i loved the book when i was a kid. kelan kaya papalabas dito ito?
cheers! jrpjr On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Spanx <[email protected]> wrote: > [image: where_the_wild_things_are_poster.jpg (450×656)][image: > Where-The-Wild-Things-Are_476x357.jpg (402×357)] > Harry calls WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE the best film he's seen this year! > > WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is the very best film I’ve seen this year. Not by > a hair, not by a nose, but by a mile. More than that, it could very well be > the best film ever created about what it is like to be a 9 year old. > > Do you remember? > > 9 years old. > > How did you play? How did you move? Do you remember the angles that you saw > the world from? Did you ever start something that felt like the most fun > thing in the world, until it wound up in tears. Your tears? > > Do you remember how WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE spoke to you as a 9 year old? > > When imagination was effortless? A reflex. A product of a wandering second > and a blink of an eye? You were still young enough to leap without tensing > up and you knew that your bones were strong, because you drank your milk. > When you had the power to answer any question with imagination, rather than > knowledge. Because you were a kid. > > Now. Do you remember laying at your parents feet as they had a difficult > phone call, but you still don’t remember what it was all about, but you felt > afraid? And you knew a hug or a story could make it better? > > WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE will remind you of all these moments, but more… > it will conjure up primal childhood emotions of joy, regret, elation, > confusion and you may realize that you’ve lost an awful lot, by simply > growing up. > > Spike Jonze’s WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is a staggeringly brilliant > encapsulation of the intent and contents of Sendak’s book, but more so… of > childhood itself. The result is a film of immense and unquestionable power > that has the power to shake you more than any of you are really expecting. > > At a private moment, mere minutes after the screening, I found myself > blubbering. I had no idea it was coming. It wasn’t just the movie. It was > what the movie did to me. What it opened up. It made me remember the way I > looked at my mother when I was 9 years old. When she was awesome. Before the > divorce, the alcoholism and her tarnished image. It made me wish I could go > back and spend time with that version of my mom. Introduce my wife to her. > It made me miss her. And I haven’t missed her in years. > > At the same time, it made me wish I could play the way I played at that > age. It made me want to see the world without all the complications and the > basic everyday realities of being a grown up! > > Spike Jonze did not merely find the perfect Max in young Max Records, he > found a way to capture everything that is so wonderful about Max Records and > MAX from the book. He captured what it was to be a Boy at age 9. > > The entire film is from Max’s perspective. As an adult, you may think a bit > from Catherine Keener’s wonderfully at wit’s end mother, but this is a film > 100% about Max. There are things that make sense on a purely child’s level > of logic. The camera sees things from kid angles and with kid awe. > > The opening scene… is the single most FURIOUS and VIOLENT thing I’ve ever > seen captured on film. And it was just a hand held camera shot following, > some how, Max Records as he dives down stairs after the household dog in his > Wolf suit and it hits you completely off guard. Why? Because you absolutely > will not believe how amazing it is – to track a 9 year old in full blown > wild Indian mode. It is amazing. And it is literally, just the beginning. > > I haven’t spoken about the MONSTERS yet, because frankly – as amazing as > they are. As wonderful as every performance, every nuance of their > expressions, and their every line are… they all serve to further illustrate > the mind of an angry, frustrated and alone boy named MAX. > > Now. Should you take the kids to see WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE? > > That depends. Honestly, I wouldn’t take a kid under the age of 7. Even > then, you need to realize that you’re gonna need to be an awesome parent, > when you take your kid. This is a brilliant movie. One that conjures a lot > of emotions, your child will feel every last one and you should be there to > answer any questions, to hug and to experience the film with them. AND if > any of this makes you nervous. See the film first and make the call about > whether or not your kid is ready for this. > > For many audiences, this will be a difficult film. This isn’t an obvious > version of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. In a world where we’ve seen films like > Ron Howard’s GRINCH and that abysmal CAT IN THE HAT adaptation – there’s a > possibility that kids and many audiences are numb to a genuine and beautiful > film about the very tough and difficult realities of childhood. > > Being a parent is not ever an easy thing. This is very much a film about a > point where the parent and the kid are at completely different states of > consciousness – Mom is exasperated, frustrated, angry and exhausted by Max. > Max doesn’t know why he acts as he does, he’s got problems that he doesn’t > know how to express. He hasn’t read the books that have taught him how to > relate to how he’s feeling about Mom’s new boyfriend – and a supper that he > doesn’t want. He retreats into PLAY MODE, IMAGINATIONLAND and Mom… she > doesn’t understand what’s going on with Max because Max doesn’t know how to > express it. > > This is a children’s film, like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a kids film. And > TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a great kids movie. One, that every parent should > watch with their kid. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE could be an incredible film > for you and your child. It could help you to understand & remember what it > means to be a child. Not to look down at them, but to admire them. Because > we were all there at some point. We were all WILD THINGS once and this movie > will make you wish you could be again! > > I saw this film with my best friend, 20 days ago. He LOVED it, and he tends > to be a hardened tough guy that likes “gun cleaning movies”. You know the > films. With this, he was affected, strongly and personally by the film. > Totally different reasons than me, but afterwards we talked a lot about what > it was like 28 years ago, when we were MAX and the way we played. > > This is the most authentic & brilliant film about childhood that I have > ever seen. It is tremendous at every fathomable level. From production > design, costumes, dialogue, effects, music, photography, editing, sound > design and most of all performances. Performances from the humans, and > astonishingly tender, horrible and mind-blowing work from the Wild Things. > > See this movie! > > > -- > spanx' blog: > http://spankyenriquez.blogspot.com/ > > > > -- jose raul peralejo jr Pililla Poultry Processing Plant, Inc. 3714638 3734754 639179680102 639228680102 The information in this email (and any attachments) is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use or disseminate the information. 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