Krakauer pulls out all the stops to make McCandless look like a phenomenon, and seems to agree with McCandless that the world should have handed itself to him on a silver salver because he was just so darned special. A much bigger part of me is completely disgusted both with McCandless himself and with Krakauer's mindless adoration of him.
Krakauer pulls out all the stops to make McCandless look like a phenomenon, and seems to agree with McCandless that the world should have handed itself My grandfather-not an Alaskan but an experienced outdoorsman-would have tied this kid to a tree and let the bears play tetherball with him.Ī small part of me appreciates the effort Krakauer put into researching this book. A small part of me appreciates the effort Krakauer put into researching this book. My grandfather-not an Alaskan but an experienced outdoorsman-would have tied this kid to a tree and let the bears play tetherball with him. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.more Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps.
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He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented.
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In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.
His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and inve Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here And as he struggles with the elements, his increasing frailty and the cinematography's increasing grandeur mesh in a way that's at once iconic and wrenching.Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. They include William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden as the parents he can't wait to get away from, along with Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn and Hal Holbrook among the many eccentrics he meets on his travels.īut the tale still rests on Hirsch's increasingly slender shoulders - the actor had to lose 40 lbs, or nearly a quarter of his body mass, to be able to play the final lost-and-starving scenes persuasively. Hirsch's initially robust explorer is surrounded with a surprising number of stars, considering that this is basically a film about a loner. He'd originally wanted to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as the adventurous drifter, but as negotiations stalled, the actor aged past plausibility, so Penn ended up casting Emile Hirsch, who looks like a younger DiCaprio and acts like a younger Penn. Jon Krakauer chronicled the story in the book Into the Wild, and after a decade spent negotiating with the McCandless family, Sean Penn has now filmed it. On graduating from college, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave every penny of his life savings to charity, destroyed all his IDs and credit cards and headed off without a word to anyone to live by his wits in the Alaskan wilderness. Film Captures Young Man's Journey 'Into the Wild' Sept.