This Makes Me Very Happy.
It took nine years, but it looks like Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are will see the light of day this year in October, two days after my birthday. It’s hard to describe how much I’m looking forward to this movie. I might explode when I see it in the theater.
I dunno. The appeal of the book was that it manifested a child’s imagination as a place to escape the real world. This looks like it’s going to give a real reason to Max wanting to escape rather than him being sent up to his room for bad behavior.
I’m fine with that. Giving him a real reason to want to escape doesn’t take away from the idea that a child’s imagination is a place to escape the real world.
In most cases stories and characters have to be stripped down to fit into the confines of a two hour movie. In this case they’ll need to be embellished more, and if that means giving him a real reason to want to get out of the real world then I have no problem with it. As long as it’s done right.
lets all go see it!