Into The Wild

[Faneros]

Into the Wild is a 2007 Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated film based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It was directed by Sean Penn, who also wrote the screenplay.

If you haven't seen this movie, I highly reccomend it. Sean Penn is actually a decent director, Eddie Vedder sings on the sound track, the scenery is great, the acting is better and its a really good story (based on a true story actually...)

check it out, its on pay cable now, I hope it moves you as it did me. I just watched Iconoclast which is on the Sundance Channel, shows John Krakauer and Sean Penn going to Alaska and taking the same trail Chris McCandless did, pretty good show.

 

[Left_Nut]

Into the Wild is a 2007 Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated film based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It was directed by Sean Penn, who also wrote the screenplay.

If you haven't seen this movie, I highly reccomend it. Sean Penn is actually a decent director, Eddie Vedder sings on the sound track, the scenery is great, the acting is better and its a really good story (based on a true story actually...)

check it out, its on pay cable now, I hope it moves you as it did me.

Do you get a kick back from the cable company?

 

[fluffPE]

You know the Masters is on, right?

 

[Faneros]

You know the Masters is on, right?

.I'm watching it now..

 

[keendog]

sounds cool Ill have to check it out!

 

[thør]

Into the Wild is a 2007 Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated film based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It was directed by Sean Penn, who also wrote the screenplay.

If you haven't seen this movie, I highly reccomend it. Sean Penn is actually a decent director, Eddie Vedder sings on the sound track, the scenery is great, the acting is better and its a really good story (based on a true story actually...)

check it out, its on pay cable now, I hope it moves you as it did me. I just watched Iconoclast which is on the Sundance Channel, shows John Krakauer and Sean Penn going to Alaska and taking the same trail Chris McCandless did, pretty good show.

Anyone can take the Stampede Trail, it's just on the north side of Denali Park. Most of the movie footage was shot on the south side of the park because it's prettier and people watching wouldn't know the difference. I'm certain there will be "Into the Wild" tours this coming summer out of Glitter Gulch (that's the local name for the strip of tourist hotels at Denali.

The Denali Chamber of Commerce succinctly tells folk about the trip to the bus in this link, "Death is always a possibility."

 

[stonedfox]

I actually just finished it and I really liked it.

 

[Lady Reiha]

Into the Wild is a 2007 Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated film based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It was directed by Sean Penn, who also wrote the screenplay.

If you haven't seen this movie, I highly reccomend it. Sean Penn is actually a decent director, Eddie Vedder sings on the sound track, the scenery is great, the acting is better and its a really good story (based on a true story actually...)

check it out, its on pay cable now, I hope it moves you as it did me. I just watched Iconoclast which is on the Sundance Channel, shows John Krakauer and Sean Penn going to Alaska and taking the same trail Chris McCandless did, pretty good show.

It was Emile Hirsch that did it for me

But your right- good movie!

 

[firespin]

It was a good treatment of a sad tale.

Its a bit odd the way the main character has this goal in mind for years, then, when he arrives, he's so woefully unprepared.

It's worth reading some additional information about what they actually found at the bus after the story ended. Some of it shows that the story took some artistic license with a couple of key points. (Trying to minimize spoilers...)

 

[stonedfox]

Where might this additional information be found?

 

[Faneros]

Anyone can take the Stampede Trail, it's just on the north side of Denali Park. Most of the movie footage was shot on the south side of the park because it's prettier and people watching wouldn't know the difference. I'm certain there will be "Into the Wild" tours this coming summer out of Glitter Gulch (that's the local name for the strip of tourist hotels at Denali.

The Denali Chamber of Commerce succinctly tells folk about the trip to the bus in this link, "Death is always a possibility."

Hey, I was gonig to ask you about that. If you have been there.

The Magic Bus is already a tourist attraction. I read where they are going to get that bus out of there because they want to discourage tourists.

 

[thør]

Where might this additional information be found?

There's always the book.

 

[thør]

Hey, I was gonig to ask you about that. If you have been there.

The Magic Bus is already a tourist attraction. I read where they are going to get that bus out of there because they want to discourage tourists.

I've been on that trail but not past the Teklanika.

 

[moana15]

It was a good treatment of a sad tale.

Its a bit odd the way the main character has this goal in mind for years, then, when he arrives, he's so woefully unprepared.

It's worth reading some additional information about what they actually found at the bus after the story ended. Some of it shows that the story took some artistic license with a couple of key points. (Trying to minimize spoilers...)

I'm not sure I could watch the movie because of the "woefully unprepared" part. Stories like this and the one about that guy who thought grizzlies were his friends and ultimately killed by them depress me at some level.

 

[Faneros]

There's always the book.

I'm reading it now, its full of detail infomatiion

 

[thør]

I'm not sure I could watch the movie because of the "woefully unprepared" part. Stories like this and the one about that guy who thought grizzlies were his friends and ultimately killed by them depress me at some level.

These people had no stories from their grandfathers to listen to.

 

[stonedfox]

There's always the book.

Of course. I thought maybe he or she had a link to something.

 

[thør]

I'm reading it now, its full of detail infomatiion

there's some other info on the web.......i don't want to spoil things for you.....

 

[Faneros]

Of course. I thought maybe he or she had a link to something.

http://outside.away.com/outside/features/1993/1993_into_the_wild_1.html

 

[thør]

Of course. I thought maybe he or she had a link to something.

there are.........

(i'm off to hockey)

night, all

 

[Faneros]

I'm not sure I could watch the movie because of the "woefully unprepared" part. Stories like this and the one about that guy who thought grizzlies were his friends and ultimately killed by them depress me at some level.

Actually the thing is, he was perfectly fine, he spent 113 days up there and was ready to come home but he misjudged the river and turned back. Had he just walked 10 miles downstream, he would have found a ranger station and been saved.

 

[firespin]

Where might this additional information be found?

The original book is good, but a more interesting spin comes from a second film made about the same story, that claims to "debunk" some of the claims in the book and the movie...

http://www.terraincognitafilms.com/cw-sub/debunked.htm

 

[Faneros]

there are.........

(i'm off to hockey)

night, all

Alaska has a team?

 

[stonedfox]

http://outside.away.com/outside/features/1993/1993_into_the_wild_1.html

Thanks so much. My own laziness knows no bounds.

 

[firespin]

Actually the thing is, he was perfectly fine, he spent 113 days up there and was ready to come home but he misjudged the river and turned back. Had he just walked 10 miles downstream, he would have found a ranger station and been saved.

"Perfectly fine" might be a bit of an overstatement. He took a number of pictures that showed weight loss consistent with acute starvation.