Into The Wild...the movie!

“http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1523237/02032006/story.jhtml

This should be interesting. I absolutely loved the book! Read it in one sitting, couldn't put it down! If any of you have not read the book, go do it now!!! Amazing!”

“cool.”

“Wow, I did the same, a long time ago, read the book in one sitting, great book.

It will be really interesting to see how this comes out.”

“I read this book a while back, it is a compelling book. I wonder though, will the interpretations of the environment be the same as my own?”

“I can hardly wait for this one to come out!”

“Oh, no. He was just as crazy as the Grizzly Man.”

“Well, he ate a lot of berries anyway.

Speaking of which, right now I'm reading a book by W.L. Rusho called "Everett Ruess, A Vagabond for Beauty." It's Everett's writings home before he disappeared.

Y'all remember Chris McCandless (wow, can't believe I came up with at least ONE of his names) either liked Ruess, or was compared to Ruess.
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“check out Carl McCunn, he died in Alaska also. He had everything planned out. Enough food and water, ammunition for his rifles, film and batteries for his camera etc. Problem is he forgot to tell anyone when to come fly in and pick him up.”

“Better book about AK is about a missionary in Alaska (around 1908) 10,000 miles on a dogsled. by Hudson Stuck

From the Yahoo Encl.

In 1905 he became archdeacon of the Yukon and spent the remainder of his life in Alaska. With three companions he accomplished the first ascent (1913) of Mt. McKinley, and he traveled extensively in N Alaska. Alaskan geography and Eskimo customs are described in his books, some of which are: The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) (1914), Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled (1914), Voyages on the Yukon and Its Tributaries (1917), and A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast (1920). ”

“an mtv movie..hope your not asking for much..and i wonder how many times they can slip the word "#&%!$" in to it just because they want too..go back and watch them, except for N.Dynomite...everyone of them chocked full.”

“I hope its just about McCandless and they leave out all of Kraukaur's 'look at me, look at me' self commentary.”

“Opie, it's not an MTV movie, that is just where the story was linked from. Dufus.”

“I'm counting on Penn to keep the movie remotely close to the actual story.”

“A guy who now lives just up the road from me

and who grew up in a military family

then put in his 4 years in the military

then went to Alaska rafted to a point 150 miles from the nearest other person, stayed about 200 days and came out.

He says it was very much fun and he felt relatively safe and secure the entire time.

BTW, he says the natives there are very much !!not!! in favor of further development of the resources there.
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“Cool!
�http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1523237/02032006/story.jhtml

This should be interesting. I absolutely loved the book! Read it in one sitting, couldn't put it down! If any of you have not read the book, go do it now!!! Amazing!�
bionicear
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�cool.�
EarthNsky
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�Wow, I did the same, a long time ago, read the book in one sitting, great book.

It will be really interesting to see how this comes out.�
Bison
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�I read this book a while back, it is a compelling book. I wonder though, will the interpretations of the environment be the same as my own?�
tahoe
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�I can hardly wait for this one to come out!�
woodzie
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�Oh, no. He was just as crazy as the Grizzly Man.�
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�Well, he ate a lot of berries anyway.

Speaking of which, right now I'm reading a book by W.L. Rusho called "Everett Ruess, A Vagabond for Beauty." It's Everett's writings home before he disappeared.

Y'all remember Chris McCandless (wow, can't believe I came up with at least ONE of his names) either liked Ruess, or was compared to Ruess.
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�check out Carl McCunn, he died in Alaska also. He had everything planned out. Enough food and water, ammunition for his rifles, film and batteries for his camera etc. Problem is he forgot to tell anyone when to come fly in and pick him up.�

Is this the guy that ended up shooting himself after starving for weeks waiting for someone to come get him??”

“yep, thats him. He was either starving or freezing to death when he killed himself. The Rangers found his cabin 2 months later and he was frozen solid”

“hey, thanks for the thread recap, streamy”

“oops, it wasn't a cabin he was found in it was his wall tent
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“Problem is he forgot to tell anyone when to come fly in and pick him up.�

DOH!”

“Another scary thing was that he didn't realize it right away...”

“I just got through reading the book for the first time. Krackauer's witing style is easy to read. It points out to me how important it is tho tell your family where you're hiking, and how dificult it is for a parent to lose a child, in any circumstance. When you go to the backcountry, let family know where you're going and how long you should be there.

Here is an article some of you may have seen before. I found it an interesting post script to the book, as written form an Alaskans' point of view.

http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/documentb965.html

Here are some pictures:
http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?id=1044
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“"FAIRBANKS, AK (2006-07-04) Another film is in the works about the deadly adventure of Christopher McCandless on the Stampede Trail. Accomplished Boston based documentary producer Ron Lamothe hiked out the trail west of Healy recently to explore the route McCandless took into the wilderness back in 1992. Stampede Road resident Will Forsberg says Lamothe had a difficult time making it to and from the bus where McCandless lived and later died of starvation. Forsberg says Lamothe barely survived crossing the same swollen waters of the Teklanika River that allegedly trapped McCandless. "”

“So let me just say, that everybody in Alaska knows somebody that disappeared into the wild. Some people die, some people live. Up here, if you die, you lose. Game over.

Sure this McCandless guy was a idealist, he might have lived to be a visionary, but his death was silly. That is the problem that most Alaskans have with him. He lost. If you want to read a good book about a guy who won, read "One Man's Wildnerness".

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“An interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I had not heard about this person. Though with out havong read the book, I tend to share the writer's opinion. A foolish person, that needs to stop being glorified. Many have died, many more will. Far more have and will continue to come home, not because they did everything right, but they at least got enough of it right to get back. And in the end that is all that really matters. Go, see, and then leave it as it was before you were there.”

“I think I disappeared once into the alaska wild.”

“In 1905 he became archdeacon of the Yukon and spent the remainder of his life in Alaska. With three companions he accomplished the first ascent (1913) of Mt. McKinley, and he traveled extensively in N Alaska. Alaskan geography and Eskimo customs are described in his books, some of which are: The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) (1914), Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled (1914), Voyages on the Yukon and Its Tributaries (1917), and A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast (1920). ”

I thought Federick Cook was the first to climb McKinley in 1905 or 06.”

“Cook's supposed ascent has been widely discredited.”

“It was readily accepted at the time - and has since been agreed with based on observation and comparison with his notes. The man that accompanied him (Barril) (sp)was paid off by Peary in the 1909 controversy over the North Pole (Peary's own diary was released a few years back and proved that Peary lied about the Pole) in an effort to discredit Cook.”

“Everything I've read says there's no way he made it to the top of McKinley, and the photographic comparisons are pretty clear evidence.”

“the film comes out this fall

here is the trailer
http://media.movies.ign.com/media/944/944934/vids_1.html”

“Cool! Well, I wonder if they will give it a happy ending? I am sure Krakauer is loving the royalties.

This kid was a couple of years ahead of me when I was in the same college as he was...”

“Cool - Sean Penn did the screenplay and produced and directed. I see Marcia Gay Harden is in it, as well as Hal Holbrook and Vince Vaughn. I'll go see it.”

“wow, that looks good. I wonder if they will show much of the vagrant camp style of living he did from time to time, or just mostly all high adventure.”

“Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember him shooting rapids on the Colorado in the book. Is this Hollywood hype? I remember him taking a canoe down the lower, slower part of the Colorado trying to make it to the Baja, only to discover the river is dried up because of all the folks in L.A. that want lawns. He met up with some bad weather, (in a canoe, not a kayak), paddling down the Baja, as I recall.
Anyway, I'm a sucker and will go see the movie.”

“Looks like the took "Artistic Liberties" with the book to try to make it an outdoor adventure movie.”

“I loved the book, I read it in high school...I want to see this movie so bad it hurts lol”

“Dunadan, I was thinking the same thing but I still want to see the movie. Its paints a better picture of the protagonist if he nearly dies 'fighting' the rapids than if you nearly die because you took the one branch of the river and ended up in a dead end desert area with no food and the only thing that saved you is a good Samaritan happening along and agreeing to tow you and your canoe back to the river.”

“The first showings are in AK.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200708250342.htm”

“Dunadan,

I thought he did shoot the whole Colorado and that was part of the allure? I could be wrong about that.

I really hope this is a good flick.”

“There was an article in Outside - actually more of a group interview with Penn, the actor who plays the kid, and the family. Penn was apparently kind of freaky about being authentic, so shot as close to each location as practical. They pointed out that he didn't want to shoot at the actual site of the bus, but it wasn't a problem, since there are discarded buses all over the state....”

“I wonder if Chris M. will die in the popular mind by becoming Sean Penn.”

“Ew.



Finally -- and maybe the best surprise of the festival so far -- Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" is a brave, strongly felt, beautifully realized film of Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book. In 1990, Christopher McCandless donated the remaining $24,000 from his college fund to charity, abandoned family and friends, and set off on a trip across America that would culminate in a long, lonely trek into the Alaskan wilderness.

After three laboriously conflicted efforts, Penn has hit on a simple, resonant idea this time, and a character he obviously admires. Played by Emile Hirsch, McCandless may be young and naïve but his idealism shines through, and much of this lyrical, adventuresome movie is an ode to open spaces and open hearts.

An "Easy Rider" for our times, "Into the Wild" barely makes mention of the first Gulf War, but it's not hard to see Christopher's retreat into nature and philosophy as a flawed but fundamentally heroic withdrawal.”

“the dude dropped out to find his own way. Nothing bad about that, but it isn't heroic either. A Walk Across America is much more heroic and more deserving of a movie. Only Peter Jenkins wasn't stupid enough to get himself killed.”

“Well at least it could hardly be worse than the book!”

“Into the wild was more like a "how not to" manual.”

“As good as the last half of "A Walk In The Woods"? ;-)”

“say what you will, but he survived a lot longer out there with a lot less than most people on this board could have done.”

“Christopher McCandless

There but for either luck, or the grace of God am I.

Multiple times I also could have just disappeared.

Chris made a mistake and ate the wrong plant.
Sometimes on mistake is all it takes.

I would like to see some of the armchair quarterbacks do as well in the outdoors.”

“It looks like a reason for me to go to the movies again. Hope it hits Nashville soon.
I just saw "Everest IMAX" on my 19" TV last weekend (Netflix).”

“Agree with Jimmy San and manuka, but 'heroic' is a bit of a stretch in how to label the guy.

It was a great book to read though.”