Although Eggers enjoys the book now, he remembers being scared of it when he first read it as a child. In the book, a mischievous boy named Max is sent to his room for acting up, but instead escapes and sails away to a fantastical world of giant beasts. "I think most kids, but boys especially, need to sometimes pick up a stick and hit other trees with it."Įggers contrasts that aspect of his youth with the depictions of childhood commonly seen in modern Hollywood movies: "You see a much more indoor version of childhood," he says. in the woods making forts, breaking stuff and playing in the mud," he says. He was particularly drawn to Sendak's vision of free-form childhood: Last summer's Away We Go, co-written with his wife, writer Vendela Vida, marked his debut as a screenwriter, and this month he follows up with Where the Wild Things Are, which he co-wrote with director Spike Jonze.Įggers tells Melissa Block that his attraction to the Wild Things project sprung from his love of the Maurice Sendak children's book upon which the movie is based. Dave Eggers says he was attracted to Maurice Sendak's book because it portrayed a vision of childhood that seemed authentic to him: dirty, strange and a little bit scary.īest known for his long-form nonfiction books, author Dave Eggers has been making a slow, steady entrance into the world of film.
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