Too many good reviews for the film version of The Little Prince have almost nothing to do with the film adaptation. They are not commenting on the movie, but purely on the story of the Little Prince itself. Throughout the history of film, too many first-rate novels have been adapted into second-rate films, such as several editions of "Anna Karenina" and "The Great Gatsby", "White Deer Plain", which was hotly discussed the year before, and Murakami's "Norway". The two versions of "The Forest", etc., have lost many of their original appearances when adapted into movies. But looking at it again, there are also countless people who have turned second- and third-rate novels into masterpieces. Take Lao Ku as saying that they have almost achieved the ultimate in adapting works, such as "A Clockwork Orange", "Dr. Strangelove", "The Shining" Even the early "Killing" were all adaptations far beyond the original work, and "2001 A Space Odyssey" also exceeded the limitations of the film theme and achieved many impossibles. As Andre Bazin once said: "The characteristics of the film create a new myth that exists outside the original text." When reading the book The Little Prince, it is impossible to ignore the textual representation of this fairy tale. From this non-omniscient point of view, a pilot who was forced to land in the Sahara Desert due to a plane failure met the little prince, which gave readers a wonderful sense of unknown and novelty, and it was easier to substitute into it. At the beginning of the film, there is a cartoon of a python eating an elephant, which makes people feel very good, and that is the temperament of the original work. But after the title subtitle, another inexplicable story line appeared: that little girl. Her story occupies a huge space, and even, she became the main line of the movie. In this way, the narrative perspective of the film is completely changed, the focus of the story is shifted, and the chapters of the little prince are compressed to very few. At first glance, this is a richness to the structure of the original work, but it has become an addition. The creator wisely subtracted things in the original system and added them as a whole. There are more and less movie adaptations than the original. not only because it is more excessive in expression than words, but also because it is a layered structure of the original author’s text, and it is also a layered structure of meaning production. There are many creators, and the author’s concept is scattered. , a variety of different creative intentions have increased. Then the meaning of the film less than the original is because the original author has become one of many authors, and has been weakened. This is one thing that many people overlook, aside from the textual level. To some extent, film adaptation should have its fidelity and equivalence considerations. The Little Prince's book is allegorical, it minimizes the didactic nature, and people read it with a lot of feelings. This kind of gain cannot be quantified. To visualize such a story is the focus of the creator's thinking. In the fable of the little prince, the interpretation of the context is extremely important. It is a world full of symbolic languages, such as the pilot "I", the little prince, adults, foxes, roses and so on. In the adaptation, on the one hand, it is the cooperation between the two desires of consistency and reproduction, and on the other hand, it is the cognition of difference. If the original work is changed, there must be something of equivalent value to return to the audience, so that such an adaptation will give the audience a feeling that is equivalent to or beyond the text level. In the book, the little prince met the fox when he was crying. The little prince asked the fox to play with him because he was sad, but the fox refused. The fox said to the little prince: I cannot play with you, I have not been domesticated, but if you domesticate me, we will need each other. To me, you will be unique in the world; I will also be unique to you in the world. The little prince and the fox and the rose, all these things are gone. In the movie, a little girl who flew a plane alone and arrived in an unfamiliar city met an old man. The old man told the girl that he had seen the little prince in the Sahara when he was young. At the back of the movie, the little prince actually grew up and became the big prince, and the role of the big prince was just to redeem the little girl who went to a famous school for the creator. Where is the little prince? This is just for the convenience of the creator to force a big wave of naked preaching to the audience. In the establishment of the idea, the film has already collapsed first. They convert between different texts
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