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The Little Prince is a short novel written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published 1943 and it has been translated for over 250 languages and it has sold overall over 140 million copies. The book is the most famous work from de Saint-Exupéry.

I haven’t read any books similar to this. It is a poetic tale and it would have been hard to read even in Finnish. I can’t tell if it fits into its genre, but yes it really was poetic. And it was a mind-blowing experience to read, but some chapters and paragraphs were very hard to understand, even the translation sites couldn’t help me. But eventually I started to understand the text, mostly because its reiteration.

The main characters of the story are the author himself and, of course, the Little Prince. They became friends after Antoine crashes into Sahara Desert. The Little Prince starts telling stories from his adventures around the galaxy and tells about his home planet, which has three volcanoes and one flower. In one point Antoine the Pilot in forgotten and the book concentrates in the Prince and his tales. He tells about happiness very metaphorically, which causes the hard-readiness. The plot isn’t really a big whoop in the story, because it really just tells us that the pilot crashes, becomes friends with the Prince, then repairing his engine and then the Prince leaves.

The language of the book. Oh gosh. I thought I was pretty good in English and understand words and know what they mean. I was terribly wrong. I know that this is very hard English but in almost every sentence was a word I couldn’t understand. But in the plus side my vocabulary increased. The pilot tells the story, which means that Antoine himself tells it and about his experiences. I don’t know how badly he was dehydrated, but a little prince appears from another planet? Quite amusing to me.

The reading experience was delightful, yet hard. As I said the were hard words and chapters but in the end I understood it. And even though the book was a big fat metaphore, I still enjoyed reading it.

”Schwing!”

Wayne’s World is a comedy movie released in 1992. The director of the movie was Penelope Spheeris and the writers were Bonnie and Terry Turner, a married couple who also wrote 3rd Rock from the Sun and That 70’s Show, and Mike Myers who also was the leading actor of the movie. Other main actors were Dana Carvey as Garth, Waynes sidekick and Tia Carrere as Cassandra, the basist of the band called Crucial Taunt and Waynes to-be-girlfriend. The movie was a big hit and it made profit of 100 million dollars just from the movie tickets in US. The movie got a sequel in 1993.

The events take place in Aurora, which is Chicagos suburb. The main characters, Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar are best friends and they both live in their parents houses.  They run a basic cable ”basement show” called Wayne’s World, which is filmed in Waynes basement. The show is a short review of current pop culture things and Wayne picking on Garth. Briefly, the rest of plot is about TV-boss Benjamin Kane buying the rights to the show and eventually failing when he tries to make the show better. Selling the shows rights tests Waynes and Garths friendship. Things don’t get any easier, when Wayne falls in love with Cassandra, who plays bass in a band which performs in bar called Comrades, where Wayne and Garth go celebrate after getting 10,000 dollars from the sold rights.  Garth and all the audience is angry to Wayne because he sold the rights but then he gets the rights back and everything is back to normal.

The amount of the laugh was too damn high when I watched Wayne’s World for the first time. The humor hit me very well and I’m frustrated by the fact that Wayne’s World has only two movies. The movie is written for teens and especially for American teens at the time. The kind of ”basement shows” as Wayne’s World were very popular by the time of the movie. All cities had 2-3 basement shows of their own. I don’t think that the movie has a message because Mike Myers’s comedy movies are usually just for laughs. I would recommend the movie for all those people who love so bad corny jokes that they became good and for those who love to laugh until they pee themselves. (Thank God didn’t happen to me.) It is easy to follow and the only thing I would done differently is the movie cameras, which quality was poor.

Lähteet: Wikipedia ja IMBd