Where the Wild Things Are

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• Though their names are not mentioned in the book, Maurice Sendak named the Wild Things after his aunts and uncles: Bernard, Tzippeh, Aaron, Moishe, etc. In the film they have totally different names.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): During the "Rumpus", When Carol jumps straight up into a tree trunk, he falls back on his front. When the camera cuts to Max then back to Carol, He is now on his back.
• Tom Noonan was originally cast as Douglas.
• Spike Jonze had his voice cast act out their characters on a soundstage, to ensure that the voices came from a performance of actors working together, instead of filming the movie and recording the voices later, or recording the actors individually. The actors wore radio microphones attached to their heads with headbands. Jonze and Catherine Keener would perform Max. Even before this soundstage shoot, Spike took the voice cast to Griffith Park to wage an actual dirt clod war.