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Into the Wild Movie

By Daved Brosche | Permalink | 3 comments | September 11th, 2007 | Trackback

Into the Wild Movie - September 21
Into the wild movie
No decent vagabond can call themselves such without having read John Krakauers book, Into the Wild. If you find yourself one of the rare travelers who hasn’t read this book, you’re missing out. Into the Wild is a true story of young man with a thirst for life and a dream to experience it. This book is one of, if not my all time, top favorites. Now thanks to the marvels of modern technology (and Sean Penn), there is an Into the Wild movie.

The Into the Wild movie is directed by Sean Penn and comes out in theaters September 21st.

Check out the preview for the Into the Wild movie on the movies website, here.

The Into the Wild movie website also has some cool extras. One of which is an interactive map that follows the footsteps of the real life Chris McCandless; the person on which the Into the Wild movie is based off of.

IF you are one of the few who hasn’t read Into the Wild, here is a little teaser to wet your appetite…

“ In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone in the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,00 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. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter…”



Comments


Mike | September 12th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
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Just finished reading this book about a month ago and it’s brilliant. A must-read for backpackers and RTW vagabonds alike!

echoforsberg | October 20th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
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I just added Into the Wild and Supertramp tees onto my page - Also there are other current Alaskan events like corrupt politicians, gold digging strippers and crabbers with crabs. Come on over to see them at echoforsberg’s cafepress page.

lolo | November 8th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
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John wrote an epic, Sean created a masterpiece.
The book took me 2 weeks to finish. It was so lovely I read the last 20 pages in bits and pieces wanting the experience to linger. The movie touched and ruined me. I wept, no, tears flowed gently and in fits of joy and grief the entire movie. Personal rememberences, lost opportunities and deeply touching personal likenesses and desires shamed me to the core as to my many wasted layers and coverings. Chris lived purely to his heart and with an honesty I hope to have before I die. The fact he perished living his dream and regreting anyone to “share” his experience with is now being fullfilled through the patience of Sean and the breath taking willingness of Chris’ family to be bare to the world with their faults and humanity.
I am breathless….


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