Sean Penn's new film "Into the Wild" -- have you seen it?

[Lex]

http://www.intothewild.com/

What did you think of it? I understand it definitely has some political points to make and that the music created for the soundtrack does as well.


Based on this:

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a best-selling non-fiction book about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article, "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. Krakauer intersperses McCandless's story with a discussion of the wilderness experiences of people such as John Muir and John Menlove Edwards, as well as some of his own adventures.

The book has been adapted into a movie of the same name directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as Chris McCandless. The film's U.S. release date was September 21, 2007.

Synopsis

Into the Wild is the story of Christopher McCandless, who grew up in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C., Annandale, Virginia, and died at age 24 in a wilderness area of the state of Alaska. After graduating in 1990 from Emory University, McCandless ceased communicating with his family, gave away his savings of $24,000 to OXFAM and began travelling, later abandoning his car and burning all the money in his wallet.

[MagickMuffin]

1. Not yet, but I did see Sean and Eddie Vedder being interviewed on Charlie Rose

about the film. It was a very good interview, I can't stand Rose, but he did a pretty good job.

Check out videos at link:

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/09/21/1/a-discussion-about-the-film-into-the-wild

[Lex]

2. Thanks for the link!

Eddie Vedder did the entire soundtrack for the film apparently.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Yep, that is correct

although Penn only asked for one IIRC, and then he decided to ask Vedder to do all of them.

[Breeze54]

3. No

I'm really not that interested. I saw the story already on 20/20 or some such TV Mag.

It's sad what happened to him and that he didn't plan better.

[Lex]

5. The story reminds me a bit of "Grizzly Man"

which was documentary shown on Discovery Channel last year or so.

[Breeze54]

6. Yeah, I saw that one too and in that case

he not only was killed by the bears he was watching but also his girlfriend.

I don't see what's supposed to be so 'profound' by either of these two.

Hate to say it but what they both did seems really dumb to me, not profound.

[Lex]

8. Not sure I'm looking for "profound" anyway.

nt

[movie_girl99]

7. I saw the film on opening weekend here.

I thought it was very well acted. I have always enjoyed Emile Hersh. The movie kind of portrayed the guy as a hero in some ways and i guess in some respects he had heroic qualities. He was pretty unprepared for what he decided to undergo though.

[Lex]

9. He doesn't seem like the most

balanced guy to do what he did.

The movie looks like a beautiful telling of something tragic.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. I've read the Krakauer book.

Seems to me everybody wants to dump on the kid for doing something wrong. Maybe they're jealous or something.

Seems to me the worst mistake he made was misidentifying non-edible plants for edible ones. That's a mistake even experts make.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. I read the book

It was great.