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We might not be so in love with it over here, but the Where the Wild Things Are, a 40-page children's picture book written by Maurice Sendak in 1963, is HUGE in America. As in, make-it-into-a-film-by-Spike-Jonze-costing-$100-million huge. Out of a 40 page picture book. We know. Odd. As it's out tomorrow, full of big hairy monsters (The 'Wild Things') and a boy named Max scampering around in a wolf costume and a crown, this got us to thinking... what other incredibly short things could be made into movies?
This being Asylum, we've decided to share our findings / thoughts / the contents of our warped minds with you, our beloved readers. Pick what you'd like made most, after the jump.
Title: In The SoupThe inspiration: Andy Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans
An anti-capitalism story of one little white-haired man (played by David Bowie), who is obsessed, surprisingly enough, with soup. So much so that he eats it every day for 15 years, until they change the recipe and he falls ill. He refuses to give in, faithful to the brand he's loved for years, only to die of a seriously messed up colon. His family sue, win, and change soup brands.
Title: Duly Noted The inspiration: A £20 note
The story of a £20 note, and how it starts off fresh and clean, but travelling through cash tills and piggy banks, ends up transporting naughty powders up people's noses, paying off the police, paying for illegal arms deals and being swapped for a pack of cigarettes and some chewing gum before being put in a shoe box under an old lady's bed. An art-house film, starring Her Maj The Queen as the £20 note.
Title: 1006The inspiration: A film ticket stub
The film begins, handy-cam style, with a man buying a ticket to see 2012 at his local multiplex. Sneaking the portable camera past the security, he buys some popcorn and settles down for some serious kersplosions, taping as he goes. Half way through he leaves, as he just can't stand how crap it is. Critics interpret it as a savage indictment of piracy and/or Roland Emmerich, and give it rave reviews.
Title: Completely Smashed The inspiration: The label on a bottle of beer
A man meets up at the pub with his lady partner girlfriend person, buys some drinks, and settles down in a cosy corner somewhere. She dumps him, slowly and painfully, explaining exactly why she can't stand the sight of him, point by point, blow by blow. Shot in one continuous cut, it's filmed from the beer bottle's point of view, ending in him smashing the bottle and starting a fight with the bouncer before being knocked out cold by a right hook from his now ex-girlfriend.
Title: Death By Chocolate The inspiration: The tiny guidebook to the chocolates you've bought the family for Christmas
Starting out as a Ken Loach-esque kitchen sink drama, this film is essentially one long barney, with Christmas being well and truly ruined after nana eats a nutty choc. She's allergic, and slips away into the twilight. Trips to the hospital are made, fights are had, and secrets are revealed. Evolving into a seriously weak murder mystery, it seems that nana's passing was no accident, and detective Sherry Homes is called in to find the murderer. SPOILER! It was Colonel Mustard with the praline swirl.
