Into The Wild

For once i read a book before watching the movie, and i must say like usually any move based off of a book tends to suck. Into The Wild wasn’t quite like that, the movie was fairly accurate although Holly Wood had to add some Drama, While maintaining a lot of Christopher Mccandless personality. For those of you who don’t know what the book is about, and in trying to keep this short. Its about a Young man in his early 20s who takes to the road after his graduation, basically separating him self from his family on the east coast. Christopher travels around the country mainly on the west coast and meets a lot of interesting people along the way. He ends up in Alaska were he embarks on the greatest adventure of his life. This adventure will bring disaster for him and his family.

Jon Krakauer, the author of the book needed to clear up some things written in his article that was published in Outside Mag. And how Christopher’s adventure parallel his own life as a young man, the main difference is that Jon survived.

I recently watched the http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/”>movie and was kinda put off by it. the move was to short to really get into a lot of the details and thous Christopher comes off as arrogant and nieve, don’t get me wrong, he was. But the book sorta builds you up to that conclusion without planting it there for you. I also don’t remember Chris going crazy and having arguments with his dad in the wilderness. But the book was more aimed at Christopher’s relationships on the road and that helped build the the question of why, he was seemingly nice to all those he met along the way, and kept in contact with every one he met.

Wayne Westerberg also had more to do in the book and i was disappointed when he was arrested because they didn’t explain why. I guess all in all the Movie was good, the book is better. Jon Krakauer’s

If your interested in the Movie, read the book first. It will leave you with questions that will probably never be answered.

Links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild
• http://www.intothewild.com/
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/
• http://outside.away.com/outside/features/1993/1993_into_the_wild_1.html