New Images: 'Where the Wild Things Are'
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A whole bunch of new images from Where the Wild Things Are have arrived online courtesy of USA Today (in advance of the first trailer), and not only do we get our first real good look at the Wild Things, but the darn thing looks pretty awesome too. With 12 images in all (some old, some new), the photo spread takes you through some of the story -- the one read to most of us first at a very young age. Directed by Spike Jonze, and adapted for the screen (from Maurice Sendak's classic book) by Jonze and Dave Eggers, this new version of Where the Wild Things Are stays mostly true to form with a few small additions, like names for all the Wild Things. They are: Carol (James Gandolfini), Judith (Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker (Ira), Douglas (Chris Cooper) and KW (Lauren Ambrose). Max Records plays Max, a rowdy little kid who creates his own world full of wild creatures after causing trouble and getting sent to bed without dinner. Check out a few of the images below and the rest over at USA Today.
Where the Wild Things Are hits theaters on October 16.
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3-23-2009 @ 12:19AM
MIND DANCER said...
I hope the CGI is unnoticeable in the faces. I wish they didn't do CGI at all. It's a personal thing I suppose. I really dislike CGI injected into a film. It dates projects. This project should not get dated by the craze that is CGI. People think it looks cool now, because it's new and is easier than creating exciting, tangible alternatives.
Who loves DARK CRYSTAL? And no CGI. A dated argument I know.
Orson Welles said, "The enemy of art is the absence of limitations." CGI creates an absence of limitations and should be seen as an enemy!
There are exceptions, of course. Giant robots, sure, make them CGI. Artificial computer faces on a hand crafted puppet... I don't need those to be CGI.
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3-23-2009 @ 1:03AM
Mr. R said...
I don' t like obvious CGI, it all looks plastic fake but I also think it would be hard to imagine every character of an army in Lord of the Rings being real. A wise usage does improve a movie and makes it easier to fit a budget. Computers will never be the enemy, those who abuse them are.
3-23-2009 @ 5:49AM
Match said...
Well, I don't think it's a bad thing to use CGI, I mean honestly it just keeps getting better and better these days. If it's obviously fake then yea don't use it, but otherwise why not? Just by looking at other stuff the future has in store (http://www.shavemagazine.com/lifestyle/090302) I am positive that soon enough we won't be able to tell that it is CGI ;)
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4-03-2009 @ 12:00AM
grommo said...
The thing is that it was attempted without CGi by using animatronic faces made by the Jim Henson company but they were absurdly heavy and poorly designed. A major dropped ball by a highly overrated company. So The suits were salvaged and optimised by an Australian crew and CGi faces were decided upon. A wise approach with a good result that will look expressive and sublte without the poor muppet-like lipsynch and hammy gurning otherwise to be expected from that quarter.