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...McCandless (Emile Hirsch) graduated from Emory University in 1992 and decided he needed a little time to himself before joining the bourgeois lockstep. It is a little difficult to see what's bugging him. His father (William Hurt) is a successful, self-made businessman, who is perhaps a little too sternly conventional in his views. His mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is a perhaps a little too softly so and, yes, there are strains in their marriage. But they are scarcely monsters, and the values they represent, though stodgy, are not exactly oppressive. Plenty of young people have slithered through...
Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) was a have-it-all kid who, upon graduating from college, resolved to flee his family for the Alaskan wilderness. Is Christopher a truth seeker, a defiant brat or some unknowable other? Director Sean Penn, adapting the Jon Krakauer bio-book, makes no judgments. He slowly spins this into a parable of one man's need for revelation, isolation and chilly transcendence...
...Emile Hirsch [who plays McCandless] goes through a truly shocking physical transformation to show McCandless starving to death. How'd you achieve that...
...that "Adam Brody type." And what he really wants to do is to take that type and put him in an action movie--something, he says, like Dustin Hoffman's character in Marathon Man. Or like the lead in the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, which he lost to Emile Hirsch. Or, and this is when his nerdiness does finally, yes, reveal itself, the kind of action comedies that Harrison Ford did. "Like when he's talking to Princess Leia--that Han Solo attitude!" he says. "Like 'Listen, sister: Stop bitching!'" I'm a little afraid he's going to wave...
...poorly retained unless you routinely use it, is available at a keystroke. Still, few would argue that an American child shouldn't learn the causes of the Civil War or understand how the periodic table reflects the atomic structure and properties of the elements. As school critic E.D. Hirsch Jr. points out in his book, The Knowledge Deficit, kids need a substantial fund of information just to make sense of reading materials beyond the grade-school level. Without mastering the fundamental building blocks of math, science or history, complex concepts are impossible...