Where The Wild Things Are: Uses the Book to Jump Off to its Own Entity
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It was to be expected that a beloved children’s book being made into a film–a live-action film at that–was to be suspect. Mostly because the book itself clocks in at a whopping forty-eight pages. And how do you make a feature film out of that, animated or otherwise? I only felt a glimmer of hope when I heard Spike Jonze had taken on the project, since I figured only he and Michel Gondry were the sort of director who could pull this off. And my faith was well-founded.
The movie is…something else. It’s, as you might have guessed, not the book. It does use the book to jump off to its own entity. And as a result creates something that’s complicated, deep, moving and profound.