A Guide to Getting Rid of That Public Boner

Movies and TV shows have been dominated in the past decade or so by gritty reboots, in which known characters or plots are presented in a harsh, as realistic as possible manner, e.g. The Dark Knight, the recent Battlestar Galactica series, and the movie adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. If Dave Eggers can take a slim storybook and make a movie about depressed monsters waxing incoherently about sadness and loss, then dozens of classic kids’ books are just sitting there, waiting to be made more gritty and super-realistic.