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...longer on the market and any further allure would only complicate matters. If only our buyers would appreciate this and not start looking around at other billboards when they realize that theirs no longer has any frills. After all, we really are doing it for them! Patricia McCandless, Burleigh Heads, Australia
...Indian Runner” (1991) and “The Crossing Guard” (1995). “There were complications in the family, and also a lot of balancing of sensitivities and responsibility in telling the story.”Nevertheless, Penn insisted that the life of Christopher McCandless, the film’s protagonist, make it to the big screen, saying that audiences needed to witness McCandless’s pursuit of a meaningful life beyond the conventions of society. “There are those who will look at this as a spoiled rich kid who ought...
...your nerves. When you hand one of these stories to Sean Penn to adapt and direct for the big screen, the result is full exhaustion of the mind, body, and soul. His portrayal of “Into the Wild” traces the steps of a young Christopher McCandless, who graduated from college in the 1990s, took on an ascetic lifestyle, searched for something by embracing nothing, and ventured head first into the west. There he meet fellow wanderers and explores the philosophies of heroes like Leo Tolstoy and Jack London. The true story of “Into...
...between heroic martyrdom and psychopathic self-destructiveness is ever a thin and shifting one, and Sean Penn, the writer and director of Into the Wild, has obviously poured his generous heart and sympathetic soul into his adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of young man named Chistopher McCandless, who chose (to his sorrow and our discomfort) to walk that line...
...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...