{"id":301,"date":"2009-03-30T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/03\/where-the-wild-things-were\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T21:36:00","slug":"where-the-wild-things-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/03\/where-the-wild-things-were.html","title":{"rendered":"Where the Wild Things were."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The blogosphere went gaga for Where the Wild Things Are<\/a><\/i> last week, after the following trailer was released for the upcoming film adaptation directed by Spike Jonze from a script he co-wrote with Dave Eggers:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\u2013N9klJXbjQ<\/a>
Click here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n

There were a few voices of dissent, though. Noah Millman<\/a>, for example, responded to Peter Suderman<\/a>\u2018s claim that the trailer is \u201ca perfectly sold hipster nostalgia piece\u201d by articulating several \u201cred flags\u201d that, in his view, indicated the film was not paying proper respect to Maurice Sendak\u2019s original book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Time will tell how the movie itself holds up to scrutiny. In the meantime, here are a couple of earlier adaptations, one complete and one merely a test reel.<\/p>\n

First, the original 1973 animated film directed by Gene Deitch:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fSkHA6IjrlY<\/a>
Click here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n

And second, a 1983 test reel combining hand-drawn animation and some very-new-at-the-time computer-generated animation \u2014 produced by Disney and directed by none other than future Pixar guru John Lasseter:<\/p>\n