Maurice Sendak’s unusual aesthetic finally comes to theaters in "Where the Wild Things Are" adaptation.
“I didn't have a social conscience that I was doing anything different," Sendak told the LA Times. "It was all my own and in full color. It's hard to imagine now, with everyone doing them. But emancipating children was far from my mind."
Sendak couldn't have known that a shy kid growing up in New Jersey in the early '70s would be read the book by his mother and have his head turned around.
"As a kid, I felt like I could fall into those drawings, just disappear," says director Spike Jonze, director of the long-awaited film adaptation of the storybook. "I've just recently realized how powerful picture books are before you can read. There's this entire world there."
The production, which began with discussions between Sendak and Jonze in the mid-'90s, came close to disappearing altogether because of creative differences between director and studio, the Times reported.
"I don't think it's possible to overestimate Sendak's influence on the 20th century," says Susan Patron, the Los Angeles-based author of "Lucky Breaks" and a retired children's librarian, told the Times "And not only in the field of children's literature but in the broadest cultural context."
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