So I saw the following in a article about a interview given by the author of the "beloved" children's book when reading through my my google reader the other day:
Reporter: “What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?”
Sendak: “I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.”
Reporter: “Because kids can handle it?”
Sendak: “If they can’t handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it’s not a question that can be answered.”
Um yeah, so I never really read this book as a child but I have thought it had a cute premise when I read it to my nieces and nephews. However I have to say when confronted with the authors obvious callousness to children one struggles to see why he would write a children's book in the first place. I know that as a child I was one who would get scared very easily in movies and a honest dialogue about appropriate ages and parental discretion would have been advisable for many movies I saw. However since Mr. Sendak does not want to have that conversation and in keeping with his general attitude I will stay home, not wet my pants, and do whatever I like instead of seeing his movie. I am sure his pockets are so deep he can't find the bottom of them but I feel a small sense of satisfaction that my coin will not be inflating his pockets for either his movie or is book ever.
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