From: "Paul Fantini" <pfantini33-AT-comcast.net> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:02:34 -0500 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Wild Things Redux Should I take my 6 year old or is it too much input for him? -----Original Message----- From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Kaplin Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 12:45 PM To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Wild Things Redux So did you like it? I think I did like it in the sense that the imagery stuck a deep chord in me and the whole was a well made move. I didn't like it because it it made kind of precious and morallistic the wild child-like mental anarchy and made the lavish brilliant fantasy of the book kind of pedestrian and sub-urban. On Oct 31, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Paul Fantini wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org > ] > On Behalf Of Stephen Kaplin > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:00 AM > To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Subject: [Puptcrit] Wild Things Redux > > Just got a chance to see "Where the Wild Things Are" last night and > want to throw out some ideas. > > I was not so much disturbed (as per last go-round of this thread) by > the adult voices of the Wild Thing as I was by the genuine realness > and solidity of them. Having grown up with the Sendak book and > absorbed those richly crosshatched b& w drawings into my adolescent > consciousness, it was a bit disturbing to look at those Wild Things > close-up with every pore revealed and facial muscle twitching. > However, I must say that whoever it was at the Henson Creature Shop > who thought to add the ever-dripping snot from Conrad's nose was > either a genius or a 6 year old kid (or both.) > > 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. > > I think as a whole the film is a rumination on the child psych as > filtered through the nostalgia of a middle aged man ( point brought > out and elaborated on in several critiques of the film). It's > interesting in this regard to compare it to those Victorian chestnuts > of the same genre like "Peter Pan" and "Alice in Wonderland". Peter > never comes home, therefore never integrates the wildness that he > rules over in Neverland into his later life (except of course in the > late 20th century film remake, where Robin Williams plays the middle > aged Peter trying to reclaim his lost childhood, but that's a > different story.) And Alice, unlike the wild boys in Peter Pan" , is > relatively passive-- she remains through out the two books just a > tourist passing through and remarking wryly on the "curious" goings > on."Wild Things" seems to me to be a sort of 21st Century update of > the Peter Pan and Wonderland mythos, where the proper integration of > wildness and creativity, with a big heaping teaspoon of L-O-V-E (as > the outro music reminds us) is paramont to becoming a happy, > productive, adult film director. Yay Jonezie!! > > Okay chew on that for breakfast, wild ones. > > Stephen > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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