Tuesday, December 2, 2014

December 2 - Into the Wild

Today’s movie is a biographical drama with a scene that happens on December 2. Watch it tonight and enjoy.  

INTO THE WILD                                  

Alex McCandless hikes in the Alaska wilderness to the abandoned bus that had been his home. Two years ago he had graduated with honors from Emory, but refuses to accept the gift of a new car from his parents. He then went nuts and donated all his money to Oxfam. He drove west until losing his car in a flash flood in Arizona. His parents finally learn he’s disappeared. Alex meets a hippie couple, Rainey and Jan and stays with them for a while. He works at a grain harvesting company in South Dakota, until the FBI arrests the owner.  Even though he doesn’t have a permit he paddles down the Colorado River and on December 2, 1990 [1:06:42 to 1:07:09] McCandless reaches the Sea of Cortez. He re-crosses the border and lives for a time as a homeless person in LA. He meets Rainey and Jan again, but refuses a dalliance with Tracy, because she’s underage. While camping he meets Ron Franz, who becomes very attached to Alex and offers to adopt him. He hitchhikes all the way to Alaska. He lives in the bus and during summer he does okay. When winter comes he realizes he wants to be with people but can’t get out because a river he has to cross is now at flood stage due to the spring thaw. Out of food he forages for plants, but accidentally eats a poisonous one. He dies.

I’m sorry, but I think Alex was nuts. He had a lot of skills that could have helped the world. Instead all he accomplished was dying alone in an abandoned bus in Alaska.
  
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (Anchor Books, New York, 1997) at page 34 and the film at 1:06:48 give the date

Producers - Sean Penn, Art Linson and William Pohlad

Director - Sean Penn

Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor (Holbrook) and Best Film Editing Oscars at the 80th Academy Awards.

Screenplay - Sean Penn

Runtime – 2 hours 28 minutes

Released – September 21, 2007

Starring –

Emile Hirsch as Christopher "Alexander Supertramp" McCandless
Marcia Gay Harden as Billie McCandless
William Hurt as Walt McCandless
Jena Malone as Carine McCandless
Vince Vaughn as Wayne Westerberg
Kristen Stewart as Tracy Tatro
Hal Holbrook as Ron Franz

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.





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