Jonze’s ‘Wild Things’ hindered by studios again …

Now, damnit! This is starting to rattle my cage. Spike Jonze has got a great story that he’s made what apparently is a great movie from, but Warner Brothers is apparently sticking their big fat noses in where they don’t know what they’re doing. In the classic example of a studio ruining a great film, Warner Brothers is still unhappy with Jonze’s version … it seems they are displeased with the “intensity” of certain scenes and that they feel a “children’s” movie should be more kid friendly. Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again … give the kids some credit already. They aren’t as dumb as the kid movies we shove down their throats. Fortunately, Jonze has at least one intelligent actor on his side. Forest Whitaker provided some voice work for the film and has the following praise for Jonze’s version after seeing a screening with his three kids:

“The thing is, it’s one thing to read [scary stuff] in a book, but when you see an itty-bitty kid running alongside a 10-foot-giant on the side of a cliff, it gets intense. But that’s the point, because we’re representing the things inside of the kid. They represent his struggles, either him being too angry or being confused, or not feeling like he belongs. They’re a gargantuan extension of the way he’s feeling inside.”