Friday, August 07, 2009

King of the Wild Things!

When I first heard there was going to be a live-action movie of Where the Wild Things Are, I was less than optimistic. I just knew the movie was going to destroy the exalted place in myself that is occupied by memories of 'reading' this book.

NOTE: 'reading' is in quotes because the book's only got about 9 sentences or something.

However, despite the brevity of the text, I would sit for hours studying the pictures and imagining worlds of unbounded wildness and fun, populated with monsters inspired by the amazing artwork in the book.

There was just no way a movie could capture that feeling.

Then, back in March, the first trailer surfaced.

On first watching, I was choked up and nearly teary-eyed. Wow. This might just work. But I wasn't letting my hopes get up too high because then the dashing against the rocks is always so painful.

Fast forward to August, and the next trailer appears:


This time, I crossed the line from nearly teary-eyed on over into smiling while weeping.

So now I'm letting those expectations soar. Even if the rocks do crush them someday, the time flying will have been worth it.

Tim "The King is dead, long live the King" James