Talk:Into the Wild (film)

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Headlines

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• Emile Hirsch and Hal Holbrook Go Into the Wild
• Sean Penn and Eddie Vedder Tag-Team Continues For ‘Into The Wild’
• Moriarty Talks To Sean Penn About INTO THE WILD!
• Emile Hirsch comes 'Into the Wild'
• Sean Penn Goes "Into The Wild"
• Two Postcards From Toronto
• Spotlight on Eddie Vedder
• 'Into the Wild' movie set to portray S.D. people, places DEAD LINK
• Samsung, Landmark pact for 'Wild'
• Sean Penn's 'Into the Wild' forages for meaning in fatal quest

2

• Into the wild nights with Harrelson, Penn and Alba SUBSCRIPTION ONLY
• Actors Are Moving Into Director's Chair DEAD LINK
• Emile Hirsch's 'Wild' diet DEAD LINK
• Penn returns to TIFF as director, writer of Into the Wild
• Bill Pohlad on 'Into the Wild' and Chinese espionage
• Sean Penn Goes 'Into the Wild'
• Emile Hirsch Interview, Into The Wild
• Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch talk about 'Into the Wild'
• 'Into the Wild': Doomed man inspired Penn DEAD LINK
• The road ahead — Sean Penn's 'Into the Wild' tracks a young man's wanderlust and its tragic ending

3

• Sean Penn's 'Into the Wild' inspiring vagrant story
• A venture 'Into the Wild' blue yonder
• Call of the wild man DEAD LINK
• Sean Penn's love letter to America
• After 15 years, McCandless death shrouded in mystery
• Hirsch gone Wild DEAD LINK / cached DEAD LINK
• Ex-Glendale man put Arizona 'Into the Wild' DEAD LINK
• Penn, Hirsch head Into the Wild
• Yuman helps on set of film 'Into the Wild'
• The young and the restless DEAD LINK

4

• Patience rewards the journey "Into the Wild"
• Q&A: Penn, Vedder go where the "Wild" things are
• Rome festival warms to Penn's "Into the Wild"
• Pearl Jam Front-man Creates Sound to Sean Penn's New Film
• Sean Penn's 'Into the Wild': true, tragic story of self-discovery
• Miss. native finds himself venturing 'Into the Wild' DEAD LINK
• Emile Hirsch, in Rome for "Into the Wild" festival showing, thinks about LA wildfires
• Into the role
• Film & TV Conference: Vedder, Penn On 'Into The Wild'
• Vedder leads Hollywood crowd "Into the Wild"

5

• The wild side of Penn
• Hal Holbrook: Ready to climb any mountain DEAD LINK
• Wild adventures of Penn's protege
• 'Into the Wild' star: I miss Chris DEAD LINK

Headlines. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 23:42, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Poison

About coffee! It's hard to watch this figure becoming poisoned. This little red berrys, so called bird berrys and not coffee originally can't be the whole reason. A story-lining disaster, if some of this red spots are mummys explanation for the early death of Candleless. In which eyes are they in Mr.Penn, I know this man. Nature_world in contrast to civilization builds a marvelous tension field, but, i think you have to reveal the ultimate reason for the positive deadline. Resist and love! --88.77.194.254 (talk) 14:18, 4 October 2008 (UTC)--88.77.194.254

I presume you find the film's explanation lacking. From the related articles here, it is clear that he starved to death. The book and film writers each add guess work based on one line from McCandless' writings where he mentions "bad pot. seed". My gues is that he just starved to death, but that both writers wanted/needed to add reasons outside of the simple inevitable death of a well-meaning, but self-centered individual. —MJBurrage^(T•C) 02:29, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

UNRELATED OBSERVATION: Why is "n" used about 5 times in the cast section?

DVD release

If you check amazon, you can see that the Into the Wild will be released on DVD sometime in 2008. Should someone mention this in the article? Iceage6891 (talk) 04:27, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Spring time comes?

"Unfortunately, as the spring thaw arrives, he is cut off from civilization by waterways" It could be just the movie I've yet to read the book but when he arrived in Alaska it could not have been winter. Yes there was snow on the ground but there was no snow on the trees also the snow was shown to be very soft. So McCandless must have arrived in spring and when summer came then he was cut off by the river. Also if it would have been winter it would have been dark most of the time because up that far north nights are longer in the winter. So I believe it should say "Unfortunately, as the summer thaw arrives, he is cut off from civilization by waterways" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.216.108.195 (talk) 16:21, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

In the movie they show that he arrived at Spring but Spring in Alaska is like winter in any normal country, also he lived there for almost four months with two of them being in the summer so it couldn't have been the Summer thaw I think it should more of an Autumn thaw.[[User talk:Miroa12004}Miroa12004]] 25 December 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miroa12004 (talk • contribs) 18:47, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Into_the_Wild#Background -- he arrived in April, died sometime in August, was found in Sept. -PrBeacon (talk) 07:10, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Interpretation

"He realises that nature is also harsh and uncaring." This appears to be an interpretation, not an objective fact about occurances in the movie. "nature" is a vague term that has many interpretations, but given its common vernacular use it doesn't make sense to attribute the property "harsh" or "uncaring" to something that has no will or intention. Nature in this sense is none of these things. Had the movie shown a diary page saying "I've realized that nature is also uncaring and harsh" then it would be OK to say it, but it doesn't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.219.245.109 (talk) 21:32, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Could make a simple change "He realizes that nature can also be harsh and uncaring." (I haven't seen the movie yet but I read the book and it doesnt seem to be a stretch from his writings). PrBeacon (talk) 23:28, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

lead changes

I suggest reducing the number of cast members mentioned in the lead paragraph. Most are mentioned in the plot summary, it's not an ensemble cast, and one isn't even notable enough to have his own WP page. Also, the intro lists two different premieres, so one of them needs to be qualified. (At the moment I can't think of the industry terms for different premiere types). PrBeacon (talk) 02:35, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Follow-up: the last sentence was revised accordingly. Thanks. -PrBeacon (talk) 07:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Link

The link to the official homepage "http://www.intothewild.com" redirects to "http://www.paramount.com/" so it looks like the official website was closed. I would suggest removing that link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.75.195.138 (talk) 09:05, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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More Information On Production?

I think this is a really great article, but the Production section feels a little underdeveloped. It only features five sentences; one of which is not even about the actual production of the film. I really appreciated the facts that were used and felt that they were relevant, but I would hope to see the page become a little stronger in this particular section. EllieM0703 (talk) 21:01, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Isn’t a warrior cats movie with the same name coming out?

I think there is.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:1580:4209:951C:42EF:C3E:75E5 (talk) 01:27, 22 June 2020 (UTC)