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Anybody seen it? After paramount cancelling it a week before it hit the screens in the U.S., I had to go to find out why. I remembered the story vaguely in the back of the head. I've trying to figure out why it was cancelled so decided to go. our theatre had 5 people.and without too many spoilers, I would say it was a very art house film. It used the original story as a framing narrative for the girl's story. If you liked up, you'll like this movie, but it will probably break your heart in the process.
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 04:48 |
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Beautiful film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPqgSNLfK8 The english dub is complete and available on the French Blu-ray, if anyone is keen to import it.
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# ? Mar 24, 2016 05:51 |
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It's "beautiful" only in the 15% that's about the Prince. The other 85% is about a girl and her micromanaging mom, and that part is animated solely in Pixar-lite fashion. Ugly stuff, IMO. I had no love for this film at all. It's principally a rant against capitalism and modernity, with no subtlety whatsoever. I really wish they had taken the $80 million and just animated the entire Little Prince story as a short film.
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# ? Mar 24, 2016 09:42 |
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Yeah, I don't really get the framing device here - the original story is a stone-cold, universally-beloved, timeless classic - but I'll check it out when it hits Netflix.
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# ? Mar 24, 2016 10:19 |
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Yeah, the stop-motion story parts are fantastic but that's just a tiny sliver of the movie and the rest of it is dogshit. What little there is doesn't really even capture the themes of the story very well.
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# ? Mar 24, 2016 15:23 |
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Criminal Minded posted:Yeah, I don't really get the framing device here - the original story is a stone-cold, universally-beloved, timeless classic - but I'll check it out when it hits Netflix. I feel like I ought to be overjoyed at the fact that, within the last year, two of my favorite books of all time were made into beautiful animated films (this, and The Prophet). I'm not the only one who loves those books. But inexplicably both of them ended up saddled with a bad framing story because ... cartoons are for kids, I guess?
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# ? Mar 24, 2016 16:36 |
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There isn't enough material in The Little Prince for a feature-length film; it always needed some framing. This was possibly the worst way to do it, though.
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# ? Mar 24, 2016 16:49 |
That's a disappointment. I was a bit worried about the way the way the story was being framed in the trailers but I still had a sliver of hope.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 11:03 |
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Vegetable posted:There isn't enough material in The Little Prince for a feature-length film; it always needed some framing. They managed to make a feature-length film out of Where The Wild Things Are, a book that has more pictures than words. I remember hearing it was good, too.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 14:00 |
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raditts posted:They managed to make a feature-length film out of Where The Wild Things Are, a book that has more pictures than words. I remember hearing it was good, too. It's a very strange, but good movie. There's literally a scene debating whether life matters because everything crumbles to dust (while they're walking in the middle of a desert).
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:09 |
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Vegetable posted:There isn't enough material in The Little Prince for a feature-length film; it always needed some framing. The guy that made gundam made a 39 episode french cartoon out of it.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:03 |
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The guy that made gundam made a 39 episode french cartoon out of it. Is that the one they used to show on Nickelodeon? I used to watch the poo poo out of that cartoon when I was a kid. It's also where I learned how to properly water plants.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:25 |
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Yeah, there's plenty of material in the book for a movie or other adaptations (which already exist, as mentioned). While it does have the problem that the narrative doesn't really flow smoothly, it already has its own framing story - the pilot, and that can be fleshed out as necessary. My ideal adaptation would probably make the pilot literally Saint-Exupery and be semi-biographical.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:56 |
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raditts posted:Is that the one they used to show on Nickelodeon? I used to watch the poo poo out of that cartoon when I was a kid. It's also where I learned how to properly water plants. Yeah, it was made by the guy that made gundam then localized by the guy that made fantasia. It's kinda a mess of a show but it's kinda great.
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