September 07, 2007

Into The Wild


The other day I heard about a movie coming out soon based on the Jon Krakauer book "Into The Wild". Then I saw the movie trailer. And then today I came across this article which says that the movie has scenes from Fairbanks, Anchorage, Healy and Cantwell. It also has other aspects like "In April 2006, the crew filmed the actor playing McCandless entering the Stampede Trail at the same spot and on the same day the real McCandless entered the wilderness 14 years earlier." - ADN which I think makes it very interesting. If you don't know the story of "Into The Wild" (true story) it is about a crazy guy that wanders around and eventually makes his way up to Alaska. He then decides to go live in the wilderness and try to be self sufficient and dies there (big suprise). My mom gave me this book a long time ago and I think the book is pretty well done. In fact, I've read all of Jon Krakauer's books. The reason there is so much detail about this guy is that he kept a diary. I'll editorialize about this guy and the movie after I watch it, but let's just say that people shouldn't leave their cushy cubes, wifi iTunes, lattes, and Priuses just yet to go live in the Alaskan wilderness. It is not quite the utopia that Disney would lead you to expect.

Posted by troutm8 at September 7, 2007 08:55 AM