Thomas , David, & Melanie were raving about the movie Where the Wild Things Are . So last night I went to the movies all by myself, for the first time ever, I think. For those of you that are not familiar, Where the Wild Things Are is a well loved children's picture book by Maurice Sendak. The book is certainly less than 100 words long, and so Max and The Wild Things are not given their full personalities by literature alone. The pictures, and what your imagination does with them, fill in the gaps and reach places that words cannot. I was really curious as to how writers Spike Jonze and David Eggers were going to go about stretching this short book into a movie. Especially a book that wasn't theirs. Not one of The Wild Things in the book says anything that isn't in unison with the other Wild Things. I would be terrified to expand on a character that was another writer's vision with only illustrations to go by. And they had to create several in addition to fleshing...
Heidi: That is totally a gray hair. I don't care what Daddy says. [sigh]...Well, I guess everybody has to get some gray hairs sometime. Dexter : Yeah. I'm getting brown hairs [hugs me and looks up with giant blue eyes]...I have a lot of brown hairs. Heidi: Is that weird for you? Dexter: Yeah. Heidi: Yeah, that is weird.
Heidi: Hey Dexy. How was the day? Dexter: Fine Heidi: Did you have some trouble today? Dexter: Did I? Heidi: I'm asking you. Dexter: No....Did I? Heidi: Well Ms. R said that you had to go to the office today. Dexter: Oh yeah. But I wasn't in trouble. I just had to go to the office because I wasn't working well with my friends. But I didn't have to see the principal or anything. Heidi: What did you have to do? Dexter: I just had to do my work at the office because I wasn't working well with my friends. Heidi: Oh. Dexter: And it was really fun! I saw Mor Mor there!
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