I was 14 when this came out. I drug my little sister over and over to the theater to watch it. I dreamed of having a little boy just like the prince. I did, three of them. I loved this movie then, I love it even more today. Such a sweet and tender movie.
I saw Beyond the Fringe on Broadway in the early 60s. It was sensational. Every skit was brilliant. More than a decade later I saw AJ Ayer give a lecture at Colgate. Well, I laughed out loud in a crowded lecture hall. Ayer so reminded me of Miller, when he went through Moore common sense realism “This is a chair” routine. Ayer looked straight at me. I was embarrassed. Still, Miller got Ayer perfectly right. Fond if uncomfortable memories
I know why i prefer Python more than fringe cause fringe is mainly upper class toffs and their culture and comedy of the wealthy and upper class is never as funnier as the lower classes. Rick Mayall realized this as bottom was his best and the statesman and filthy rich and catflap and other toff roles he did was never as funny as bottom or young ones.
I should imagine in the modern Oxford this magnificent show from a long gone past of reason, discussion and humour would likely as not be shouted down by the offended mob of people, chanting and waving banners with the fixed slogans supplied to them for the particular agenda being parroted.
My little sister stole this movie from block buster when she was 4 and I was 8. We watched it everyday and night for so long. Now we’re both gay depressed artists :)
I seen this movie when I was I about eight I all I remember is crying my eyes out now now I am 51 and trying to reconnect with that whatever it was with this movie that touched me so much as a very young child
I never got to say goodbye to my dad before he died but I did have a dream shortly after where I was alone in the middle of the nowhere like the little prince in this scene, 5:48 my dad showed up, kneeled, smiled, hugged me and said "bye for now"..I cried and woke up. Now everytime I see this scene and the little prince's sad face, I can't help but cry... RIP Pop!!
I'm very sorry. My dad died of pancreas n leaver cancer in 2006..n years later he came to me. When I saw him he disappeared..his look was so concerned. I balled my eyes out.
Not exactly hilarious? I'd say--rather haphazardly mind you--(with the qualifier that the game of hilarity is in fact a game of language, quid pro quo), that this sketch is exactly within the set (which may in fact be a fuzzy set, rather than the typical precise non-fuzzy set which we normally think of) of things which may be (or at least often are) considered hilarious.
I never seen this movie but gene wilder puts me so much in mind of wes Anderson's mr. fox, now I see where the inspiration came from ! God I wanna see this so bad, Wilder plays this role so charmingly... It just fits him to a t.
i read in his autobiography that, the shot where he’s in the wheat field, right before they shot it he had gotten the call that his father passed. one of the best actors to ever live, and after watching almost all of his movies i credit him as the reason i want to be an actor someday.
Gene Wilder helps me to love with all my heart. Know what I mean? watching him emote without fear is the most inspiring, heartening thing to this emotionally stunted introvert. I chose him as ambassador for humanity.