Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie

Posted by Shannon

The New York Magazine “Vulture” Blog has a review:

In transforming the 338-word story of Where the Wild Things Are into a 111-page screenplay, Eggers and Jonze have fleshed out the story not, unexpectedly, with wild plot developments, and not, thankfully, with densely packed pop-fiction references. Instead Where the Wild Things Are is filled with richly imagined psychological detail, and the screenplay for this live-action film simply becomes a longer and more moving version of what Maurice Sendak’s book has always been at heart: a book about a lonely boy leaving the emotional terrain of boyhood behind.

Read on. [via Kottke]

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Posted by Shannon on October 19th, 2007 Filed in Encouraging, Eschatology, Film, Fucking Awesome, Literature, Visual Art

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