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This article discusses about the transformation of fairytale “Beauty and the Beast” , the story from english folklore collected by Brother Grimms and became one of the most influenced fairytale around the world into fantasy movie entittled “Beastly” a movie by Daniel Barnz, with Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens as the main actor and actress. By the media transformation from fairytale into the movie, some differences is inevitable. The analysis aims at investigating the mythology contained in the fairytale and it-s changing when it tranform into contemporer movie. the primary data are from Beauty and the Beast” by Brother Grimms and “Beastly” movie by Daniel Barnz. These two data is compared to see the similarities and differences of their literariness and ideology, particularly of how mythology is changing and preserved all at once. This reseach use qualitative data from the written words, the event, the actions and so on. The result shows that the mythological aspect of fairytale in “Beauty and the Beast” fairytale is remained preserved in the “Beastly” movie.