//Hello Alexander, //
AK> Hi, Brian Klauss - Alexander Koryagin! I read your message from
AK> 19.03.2021 00:30
AK>>> "Beauty and the Beast", a movie name -- why Beauty is without "the"?
BK>> Titles of movies, books, music, and art do not require an article.
BK>> Prefacing "Beauty" with "The" would be appropriate but with the
BK>> idiomatic nature of English, and the rules we don't follow, it can be
BK>> left out.
BK>> It's similar to music group names, "Guns N' Roses", not "The Guns and
BK>> Roses", or books, "Patriot Games" instead of "The Patriot Games".
AK> So it could be simply "Beauty and Beast"?
Not! "Beauty and the Beast".
Such as "Gun and the Rose" may be ...
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