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The story of the movie Belle, based on a true story

 The story of the movie Belle is based on a true story


The film talks about a brown girl whose father is of white origin and from a wealthy family. The girl's mother was a negro slave. The father married her when he fell in love with her, but she ran away and took the girl with her because of racism. The girl is an outcast from society because of the color of her brown skin.

The father left his son great wealth, but she could not marry because of the color of her skin. She suffers from racism in everything until a young man of white skin loved her, but he was rural and poor, but love did not prevent them from living together.
The film begins with a scene on the Qubtan ship and finds a small brown-skinned girl standing alone, the heroine of the movie "Belle". She looks a lot like her mother even though she is brown.
And when they reach Qusair, where his uncle, Mr. William, the chief judge, refuses to see Bill in the palace and refuses to find her completely, and tells him that the girl will affect his social standing, and the girl understands what he says about her, and she sees the bad look they see in her, but no There is no other solution than raising the girl and living with them in the palace.
The father has given her his nickname, but they change the name “Bell” to the name “Dido” and because her father works as a captain in the navy, it is difficult to take her with him at sea, and he bids her farewell while he is sad and reassures her that she will live a decent life, and there is another girl named “Elizabeth” She is the cousin of "Dido", then her uncle takes her on a tour of the palace and notices her intelligence and introduces her to the rest of the family through paintings drawn for them in the palace.
While the two girls are playing in the garden, Mr. William looks at them and tells his wife that Dido will have a right to the inheritance, and his wife is afraid that when the girl grows up she cannot marry because of her brown color, but at the same time it is not possible to marry anyone and she must Be from a big family.

The days pass and the two girls “Elizabeth” and “Dido” grow up and consider Mr. “William” to be their father, and one day he tells Dido that her father has died and leaves her a will that he left all his inheritance to her, because she is the only heir, and when she tells Dido to his son Her uncle is impressed and tells her that she will choose and marry anyone she wants.
The next day, the suspicious Aunt Mary tells them that there are people who will come to dinner with them and the girls will be very happy, but she tells “Dido” that she will not sit with them at dinner and will not even meet them, because the brown girl is not allowed to mix with white people, and when she asks “Dido” Her uncle about it told her that this is an official procedure, but it is just a form, but “Dido” tells him that she is the only heir to the inheritance and this makes her rich and she can do whatever she wants.
Guests come during dinner and everyone is present except for “Dido” who is sitting alone, but after dinner, she enters to sit with them, and when Mrs. “Ashford” sees her and her children “James” and “Oliver” she says out loud that she did not imagine that she was brown in this way and he Mr. “William” introduces them to “Dido” and ignores the matter, and “James” the eldest son is the same as his mother’s opinion and shows that he admires the girl “Elizabeth”, unlike his brother “Oliver”, who admires “Dido” and sees her as special and attractive and tries to get close to her.

The next day, a country young man named “John” comes to the palace, the son of a cleric who wants to be one of the students of Mr. “William” and asks him to teach the principles of law, but Mr. “William” refuses, because the social level of the young man is low and it is difficult for a lawyer to get out of this level, but "John" convinces him because of his culture and they worked hard.
Then he talks to him about the ship in which all the slaves were killed by order of the captain and that Mr. “William” is the judge, then “John” meets the girl “Dido” and gets to know her and notices that she does not eat with them and always eats alone and when he asks about the reason, Dido feels embarrassed.

She goes to her room and starts crying and that she is not treated like "Elizabeth" her cousin because of the color of her skin and tries to cut her skin, "John" talks to Mr. Saving the ship, and after a while, "John" sees the girl "Dido" sitting to be drawn by a painter, and this is one of the family's habits.
When she notices his presence, she goes to talk to him, but John does not want to tell her, but after a while, he tells her what happened and tells her that he believes that the slaves were deliberately killed, and when William learns that John has told Dido, he expels John. From the palace.

Aunt Mary tells them that they will go to London, but Dido will not go with them. Dido misses a lot, but Uncle William decides to go with them. After the family arrives at the palace in London, they go to visit Mrs. Ashford's house and where the youngest is impressed. With "Dido", specifically after knowing that she is rich and trying to get close to her, and after making sure that she is rich, he goes to her and proposes marriage to her.

The shipping issue remains preoccupied with “Dido” and tries to access papers that prove John’s words, which is that the slaves have been betrayed, and already reaches these papers and decides to steel the papers and send them to “John”, and the interviews are repeated between them and they have many things in common, and “Dido” notes that John loves her but hides his feelings, and decides to give part of her fortune to her cousin, Elizabeth, so that she can be rich and be able to marry.

William discovers that Dido has given the paper to John and confronts them and tells her that John is from a poor social level, but John gets angry and tells William that he loves Dido very much and is not interested in anything else, and she is surprised. Dido from the confession, but she believes it, and Mrs. Ashford goes and breaks the sermon of Dido, and Dido reprimands Mrs. Ashford, then Mr. William goes to pronounce the verdict in the slave case and the judgment will be

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