Carrey believes the vivid imagination in the books by Theodore Geisel - "Dr. Seuss" - is what brings news generations of children to the stories and is the spirit that drives the film.

"I think as far as kids go, the thing that attracts them to this is not the deeper concepts involved. It's really just the fact that Seuss's creativity was so incredible. He was such an original and if you give a kid a character that he has never seen before, in a world he has never seen before, it sest? able to completely lose themselves in it in an imaginary space. And yet at the same time they are getting all those wonderful lessons."

Carell adds that the theme of tolerance, - "a person's a person, no matter how small" - , is as relevant today as it was when the book first appeared in 1954.

"Without getting too deep or too heavy with it because, after all, it's a family movie. It's fun, it's funny, it's exciting, it's silly. But within that there is a very true and pure theme to it."


【词汇复习】
Theodore Geisel   西奥多-盖泽尔
relevant    / 5relivEnt /  adj.有关的, 相应的