Way Too Seriously
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- Hosted by Jan Moffett and Paul Moffett
Way Too Seriously is a weekly podcast in which Jan and Paul Moffett talk about the implicit biases, the assumptions, and the thematic implications of kids’ movies with exactly the appropriate level of seriousness.
In this extra long episode of WTS Paul and Jan talk about The Little Prince. This movie is based on a book which was a beloved childhood favourite for Paul, so in this episode we talk about the relationship of the movie to the book. We also talk about why grown-ups are ridiculous, what it means to be essential, and why we wish this children’s movie had featured some more deaths.
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We talk in this episode about adaptation theory, and Paul mentions Linda Hutcheon. You can find her book on Google books here if you’d like to read more about that. If you’re interested in adaptation theory you might also want to check out the writings of Julia Kristeva (especially “Desire in Language”), Mikhail Bakhtin (especially “The Dialogic Imagination”), and Gerard Genette (especially “Palimpsests”). That ought to hold you.
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We would love to hear your thoughts about The Little Prince, either the movie or the book. Get in touch with us on Twitter, and tell us every one of your feelings. Or send us an email at waytooseriouslycast at gmail.com if you’d like to say it more privately. You can also discuss this episode in our subreddit. We’ll be reading and responding to some listener responses in a mini-sode soon, so if you’d like to hear us read your comments about this or any of our episodes on the podcast, send them in soon!
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