The Prophet
Does anyone know the basic plot summary of this script?
shareNo idea. But I really hope it happens.
With Marjane Satrapi working on it, and Sylvain Chomet, Bill Plympton, and Kunio Kato rumored, I am VERY excited about it.
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Wow, i cant wait.
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the plot is that Mustafa's daughter get taken and.... oh wait XD
shareAssuming it is the same as the book:
Almustafa the Prophet is leaving the city of Orphalese to travel back to his homeland. As he leaves the people of the city, lead by Almitra the Seer, comes up to him and asks him to teach them on various subjects which he does in the form of prose poems.
In the book each chapter, apart from the first and last, starts with one of the citizens ask about a subject and Almustafa talking about it for the rest of the chapter. So from what I have read I assume that the different animators are going to try to animate each of Almustafa/Mustafa's answers. And it would make the most sense to have the same animator on the first and last chapters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophet_%28book%29
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The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
I saw it yesterday. They turned "Almustafa" into the poet Mustafa, whose ideas nearly led to a dictator being overthrown seven years before the movie begins. The protagonist is a young girl whose father died two years prior, and has remained silent ever since. She meets Mustafa on the day the dictator's sergeant informs him that he's free from house arrest - provided he leaves Orphalese (which is not his ancestral home) forever. It's later revealed that he must also renounce what he said, or face a firing squad.
The girl follows Mustafa on the long walk from his house to the dock where a ship awaits to take him home. Along the way a variety of townspeople approach Mustafa, remembering his words from seven years ago and asking him for blessings or wisdom on a variety of subjects, which prompt him to share what we know as Gibran's poetry. Eight of the book's 26 poems are used, each one designed and directed by an animation team different from the main plot, which resembles a Disney movie.
It's an excellent adaptation.
That doesn't explain what the movie is about. What is the theme or plot of the stories/poems in the book then movie is based on? Is it Islam related?
shareThe theme is ethics, presented in a form of poetry.
The book is a work of beauty, if this film captures even a small proportion of the book's character, it will be well worth a watch.
I just checked by searching google and basically it is a book of spirituality published in 1923. It apparently is embraced by various counterculture people in the 60s and today it's like a new age spirituality book. I think it is a stupid reason to like it, but it says http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17997163 that it is liked by those who don't like the traditional religious views.
shareActually, that's a very good reason to like it, which is precisely why so many questioning young people embraced it in the 1960s, drawn by its compassion, tenderness, and emphasis on love rather than rigid dogma.
shareIt's an incredible book. It really should be mandatory reading in schools.
shareIt looks like another religious whack-a-mole movie, think I'll pass. Saw the trailer and it hurt my eyelids just watching.
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