As I am watching bits and pieces of the movie Happy Feet, I cannot help but think of some similarities between it and Le Petit Prince.
Not that they are the same, but I find that both are multi-level works. Each has a decidedly “children” look to it but yet has other levels that are seen by the older crowd.
Le Petit Prince (here are a few of the adult themes that immediately come to mind):
- organization
- friendship
- loss
- love
- dealing with problems
- incomplete people who don’t realize it
- imagination
- being stifled by others because of their “tunnel vision” and/or narrow-mindedness
- creativity
- art as something for everyone
Happy Feet (some of its adult themes):
- being different and not accepted
- learning disabilities
- ecology and the effects of the modern world on the environment
- society values which may not encompass all they should
- loss
- love
- dealing with problems
- incomplete people who don’t realize it
- imagination
- being stifled by others because of their “tunnel vision” and/or narrow-mindedness
- creativity
- art as something for everyone
As I look at them, I see more and more in common.
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