Into the Wild: Difference between revisions

'' Into the Wild'' is a [[Biopic]] by Sean Penn based on the 1996 book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. The book and movie chronicle the life of Chris as a young man resentful of society and his family, who decides after graduating college to spend a few years travelling around and living off the land in Alaska. The book is written from the perspective of [[Posthumous Narration]] and serves as a [[How We Got Here]] look at Chris' brief life and final days.

 

Because the story's premise - that the protagonist leaves society, tries living on his own and ends up dying - is [[It Was His Sled|so well-known]], there is no need to mark it as a spoiler.

 

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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Tracy, a girl who had a crush on McCandless, was briefly mentioned in the book. In the movie, she is given more screen time.

* [[An Aesop]]: "Happiness only real when shared."

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Before the movie came out, pretty much [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|the only thing everyone knew about it]] was: rich kid wanders off into the woods, lives in a bus, dies. It's even on the cover of the book.

* [[Green Aesop]]: Chris thinks this is the point of his journey. [[Wrong Genre Savvy|He's wrong.]]

* [[The Hero Dies]]

* [[How We Got Here]]: The book begins with the last time Chris was seen alive and essentially traces back everything that happened up to his death.

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