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| - | '''''Fantastic Planet''''' is the [[English language|English]] title of '''''La Planète sauvage''''' (literally "The Savage Planet") an [[animated]] [[1973 in film|1973]] [[science fiction]] [[film]] directed by [[René Laloux]]. The film was an international production between [[France]] and [[Czechoslovakia]] and has been distributed in the United States by [[Roger Corman]]. It won the special jury prize at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 1973. The story is based on a novel, ''[[Oms en Série]]'', by the French writer [[Stefan Wul]]. | + | '''''Fantastic Planet''''' is the [[English language|English]] title of '''''La Planète sauvage''''' (literally "The Savage Planet") an [[animated]] [[1973 in film|1973]] [[science fiction]] [[film]] directed by [[René Laloux]]. The film was an international production between [[France]] and [[Czechoslovakia]] and was distributed in the United States by [[Roger Corman]]. It won the special jury prize at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 1973. The story is based on a novel, ''[[Oms en Série]]'', by the French writer [[Stefan Wul]]. |
| The film is chiefly noted for its [[Surrealism|surreal]] imagery, the work of French [[writer]] and [[artist]] [[Roland Topor]]. The landscape of the Draag planet is full of strange creatures, including a cackling predator which traps small fluttering animals in its cage-like nose, shakes them to death and hurls them to the ground. The Draag practice of [[meditation]], whereby they commune psychically with each other and with different species, is shown in transformations of their shape and colour. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | The film is chiefly noted for its [[Surrealism|surreal]] imagery, the work of French [[writer]] and [[artist]] [[Roland Topor]]. The landscape of the Draag planet is full of strange creatures, including a cackling predator which traps small fluttering animals in its cage-like nose, shakes them to death and hurls them to the ground. The Draag practice of [[meditation]], whereby they commune psychically with each other and with different species, is shown in transformations of their shape and colour. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | ||
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Fantastic Planet is the English title of La Planète sauvage (literally "The Savage Planet") an animated 1973 science fiction film directed by René Laloux. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and was distributed in the United States by Roger Corman. It won the special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. The story is based on a novel, Oms en Série, by the French writer Stefan Wul.
The film is chiefly noted for its surreal imagery, the work of French writer and artist Roland Topor. The landscape of the Draag planet is full of strange creatures, including a cackling predator which traps small fluttering animals in its cage-like nose, shakes them to death and hurls them to the ground. The Draag practice of meditation, whereby they commune psychically with each other and with different species, is shown in transformations of their shape and colour. [1] [Apr 2007]
Themes
The interaction of science and superstition is most apparent in the Wizard, who resists the knowledge that Terr brings, fearing it will erode the power he maintains. Knowledge trumps ignorance, but in this case only after surviving an attempted assassination.
Terr's drive to share knowledge overpowers the fear of an unknown people. Only his courage to save others not of his adopted tribe allows that tribe to overcome the loss of their leader.
The Draags and Oms finally learn to live in peace and mutual benefit; presumably any groups can if they and their leaders really want to. This may have been a theme favored by the filmmakers as it was made and released during the Cold War.
