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Just Lovely
This 1974 version of The Little Prince will absolutely touch your soul! The actor who plays the little prince is remarkable and the dearest looking child you have ever seen (and heard - he has an adorable English accent). I really was drawn to this movie as well as to the book. After seeing it for the first time in the early 1990s, I kept thinking about it years later. I recently watched it again and had the same reaction - just lovely.

I wish I could meet that little prince.

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Someday my Little Prince will come..
cute movie! If you've read the book, you'll be slightly disappointed by this adaptation. The story is interwoven with cheesy musical numbers. However, it does well to capture the charm of the story. Plus, the Little Prince is a really cute kid! When you hear the laughter in the stars, your heart will melt. It's a good video, but probably one that you'll only watch in your English class.

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The Book is Cool- But a Movie?
Ok, first some background info on my Le Petit Prince experience. I read Le Petit Prince in french class this year, in French of course. I also read the English version of the book soon afterwards. Furthermore I have read much analysis of the philosophy presented in the book. Then in French class my teacher brought in this movie. Before we watched it she warned us that it was really weird. I did not really know what to expect, I mean the book was pretty weird, how could the movie be weird if the book was considered normal. After these thoughts came throug my head she told us that the people don't talk, but they sing. Whoa...
Basically most everyone knows the plot I will just touch on it. The movie starts out with some weird singing about the hat that the narrator drew as a child and then goes into an overlong song about the narrator's need for air. So far this was rather weird I along with the rest of my class looked as if we were watching a fat man dance naked in the middle of the street. You know that look? Half sneer and half laugh. Well the movie continued to get weirder and I came to the conclusion that existentialist stories should never be turned into movies. However later it reached the pinnacle of its weirdness with the snake dance that lasted for much, much too long. Well at least we know where Michael Jackson got his gig.
The movie featured much of the same dialogue as did the book, sometimes the conversion was word for word. However the movie did skip over many of the imprtant scenes that really did explain Saint-Euxpery's philosophy. Furthermore the Little Prince's naivite was betrayed by his request to go to Earth. One of the important scenes that was skipped over was the scene with the king telling the Little Prince about judging yourself and the scene with the vain man was equally important.
Furthermore the Little Prince was obnoxiously cute, and although he was not a bad actor, in fact he was a really good actor for a child his age, we could have easily gone without him opening his mouth to sing on a couple songs.
In conclusion the movie was much too weird for my tastes and did change some of the things that made the book a great book. However it did manage to convert the book into a movie, from a book that was probably not meant to be a movie.