![]() ![]() ![]() “Molesters! Drugs! Homeless! Needles!” she screams in a scene that could have come out of Dennis the Menace.īut at least the Dennis the Menace DVD includes a “fun activity book.” The neurotic woman chases a bicycle-riding Max, who turns into the woods. Max’s friend’s mom is also shamelessly two-dimensional, like the best of the B->M->B characters. That is the worst question anyone has ever asked, fictional or non. ![]() Why would anyone cry about getting hit in the face with a ball of ice and snow falling from the sky after almost hitting the sun?” “He looked out his peephole, and could see Claire helping Meika, who was crying, her face red and raw. The Wild Things defies this standard precept of B->M->B, instead turning a poignant, touching children’s book into a weighty 287-pager.īut here is the genius: Eggers manages to subvert the genre while simultaneously cheapening the meaning of the original story! It’s beautiful.Įggers’s protagonist, Max, reveals bits of wisdom throughout the story. Upon hitting his sister’s head in the face with a snowball: In the B->M->B canon, each adaptation manages to brilliantly gut the nuances of character and plot, reducing the story to a bare bones, empty shell of its original self. In The Wild Things, Dave Eggers clearly shows his understanding of the Book->Movie->Book genre and expertly turns it on its head. ![]()
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