The Little Prince - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[jim]

The film made history in Brazil by becoming the first non-American animation to top the box office in the country. It topped the Brazilian chart for three consecutive weeks, gathering over 2 million admissions.

[bernard]

Thanks to Mark Osborne's emotionally engaging pitch and the global popularity of Saint-Exupéry's book, a group of A-list actors were able to be recruited to lend their voices to the film's characters. It began with Jeff Bridges, he was the first and only choice to play the Aviator, so after a great deal of time trying to get to him, Osborne finally got the chance to go to his home in Santa Barbara to talk to him directly. Bridges was blown away by the pitch, and it really put them on the road to assembling the perfect cast.

[mathew]

Mark Osborne told that he approached the movie as a riddle to be solved. The big question was how can you make a cinematic experience that parallels or equals the very deep emotional experience of reading of the book. He tested the boundaries by pitching his ultimate dream scenario to producer Dimitri Rassam over a lunch, which included the radical idea of mixing CG animation with stop-motion. His big idea was to explore the touching relationship between the eccentric older version of the Aviator and the Little Girl who moves in next door. Osborne felt that ultimately it would need to be the story of the Little Girl learning to say good-bye to her friend, which would deeply parallel the book. Both the author's estate and the producers loved the director's passionate pitch.

[brent]

Despite being produced by French companies, the movie was written, directed and voiced first in English. However, it was the French version, which was recorded afterwards, that was screened in the majority of countries along with their local versions until October 2015.

[nina]

James Franco and Rachel McAdams had previously starred in Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015).

[tamara]

The voice cast has three Oscar winners (Benicio Del Toro, Marion Cotillard and Jeff Bridges) and four Oscar nominees (Albert Brooks, Paul Giamatti, James Franco and Rachel McAdams).

[bernard]

The stop-motion scenes in the desert were mosty created using paper, even the Little Prince was made out of paper clay.

[aaron]

The license plate of aviator's car is STEX43, clearly a reference to the book's author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (STEX), and 43, the year the book was first published (1943).

[ava]

The Little Prince became the most successful French animated film ever, grossing $97 million worldwide.

[leo]

In the early stages of production, Mark Osborne's daughter Maddie and his son Riley Osborne helped doing the temporary scratch voices for the roles of the Little Girl and the Little Prince. His daughter got older and her voice began to change, so she was replaced by 12-year-old Mackenzie Foy. But according to Osborne, they never found anyone who did a better job than his son Riley for the Prince. "He was 11 at the time, and was very natural in the part so we kept him as the Prince!", Osborne told.

[carl]

Olivier d'Agay, author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's grand nephew and spokesman for the Saint-Exupery estate, said in an email to Los Angeles Times in January 2016: "The movie is extremely faithful to the book. The story of the little girl, her friendship with the aviator, her conflict with her mother, [illustrate] the place of children today in a tough world of competition and solitude. It's why the two stories are really well linked. This is the originality and the genius of that movie: to show that the magic and the power of the book is still operating today."

[kristina]

At the beginning of the movie, while the children are waiting for their interviews, the posters (in french) ask " What do you want to be when you grow up", the same question posed in the interview. The expected answer is at the bottom of the poster...ESSENTIAL.

[edgar]

As of December 2015, the movie has gathered over 12 million admissions around the world.

[christina]

First-ever animated feature film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

[ava]

Marion Cotillard dubbed The Rose in both the English and the French version.

[linda]

Jeff Bridges [Iron-Man], Rachel McAdams [Doctor Strange], Paul Rudd [Ant-Man] Benicio Del Toro [Guardians Of The Galaxy] all star in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

[kyle]

The first animated movie to open the Santa Barbara Film Festival since the festival started in 1985.

[dustin]

Lily Allen sings Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" in the trailer. On May 21, 2014, she performed this song on the French TV show 'Le Grand Journal de Canal+' in Cannes. Marion Cotillard, who dubbed The Rose in this film, was there watching her performance.

[jim]

Throughout the film, the Mother wears a gray pantsuit, symbolizing her strict personality. When she and the Little Girl are stargazing near the end of the film, the Mother wears a casual sweater and jeans. This is to show how her daughter has helped her unwind and take time to relax.