12/28/2022 0 Comments The crew wild run gamestopIt's a movie children can see and hopefully adore, but it's more than that. This is the main bit of what the story is "about", but how it's about it is a whole other matter. If you don't know the story by Sendak- and to be fair it's only several pages long and its story was *loosely* used for this film- is about Max, who, not entirely pleased with his life in the real world ventures into the world of the 'Wild Things', a place where he can be king (or rather makes himself one) and tries to create a paradise with his fellow creatures. Now here's another, and one that is directed with an original eye and an inspiration of texture and feeling, a look like out of our own wanted childhood playgrounds. ![]() Films that come to mind like this could also include the 400 Blows, Fanny and Alexander, (arguably) Tideland and E.T. This is, simply, a classic work of film-making, but also on a particular subject that so few filmmakers even attempt to make let alone get right, which is what it's like to really be a child. Now, the filmmaker who first came on the scene with Being John Malkovich, once again gives me a one-word response with this third film of his: Wow. ![]() One who greatly admires filmmakers will wait especially for a filmmaker who takes his time in creating something after years of speculation. It's taken Spike Jonze a while to write, film, edit and (after some wrestling with Warner brothers over the final cut) release his adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are.
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