What a nice story! And thanks for drawing our attention to the movie
which I'll see as soon as it comes to my local cinema. I would like
to have sons to take with me but I don't fancy the preliminaries!
After seeing your pix I can't wait to see Max Records (is that his
real name?) on film.
Love Z
PS when I first saw Spike Jonze's name in print I thought it was
pronounced Yonzie. How dumb can you get?
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:24:00 -0500, 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
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