Stop branding my dreams...
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- kidswift-
I don't know how many of you are with me on this one, but I hope all. I for one am sooo f**king sick of corporate adaptations and branding of my imagination. My favourite book of all time has to be where the wilds things are, full stop no argument. So much so that when I was little I used to call myself Max and wanted my parents to do the same. So much so that at the age of almost 29 Max is the only soft toy that I have and is often found running around in my bed still.
But what really gets me is that Spike Jonz (I do respect his other work don’t get me wrong) is now making a movie of this. Just because a book is great does not mean to say we have to make a fucking movie of it. The moment this happens then the movie claims you beautiful illustrations your imagination has dreamed up and replaces them with there own target market, audience researched ones there creative team want you to think of from now on. That is the continual beauty and wonder that books inspire in not just kids but us all. They make you think, they make you dream... I don't want to imagine Max as being some fucking precocious Haley Joel Osment type kid dancing around with product placements and some fucking CGI monsters... no I want to keep my version the one I dreamed up night after night while I was in the top bunk above my brother... Listen up movie makers back the f**k off and stop branding my dreams.......
- vespa0
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- kidswift-0
Lets just say the image is conjured up reminded me off it.... thanx
- uncle_helv0
Doesn't compute with me fella, gobble-de-gook. What are you trying to say?!
- kidswift-0
I am saying i am sick so many good books not being left untouched as books and to your imagination. I am sick of once a movie is made then its sometimes impossible to read that book again without seeing it depicted in your minds eye as the production company made it on the silver screen... ya get me??
- acescence0
don't watch the movie?
- uncle_helv0
Don't watch the film simple as that!
- phatlee0
I think your in need of a holiday.
- vespa0
make your own version!
- kidswift-0
Yes to all three thanks guys. i know i can just not watch the movie but its like i want to stop others ruining it for themselves as well....fuck i will shut up now.
- BUISNESS0
you don't have to go to see the movie, mate
- BUISNESS0
sorry...missed the boat
- ********0
DO NOT SEE THE BLOODY MOVIE!
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- paraselene0
i didn't go to see the bloody grinch but it's still like a cheese grater on my brain that it exists and that (this is the worst part) some kids who are little now will know that version of it before they ever read the book! this is nigh on tragic in my book and makes me feel positively ill.
so, yeah, i see where you're coming from, k-s.
- ********0
you talk too much kid
- uncle_helv0
The original is always better than than the reinterpretation, that goes for pretty much everything!!
- uncle_helv0
Wtf where is the rest of my post!!
the rest
...As long as the original exists people will be able to find it and form there own opinions!
- nburlington0
I agree that its a problem and I don't think that avoiding the movie will help the situation. Culturally, its a bigger concern.
I think that down the line, authors and other creatives should include a "JD Salinger" clause to keep their material from being reinterpreted and repackaged.
- Baskerville0
I used to love whre the wild things are too. I spent hours staring at it when I was younger. But it was the illustratios that captivated me. Sendak's illustrations already gave me some of the images in my head. It's not quite the same as a text-only book being made into a film.
Even if you do see the film, it sounds like your mental images of max's adventures are pretty deep-rooted and will therefore be hard to overwrite just by seeing a film adaptation.
If anyone was going to make a film of it, I'm glad it's jonze. Although they better not use any cgi. I'd rather see amazing costumes and anamatronics instead.
- harlequino0
I must admit I am a little disturbed that you equate filmmaking, which is no less of a legitimate art form than any type of literature, with "branding" or some sort of corporate mechanism.
So by that logic, should Strauss not have written a ballet based on Cinderella?
Or maybe people should stop writing books that act as a continuation of popular and beloved film series?
I think I understand where your frustration lies, but do a little self clarification as to whose feet you should lay the blame.
In the meantime, don't see the movie.
- kidswift-0
Finally.... yes paraselene that is exactly what i mean. Just becuase I am not going to go along and see the movie, doesn't mean its not going to play on my Brain like Chinese water torture just knowing its out there! Also knowing all the younger generations might sadly never know or realise that it was a book fist. The best fuckin book there is. Thankyou nburlington also because your totally right as well. By not going to see the movie won't solve this situation, as its bigger than that. Perhaps, yes there should be bans inplace. Maybe Authors should let there readers ejoy there works alive in their imaginations instead of cashing in on the movie rights and watching there audience be spoon feed one manufactured vacuous on screen redition to them.
Here endith the rant..