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* ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'' with a very insane Klaus Kinski being overrun by monkeys on a sinking raft.
** [[Werner Herzog]] in general likes to explore nature's savagery and indifference to human survival. See also ''[[Grizzly Man]]'', set in the same territory as ''[[Into the Wild]]''.
** Another Klaus Kinski example, and one fitting the entire "obsession and insanity" theme of this trope, is the movie ''[[Fitzcarraldo]]''. Kinski plays Peruvian rubber baron Ryan Sweeney "Fitzcarraldo" FitzGerald (loosely based on the historical [[Badass Spaniard|Carlos Fitzcarrald]]), who
** See also Herzog's documentary ''Wings of Hope'', about a girl who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon and ''walked'' for ten days out of the jungle - and then 30 years later, Herzog brings her back to retrace her steps. Oh, and '''Little Dieter Needs To Fly/Rescue Dawn''. Yeah, Herzog ''really'' likes this trope.
* ''[[Dead Man (film)|Dead Man]]'': The eponymous title character is taken to the "river made of waters".
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'''Gibbs:''' That seems a mite... contradictory, Cap'n. }}
* In ''Without A Paddle'', the characters get lost, lose their boat and supplies, and are attacked and pursued by a bear and violent locals.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Sir Ernest Shackleton's [[Real Life]] expedition to the Antarctic. Partially averted in that everyone survived and Shackleton was forced to travel the last leg by himself, [[Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity|over sheer cliffs]] because they crash landed on the wrong side of the island of [[wikipedia:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands|South]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031091735/http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/Main_Page Georgia]
* When Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen raced to be the first expedition to reach the south pole, Scott's expedition found the Norwegian flag waiting for them. Then Scott's entire team died from scurvy on the way back.
* Several [[Real Life]] expeditions into [[Darkest Africa]] inspired this trope, most notably [[Cloudcuckoolander|Emin Bey]]'s expedition to Equatoria, a vast and inaccessible swamp on the headwaters of the Nile. (A German-Jewish geographer who had been appointed Bey of the Turkish Empire, he claimed the region for either England, Egypt, or Germany, it's not clear which.)
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