Word: fear
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With Head of the Charles this weekend, you might be less than pleased with the hordes of visitors taking over Harvard Square. Fear not! What better excuse to get out and watch it yourself...
What makes Sendak's book so compelling is its grounding effect: Max has a tantrum and in a flight of fancy visits his wild side, but he is pulled back by a belief in parental love to a supper "still hot," balancing the seesaw of fear and comfort. In expanding the story, Jonze (with co-writer Dave Eggers) invents just enough of Max's home life to convey the forces behind his disobedience. The parents of 9-year-old Max (played by Max Records, whose name and performance suggest he was born for this role) have split...
...word story of Max - last name unknown, emotional state tumultuous, willingness to obey dubious - has been a bedtime favorite of wild things everywhere (and their parents) since not long after its 1963 publication. That makes nearly five decades' worth of fans, many of whom have been harboring the disquieting fear that the universality of Maurice Sendak's Max, who so exquisitely embodies the inherent storminess of all small beings, would be marred by Spike Jonze's cinematic adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. (See TIME's photo-essay "Kids' Books Come to Life...
...child make the call on whether it's too long. I'm taking him, although I'd doubted I would, having expected the hipster's Max. But this is a Max for everyone, for all the wild things and those who love and respect them. There was nothing to fear after...
...sheriff says he is keeping the peace, but it seems as if he is doing just the opposite - a useless, reckless churning of fear and unrest." - (New York Times editorial, April...