{"id":163,"date":"2019-03-12T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=163"},"modified":"2019-03-12T04:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T04:29:00","slug":"036-where-the-wild-things-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2019\/03\/12\/036-where-the-wild-things-are\/","title":{"rendered":"036 – Where the Wild Things Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director Spike Jonze is somewhat of an Oscar anomaly, successfully turning oddities like Being John Malkovitch<\/i>, Adaptation<\/i>, and Her<\/i> into auteur films embraced by the Academy. This week\u2019s episode focuses on perhaps his riskiest and most personal film: 2009\u2032s adaptation of children\u2019s classic Where the WIld Things Are<\/i>. The film was expensive and divisive, loved by those who were moved by its vision and dismissed by those who felt it didn\u2019t honor their childhood memories of the book.<\/p>\n

2009 was the first year of the 10-wide Best Picture field, but voters had already moved on from Jonze\u2019s spectacle by the time of voting. We discuss how Avatar<\/i> might have sucked all of the \u201cvisionary\u201d oxygen out of the room, how the film makes the case for a voice performance Oscar, and the brilliant and unrewarded musical work from Karen O and Carter Burwell.<\/p>\n

(Apologies for the first ~20 minutes of audio on this episode – we thank you for your patience!)<\/p>\n

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Director Spike Jonze is somewhat of an Oscar anomaly, successfully turning oddities like Being John Malkovitch, Adaptation, and Her into auteur films embraced by the Academy. This week\u2019s episode focuses on perhaps his riskiest and most personal film: 2009\u2032s adaptation of children\u2019s classic Where the WIld Things Are. The film was expensive and divisive, loved … Continue reading “036 – Where the Wild Things Are”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,20,206,3,6,205,204],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-best-original-song","tag-karen-o","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-spike-jonze","tag-where-the-wild-things-are","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}