sturgeongeneral wrote:looks interesting with great actors. at the end of the trailer i caught that eddie vedder was involved with the musical score. read the book and enjoyed it also. if you enjoy krakauer, i recommend 'into thin air' and 'under the banner of heaven' also.
I enjoyed both Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. I'll have to check out Under the Banner Of Heaven.
"'You could tell right away that Alex was intelligent,' Westerberg reflects, draining his third drink. 'He read a lot. Used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often."'
lewhoney wrote: what drives us to seek out [...] the sublimity of the cravasse.
Well, it's pretty much just general horniness that sends me searching for the sublimity of the crevasse. Sometimes getting lit up in the afternoon sends me on the prowl, especially if it's cognac. pinworld.com does it too.
I know my man Larry could crank out 50,000 words on the sublimity of the crevasse.
Into the Wild may well be my favorite book. I re-read it at least every couple of years. McCandless has fascinated me since the original article in Outside magazine.
I'm looking forward to the film, but still a little scared that, just like any movie from a book or vice versa, I won't feel that it's quite "right."
I can't to see that one -- I wonder how well the text will translate into film; as I recall Into The Wild has a lot of cursory chapters which deal with the death wish of young men and what drives us to seek out the breath of the bear and the sublimity of the cravass.
Eddie Vedder's done the whole soundtrack, which will be released next month. The closest to a solo album as he's done. I'm excited for both it and the movie.
Eddie Vedder's done the whole soundtrack, which will be released next month. The closest to a solo album as he's done. I'm excited for both it and the movie.
Having now come around to the libtard way of thinking vis a vis open borders, I nevertheless will go neocon on this movie and boycott it due to its being directed by that unpatriotic traitor, Sean Penn.
An interesting story about that (at least I think so). I was riding in a car with a friend of mine one day and he starts telling me how one time, when his dad used to drive RV's for an RV dealer, he picked up this kid in Canada and drove him to Alaska.
Anyway, as he describes the story, I realize he is talking about Chris McCandless (sp?). Anyway, I tell him that I loved the book, so we went and called his dad and he told me the whole story. How he met him at the hot springs in Canada, thought he was a real good kid ("he didn't use any of that there slang language"...haha), and violated the company policy of taking passengers.
He also said that he begged him to call his dad and let him know where he was at. He said that he would pay for the call himself, but Chris refused.
Anyway, sorry for the rambling, but can't wait to see the movie!
looks interesting with great actors. at the end of the trailer i caught that eddie vedder was involved with the musical score. read the book and enjoyed it also. if you enjoy krakauer, i recommend 'into thin air' and 'under the banner of heaven' also.