In Reply to: You should read this... posted by sjb on October 12, 2007 at 10:04:21:
""In the fall of 2005, Krakauer and the McCandless family finally signed off on Penn's plans for a movie (the film hits theaters September 21), in part because of his pledge to stick so closely to the true story."
Now to you, "signed off" probably doesn't match PERFECTLY with final approval but to most people, I think, it does.
No, I haven't seen the film but I think I could muster a tad more sympathy for young guys dying in Iraq, starving in Africa, risking their lives in Red Cross missions in Darfur, or being shot in ghettos across our richest-on-the-planet country.
The guy died because either he was suicidal or he fucked up while camping where his ego shouldn't have led him. Sob, sniff.
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Follow Ups
- Rather, my CA friend, you should. - tinear 13:58:39 10/13/07 (6)
- RE: Rather, my CA friend, you should. - shoeihell@yahoo.com 09:18:26 10/27/07 (0)
- It's just not the same thing. - sjb 22:41:45 10/13/07 (4)
- We'll just have to disagree. Your points about Herzog's - tinear 01:21:39 10/14/07 (3)
- RE: We'll just have to disagree. Your points about Herzog's - sjb 07:31:45 10/14/07 (2)
- Steve, for years I worked as a journalist, interviewing some - tinear 17:59:59 10/14/07 (1)
- Hmmmm? - sjb 20:24:38 10/14/07 (0)