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From: +Grant <+Grant@grant.grant>
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Subject: Re: The Night Max Wore His Wolf Suit - "WTWTA Poster.jpg" (0/2) 250.6 kBytes yEnc
Date: 14 Nov 2009 19:58:01 -0600
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In article <lp6uf5l9k59urujp78081qnampq4htk5uv@4ax.com>, NP-f31 wrote:
> The day after I found out my wife was expecting our first child I went
> out at lunch to a book store and bought a copy of 'Where the Wild
> Things Are' by Maurice Sendak. While I was in the store I noticed that
> they had stuffed versions of some of characters from the book. I got a
> stuffed Max and a stuffed Bison Wild Thing for what turned out to be
> my oldest son. I read that book to each of my children and used a
> scary voice when the Wild Things 'roared their terrible roars'. It was
> alternately frightening and reassuring to them. When the movie came
> out, my oldest son said, 'Dad, we've got to go see that movie
> together'. And so this afternoon, my two oldest kids accompanied me to
> see the movie 'Where the Wild Things Are' directed by Spike Jonze. It
> was a wonderful film and an amazing adaptation of a book I thought
> could never be made into a proper film. The Wild Things were perfect,
> a blend of puppetry, CGI and voice characterizations that brought them
> to life. Big Bird and Elmo never made me tear up, but these Wild
> Things did.
>
> What held the film together was Max Records, the ten year old who
> played Max. He was a delight to behold and well directed. Every frame
> of the film that he graced exuded an exuberant boyishness. Max showed
> us why we love boys. He is fearless and vulnerable at the same time.
> He can go from happy to the verge of tears in an instant. We watched
> him work through the dissolution of his family by watching the coming
> together and breakup of his Wild Thing family. In the end, it is love
> that saves the day.
>
> It's funny, my youngest son thought the film would be too babyfied for
> his too-cool-for-school, he was wrong of course, but his opinion is
> typical for his age. My oldest son viewed the film as a link to his
> childhood and his future. He recited some of the lines from memory and
> told me that when he has kids he's going to read that book to them
> just like I did to him. I'm not surprised. He's pretty sentimental, he
> was the boy who cried when Christopher Robin went off to school at the
> end of 'House at Pooh Corner'.
>
> If you have an opportunity to see the film, I recommend it. You'll
> certainly enjoy gazing at Max if you enjoy nothing else.
>
> Doc
> NP-f31
I think this counts as a story. You beat me to it! LOL
Whats next?
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Grant
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