Paris, 1946: The premiere of the film "Beauty and the Beast" by Jean Cocteau, based on a French fairy tale about a beautiful girl kept in a dark castle by a monster. This fierce-looking creature in Cocteau's film looks as a wild Tom Cat (That’s Jean Marais’ hair-covered face), much wilder than the beast from Walt Disney's production from 1991, where the Beast has a shape of an agreeable lion. Walter Crane’s Beast (from an illustrated book published in 1874) looks like a wild boar, but the most interesting Arthur Rackham’s Beast (book published in 1915) looks like a funny and ugly rat in nice cloth.