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Little Buddha is a 1993 drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, written by Rudy Wurlitzer and Mark Peploe, and produced by usual Bertolucci collaborator Jeremy Thomas. An international co-production of Italy, France and the United Kingdom, the film stars Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Keanu Reeves as Prince Siddhartha.
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I have to be honest, I'm pretty biased about this movie because I use parts of it in my class to teach my World history students about the origins of Buddhism. Even with this bias, I do think that this movie is worth watching. as the name implies, the movie is about Siddhartha Gautama's journey from Prince to The Buddha (The Enlightened) one. But before I go any further, we need to talk about the elephant in the roo…More
The most successful film in the career of famed and sometimes controversial Italian film maker Bernardo Bertolucci was *The Last Emperor*, old school Hollywood-like epic that made bits of Asian history and culture comprehensible to Western audience. Seven years later, Bertolucci tried to do the same with his ambitious 1993 film *Little Buddha*, but the results, like with many film makers trying to repeat the formula…More
*"...If you tighten the string too much, it will snap, and if you leave it too slack, it won't play..." - Saddhartha* In this film, Seattle is shown in the cold tone of blue and Kathmandu in warm colors of yellow. It speaks of the two different places having two different values. As the Lama said when describing about the form of the Stuppa - the squarish base is where we lived in, and as we go higher, it is becomin…More
