Maurice Sendak tells parents worried by Wild Things to 'go to hell' - Page 2

jillio · 10-23-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by cdaigle430

The article did not but the comments on this thread did. Everyone has an opnion yes, but, the author is defending his book from parents who publicly slammed it. Therefore he has a right to publicly defend it no? The movie itself was rated PG(Parental Guidance) so If you don't want you kid to watch-don't. Parents that are overbearing or overprotective can result in bonfires where books are burned from the community library. They even closed our local drive in theater because it promoted "sexual tendencies" This happened in my community when I was a child and it's ugly, senseless and stupid. No, my parents were smart and were against it.

No they will not be deprived later in life from not being able to watch the movie, but nonetheless it was a good story and they are missing out.

Exactly. The PG rating says it all. Parental Guidance. Guide your own child, and allow other parents to guide theirs as they see fit. No need to makle a public spectacle over the decision you make on the Parental Guidance warning. It is not as if the parents that don't want their child to see it haven't been forwarned. That is what the rating system is all about.

The actions of these parents border on attempts at censorship. I don't blame the author at all for defending his book. He could have been a bit more restrained in doing so, but the parents slamming the book and the movie certainly weren't showing any restraint.

jillio · 10-23-2009, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Banjo

Maybe he should had told them to go to heaven, but then the atheists would had thrown their arms up in furor.

Can't please everybody. He certainly didn't say it to please the parents. I doubt he cares though.

The parents certainly weren't attempting to please him, either.

And I doubt seriously that he cares, either. The parents we are talking about certainly aren't going to hurt his profit margins. They were not going to purchase the book or allow their kids to see the movie anyway. They just wanted to run their mouths to the media.

jillio · 10-23-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by sallylou

I'm anxious to see the Percy Jackson movie when it comes out. My kid has already learned the Greek gods because of reading the book. Very cool!

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Shame on you! Allowing your child to learn mythology!

**Banjo** · 10-23-2009, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jillio

Shame on you! Allowing your child to learn mythology!

Oh the outrage! Burn her at the stake!

**Reba** · 10-23-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Banjo

...Let's move on. Life is short.

True.

kokonut · 06-27-2012, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Reba

I wouldn't want my children to read or watch something by a man who displays such disrespect for the parents.

Indeed. Plus, there is more.

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Maurice Sendak may have been even wilder than his "wild things."

In one of the children's book author's last interviews before he died of a stroke in May, Sendak said he thought about trying to assassinate former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney.

"Bush was president, I thought, 'Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House. And I want to have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the president, and his wife, and anybody else that can fit into the love hug,'" Sendak told The Comics Journal's founder Gary Groth in an interview that will be published in the magazine's next edition.

"And then we'll blow ourselves up, and I'd be a hero," Sendak continued.

"It would have been a very brave and wonderful thing," said Sendak, who wrote the whimsical "Where the Wild Things Are."

Maurice Sendak Said Killing Bush Would Have Been 'Wonderful' - Yahoo! News

He turns out to be a neurotic and hateful man who wish people death thinking he'd be a hero to do such a moronic thing such as assassinating Pres. Bush and his wife (and anybody else caught in the explosion). It's time to burn his books. His books aren't worth having. There's a difference to have a strong opinion and argument vs blowing people up just because you disagree. May he rot in hell.

**Reba** · 06-27-2012, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by kokonut

Indeed. Plus, there is more.

He turns out to be a neurotic and hateful man who wish people death thinking he'd be a hero to do such a moronic thing such as assassinating Pres. Bush and his wife (and anybody else caught in the explosion). It's time to burn his books. His books aren't worth having. There's a difference to have a strong opinion and argument vs blowing people up just because you disagree. May he rot in hell.

I don't agree with book burnings. The best way to protest is to inform people about the books and authors, and then don't buy the books.

kokonut · 06-27-2012, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Reba

I don't agree with book burnings. The best way to protest is to inform people about the books and authors, and then don't buy the books.

I'm talking about if you have that book...burn it. Not worth having that in your house. And I agree, inform people about that book and not buy it.

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