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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE trailer
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http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/12598-iwhere-the-wild-things-arei-trailer/
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I will definitely bring him to see that.
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This is why it works for me. It's _very_ modern- almost like an indie kids' picture. It has a look that I think is actually kind of daring, there's apparently a very high premium on a sense of realism and "grit" that is uncommon, particularly in children's films today.
It's clear that it is _not_ a goofy, hyperbolic and pop culture reference filled piece of shit like what usually passes for kids' movies today, and it looks like it expands the ideas of the book into feature material. Let's face it, the book is very, very simple. There's not a 30 minute movie in it, let alone a feature. From what's shown, it almost looks like they built a fairly serious story about how a kid deals with the adult world around the fantasy elements. Apparently, Maurice Sendak was closely involved with the production as well.
My #1 must see movie for 2009 at this point.
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Plus, Mark Ruffalo + Catherine Keener = best movie parents ever.
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Apparently test audiences didn't like the darkness in the story...from what I've heard though Jones and co. stuck to their guns and it's the movie they wanted to make.
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Also a favourite book of mine when I was young. I remember my mother making a large copy of the book, so the class could see it more easily when the teacher read it to us. It measured about 3 foot by 2 foot closed and all of the illustrations were faithfully reproduced and coloured by hand.
I've made a mental note to track a copy of the book down for my own children.
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Where the Wild Things Are was the first, and perhaps only book, that I ever read that dealt frankly with anger. The kind of overwelming anger that makes you act out in ways that even you don't understand. Out of control scary anger that makes 5 year olds throw themselves kicking and screaming on the ground in super markets, and makes grown men flip RISK boards. Those monsters weren't cute, and cuddly and lovable. They were the primal self that needed to be controlled and conqured in order to be let out of your room and rejoin civilized society.
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The night Max wore his wolf suit... and made mischief of one kind and another. His mother called him, "Wild Thing!" And Max said, "I'll eat you up!" so he was send to bed without eating anything. That very night in Max's room a forest grew... and grew... and grew until the ceiling hung with vines and walls became the world all around. An ocean tumbled by, with a private boat for Max and sailed off through night and day and in and out of weeks until he came to the place Where The Wild Things Are.
The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and showed their terrible claws, but Max tamed them all with the magic trick of looking into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. They were scared of Max and thought him the wildest thing of all and made him king of all the wild things. "And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"
[rumpusing]
The wild things were tired and went to sleep. Max was lonely and then from all around and across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of all the wild things. The wild things cried, "Oh please don't go, we'll eat you up, we love you so!" But Max said, "No." And they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and showed their terrible claws, but Max got back into his private boat and said goodbye.
And he sailed in and out of weeks and through day and into the night of his very own room, where he found his supper waiting for him.
...and it was still hot.
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That may have been toned down or possibly exaggerated, so take it with a grain, if you will.
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