Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:53:22 -0700 From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Wild Things Redux <I was awfully disappointed that my most favorite part of the book- the series of drawings that wordlessly depicts the transformation of Max's bedroom into a jungle- was left out of the film. In Jonez's film version, Max has to run away outside to find the Wild Zone. Why is this? That sequence was what made the book most real to me-- that I could conceive the same thing happening to my my bedroom.> That reminds me of the scene in The Labyrinth when Sarah thinks she is safe back in her own bedroom when the walls begin to come apart revealing the creatures who crash and destroy the illusion of her bedroom. In that case I think it speaks to Sarah's internal struggle with her transition from childhood into adulthood and her clinging to childhood as it all begins to come apart. To me its was the freakiest part of the movie. I remember in my own adolescence having a terrible vivid waking nightmare of the walls of my room coming alive with shadowy hands like black flames. A strong imagination can be a curse to a child at night time. "Puer Aeternus is Latin for eternal child, used in mythology to designate a child-god who is forever young." Wikipedia _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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