--- Over at Defamer, they've got word from Spike Jonze himself on that clip from Where The Wild Things Are that leaked this past week; I guess it was test footage and not a part of the film. Which I think is a shame, and I hope that the final footage is of the same feeling. Anyway, Defamer also tells us the word from test screenings of WTWTA has not been kind - namely, the suits are troubled because Max isn't a likable little boy (he slaps his mom!) and children are, basically, crying their whiny little eyes out, terrified of the Wild Things.Let me be as delicate as I can manage here: kids today suck.
--- Tilda Unloosed - Michael Clayton is out on DVD now, and Slate has up one of the best pieces I've read on it, dissecting the film from a real-life law perspective.
--- It looks like David Yates might be 3-for-3, Harry Potter wise; DH says that it looks as if he might roll right on to the final installment, The Deathly Hallows, after finishing up The Half-Blood Prince, which he's filming now (and which is his second Potter film after last year's Order of the Phoenix). If they make it two seperate movies like had been rumored, he'll have directed four! And Cuaron only one! Something's askew in the world. Not that there was anything wrong with Phoenix, mind you; I enjoyed it. But I liked the shifting directorial duties they'd been running this franchise on.
--- There's an interview with George A. Romero up at AICN; I sorta couldn't take reading the entire thing though because Capone (the interviewer) was drooling all over Diary of the Dead and, I love ya George, but no.
--- Do the Japanese love Oxford or something? I'm confused by this quote from Dakota Blue Richards, the terrific little star of The Golden Compass, when asked if she knows anything about the possibility of the sequel happening:
"I think they are going to see how it does when it opens in Japan. It's set in Oxford so it is going to be better received here."
Poor thing. Keep the hope alive, Other Dakota! Seriously, she was a perfect Lyra, and I'd love to see the film happen, if they got their shit together and did it right this time around. But I think hope's fading fast on this one.
--- Stacie Ponder at Final Girl got in a car with Guinevere Turner, actress and filmmaker and WRITER (and co-star) OF AMERICAN PSYCHO (as well as The Notorious Bettie Page and Go Fish), and lived what ought to become the hit road-trip movie of next year. The Donut Belt would be the working title, I think.--- I See Rorschach - AICN has got a new image from Zach Snyder's Watchmen.
--- The Rezzies Cometh - Joe R.'s laying out his awards for the year that was 2007 at Low Resolution, and it's There Will Be Blood in a landslide!!! ... Okay, I lied. Joe's quite possibly the only person on the entire Earth - besides maybe Richard Kelly - who might end up arguing that Southland Tales was a better film than TWBB. Which is why he's worth reading - you never know what invigorating
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Re: Where the Wild Things Are... Well, the boy in the storybook was sent to his room as punishment, so it would make sense that he starts out as a brat and learns a little along the way. Isn't that the point?
I also don't see the taming of children's lit as a particularly good thing. I grew up in a German household with traditional stories, and let me tell ya, some it is pretty brutal stuff. None of these storybooks would pass muster at Disney these days. But at the same time, I look back on those memories fondly. As a child, it helped me build an understanding of why I fear things, making them easier to deal with in adult life. Fairytales that don't have anything to teach about the real world seem kind of useless to me.
Totally agree with you. All this airbrushing out of guns (like what Spielberg did with ET) and violence and THE REAL WORLD from kid's entertainment these days is doing a disservice to these kids. They can handle it. They need to handle it.
Man...The Donut Belt would be a good title, wouldn't it?
I love Romero. I'm still bummed that Diary didn't do it for me.
But reading stuff on AICN is just painful. That font...that font...oh god that fucking font!
Speaking of Jonze, have you seen the new video he just did for Kanye West?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mEccxPPwXmI
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