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April 10, 2009 WESTERN CAROLINIAN Page 12 ARTS"AND ENTERTAINMENT Where The Wild Things Are, A Review By Max Kath Staff Writer When we were all children, we had our favorite books that we would bug our parents to read us every night before we went to bed, often over and over again to the point of annoyance. They were books by such great authors like Shel Silverstien, Dr. Seuss, or Margery Williams. However, one book by Maurice Sendak would capture the imaginations of millions of children for years to come and could say more about the nature of childhood in fewer words than any of the authors previously mentioned. That book of course is Where the ' Wild Things Are, a childrens book published in 1963 that told the story of a young boy by the name of Max | who does nothing but cause trouble and mischief in the house while dressed in his wolf suit, which does not jive well with his mother who sends him to bed without his supper. While in his room he is transported to a far away land that is inhabited by strange creatures known as the wild things and Max becomes their king. That is just the basic plot of the story which Im sure more than a few people are acquainted with so let me just cut to the chase. Fast forward a few decades later and we now have a movie based on this phenomenal childrens classic coming out in the fall and a trailer has been released to theaters. It looks incredible. However, to say that the film has had a smooth and painless road to the silver screen jould be an all out Vie. In fact to say, That the road has been rocky is still an understatement. The movie has been plagued by rumors circulating around on the Internet (some true, some false) that have caused many film buffs to panic and wonder what is really happening to the movie. The film is directed by music video virtuoso Spike Jonze (who also directed Being John Malkovich and Adaptation) and written by Jonze and modern day literary hero Dave Eggers, which right off the bat gives the impression that the film could. end up being something special. Jonze has a reputation for being an offbeat, quirky director whose films and music video are often described as weird, so most people who know anything about him know that he is the perfect choice to direct this film. Warner Bros. also seemed to agree and gave him the money he needed to go off and shoot the film he and Mr. Eggers wrote. Jonze enlisted the help of the Jim Henson Company to design the creatures, hired professional actors like James Gandolfini and Forest Whitaker to voice the wild things, and even went all the way to New Zealand to shoot the majority of the movie. It had a release date for some time in the middle of October 2008 and the hype was starting to build around it by that time. Nothing should have gone wrong with this scenario, but somehow it did. The trouble began with a test screening that Jonze did with a rough cut of the film a year and a half ago. The speculation on the Internet was that there were children in the audience who were frightened by the creatures and had to leave the screening early. There were also rumors that the studio was just not all around happy with the results they were seeing and that they were going to fire Jonze from the production and hire anew directorall together to re-shoot the whole film with new actors and a new script. To make matters worse, Warner Bros. decided to take the movie off their schedule entirely at one point. Things were starting to look grim for the future of the film until the head of Warner Bros. released a statement stating that they had not in fact replaced Jonze or any of the actors in the film, and in fact they gave him more money and time to fix some of the elements that didnt work in the rough cut. The biggest thing that worried film buffs was that Jonze would have to make a y Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures cut of the film that was the studios vision and not his own. When the statement was made peoples minds were put to ease and the film has not had any problems since. A few days ago, the trailer for the movie was put before the movie Monsters vs. Aliens and leaked to the Internet. The excitement and approval for it has been overwhelmingly supportive. The trailer starts out with Max asleep in the arms of one of the wild things as they walk through the forest at sunrise. The only lines of the trailer are spoken here then the song Wake Up by the band The Arcade Fire starts playing over the images of Max and his friends on the island of the wild things. We are shown images of them playing on the beach and having dirt clump wars and running wild all over the place. The song is the perfect choice for the trailer because it creates the right amount of excitement for the audience because of its upbeat nature. It has an irresistible Oh, Oh, Oh chorus that can cause a sporadic sing along by anyone in the audience. I think this is done to bring out the wild thing inside of all of us that is just yearning to get out. This is one of the most exciting trailers to come out in recent history and hopefully the end result will be just as exciting. Where the Wild Things Are opens October 16 in theaters nation wide. r I } 1 I I | I I i] I I I I I I I I I I I I } I 1 I I I L I I I I 1 1 I I I I I 1 I I I I I I \ I I I I I i I i I I I i | | I 1 i] | I i i I i 1 I \ i i I I I I I i I I I I I I I 1 I I I I \ I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I } I I I I 1 Lj I I I I I I I i} I I h MUSIC CALENDAR TIP: To.use this calendar, scan on the left for the date and familiar band - names, or scan down the right for the type of live music you like. If you arent familiar with the venue, there is a list at the bottom of this page to inform you of where each venue is located. For more info on the music listed here, Google search the band or the venue. MONDAY April 6 + Scythian + Korby Lenker| Emerald thas | AMERICANA/MISC. + POP +Dan Deacon & Ensemble + Future Islands + Teeth Mountain | The Orange Peel| ELECTRONICA + NEW WAVE + TRANCE TUESDAY April 7 + Miriam Allen | Back Room | SPANISH- FLAVORED FOLK WEDNESDAY April 8 + Jonatha Brooke | The Grey Eagle | FOLK ' + Brian Jonestown Massacre + Flavor Crystals | The Orange Peel | ROCK + ELECTRONICA THURSDAY April 9 + Brushfire Stankgrass | Back Room | BLUEGRASS + Due Panic + Cobra Horse + Ship of Fools | Emerald Lounge | POP-ROCK + Woody Pines | French Broad Brewery | ROOTS + The Baker Family + Royal Bangs + Kovacs & the Polar Bear | The Grey Eagle | ALT-POP + ELECTRO/ROCK + FOLK +The HumBuckers + Fustics | The Rocket Club | AMERICANA + Uncle Dave and The Smoky Mountain Escort Service | Westville Pub | COUNTRY FRIDAY April10. +The Vivs + UPASS | Guadalupe Caf | PUNK + Empty Slate | OMalleys Pub and Grill | ROCK/SOUL + WilSin | Back Room | FUNK/SOUL + Rafe Hollister | College Street Pub | SOUTHERN ROCK + East Coast Dirt + Mr. K and the Famous | Emerald Lounge | PROGRESSIVE + FUNK + The StereoFidelics | French Broad Brewery | ALTERNATIVE + Good Old Boyz | Jack of the Wood | COUNTRY + Vertigo Jazz Project | Stella Blue | JAZZ + DubConscious + Hope Massive + Collective Efforts | The Grey Eagle | DUB / REGGAE + REGGAE + HIP-HOP + Snake Oil Medicine Show | The Rocket Club | BLUEGRASS/PYSCHOBILLY SATURDAY April 11 + Grey Milk | Guadalupe Caf | FOLK-ROCK + Rafe Hollister | Big Ricks | SOUTHERN ROCK +Brian McGee + Laura Blackley + Chelsea Lynn LaBate + Marc Higgins | Back Room | SINGER-SONGWRITER NIGHT + The Enemy Lovers + The Cashmere Blackout | Boiler Room | ROCK + Jon Stickley Band | French Broad Brewery | BLUEGRASS + Ethos + Josh Phillips + DJ CrickNice + Chix With Stix | Garage at Biltmore | SKA + ROOTS + ELECTRONICA + CRUNK + Woody Wood and The Hollywood Red | Jack of the Wood | ROCK + Great Lake Swimmers + Kate Maki + Wayne Robbins | The Grey Eagle | FOLK + BLUES/FOLK + AMBIENT + New Killer Stars + Lamb Handler + Bugs Multiply| The Rocket Club | ROCK or Funky 4 Comers | os Pub | BLUES MONDAY oe 3 + Hollywood Undead + Framing Hanley + Sonny | The oe Peel | ROCK/HIP- HOP + ROCK TUESDAY April 14 + Kon Tiki | Back Room | HAWAIIAN-LOUNGE + Backwords + Steamboat Theory | Garage at Biltmore | SOUL + JAM BAND + Ratatat + Tussle + Black Pus | The Orange Peel | ELECTRONICA + Forty Furies + The Life and Times | The Rocket Club | ROCK WEDNESDAY April 15 + Hoss Howard | The Rusty Lizard | COUNTRY + Woody Wood and The Hollywood Red | Bobo Gallery | ROCK. + Greasy Beans + Jennie Benford + Garbage Bear | The Grey Eagle | BLUEGRASS THURSDAY April 16 + Greasy Beans | Back Room | BLUEGRASS + Rebecca Pronsky + Valorie Miller.| Bobo Gallery | ALT-AMERICANA + FOLK + Kinjac + Nova Echo + Everflaw | Emerald Lounge | ELECTRONICA + Matt Walsh | French Broad Brewery | ROCKABILLY + Against Me! | Stella Blue | PUNK + Amy.LaVere + Kellin Watson | The Grey Eagle | Hie Nts oedca + FOLK ROCK + Susan Tedeschi | The Orange Peel | BLUES - +The Whappers | The Rocket Club] ROCK ~ + Hudson K | Westville Pub | FOLK-ROCK FRIDAY April 17 . + Largemouth Buzz | Guadalupe Caf | BLUES + Marshall Ruffin | Back Room | AMERICANA + Wise Apple | French Broad Brewery | BLUEGRASS + Jarvis Jenkins+ Peggy Ratusz and Daddy Longlegs | Garage. at Biltmore | BLUES : + Two Man Gentleman Band | Jack of the Wood | DIXELAND + Machines of Sin & Sorrow + Ironside + Dissent + Convalescence | Stella Blue | METAL : + Hope and Anchor | The Grey Eagle | ACOUSTIC PUNK. + The Faint + Ladytron + Crocodiles | The Orange Peel | hee tee he AE ELECTRO-POP + ELECTRONICA + Hellblinki Sextet | The Rocket Club | GYSPY-BLUES SATURDAY April 18 + National Hotel | Guadalupe Caf | PYSCHEDELIC + Rafe Holliser | OMalleys Pub and Grill | SOUTHERN ROCK. + Contagious | The Rusty Lizard | ROCK. + Danielle Miraglia + Jacob Johnson | Back Room | BLUES + FOLK/ FUNK. + Woody Wood and The Hollywood Red | French Broad Brewery | ROCK + Vibe + Peripheral + DJ Shuka + Relik + True Believers | The Garage | ROCK + ELECTRONICA + Sons of Ralph | Jack of the Wood | BLUEGRASS/ AMERICANA + Custard Pie | The Grey Eagle | BLUES/ROCK + Holy Ghost Tent Revival | Westville Pub | ROOTS SUNDAY April 19 + Claire Lynch | The Grey Eagle | BLUEGRASS + Dengue Fever | The Orange Peel | CAMBODIAN POP-ROCK REGULAR APPEARANCES: + Chad Hallyburton | Guadalupe Caf | Mondays 6:30-8:30pm | JAZZ GUITAR + Ian Moores Mountain Music Miscellany | Guadalupe Caf | Tuesdays 6:30- 8:30pm | BLUEGRASS : +Asheville Jazz Orchestra | The Rocket Club | Mondays 9 pm | JAZZ + Open Mic Mondays | Westville Pub | Mondays 7:30pm | MISC + Bluesday Tuesday | Westville Pub | Tuesdays 9:30 pm | BLUEGRASS > ASHEVILLE VENUES: Back Room, Bobo Gallery, Boiler Room, College Street Pub, Ed Bourdreauxs Bayou BBQ, Emerald Lounge, French Broad Brewery, Garage at Biltmore, Jack of the Woods, Stella Blue, The Grey Eagle, The Orange Peel, The Rocket Club, Westville Pub > SYLVA VENUES: Big Ricks, Guadalupe Caf, OMalleys Pub & Grill, Shot in the Dark Cafe ys

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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