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Where The Wild Things Are Movie

Where The Wild Things Are Movie

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Everything's beachy! Carol and Max take a time out. Jonze could have used animation for the movie version of one of his favorite books of all time, but he didn't think it would do justice to the passion felt by fans of Sendak's story. "I wanted them to actually be there, "he says of the looming creatures. "I think as a kid I wouldn't imagine it as a cartoon. I would imagine they were in my world. There's a danger with Max being there on a real location. Dangerous and exciting. I wanted to feel that you could hug them."