Gene Wilder in The Little Prince - Taming the fox

[@oddbobproductions781]

"I'm a fox." "I'm sad. Will you play with me?" "No." *runs away chaotically*

[@allys744]

I love seeing Gene act with children in movies. He was a gentle talented man with a voice of melted gold.

[@VaultWeasel]

This man was too good for this planet.

[@miscelaneasdealguem]

He was like sunshine ☀️ so warm.

[@jasonblack4208]

Gene Wilder is amazing as always, but...can we just take a moment to appreciate that level of acting from a kid who is like 5?

[@gibransaliba8801]

a lot of kids were great actors in those days. seems like everything was better back in the day many times

[@looppooper2306]

​@@gibransaliba8801 it's because only the good and the really really really terrible things get remembered.

[@Mistardmuster]

​@looppooper2306 back in the good old days they used to lock child actors in a box and force them to sit on an ice block of they didn't perform well

[@Bronsteinification]

I appreciate it. We watched the movie in high school just days after my grandpa died. I felt & feel like I could be that kid.

[@alessandrabh9447]

''i'm sad, would you play with me?'' ''haha - no.'' hahahaha I died at this part LOL

[@Brandon_Lee83]

Oh my gosh that was the best line! 😂🤘

[@zepter00]

1/3 of the cats you will meet..and 95% of Girls and women you will ever meet. 😆😆🤣😁

[@keyaunna.]

SAME

[@RPIXELN]

Gene's voice was always so soothing to me, it calms me when I'm nervous.

[@greerlovesgovert]

The first time I saw this film, I was 14 years old and devastated by my parents' recent separation. It was Christmas Eve, dad had moved out and I was in a dark mood. If I'd seen the film for the first time as an adult, I probably would have found it ridiculous, but as a kid feeling a lot of raw emotion, it spoke to me directly and made perfect emotional sense. The little boy who played the prince was so solemn and articulate, a lonely but capable stoic. I thought that if he could manage in this cold world, then I could too. I was charmed by Gene Wilder as the fox who became his friend and hoped that I'd find a fox of my own. By the end of the film, I was weeping into a tea towel. Despite the story's profound melancholy, this film and the 2015 French version are Christmas favourites in my house. I was sad to learn that the story's author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, died while flying a military mission over the Mediterranean Sea, his body never recovered.

[@tendy6993]

Huh 14 long time ago indeed. Do you watch your favourite movies with your grand kids.

[@greerlovesgovert]

@@tendy6993 Odd that you'd say that since I'm obviously far too young to have grandkids. Besides, my daughter wants dogs instead of children. You should consider making the same choice.

[@gibransaliba8801]

@@greerlovesgovert I wanted kids badly before. But nowadays, I kind of see it more fit to get fur babies instead of human babies lol. This world has gone madder and everyday for a long time

[@winmipodcast]

I'm currently working on a podcast episode all about The Little Prince, would you mind if I mentioned this story in that episode? It captures my own feelings as well about this movie, but also gives an outside perspective on this film's impact.

[@alegendamongmen]

You are boring the pants off me.

[@radrickdavis]

Damn, who else delivers hugs that hit you that hard in a movie? Nobody tops a Wilder hug.

[@georges_biscuit4083]

I imagine meeting him as a fox. He reincarnated into a fox and played together in the forest.

[@gibransaliba8801]

Gene Wilder has been amazing. I feel like he was a great human being when he was with us. Not all the good people die young

[@Griwhoolda]

The end of WIlly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, when he hugs Charlie, gets me *very time.*

[@badideabearcub2747]

Funny how this scene was boring as hell when I was a kid, and now I find it very charming and tender.

[@troy9168]

You saw this when you were a kid?

[@sampeacaml9307]

@@troy9168 Lucky.

[@marinapratt6819]

Badidea Bearcub “The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it." -P. L. Travers (author of “Mary Poppins”)

[@yayothejowen2541]

I'm 16 and I too saw this as a kid...

[@shahani6037]

I didn't see this movie as a kid, but I did read the english translation of the book when I was 9 or so. Left an impression on me, that's for sure. I'm 35 this year and this is still such a profound story.

[@neecicoleman1690]

Funny story, I watched the animated movie from 2015 first, before I'd even heard of this one, and when it got to the fox scenes I sat there thinking "this seems like a Gene Wilder role" and then a few days later when I looked it up I found this and I cannot explain the excitement and happiness that ensued. Unfortunately, that is the only time anything like that has happened, but I'm glad it happened with this.

[@Charlie-rw8yj]

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.

[@sarahbreisch4750]

that's next-level universal emotions

[@danthomas6587]

Oh Gene, I wonder if you knew how much you were loved

[@robertk7484]

I have loved this movie since seeing it as a boy. I have only seen it the one time, but it has never left me. "It's only with the heart that one can see clearly. What's essential is invisible to the eye". This was Gene Wilder's finest, and most heart warming performance (in my opinion). An excellent tribute to him indeed.

[@Hisloyalservantslistenlove613c]

We had this book in our home. I didn’t know that it was beautiful . I didn’t know that I was beautiful either.. at least on the outside. It is now over 60 years later and my beauty is inside invisible to most... but a few children and one Australian Shepherd

[@unityedits3722]

You should see the 2015 animated "sequel." Aside from just being a quality movie, there's s certain reference to a certain line that I think you'll enjoy! 😉

[@MusicByAllonaMayost]

Such an underrated movie

[@marinapratt6819]

Music By Allona Yeah, it was out of tune with the times. Our corrupt President had just resigned, the Vietnam war was still going on, devil-possession movies were in, and melodious Lerner and Lowe songs no longer sounded anything like what was playing on the radio.

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Now you vote Obama, Hillary, Biden. Can't compare them to Nixon. Grow up and a brain.

[@MasonKLutz]

Underrated story, for the most part.

[@oaf-77]

This one scene is one of the greatest things ever filmed. Simple, quiet and heartbreaking.

[@ebblis07]

Every time I see this I cry… this is so simple and at the same time so deep. Best story/book ever

[@Tusc9969]

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!!

[@carolinealbelo2342]

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.

[@Tusc9969]

@@carolinealbelo2342 Mine passed in 2018. The pain never goes away, does it...

[@carolinealbelo2342]

@@Tusc9969 no it doesn't...but good memories keep them alive

[@Sarah-zr1nj]

What a beautiful dream.

[@jamien.5528]

Every line from this movie/book is a masterpiece.

[@aut1976]

Fantastic work from Gene Wilder.

[@davidmacias3121]

Martine Minnema the best

[@orianasugarlights4129]

I first feel in love with him in this film when I was a teenager. He just looked so wild and free! Which I only felt. He was perfect for this role!

[@Allcanadian79]

he will live forever in our hearts

[@davidmacias3121]

Rip gene wilder

[@SaraEvelinaLofqvist]

Gene Wilder was a great actor!! And he seemed to love kids to!

[@Josh-Fischer9804]

He didn't seem to love children he absolutely loved children especially because of Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory and how much their faces lit up whenever they saw him on screen. This was the direct reason why he and his family kept his Alzeimer's disease diagnosis completely private until his dying day as yes even though he was unfortunately old and dying as that is what Alzeimer's pretty much does to the afflicted person as in my mind put simplisticly Alzeimer's is effectively literally losing your mind which is different from going insane he didn't want any of the people who loved his characters to then associate them with someone who is suffering from a horrible disease or illness and be saddened greatly as a result as even though he was forgetting everything he was very well aware there were so very many happy smiles around the world and he didn't want to be responsible or bare the idea of taking any of them away. From what I've read whenever anybody reads the part "Gene couldn't bare the idea of one less smile in the world" the get driven to tears whenever I tell fans of Gene Wilder about his desire to keep peoples smiles in the world alive they get immediately saddened to which I apologize as that is never my intention and I see it as something that was yes sad but heroic in it's own way as he died keeping people happy and smiling instead of having people be sad because he was sick.

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

HOW COULD 11 PEOPLE NOT APPRECIATE A WONDERFUL MAN GENE WILDER

[@MoarteMorrison]

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.

[@bubbamom1]

It is only with the heart that one can truly see. What is essential is invisible to the eye ❤️😢

[@brianmayfan6214]

I saw this when I was 8, and just fell in love with Gene Wilder (and also the little boy)

[@troy9168]

This is the first time I saw this

[@IbtihalMahmood]

This is the cutest thing I've seen in a very long time.

[@northfox8794]

what a lesson to learn.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663]

~RIP Gene Wilder~

[@HondaCBR_1000]

I can't believe I found this! I watched it at my aunt's house when I was 8. Yesterday I saw the book of The Little Prince and instantly the memory of the prince taming the fox came to my mind and I was sure I must have read it at her house(I didn't remember watching). I called her to ask her if she had the book but she said she didn't. Today I finally realised I didn't read the book but watched it on the TV... This is the exact clip! I'm so glad I found it

[@v3dovaloo739]

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 :)

[@paulcolbourne5555]

Gene wilders hair/ lol love it

[@georges_biscuit4083]

Floofy hair. Imagine if they added some fox ears and a fox tail.

[@dnhy7951]

Have seen quite a few of the movies of the late and very great Gene Wilder but only became aware of this one today.

[@lisahind8858]

So sweet. I have read this book many times.

[@armanparvez6443]

The little prince acted brilliant, it was lovely to feel the last two lines. Love from Dhaka Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@Maniacal_Laughter]

The message in this scene is true for many things

[@georges_biscuit4083]

I've been feeling too insecure for being an extrovert. The scene just felt like what I'd do to meet a new person who is an introvert. I'd act like they're about to hunt me or something...

[@angeladavidson2350]

Seeing Gene Wilder pretend to be a fox is beautiful 😂😂😂

[@fhb3]

I like how he made this 🦊 (fox) look innocent.

[@anastasiabananastasia]

this movie is wonderful .. truly wonderful

[@J__T]

Gene Wilder *is* the Fox in my opinion...

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

LOVE GENE WILDER WITH ALL MY HEART AND ALWAYS WILL

[@sarahbreisch4750]

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.

[@miscelaneasdealguem]

​@@sarahbreisch4750Watching him in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory while high on mushrooms was the best thing I ever experienced and the purest love I ever felt lmao

[@sarahbreisch4750]

@@miscelaneasdealguem that sounds lovely!

[@yayothejowen2541]

Jeez, I'm 16 and I used to love this as a kid. But I didn't know this was released in 1974.

[@ejhatch1]

One of my favorites! ;-)

[@troy9168]

Me too

[@rabbit0664]

Ditto

[@airplanetowardsthesky3265]

How I wish I could have gotten a hug from gene wilder

[@tiffanykane692]

What in the acid trip is this?! 😂 Love and miss you Gene. ♥️

[@irinaturgueniev8284]

Damn. That fox's secret made me cry. Now what do I do

[@mangoisafruit5699]

Read the book

[@eduardaalmeida6191]

Ooh, this scene is soooo lovely!! 😍

[@orianasugarlights4129]

Thank you for this. It's my favorite part and I totally LOVE this book and movie. 😍✌💚

[@orianasugarlights4129]

"...what's essential, ...is invisible to the eye. " I still get goosebumps when I hear him say that line. So moving. And even more so true. 💝

[@mygemdiamond7898]

when i watched this in school, everyone in my class said the fox looked like willy wonka

[@femerific]

Aiden's Gaming your class is dumb 🦊

[@tesscarvelli4690]

He IS Willy Wonka!

[@thecreator90000]

There's a reason for that🤣

[@not_so_anonymous7413]

@@tesscarvelli4690 no he's not

[@tesscarvelli4690]

I mean the actor who PLAYS Willy Wonka

[@nathanielmJ55582]

Love this version love the book

[@pezolaman]

I love this so much. He is so great

[@amosonyoutube]

I was 4 when I first saw this film and I would watch it a infinite amount of times and till this day it’s the best film I have ever seen

[@thecompanysingersph]

Why did I watch this ?!? No, I’m not crying ! You are 😂😂😂

[@kevinbuckley4781]

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

[@ShoppingBored]

How willy wonka spends his time outside the chocolate factory

[@Logitah]

Living in the woods as a fox! XD

[@anasaintclair82]

Pure boy pure soul... soooo cute 👑 prefect to this work 😍

[@VLFBERHTwolf]

5:15 "And listen when she grumbled." Yeah, the author of the original book was talking about his wife who he separated for a while flew around the world and upon realizing he still loved her regardless of her faults he return to her.

[@christopherbacon1077]

"But I don't lie." "Then you're inhuman"

[@Rosangela161]

Thank you, thank you very much, infinite thanks.

[@horsegonewild]

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.

[@mickierobinson5774]

My grandma have this movie. Every time I visit her I ask watch it. This was my fav part.

[@Seek1878]

Gene Wilder always looks sad to me...

[@amylumet8365]

yes...

[@miscelaneasdealguem]

Considering how he dedicated his life to bringing joy and smiles to others, it's quite bittersweet. He strikes me as a little bit sad too.

[@Hisloyalservantslistenlove613c]

Thank you

[@ataliarivas8346]

i watched this when i was little and i fucking cried my eyes out, nostalgia hit really hard :)

[@swagobill]

How is it that I'm 50 and I've never heard of this movie? Bob Fosse brought me here.

[@georgie23]

❤️

[@troy9168]

❤️

[@laurahoward5426]

So sweet and beautiful 😍

[@mariadln777]

[@skrap5461]

Is only with the heart that one can see clearly., What's essential is invisible to the eye. Can someone explain this to me in other words? Please

[@samantharossiter8808]

SkrAp all our feelings and emotions and our love for others come from the heart, we love with our hearts, deep love, deep bonds, we feel it but it cannot be seen by anyone but we feel it, everybody needs love, feels love, it doesn’t matter what they look like, this bit makes me cry 😭

[@LoryLilyBomber]

At the beginning of the scene, the boy was sad because he felt like he had been tricked, or had wasted his time by tending to his rose, because he had thought it was special and unique, but there were “millions just like her.” Then after meeting the fox, and learning what “taming” is- becoming close enough to someone that they can hurt you, but you learn enough about them that they become important and beautiful to you-he realizes that his tamed rose WAS, in fact, unique and important, because of all of the things you can’t see on the surface-the time you spent with someone, the feelings you have for them and that they have for you, and the impact you make on each other. When he thought the roses were all identical, he wasn’t seeing clearly. But looking at HIS rose, after all of the time spent taming it, he can see what makes it special-that it’s not like all the other roses anymore TO HIM. That’s seeing with the heart. And to see those things with the heart, you have to risk getting your heart hurt by taming something, or by being tamed yourself. And it will hurt. But in the book, it’s not so bleak as it seems here-with the fox being left alone-in the book, the boy says something like “but you’ll be sad [when I leave], so you didn’t get anything out of it.” And the fox says “you did give me something-you gave me a reason to love the wheat fields.” So you will be hurt by loss, but it’s still worth being tamed, because every person will give you something like that.

[@georges_biscuit4083]

@@LoryLilyBomber, wait! I also need an explanation for the death of the Prince! I'm having trouble understanding it. I guess I'm just too young to understand things. :`{

[@LoryLilyBomber]

George's_ Biscuit hmm, that ones a little more tough. From what I understand, the little Prince represents our childhoods-the way we see things when we’re young, like the drawing of the snake and the elephant. In a moment close to death, the pilot is visited by essentially his childhood self, and given a new/old perspective on life. The prince has to “go back” to his star by dying-it’s essentially the death of our childhood innocence. You can’t really get it back once it’s lost. But, just because it’s gone, doesn’t mean you have to mourn it. The business the prince says about the stars-about the pilot hearing the Prince’s laugh when he looks at them-it’s like how we can’t ever go back to our stars, we can’t ever see things just like we used to when we were young, but we can remember what it was like, and it’s something that will be unique to each person. and that can bring us joy and perspective in our day to day adult lives. I know there’s probably more to it than that, but that’s what I got from it.

[@georges_biscuit4083]

@@LoryLilyBomber, y'know. I used to think that being old is being better than being some idiot teenager. I always thought that being old and mature make me better and people will always respect me. I always thought that my childhood is dead and I don't need any of it anymore. It made me have more problems even thinking about it. I had problems in school and having more panic attacks in school because of it. Thanks for telling me what it really means. I don't have to go through all this anymore.

[@angelssonico]

JUST

[@OdsnFilms]

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly...what is essential is naked to the eye...🧐

[@into.the.wood.chipper.]

Watching the Bob Fosse snake scene, I immediately thought of Gene Wilder, and then he was the Fox.

[@aurelieledet7983]

I think my ONLY complaint, was that Bob's snake dance was unnecessarily longer than I intended and it made me a bit bored for a second but I loved this movie so much

[@vicentehizon6202]

Steven Warner should have been a child star.

[@hmmuhhh5715]

Here cause of talisin jaffe

[@OztrumStrikesBack]

0:07 is this a CGI fox? How was that possible in 1974??

[@lanitana100]

It’s probably a real one.

[@benjaminbrewer2569]

Think animal trainers and handlers specializing in foxes. And excellent editing.

[@georges_biscuit4083]

It can be a fox from Russia. Some foxes were being domesticated there.

[@lisastephens3692]

Puppets were also good....

[@sabrinamitchell4107]

Kitsune

[@Vulpes_Ailurus]

The editing in this is wonky as hell. But Gene Wilder plays the part so well I don’t care.

[@Adistmin]

1:20 I'm sorry i have to leave it here

[@sandrajones1609]

This is a great scene but you CUT out the CORE the dance😮

[@jonathanross149]

Any Chickens?

[@mikhailabunidal9146]

✡️ Rip/ Z"L Gene ✡️ 🦊

[@Big_Bad_Gammon]

1:23

[@MandyMoore-e1c]

No tno film has changed

[@cliffcampbell8827]

What does the fox say?...sorry, I couldn't help it.

[@captainseyepatch3879]

While Gene Wilder is fantastic in this. I think we need to talk about Steven Warner in this. This kid is fantastic...

[@merlin1649]

Feminism the most accurate, honest, truthful, loving description in a nut shell. Hope some of them get it but I know it is an uphill battle. Love the West.

[@Alienaddikt]

What?

[@olivine6]

research. rESEARCH.

[@thegamefree1]

why did they copy The Little Prince movie that came out 2015 with Jeff Bridges?

[@tanania]

This was made way before the animated movie based on the book. It didn't copy another movie.

[@patrickwannafightaboutit6338]

@@tanania a joke? Sarcasm? No? Must be stupidity

[@AngelinaQuintero_2006]

The 2015 copied THIS movie actually.

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Today this look very weird. It's an old man grooming a little boy.

[@yosemitejen9448]

Read the book and you’ll understand the story. It has no malintent as you imply 🙄 Has all imagination been lost due lack of READING??

[@Hisloyalservantslistenlove613c]

@@yosemitejen9448 yes

[@ElyOtto]

Did you read the book? 😕

[@keyaunna.]

the book explains this scene very very differently. however i agree that the song made me very uncomfortable.

[@candidoj]

Look it with your heart.