Ok, we want to post about this new “Where The Wild Things Are” poster because it’s new, we’re completists, but there’s not a whole hell of a lot to say. Or is there?
It’s child-like, seems to appeal to kids a bit more than the last one — a smart move, that $100 million budget is not going to earn its money back on hipster appeal alone — and perhaps is directly aimed and marketed towards kids. Hard to say, if it is, it’s pretty subtle but again, not a dumb move. It does convey that nice sense of awe and wonder that the movie, directed by Spike Jonze, will hopefully take from the Maurice Sendak children’s book (Jonze and Lance Bangs have also made a documentary on Sendak called “Tell Them Anything You Want” that airs October 14 on HBO).
There’s also a sweetness and tenderness to it that we dig. Jonze isn’t just an empty-headed hipster, he’s really trying to tap into a wonderfully naive and innocent essence here. Everything we’ve seen so far, indicates a film that is pure-hearted and genuine (and not “cool,” hipsters, can you dig it?).
Or as Vince Landay, Jonze’s longtime producer told the New York Times this past week, the filmmaker simply has a natural gift for child-like exploration. “He’s an imaginative kid who for one reason or another has been allowed to fully explore his imagination.”
