Hows’ that gonna work?
Trailer for the movie Where The Wild Things Are. The Mrs. is excited and wants to take the kids to see it. I wonder, though, how exactly the movie is going to work. The book is fairly short and how will they make a feature length movie out of it?
October 13th, 2009 at 10:36 am
You are thinking about all of the novel length stories that are made into short story length movies.
Short stories make great movies.
A novel can make a great mini-series. Movies based on novels can be good movies, but they never cover even most of the plot of the books they are “based” upon.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:56 am
You’re right, Tom ….. but even my liberal wife had the same concern.
I, on the other hand, was squealing with delight!
October 13th, 2009 at 11:01 am
What are you talking about? Michael Moore does it all the time.
Carry on.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:14 am
How long does an average game of CLUE last? Because they made a friggin AWESOME movie out of that.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Along the way, the heroes meet a young boy king, who is so full of promise and hope and change that the wild things give them their highest award for accomplishment because they believe in what he might do someday… along with their honor for being the best college football player in the land.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:47 am
less there means more to work with, as opposed to having to cut stuff out and gang rape character development (as is usually the case when working with anything long or with a history)
The interesting thing to see will be if it remains a popular book after a movie comes out with all the added story.
just in case anyone is working on a halloween costume for little ones.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Where the Wild Things Are has potential to be a wonderful movie. It also has potential to be filled with pop culture, psycho babble, politically correct mush and bad acting.
I hope, I hope, it is a good movie rendition of the wild internal life of male youth.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
They interject lots of SEX, drug use and criminal activity. Pretty much like any other session of Congress.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
JoeMerchant FTW!!
Sendak’s main thing lately has been stage-design, so I expect the whole production to be visually very interesting. He adapted WTWTA for the stage thirty years ago, and probably whatever that was like will be included. Also he reportedly sees Where The Wild Things Are to be the first of a trilogy that includes In The Night Kitchen and Outside Over There , so elements (or whole chunks) of those might be what stretches it out in length.
His work can be dark, and he sometimes throws in visual references to the Holocaust since his family originates among Eastern European Jews who were very affected by that.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I did read something about the movie being a bit harsh, graphic and not suited for younger children… you might want to check on that before going to see it.
October 13th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Sometimes mediocre written fiction makes AWESOME cinema, while Literary-worthy novels flop as films.
I’ve never read any of the Harry Potter books nor do I plan to, but I love all the movies, because I accept them AS movies, without high expectations derived from a prior reading experience.
It’s been so long since I read WTWTA, that I’ll probably watch the film for sheer nostalgia value. I know I couldn’t help but say “COOL!” out loud when I watched the trailer.
Heck, I’d watch a sequel to The Dark Crystal if they ever made one; there I did read the novelization, in middle school, but it closely followed the film (since it was a derivative work). I also read the novelizations of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, too. I owned the novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope (e.g. for the original film, now Ep.4) but never bothered to read it.
October 13th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
We saw the preview during Toy Story 2 and my kids had no interest whatsoever in it.
Of course, they never really reacted well to the book either.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I’m still trying to reconcile the trailer for Cormack McCarthy’s The Road against the book. Obviously, Oprah’s Book Club is much wiser than I am because all I came away with after reading it was a tale about a long-term session of kicks to the testicles. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Regards,
Rabbit.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Remember, The Shawshank Redemption was a twenty-seven page story turned into a three hour movie. And The Godfather was barely 200 pages, but they got three movies out of it. Not saying this will be good, but it has potential.