Subj : Beauty and the Beast
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Denis Mosko
Date : Fri Mar 19 2021 14:02:44

//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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