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Tiberious aka Sparkles
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
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| Reminded me also of the true story of a teenager from mid-America. He decided to go to Alaska and live "wild". Ended up starving to death , alone, in an abandoned bus. Nothing glamourous. I think this was made into a film????? Does anyone know the name? |
Not a movie, its a book by author Jon Krakauer - "INTO THE WILD". Great book. |
The film adaptation has been done with Sean Penn as director. You can find the trailer here:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/intothewild/ |
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Gamecock
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| I, too, just watched Grizzly Man in the last couple of weeks. Maybe my expectations were too high from the rave reviews...but I was disappointed. I wouldn't call him a moron, but a very disturbed individual. I was expecting the film (and his death) to have had some purpose...but he wasn't accomplishing anything, and he was utterly delusional. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| ddeubel wrote: |
| Reminded me also of the true story of a teenager from mid-America. He decided to go to Alaska and live "wild". Ended up starving to death , alone, in an abandoned bus. Nothing glamourous. I think this was made into a film????? Does anyone know the name? |
Not a movie, its a book by author Jon Krakauer - "INTO THE WILD". Great book. |
The film adaptation has been done with Sean Penn as director. You can find the trailer here:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/intothewild/ |
Cool.. I'm looking forward to seeing that.
Sean Penn as a director? Has he directed movies before? |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| Gamecock wrote: |
| I, too, just watched Grizzly Man in the last couple of weeks. Maybe my expectations were too high from the rave reviews...but I was disappointed. I wouldn't call him a moron, but a very disturbed individual. I was expecting the film (and his death) to have had some purpose...but he wasn't accomplishing anything, and he was utterly delusional. |
What's great about the film is that it's like a personal letter from Herzog to Treadwell, telling him how much of an idiot he was. Plus, it's always great to hear a German man who sounds as though he's doing a fake German accent. |
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ddeubel
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| What's great about the film is that it's like a personal letter from Herzog to Treadwell, telling him how much of an idiot he was. Plus, it's always great to hear a German man who sounds as though he's doing a fake German accent. |
Well said. You made me chuckle on both counts.
Though knowing what I do of Herzog, he'd also note that it is only through our "idiocy" that we obtain enlightenment. Or to paraphrase the tired Blake quote - If an idiot persist in his idiocy, he obtains genius.....
DD
Tiger Beer, I've read the book but I was refering to the original article in Outside magazine, early 90s and from which the book was inspired.
Thanks for the Sean Penn film mention. I loved the original essay/story and will get this film asap. |
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