Director: Sean Penn
Writers: Sean Penn (screenplay), [suprise!]
Jon Krakauer (book)
This stuff makes me laugh as much as the rich hollywood hippies.
YA your for equality but live in big mansion and your dress is $1,000!
I mean of course the kid has to be a top athlete, and sudent right?
lol
not a shmuck!
and he has to donate his 24k to charity lol
friggin hilarious
This hate of production is some kind of communist weirdness. It permeates america and the undertones of media and pop culture.
People somehow think everything is dirty.
Its wild.
I don harbor such ideas and feeel great.
I feel things are produced and its wonderful to trade for what I want and makes me happy.
The moral high horse of many morons amuses me. I mean don't people get that if you think someone shouldn't do something you must also think about why you have any right to tell them what to do. Fascism/communism is really to me the same. If someone comes at me as a trader, then I can buy or not. Neither of us has to do anything. I think endlessly worry about those who have more than you is kinda a mental passtime the world over. This applies to sex etc.
I mean I am not gay, but if I wanted to fuck 1,000 gay guy, whos business is it?
If I wanted to bang some animal thats kinda wrong cuz the animal has no choice really, same with weird stuff about banging kids, which I don't understand at all [hey michael jackson]
The hate of someone who has a rich dad is hilarious.
I mean the dad made the money right?
So what fault of the kid is it if his dad is generous.
Now if the dad scammed the money ok well then all kinda of opinionsn get involved.
But even if they did, why worry about it?
In usa and I would say most western democracies its not hard to live better than some guy in the woods.
Its then somehow ego.
Ego is at the root.
It liek many people say I can't get rich as hell so eveyrthign sucks.
But what need ton of money be hapy for?
And by the way if you practice hard at anything for long time, you will make money in usa.
I think the mindset that f you are here, you deserve stuff becuase it isn't fair that other have stuff you don't is realy mental disease.
I think this kid can be an example: if you do live in primative environment, then bring a buddy or 2 or 10 and then if you are in a scrape, you can have a little help.
society is a massive benefit
I think many humans underestimate the benefits they have form society
this movie theme reminds me of the one where there are two people in the water, and sharks get them
what a bs movie
no one would ever miss 2 people on some excursion
and somehow some people have pleasure from tradjgdy
I hate tradjedy
I like a movie that shows triumph such as conan the barbarian.
I find it very mentaly satisfying when someone grows from weakness and in end achieves.
Even in this movie though he loses his woman.
I am not sure why a tradjedy or loss makes a movie or story great.
Would the movie have been better if the hot fighter gal had been captured?
The rescued?
Then they ride off into sun?
maybe not
maybe it was necesary for conan to have lost the woman so that he was unhappy and free for new adventures...
I also liked the first 3 star wars because yes they show good winning, but also because there is a massive projection of mega produced technology.
I sometimes wonder why there aren't move movies lie star wars.
avatar was shitty in my estimation
glorified native americans over evil corporate coloizers
so 9th grade social studies
lame
the higher tek of earth will of course mean they come back and blow shit up
cmon
basic
and what about the moral problem of thier brain liek vampire taking over the avatar body?
where is the mind that body's brain had?
that would have been real science fiction, the moral quandry eh?
also if the corporation got to pandora, with whatever powr source, why did they magicaly need whatever pandora had?
blank out
no answer
I find many science fictoin movies nowadays very intelectualy frustrating in same way.
I just read a great book that should be made into a movie called big planet by jack vnace.
excellend stuff
if a little basic
but hey the plots fo hollywod movies are not works by glen cook or michael moorcock or rohbert e howard
Amazon.com Review
"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
From Publishers Weekly
After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to survive, apparently stranded by an injury and slowly starving. They also reflect the posturing of a confused young man, raised in affluent Annandale, Va., who self-consciously adopted a Tolstoyan renunciation of wealth and return to nature. Krakauer, a contributing editor to Outside and Men's Journal, retraces McCandless's ill-fated antagonism toward his father, Walt, an eminent aerospace engineer. Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father. In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods. Maps. 35,000 first printing; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition
