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Postby danggui » Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:31 am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Spike Jonze recalls how Maurice Sendak urged him to make the movie version of "Where the Wild Things Are" as dangerous as the book was when the children's classic came out in 1963.

The question now is whether Jonze made it too dangerous.
The film arrives in theaters Friday, The Closer on dvd, a year later than originally planned by distributor Warner Bros. The studio was queasy over the dark, menacing tinges Jonze brought to the story about a boy who sails off to an island where resident monsters proclaim him their king.
"It wasn't what they were expecting," Jonze said in an interview. "We just ran into the sort of quagmire of like, 'That's not what we thought it was going to be.'"
Instead of a cozy children's movie, Family Guy dvd 1-8, Jonze crafted a tale about childhood, with a lot of the messy issues adults pay a fortune to exorcise through psychoanalysis. It touches on divorce and feelings of abandonment. It presents a child acting out in ugly, even violent ways, Fraggle Rock dvd set, engaging in a shrill shouting match with his mother and running away from home in a red rage. Its monsters resemble the beloved images of Sendak's picture book, but their moodiness and occasional ferocity may prove more unsettling than endearing to viewers.
At a test screening of an early cut, some children found the wild things creepy and scary.
Rather than snatching the $80 million project away from Jonze, The Closer on dvd, Warner decided to give him more time. Jonze reshot some scenes, Prison Break complete series, and he spent the past year applying computer animation to create the facial expressions on his wild things, which were shot live on set using actors inside giant monster suits.
The result certainly is more challenging, and potentially more rewarding, than many family films.
In keeping with the sparse few hundred words of Sendak's text, the story is slim, Ugly Betty 4 dvd, Doctor Who complete box set, Jonze providing a snapshot of a broken family before sending his young protagonist, Doctor Who dvd series, True Blood box set, Prison Break 1 dvd, Fraggle Rock box set, Treme complete series, Max, to the realm of the wild things.
The film plays out in an impressionistic manner akin to Sendak's book, Max having some wild rumpus adventures among his new friends, whose erratic behavior veers from loving to threatening.
When first published, Snoopy dvd set, the book found some harsh critics who thought its images were too frightening for children and that Max's disobedience set a bad example.
Sendak, who told Jonze at the start to make the story his own, said he was pleased with the results and that he and the filmmaker have become close friends.
"As you do these things, you relive them — and that's not always a pleasant experience," Sendak said. "Spike was reliving his business and giving Max his Spikean drama, Treme dvds, FlashForward box set, which is what it was all supposed to be. I was not supposed to sit there and tell them, Scrubs series9, 'Make it this way, The Office seasons 1-6 dvd, Breaking Bad dvd series, The Vampire Diaries complete box set, make it that way.' If anybody had done that to me while I was making the book, I would have had a fit."
Sendak and Jonze had talked for years about adapting the book to film. Jonze had been reticent, uncertain what he could bring to the story and not wanting to fabricate some contrived plot line to expand it to movie length.
He finally found his way into the story as he mused about not where the wild things are, Breaking Bad seasons 1-3, but who they are.
"The idea that I came up with is if the wild things are wild emotions. As a kid, one of the things that can feel scary or out of control is wild emotions, out-of-control emotions, The Mentalist complete box set, Cold Case box set 1-7, either in yourself or the people around you," Jonze said. "Having a tantrum, "V" 1, that's scary as a kid, because you just see red. ... Trying to make a movie that feels like what it feels to be 9 years old at times, Prison Break collection, that was the idea."
With a screenplay co-written by Jonze and author Dave Eggers, the movie is a visual marvel, Walt Disney's 100 Years Of Magic collection, no surprise from the director who turned identity and perception on its head with his first two films, "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation."
And voiced by James Gandolfini, Ugly Betty seasons 4, Forest Whitaker, Lauren Ambrose, Ugly Betty complete series, Chris Cooper, Catherine O'Hara and Paul Dano, Jonze's monsters have true soul, their dialogue punctuated with whoops of joy or authentically weary sighs that make their emotional swings feel very human.
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