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my singular issue with The Little Prince 2015

ok now that im posting shit publicly again i Need to talk about my main gripe with the 2015 little prince movie, which is how they stripped the LP of his personality for most of the movie.

since this movie’s main emotional focus is on the older aviator befriending the little girl, the movie wants you to be sad and cry during Their emotional scenes (i.e. when they fight and the aviator goes to the hospital without the girl managing to saying goodbye), so they made the little prince’s part of the story less emotional

in the book’s story (which in this movie is portrayed by the paper stop-motion segments), we get to see the aviator slowly warming up to the little prince, being extremely annoyed by his antics, his mysteriousness and his stubbornness, yet intrigued by what the prince Does tell him, and we get to see a lot of vulnerable moments between them. his death scene, the peak of their relationship and the saddest part of the book, is also barely five minutes long, where in the book it’s like two chapters long and so much more vulnerable and emotional

one example of this is when the aviator snaps at the little prince for asking too many questions about the sheep being dangerous to the rose, and in that scene we see the little prince getting angry, accusing the aviator of not caring about anything other than what grown ups deem important, and most importantly of all, he cries.

the little prince is a very real character, a very real little boy, as strange and inhuman as he is (not being really human and all, with my hc being that hes made of stars), and what’s charming of him is how real he feels, how emotional he is, how he has flaws that any child would have, with his stubbornness being one of his most apparent flaws in my opinion. him crying at certain points of the story (specifically this scene, the garden scene and the wall and death scenes) is crucial for understanding him and how his emotions work.

now, back to the 2015 movie. in that movie, the little prince does not cry ONCE. not when he finds out his rose lied to him about being unique, not when he fights the aviator (which the movie doesnt even show), not even when he’s about to die, even if he knows only his body is going to.

hell, his emotions dont even feel that present at all. in some scenes he’s confused, in others he’s sad, and hes afraid when he first meets the snake, but it doesn’t feel as present as i wanted it to be.

i do really like having him feel like an odd apparition in the aviator’s eyes, that’s really fun, but only in certain scenes, and where that’s what the audience is Supposed to feel, like he’s not really from this earth (because he’s not). but for that, what I (now this part goes to personal opinions of how i would adapt this book. im still traumatised from twitter so i gotta clarify that) would do would be to make it clear that this is the aviators POV, like in the book, and that we as the audience don’t know what’s going on in the LPs head, only what he shows us (which is almost nothing), so his uncanny vibes are purposeful, because let’s be real a child from space that looks human but is probably Not human would be an unsettling thing.

but again, i absolutely adore this movie, i think its a great way of building onto this 80 year old story and continuing it in a way that feels modern, but my deep autistic love for this book and the parts that no one talks about of it make me very sad on how the movie utilised it. like if fucking Mr Prince shows more personality than the title character then somethings wrong.

mr. prince is such a fucking loser man. it makes me think what did the people in the adult planet do to that man to make him like that like you’re telling me that that’s supposed to be THE LITTLE PRINCE??? THAT LOSER????? come on man something definitely went wrong with the adulting process

it makes me wonder if the effects of the growupping machine were not always permanent even in the adult planet, like imagine mr prince saying something that sounded too childlike or maybe even recognising the king or the conceited man, and the teacher or the businessman Immediately interfering (which would explain how anxious he is all the time)

mr. prince is such a fucking loser man. it makes me think what did the people in the adult planet do to that man to make him like that like you’re telling me that that’s supposed to be THE LITTLE PRINCE??? THAT LOSER????? come on man something definitely went wrong with the adulting process

i really really like the contrast between the box scene in the 2015 and 1974 movies because it really shows how different each movie characterises the aviator’s dynamic with the little prince

in the ‘74 version he’s a lot softer with him, having already been annoyed and dismissive with the previous three drawings, but when he gives the LP the box he immediately softens when he sees he liked it. it shows how much more caring he is towards the LP since the very beginning

in the 2015 version, on the other hand, the aviator is dismissive the whole way through, only seeming intrigued after the LP accepts the box. he doesn’t smile at him, he just looks at him in confusion and intrigue. it’s a lot more similar to the book, but it’s done a lot more hurriedly since again. the main focus of this movie is not the original little prince story.

i also think its fun to see the differences between 1974!LP and 2015!LP like in the way 1974!LP is a lot more aware of the aviator and to me feels more like a normal kid while 2015!LP is a lot more in his own world (similar to the books) and feels more like a strange being than a little kid

idk i just think its neat. we are seeing a man become a dad to a star child in real time

he's always so tiny im gonna cry

"TURNAROUND REPRISE (ONLY MOSTLY HUMMING VERSION)" FROM THE LITTLE PRINCE

original song by Hans Zimmer and Camille

now, this is the second song-editting project i have ever done lol (still an amateur, but this one was way easier 👍)

i've been seeing a lot of people on tiktok/reels/shorts, whatever, use the humming from this song and i really liked it! i was surprised i didn't remember the song despite having seen the movie when it first came out. i personally like the song better with just the little skat-hums; and while editing, i found an attachment of lyrics i could keep to help transition the two verses of humming together (albeit, to do so, i edited said verses to now be out of chronological order but eh 🤷 the verse people have been mainly using is now the first bit you hear. so that helps with the song's trendy recognizablity, i think)

this was way easier AND quicker to edit than "Ultraman" lol but yeah! edited it for the same reasons as i had with "Ultraman"; this part helps me battle against my executive dysfunction, the regular verses of the song did the opposite of help with my executive dysfunction bc my brain is fickle for unknowable reasons that having absolutely nothing at all to do with the other verses' quality or the artists (the rest of the song is great! my brain is just overly picky if i want to use music to battle against my executive dysfunction). just thought i'd post my edit in case it similarly helps anyone else, that's all. i did very basic editing here, very non-signature "anybody else could have very easily come up with the same results without knowing my edit exists" type stuff; so i dont personally mind if you do not credit me, unless you really want to, if you want to cross-post this song-edit onto other platforms. i didn't make the song; that was all Hans Zimmer and Camille. i just made this edit because i couldn't find any pre-existing song-edit at the time (that might have changed by now, i haven't checked since, idk lol)

also, same as the "Ultraman" song-edit i just posted: tried to upload the audio-file from my phone to tumblr (as i recollect others having done so), couldn't get it to work, asked google how to do it, google said "you can't do from a file on your phone anymore; it's gotta be from spotify, soundcloud, or something" and i said "oh. okay" so y'all get a video-file that you can convert to an audio-file yourself, i guess lmao sorry?? 🤷 eh

but yeah!! that's it! hope you enjoy!! bye! 👋

● other song-edits by me: [Ultraman Rising's "Ultraman" No Rap / Chorus Only version]

On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux... // One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye...

— Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye..."

―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry