From: "Paul Fantini" <pfantini33-AT-comcast.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:40:36 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Where the Wild Things Are


I just wish that he hadn't used voices of actors that we strongly connected 
to other characters (Will Mr. Gandolfini ever be able to escape Tony 
Soprano?)..but that is Hollywood for you and a means to attract a wider 
audience to the movie.

I like the adult voices (though I haven't seen it yet). I would think that 
it is how Max sees adults around him.  It draws a connection between himself 
(little wild thing) and the commanlities he has between himself and his 
monstrous parents. No?  Or perhaps how he wished them to be...

The life of this books grows with a child.  It is so well illustrated that 
you don't even have to "read" the book when kids are 1 or 2, then when they 
start forming their own words you certainly can.  When your little Max 
starts frist grade they can pick it up themselves and read it alone.  We 
continue to revisit that book.

I can hardly wait to see it, but I don't think I am going to take my first 
grader.  I am afraid that it will communicate that it is time to put down 
the book or somehow the movie trumps the book because it is slicker, more 
shiny, etc.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hobey Ford" <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Where the Wild Things Are


Steve and Mary make a good point which I had not considered which is
that they wanted the voices to be ordinary human voices.  If that is
the case I will have to judge it when I see the movie.  Still not sure
I buy that though.  If Sendak wanted them to be more adult like and
not actual monsters why did he draw monsters instead of morphs of
human characters.  I 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.  Maybe 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, <BNathanson-AT-aol.com> wrote:
>> Steve,
>> Very true that a monster does not have to have the voice of a monster.
>> I just wish the Wild Things had unusual sounding voices - and Tony
>> Soprano just did not work for me. I did like the Ambrose voice.
>> Bob N
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