WTWTA Featurette – A Love Letter From Author Maurice Sendak
Wow.
This is exactly what we’ve been waiting for. Here is a 3 minute featurette that intermixes an interview with Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak and never before seen behind the scenes footage. Sendak discusses how the book was not well received from the beginning and it took roughly 2 years for it to finally catch on. Sendak has many kind things to say about director Spike Jonze as well:
“What I’ve seen him do, he’s turned ['Wild things'] into his without giving up mine…with embodying mine with Spike Jonze, and astonishingly it maintains its peculiarness as a work, but it flows throughout. The whole thing is such a strange thing. I’ve never seen a movie that looks like this. It’s his personal this. He’s not afraid of himself. He’s a real artist that let’s it come through the work. So he’s touched me very much.”
If this clip doesn’t hit you at an emotional level or make you want to see this ASAP, then you could very well be dead. Or have a colder heart than Frosty.
