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Rumpus Book ClubWild Spike Jonze
How exactly did Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s story become a feature length film for the inner children of an entire generation? It took a lot of tinkering, and nearly a decade, but Where The Wild Things Are has finally made its debut.
Pitchfork’s Scott Plagenhoef speaks to director Spike Jonze about his serendipitous meeting with Sendak, the importance of real (not CG) wild things, and why Dave Eggers was the perfect writing partner.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I think it is important that the wild things were real and not all CG because to Max, they really were real. CG images would have portrayed the wild things as more of a figment of the imagination.