics, the film entered the popular mainstream worldwide.

Now, Disney is reviving its 1991 Beauty and the Beast rendition with live action heroes, making this Disney’s latest live action fairytale production, but by no means its last.

The film opens the same way as its 1991 predecessor. Emma Watson inhabits the role of Belle, the iconic character from the 1991 animated film. She says live action fairytales are likely to draw people of all ages into the theaters.

“As a child you love Disney, but as an adult you still love Disney because it sort of connects you with that childlike feeling that everything is going to be OK and there’s hope in the world,” Watson said.

It was this nostalgia that made Disney invest $300 million in this lavish musical, with Oscar winning filmmaker Bill Condon at the helm. The film offers background stories that add depth to their characters, such as Belle.

“It really was the first modern Disney heroine,” the filmmaker said. “A Disney princess who doesn’t want to be a princess, who doesn’t care about finding the prince. Someone who’s more interested in books and seeing the world and kind of figuring out who she is than in finding a guy and getting married. She happens to do those things by the end, but it’s not because that’s her main interest.”

Watson says the evolution of the romance between Belle and the Beast also is more complex than it was in its previous incarnations.

“Beast and Belle really dislike each other at the beginning, they really don’t get on, and then they form a friendship and then they fall in love,” she said.

Apart from Watson, the film includes a long list of famous actors. Kevin Klein interprets Belle’s quirky father. Ewan McGreggor, who plays the enchanted candelabra, and others lend their voices to digitally generated characters.

New songs were added to the original ones by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice. Such a wealth of raw talent in acting, production, costumes and music bolstered Disney’s decision to take the financial gamble.

On November 26, 1977, overriding the ITN News in Britain.

“This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you.

For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. We speak to you now in peace and wisdom as we have done to your brothers and sisters all over this, your planet Earth.

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Be still now and listen, for your chance may not come again.

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This is our message to our dear friends. We have watched you growing for many years as you too have watched our lights in your skies. You know now that we are here, and that there are more beings on and around your Earth than your scientists admit.

We are deeply concerned about you and your path towards the light and will do all we can to help you. Have no fear, seek only to know yourselves, and live in harmony with the ways of your planet Earth. We of the Ashtar Galactic Command thank you for your attention. We are now leaving the plane of your existence. May you be blessed by the supreme love and truth of the cosmos.”

Soul Train Stockholm har bjudit in sju klassiska klubbar från Stockholms galna 80-talsperiod för att återuppliva sina dansgolv under kryssningen.

Du får möta den bästa 80-talsmusiken från Garage, Café Opera, Huset, Daily News Café, Alexandras, Evergreens och Huset. Varje klubb representeras av en av sina Resident DJ:s som stod i båset på den tiden. Det är en unik samling klubbar och DJ:s som åker med på denna temakryssning.

Garage och Daily News Café representeras av René Hedemyr.
Café Opera representeras av Fredrik Lilienberg.
Evergreens representeras av Jonas Lönnå.
Huset representeras av Thomas Wilke.
Alexandras och AD representeras av Lars “Snurre” Wimmer.
Galaxy representeras av Matts Lissjanis.
(Reservation för ev. ändringar bland DJ:s eller klubb)

Dag 1 startar redan i terminalen som öppnar 16.00 där Soul Train DJ Anders Müller bjuder på skönt gung.
Ombord bjuder vi på den bästa dansmusiken från 80-talet från 16.30-04.00.

Allt avrundas Dag 2 tillsammans med Soul Train DJ:s René Hedemyr och Anders Müller som då tar med sig den fantastiska stämningen från Soul Train After Works på Café Opera och den bästa dansmusiken från 70-talet till nu rätt in på Östersjöns största dansgolv.
Musiken kommer flöda både på utresan och på hemresan!

Hos oss är du tillsammans med människor du tycker om och känner att du har gemenskap med!
Det är vad Soul Train handlar om.