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The Little Prince Movie
Pyrodinium
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12/9/2015
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So we've watched the "The Little Prince" film. For some reason I think it was sadder than the book that I remembered reading in my childhood.
One rather sad scene was this narration (paraphrased from my memory)
The Prince loved the Rose and the rose loved the Prince but they were too young to love. So the Prince went away from his asteroid using a flock of birds, leaving the Rose behind.
Why are love stories between cosmic beings, especially those of different stations, so sad?
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malthaussen
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12/9/2015
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Answering that question would require some significant social and philosophical speculation. Instead, have the Students:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5YPpfOINQ
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babelfishwars
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12/9/2015
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I never saw the rose/prince of different stations. Just as two people who couldn't understand how the other thought, so couldn't communicate their own feelings (doesn't it even say something along the lines of 'I was too young and she was too proud/scared). Not disagreeing, just never read it that way.
Weird how I'd find chapter 21 in a self-help book didactic and tedious, but in the book pretty much condenses everything I believe about love.
Also: sadder than the book? I ugly-cry *every* time I read it (find it very cathartic)... eep. ('One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed...')
(I'm a fan of the Katharine Woods translation, despite its errors. I've seen it described as 'stiff', but find the more natural version lose some of the hesitant poetry I find in her version.)
edited by babelfishwars on 12/9/2015
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