Into the wild movie

Cork boy 55

Saw this movie recently on TV
anyone else saw it
amazing story good film
About a Law student in USA who gave up everything
then went travelling around USA as a tramp and then went into
the wilds of Alaska to live on his own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_%28film%29

Donny5

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

Saw this movie recently on TV
anyone else saw it
amazing story good film
About a Law student in USA who gave up everything
then went travelling around USA as a tramp and then went into
the wilds of Alaska to live on his own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_%28film%29

I read the book and saw the movie. My take is that he failed to plan and so planned to fail. He died of his own stupidity.

L31mr0d

Seen it also. I personally felt the guy portrayed in it was a blind idealist. But I do also understand the call of the wild, and the want to just cut away into it. If anything it is a lesson on how to feel but not how to act.

Les Stroud talks about Chris McCandless in his new book "Will to Live". I seen Les on a talkshow recently and he basically said that McCandless was an arrogant fool.

Slogger Jogger

Donny5 wrote: »

I read the book and saw the movie. My take is that he failed to plan and so planned to fail. He died of his own stupidity.

Great film and book, which I only read recently. There was an element of stupidity and idealism alright and thats a central question in the book. He was also very unlucky on a no. of things. Ate a plant that was very similar to one that is good for you but it had poisonous effects which prevented him taking on other food so he pretty much starved. If he'd lived for a few more days hunters in the area would most likely have come across him.

Donny5

Slogger Jogger wrote: »

Great film and book, which I only read recently. There was an element of stupidity and idealism alright and thats a central question in the book. He was also very unlucky on a no. of things. Ate a plant that was very similar to one that is good for you but it had poisonous effects which prevented him taking on other food so he pretty much starved. If he'd lived for a few more days hunters in the area would most likely have come across him.

There was nothing unlucky about his demise. He failed to learn about the area he intended on surviving in, and went into the wilderness without a map, compass or knowledge of the area. Despite being on a track, and within an hours walking distance of the nearest buildings, he died because he couldn't cross a flooded river just 400m from a rope bridge he didn't know about.

In addition, the part in Jon Krakauer's book about the poisonous seeds has been shown to be false. He simply starved to death.

del88

I loved the book and the movie.....eddie vedder sound tracks one the most played on my ipod.

Teferi

The book is rubbish. The author would be riding auld Chris if he could. The way he writes you would think that the sun shines out of Chris' arse.

I prefer the movie (which I never say. I always prefer books to movies) but Penn is apparently a big fan of the story and so makes Chris McCandless into a bit of a hero.

The soundtrack is the best thing about this whole mess. I think the lad was a misguided fool and he paid for his silliness.

foolelle

i agree cork boy great film.

Cork boy 55

I did not read the book
never heard this story before until I saw the film
I missed the very start of the film and I thought I was watching
a fiction story and could not believe at the end when it was a true story.


Theres no denying he was idiot and possible mentally ill
he had a deathwish
There was any number of places he could have died before alaska
I understand he was a complete novice at canoeing before he went off
whitewater rafting he could have died in the desert in mexico or
caught a fatal STI off the hippee girl.

The bus
If he had not found the bus he would have died way sooner.
that was a complete stroke of luck. How did the bus get there anyway ?

If he was disillusioned with modern soceity he could have become a farmer or a hillman or something heading off into the wilds of alaska on your own with little or no survival skills is not "going back to nature".
Even when man existed in the wilds he would have done so in groups of
dozens or even hundreds with thousands of years of survival skills taught from birth.

Great film not really a survival story as such more a death by extreme adventure film.

If i was him I would have stayed in the hippee camp with ya one.

a148pro

Teferi wrote: »

The book is rubbish. The author would be riding auld Chris if he could. The way he writes you would think that the sun shines out of Chris' arse.

I prefer the movie (which I never say. I always prefer books to movies) but Penn is apparently a big fan of the story and so makes Chris McCandless into a bit of a hero.

me too

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

Theres no denying he was idiot and possible mentally ill
he had a deathwish
There was any number of places he could have died before alaska
I understand he was a complete novice at canoeing before he went off
whitewater rafting he could have died in the desert in mexico or
caught a fatal STI off the hippee girl.

nah she was all virginal and stuff, though he was confirmed mad for not riding her

the thing that most annoyed me about him was the pain he put his family through by not having the decency to at least let them know he was still alive. complete cnut for that alone imo