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The original trailer for "Where the Wild Things Are" featured "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire. It set the scene, featuring Spike Jonze's beautiful direction and the stunning cinematography, made all the more incredible by Arcade Fire's anthem, and the fact that Max didn't say a word. It remains my favourite movie trailer of all time.
The film itself to me was a disappointment. I can totally understand why Spike created the film in the way he did - Max is a precocious little boy, sometimes pretty annoying - pretty much the same as the boy in the story. But to me that first trailer promised so much more - a story of a sad, lonely, quiet boy and his imaginative escape to the only place he feels able to cope with life - The world of the Wild Things.
This new edit features an entirely new soundtrack performed by many great artists, including Fleet Foxes, Midlake, Sigur Ros, Bon Iver, Nick Drake and of course, Arcade Fire. Dialogue has been stripped down wherever possible, creating more of an empahsis on the music and the visuals to tell the story. The intention is to better match the tone of the initial trailer, and to create a more subtle and introspective interpretation of the film.
This is a also a non-linear take on the story, where Max escapes many times to the world of the wild things, not just one time. This allows for a very different approach to telling the story, where we gradually learn why Max feels the need to escape, and progressively discover exactly what the wild world represents to him. This non-linear edit of the film also features a new ending to the original.
Original Running Time: 1hr 42mins
Fanedit Running Time: 1hr 16mins
Cut List
Wild Rumpus Soundtrack:
Special Features
- Film Commentary
- Deleted Scenes with Visual Commentary
- Original Trailer
- Fanedit Trailers
- Soundtrack Music Videos
- Storybook Edit
Release Info:
Film + Special Features:
- SL NTSC DVD (4.7GB)
- SL Bluray 1080p (25GB) - (9.4GB as a zipped downloadable file)
Film + Commentary Only:
- DL AVCHD 780p (8.5GB)
Release date
- February 2012
The film itself to me was a disappointment. I can totally understand why Spike created the film in the way he did - Max is a precocious little boy, sometimes pretty annoying - pretty much the same as the boy in the story. But to me that first trailer promised so much more - a story of a sad, lonely, quiet boy and his imaginative escape to the only place he feels able to cope with life - The world of the Wild Things.
This new edit features an entirely new soundtrack performed by many great artists, including Fleet Foxes, Midlake, Sigur Ros, Bon Iver, Nick Drake and of course, Arcade Fire. Dialogue has been stripped down wherever possible, creating more of an empahsis on the music and the visuals to tell the story. The intention is to better match the tone of the initial trailer, and to create a more subtle and introspective interpretation of the film.
This is a also a non-linear take on the story, where Max escapes many times to the world of the wild things, not just one time. This allows for a very different approach to telling the story, where we gradually learn why Max feels the need to escape, and progressively discover exactly what the wild world represents to him. This non-linear edit of the film also features a new ending to the original.
Original Running Time: 1hr 42mins
Fanedit Running Time: 1hr 16mins
Cut List
- Re-sequenced entire film, cutting back and forth between real and wild world to directly contrast what max is experiencing.
- Cut max's journey to the wild things by boat. First cut to the wild world sees max already in stormy seas arriving at the island.
- Stripped back dialogue between wild things when Max first sees them. Dialogue has been simplified wherever possible.
- Cut all bad behaviour/anger by max in early stages of the film. Have kept him quiet/sad, hopefully increasing our sympathy for him.
- Cut Max calling to his sister to play with him. again, tried to keep him a loner, struggling to know how to connect with people.
- Cut much of the original soundtrack (mostly replaced by new indie-rock songs)
- Trimmed dialogue between max and wild things before he becomes king
- Cut KW's introduction. INstead, we meet her when Max does, at the bottom of the wild thing pile.
- Turned walk with Carol through the woods into a dream sequence.
- Removed tinkly piano from 'did you know the sun was going to die" scene, and added wind foley to make the scene more desolate.
- Removed Dog. Didn't want a joke at the end of the sun dying scene. wanted to keep the tone serious.
- Simplified dialogue in cave/model scene
- Removed soundtrack and added new foley to max lying in bed thinking about dad scene.
- Removed max telling mum a story. again, kept him quiet and sad as much as possible.
- Removed wild things building fort scenes. Max can just imagine that the fort is already built.
- Reversed shot of Max looking at Carol to better match transition from real world
- Cut max being mean to Judith. Makes her more threatening and him more sympathetic.
- Cut KW introducing Max to Bob and Terry as a ‘biter’
- Cut knock knock joke between bob, terry and alexander. Better not to know if they can actually speak/understand English.
- Trimmed Carol’s angry reaction to bob and terry
- Removed “everyone’s mad at me” line from Carol on the beachside.
- Removed Max giving instructions about the war to the wild things. Cut straight to action instead.
- Cut pause during war where Judith and Ira hide behind a log. Kept things moving for pacing reasons.
- Cut Max stepping on KW and KW saying she is leaving. Needed to be removed to help aid the fluidity of the transition back to the real world.
- Cut strange expression on Max’s face in the Kitchen.
- Trimmed running away from home footage.
- Cut Carol’s reference to KW having run away and Max needing to get her back.
- Added foley (forest, waves) during Nick Drake song.
- Added behind the scenes footage of scene of Max Records and Spike Jonze, as a short flashback (father and son) during "Way to Blue".
- Added foley (due to audio replacement) during KW and Max's last conversation in the woods.
- Extended footage of journey home by boat, using deleted footage from earlier in the film.
- Completely new ending, showing reveal of the ‘actual’ wild things, and implying that Max is headed back to the Wild Things again afterall.
- Cut max's journey to the wild things by boat. First cut to the wild world sees max already in stormy seas arriving at the island.
- Stripped back dialogue between wild things when Max first sees them. Dialogue has been simplified wherever possible.
- Cut all bad behaviour/anger by max in early stages of the film. Have kept him quiet/sad, hopefully increasing our sympathy for him.
- Cut Max calling to his sister to play with him. again, tried to keep him a loner, struggling to know how to connect with people.
- Cut much of the original soundtrack (mostly replaced by new indie-rock songs)
- Trimmed dialogue between max and wild things before he becomes king
- Cut KW's introduction. INstead, we meet her when Max does, at the bottom of the wild thing pile.
- Turned walk with Carol through the woods into a dream sequence.
- Removed tinkly piano from 'did you know the sun was going to die" scene, and added wind foley to make the scene more desolate.
- Removed Dog. Didn't want a joke at the end of the sun dying scene. wanted to keep the tone serious.
- Simplified dialogue in cave/model scene
- Removed soundtrack and added new foley to max lying in bed thinking about dad scene.
- Removed max telling mum a story. again, kept him quiet and sad as much as possible.
- Removed wild things building fort scenes. Max can just imagine that the fort is already built.
- Reversed shot of Max looking at Carol to better match transition from real world
- Cut max being mean to Judith. Makes her more threatening and him more sympathetic.
- Cut KW introducing Max to Bob and Terry as a ‘biter’
- Cut knock knock joke between bob, terry and alexander. Better not to know if they can actually speak/understand English.
- Trimmed Carol’s angry reaction to bob and terry
- Removed “everyone’s mad at me” line from Carol on the beachside.
- Removed Max giving instructions about the war to the wild things. Cut straight to action instead.
- Cut pause during war where Judith and Ira hide behind a log. Kept things moving for pacing reasons.
- Cut Max stepping on KW and KW saying she is leaving. Needed to be removed to help aid the fluidity of the transition back to the real world.
- Cut strange expression on Max’s face in the Kitchen.
- Trimmed running away from home footage.
- Cut Carol’s reference to KW having run away and Max needing to get her back.
- Added foley (forest, waves) during Nick Drake song.
- Added behind the scenes footage of scene of Max Records and Spike Jonze, as a short flashback (father and son) during "Way to Blue".
- Added foley (due to audio replacement) during KW and Max's last conversation in the woods.
- Extended footage of journey home by boat, using deleted footage from earlier in the film.
- Completely new ending, showing reveal of the ‘actual’ wild things, and implying that Max is headed back to the Wild Things again afterall.
Wild Rumpus Soundtrack:
Arcade Fire
- Wake Up
- We used to Wait
Bon Iver
- Flume
- Creature Fear
Sigur Ros
- Glosili
- Heysatan
- #1 Vaka
Midlake
- Acts of Man
Nick Drake
- Way to Blue
Fleet Foxes
- Ragged Wood
- Sun it Rises
- Helplessness Blues
- Wake Up
- We used to Wait
Bon Iver
- Flume
- Creature Fear
Sigur Ros
- Glosili
- Heysatan
- #1 Vaka
Midlake
- Acts of Man
Nick Drake
- Way to Blue
Fleet Foxes
- Ragged Wood
- Sun it Rises
- Helplessness Blues
Special Features
- Film Commentary
- Deleted Scenes with Visual Commentary
- Original Trailer
- Fanedit Trailers
- Soundtrack Music Videos
- Storybook Edit
Release Info:
Film + Special Features:
- SL NTSC DVD (4.7GB)
- SL Bluray 1080p (25GB) - (9.4GB as a zipped downloadable file)
Film + Commentary Only:
- DL AVCHD 780p (8.5GB)
Release date
- February 2012
