WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE trailer online

A full-length trailer is now online for Spike Jonze's upcoming film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, Where the Wild Things Are.

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Looking at this trailer, I'd kind of like to see a little less Jonze and a little more Sendak. Certain elements - the deliberately crude fonts, for instance, and the indie rock - don't really jibe with the Sendak I know. There is a wonderfully old-fashioned, curmudgeonly fussiness to Sendak's work. When the Wild Things cut loose, I imagine them doing so to something like Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. And the Wild Thing faces seem perhaps just a little too human, I'd like to see more of the beastliness of the creatures from the book. Sendak's style is absolutely distinctive, but it's been muted quite a bit here for the sake of realism.

All that being said, it looks like this could be an absolutely amazing film.

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