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Into the Wild, The Movie

I finished watching this last night and I enjoyed it quite a lot. The cinematography was spectacular and I thought it was a great story regardless if you agree with its accuracy or not. I thought Emile did a fine job and it is too bad he got cast in Speed Racer.

wife rented it, but i refused to watch it after i found out who wrote it.

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 234765)

wife rented it, but i refused to watch it after i found out who wrote it.

1,168 reviews, most of them positive. I doubt even he could drum up that many shills. You can't affect it with one review, as there are too many.

http://www.amazon.com/Into-Wild-Jon-...4423939&sr=1-1

oh and the sound track which was done by either Pearl Jam or just Eddie Vedder was very well done and fit the movie very well.

It's a good piece of movie making - well written with great cinematography. A fine film.

But the story behind it is suspect, as CM alludes. Even if you overlook Krakauer's generosity on McCandless’ cause of death, he was a shitty outdoorsman. And when viewed in the light of how much time he spent preparing to go to Alaska - he is a complete and total failure.

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When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did
wasn’t even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic and inconsiderate. First off, he spent
very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail
without even a map of the area. If he had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament using one of several routes that could have been successful. Consider where
he died. An abandoned bus. How did it get there? On a trail. If the bus could get into
the place where it died, why couldn’t McCandless get out of the place where he died?
The fact that he had to live in an old bus in the first place tells you a lot. Why didn’t he
have an adequate shelter from the beginning? What would he have done if he hadn’t
found the bus? A bag of rice and a sleeping bag do not constitute adequate gear and
provisions for a long stay in the wilderness.

http://nmge.gmu.edu/textandcommunity...n_Response.pdf

The movie was alright. I think this book and movie though go along with Landpoke's thread and the discussion of "creative non-fiction." I remember after viewing it with the wife we had a discussion. She thought that it was cool that he would just do that and live this minimalist life. I thought he was an idiot. I still do.

67lb, in a sleeping bag, in an abandoned bus.

that is a tale of woe.

He starved to death in just 4 months. He must have eaten very little. Imagine what he would have done come winter. He couldn't survive in the most fecund time of the year.

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Originally Posted by surfah33 (Post 234784)

is this that piece of shit fiction by Krackhead?

I'd never read anything by Krackhead again, not after Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven.

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Originally Posted by surfah33 (Post 234784)

The movie (and book) did an admiral job of attempting to glorify the exploits of a kid who was a complete idiot. He was bound to die young one way or another.

But the scenery and music were cool.