From: Mary Robinette Kowal <mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:45:53 -0700
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Where the Wild Things Are


By all accounts Sendak was heavily involved in the production of the
film. If he objected to the naturalistic voices, I think we'd have
heard about it.

Especially given how outspoken he's been in interviews.

Yours,
Mary

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve and Mary make a good point which I had not considered which is
> that they wanted the voices to be ordinary human voices. =A0If that is
> the case I will have to judge it when I see the movie. =A0Still not sure
> I buy that though. =A0If Sendak wanted them to be more adult like and
> not actual monsters why did he draw monsters instead of morphs of
> human characters. =A0I have to admit I have never really gotten into
> "....Wild things.." even with three daughters with a vast library of
> kids books, that was never even close to being a favorite at our
> house. =A0Maybe its a boy book.
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Mary Robinette Kowal
> <mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com> wrote:
>> I'm very much with Steve. I thought that giving them completely normal
>> voices worked extremely well, particularly because they were all adult
>> voices. The juxtaposition heightened the magic of them accepting
>> whatever he said as truth.
>>
>> On the other hand, I don't have a tv and so none of the voices were
>> familiar to me.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Mary
>>
>> ---
>> Mary Robinette Kowal
>> http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:21 AM, =A0<BNathanson-AT-aol.com> wrote:
>>> Steve,
>>> =A0 =A0 Very true that a monster does not have to have the voice of a monster.
>>> =A0I just wish the Wild Things had unusual sounding voices - and Tony
>>> Soprano just did not work for me. =A0 I did like the Ambrose voice.
>>> =A0 =A0 Bob N
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