I just saw the movie. The framing of the novel is oke, the aviator is still the narrator like in the novel but 85% is new. The girl, the mother, the old aviator iTS All new. But iTS okay. The third act though i hate. The eight year old girl get on the plane, fly it and find the prince who is an adult himself. Its stupid, even if its a dream, wich is never told.
shareMe too. The basic idea of the framing wasn't so bad, but I didn't like the end they tacked on, that had nothing at all to do with the book and didn't respect it and its characters. It was almost like they were implying the book's ending was no good (it made the little girl angry) so they were going to improve on it. Not very complimentary. And it also just hammered home the same messages we already had, about not becoming a stereotyped adult with no dreams and fun etc.
shareIt was almost like they were implying the book's ending was no good (it made the little girl angry) so they were going to improve on it.
And it also just hammered home the same messages we already had, about not becoming a stereotyped adult with no dreams and fun etc.
In the book the aviator doesn't really doubt that the Little Prince got home, and we assume he did as his body disappeared. He's mainly more worried because he gave the LP a muzzle for the sheep to avoid it eating the rose, but then he remembers he forgot to put a strap on it, so that leaves some uncertainty over whether the rose might get eaten or not.
In my opinion it doesn't make that much sense that he somehow got stuck on another planet instead of his own and ended up working for the businessman there, instead of going home. Also I think the ending of the film is not comforting at all, because he gets back and the worst possible things have happened - the asteroid has been wrecked by baobabs and the rose has died. But then we're supposed to believe that somehow everything is fine because he just has to 'see with his heart' for it all to be fine again. That didn't work for me; I don't think 'seeing with your heart' was ever meant to be being delusional about reality or that somehow just believing or wishing things makes everything fine.
Also the film never explains what is really supposed to be going on, at the end; whether it's a dream or what etc - she's suddenly able to fly the broken plane to the stars? Huh?
Just confusing and unnecessary, I thought. Would have been better if they'd spent more time developing the story of the LP from the book, because the stop motion animation was charming.
Sure, he doesn't doubt it, but it is just pure faith, this is why he also asks anyone who would see the little prince to listen to him and do what he says.
In my opinion it doesn't make that much sense that he somehow got stuck on another planet instead of his own and ended up working for the businessman there, instead of going home.
Also the film never explains what is really supposed to be going on, at the end; whether it's a dream or what etc - she's suddenly able to fly the broken plane to the stars? Huh?
Would have been better if they'd spent more time developing the story of the LP from the book, because the stop motion animation was charming.
You make some good points, but I still think it went too far and so didn't really respect the book, especially as the film was just called "The Little Prince", so you would expect it would basically tell the story of the book. I don't think that would have been a bad thing because most people (especially outside France) don't know the book or maybe read it once and don't remember it well.
And I don't think the new end is less depressing, or less uncertain than the original one, because, like I said, the worst possible scenario has happened and it's not at all clear how the prince would cope with it.
Re. the end of the film being a dream after falling from the water pipe, I guess that could be it.
As for taking the aviator meeting the prince literally or not, it's true that you could see it as just imagination or hallucination, but even if you suspend your disbelief and take it as real, then a world in which the Little Prince (who's an alien after all and probably not just like Earth humans) could travel to Earth with help from passing birds.. still doesn't explain how the girl could suddenly be able to fly to the stars on a broken plane. The aviator in the story still had to repair his to be able to fly it to safety from the desert. So, it takes the mixture of reality and fantasy even further than the book.
As of 2014 it has been translated into more than 250 languages and dialects, including Sardinian,[84] the constructed international language of Esperanto, and the Congolese language Alur, as well as being printed in braille for visually impaired readers. It is one of the few modern books to have been translated into Latin, as Regulus vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt.[85][86] In 2005, the book was also translated into Toba, an indigenous language of northern Argentina, as So Shiyaxauolec Nta'a. It was the first book translated into this language since the New Testament of the Bible.
145 millions copies have been sold in the world and 12 millions in France.
So, it takes the mixture of reality and fantasy even further than the book.
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Thank you for your posts. They helped me read the film in a more interesting way. So ultimately, it's a film about the stories we create, tell each other, and transform to suit different contexts and experiences.
Appropriately, the aviator's story was imprinted with the themes of loneliness, friendship and acceptance of death, while the girl's story carried over the themes that were relevant to her in a modern setting: growing up in a joyless workaholic world, forgetting the past, etc.
It wasn't dream! It was a fantasy. And I really loved the third act, one of the best parts of the movie alongside the Little Prince sequences in the first half. That twist at the end that The Little Girl is actually The Rose was one of the best things in animation ever! I almost cried when it happen.
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Why do you think she was the Rose? The end conversation alludes to her being the Fox, because of what she says about being tamed: an allegory for making friends and emotional attachments.
shareWhy do you think she was the Rose? The end conversation alludes to her being the Fox, because of what she says about being tamed: an allegory for making friends and emotional attachments.
Ok, i thought about it for a while and i just realized why people would think the little girl was the rose. i was really surprised but it seems like there are a few people who thought it was true
so in the end of the film (Spoilers spoilers spoilers!!) after they both return to b612 and find the rose dead, they watch the sun rise like we saw before - The only other time we see the sun RISES in the film is once when LP is watching it for the first time with the rose.https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/little-prince-cannes-film-festival-7.jpg
After that she turns around and sees hes back to normal for some reason (probably due to him remembering everything or something), and he says some stuff like "I remember everything" and Turns to her and says "she's not gone" and the girl smiles and says "she's still here"
However I don't think it means she was the rose, I think they were just acknowledging that he was able to remember the time he had with the rose and how in that way rose was still with him
besides it wouldnt make any sense because the rose was always on that planet both in the book and in the movie, how is she suddenly on earth?? and also plot wise why would she leave after they are reunited.
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If you want to get SUPER crazy with this already far fetched theory, the little girl being the rose could be possible if:
let's say the rose withered and died on the princes planet between the time he left earth and somehow ended up where we see him,
And then somehow she was reborn on earth as a little girl (And then she meets the aviator by chance and the events of the movie go on, eventually making it back to space to meet the little prince again, getting him to remember her and everything).
I'm not even suggesting this as a plausible theory. Just have some brain vomit.
Agreed. It was going along well and then all of the sudden i'm like "whaaaaaaat am i watching." They went way off the rails.
shareI agree. The story would have been better without the third part. And it was never told it was a dream. No, I didn't like much this movie (even if I like the book)
shareAnd it was never told it was a dream.
Yeah and by the end of her dream the plane had managed to get damaged to exactly the state it was actually in in the real world. I can't say the last dream bit of the movie was the best way to go but I did still enjoy it. I think the IMBD rating is justified.
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