CHRIS MCCANDLESS IS NO ONE TO LOOK UP TO. OR TO ADMIRE. THATS MOVIE BULLSHIT. CHRIS WAS A CONFUSED AND FUCKED UP PERSON. HE WANTED TO BE ALONE AND DIE ALONE. ITS THAT SIMPLE.
Greetings daparas, thanks for taking the time to do this. Please stop apologising to these people who say you spelled things wrong, so did most of them, but so what? Like Chris at least you tried to do something, having a heart and soul that feels and acts instead of just trying to feel superior, while these people likely have not done anything at all in their life except judge others.
@Griffin147 yo dude easy i was on an internet rant LIKE you were ....so fuck you lol im just kiddin and i think this proves i can be civil..modesty...naww never......so yea check out that episode of iconoclasts on ifc or bravo or somewhere on the net.. its actualy pretty informative..sory fer the rude comment tho i was caught up in the mix of the wholeINTOTHEWILD VIBE.....sorrty
The distress note below was purposely not part of the movie.
Attention possible visitors. "S.O.S. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak too hike out of here. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. August ?"
He screwed up and in the end no longer though of himself as the free-spirit Alex Supertramp.
Lots of young people run from their dysfunctional families. Many have use drugs and alcohol as an escape / adventure, sometimes with deadly consequences.
This guy used cross country travel and societal abandonment as his drug. He basically overdosed on some delusional notion that he could live a poetic solitary life in the wild unprepared.
plan and simple, stupidy killed him. not a very good hero. if anyone is a hero for leaving society, its dick proenneke. 30 years in the woods of alaska.
Great work! Thank you so much for this introduction. Are you a local resident near the bus? For me, Chris is also a hero, for his courage to lead his own life and seek his own worth. He is not a "clever" man indeed form the "general" viewpoint of the society, but he is a brave man to live his own life as his wish.
By a video made in 08, I was shocked that the Magic Bus is savagely damaged by some men, even the suitcase is thrown out of the window!!! What kind of FUCKER would do this?!!!
Chris showed how controlled we are by the Societies we are born into and that many of us don't realise how much that indoctrination effects the paths we take and the lives we lead.
True he had his faults like all of Us do and should have been more sensitive regarding his family and friends,.
He said that joy didn't principally come from human relationships, but in the end his journey showed him it's the people you share your experiences with in life that makes them special....R.I.P. Chris.
your my hero brother. You Did what noone else wanted to. You Came to know the truth on life. You were like the buddha, Always trying to help everyone. you do not know how much you helped me. i will soon go Into the wild.
You said in the video that he died from eating bad berries. I have read the book and they said they really didn't know why he just starved.they speculated that he had eaten some of the potato seeds he carried with him out there because he was planning on planting a garden and got desperate. Potato seeds are mildly toxic and they think that might have thrown him over the edge. The movie has a totally different view of how he died. Again, this isn't justified. Read the book.
This man had something that you or me will never have..total freedom...This country is not free anymore. We pay taxes, social security, gas prices, the list goes on. Freedom is not having to work for pay check to paycheck. He done what nobody else has the nuts to do. I respect and envey him. He didn't mean to die. It was just a tragedy. He died free...not many people can say that.
Chris lived & died living in freedom & of his dream. I now know after seeing several of the majic bus videos what actually happened to him. Thanks for telling his story
I dont idolize "supertramp" but I respect him and understand his views. I believe that if he was still around today in this world, he would be appalled.....He was trying to make a point and deep down, I wish I had the guts to even try to do what he did!!!! Rest in peace Supertramp!!
I just look at this person as someone who had a priveleged but troubled childhood who decided, when he could, to live an exaggerated life. Without saying anything bad about this McCandless fellow I think its absolutely ridiculous how ppl idolize him. It is okay to want to experience life outside of "civilization" but I think he went a bit overboard. Although I understand them, his actions were impulsive and ill thought out. Nothing to aspire to imo.
@GreazyMuhfoh well yeah, but why dont you go 113 days in alaska with a rifle and a notebook and tell me if you make it. Even if you planned for years you would still end up like he did. Wouldnt you? and no cheating. he didnt. Cheating means taking canned food or already made food.
Until anybody else has done the voyage themselves then I think that we just keep our judgements to ourselves for whatever reason a person is dead and in desperate times or condition we do not know what we would really do so leave him be in peace
@daparas thank you for sharing this film. Christopher's story really touched my life too! I can't explain it all... how deeply his story has touched my life. Chris lived with profound integrity. Don't listen to people who can't understand... Chris had profound courage. I hope that someday I find that same courage :-) God bless you and be with you always.
Seems like there is a similarity between Christopher and Timothy Treadwell aka Grizzly Man. Both had this dream of living with nature but did not realize how harsh the Alaskan environment can be.
oh my god, they couldnt be more different. this idiot went into the wilderness unprepared in the most inconsiderate and unbelievably stupid ways. timothy treadwell, was experienced, well prepared and his purpose was to protect the bears and document them unlike this guy who did nothing more than committ suicide in the woods.the only qualities they shared were their own insecurities in their own bodies and both made up shit about themselves because their real stories were just not "good enough".
Grizzly Man lived with bears for 12 years, McCandless lived in the wild for 6 months. I definitely think both had a meaningful philosophy, but were maybe a little too idealistic for their own good.
i have been doin alot of research on him and they say that the berries weren't what killed him.. sure they may have made him feel worse but i guess they never found traces of the poisonous berries in his autopsy and they state that he died from just straight up starvation.. i dont know but definitely sad:(
i wasn't there but if he realised he was unwell and going to die as the book he was carrying suggested (in the film) then i think if that was me if i had the use of my legs i would of gone for help straight away.
he tried to go back but couldn't since the river he had to cross (which is the same one he crossed getting in ) was too rough at the time and too flooded, although if chris only knew there was a way out couple miles ahead he would surely get there , problem is he used a cheap map he got a gas station who did not show that place... sad and ironic but thats the way it goes in life sometimes ;)
You're entirely right. I live in Fairbanks and know the area where McCandless lived. The Teklanika in the late summer is almost entirely empty - he could have crossed it easily. He either chose not to cross it or was already too weak from starvation. Little did he know that help was only 3-4 miles away in Denali. If he had a good map of the area he would be alive today.
I was born in Fox (just outside of Fairbanks), 59 years ago. We hunters knew that bus very well. What the poor lad died of was the coated fruit of a plant in the pea family. But it's not the fruit that is deadly--it is the fungus that grows on the fruit. We Caucasians who grew up amongst the Athabascans knew not to eat that. And there are other organic, growing dangers in the Denali country that you avoid. How we all feel so deeply that Chris had not run into a wise old Native American. . .
This iwas not just a guy who just wanted to live in creature comforts. He had unresolved ISSUES big time! This IMHO was a huge SOS.He became supertramp was because he could not understand the suffering in the world .He felt that ppl were enslaved to materialism and hence had no love. I actually think he had a big heart but this was not the way to find the answers and he died an unnecessary death. His life would have made a bigger difference than his death did!
Wait, let me finish vomiting before I respond to your comment. Oh, yeah, I don't recall much religious BS in Chris' journal. Where do you get your information?
excuse me? Did you watch the movie? Read the book? In his letter back to Ron as published in the book "Into The Wild", "I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and fail to discover all the wonderful things GOD has placed around us to discover"(57). Chris (Alex) continues, "GOD has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience"(57). Get your facts straight pal. There are plenty of other references to God and a higher power throughout. it is clear
Pink, no I did not read the book, so I don't doubt you that there's much more in the book than the movie. However, I didn't get much of a religious tone from the movie. What I did get was a sense of wonder as to how people could admire such an utterly unlikable moron who tacitly committed suicide out of sheer ignorance. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if Chris did believe in God or Santa Claus...his judgment was clearly lacking in other areas as well.
I'm not even going to dignify your small little mind and gross underestimations of the capacity of someone's mind to believe in something greater than the conventional conceptions of life with a response. Amazing how blind people can be. Still find it funny that you questioned someone's statement for facts, facts were provided and now you still insist on ridiculing people for their beliefs. A belief in God is far from a lapse in judgement.
I conceded that I hadn't read the book and that there must be more religion in the book than the movie where I didn't get much of that vibe at all (creative decision?) If you don't think a belief in God is a lapse in judgment, how about a lapse in logic? Belief in God (in the traditional sense) allows no room for logic, the belief has to be based on emotion because there's no logic to support it. Of course, millions still try to argue there's no evolution and the planet is 10k years old.
You just don't get it do you? You should try to supertramp like Chris did. At least he realised that their is a higher being. And go watch the movie again or something before you thrash ppl's comments!!!
I have no problem with a person who wants to go rough it in the wild. The reason he's a moron is because he made no reasonable preparations and died because of it. No map, no flares, no radio/phone...he didn't even know he could have crossed the river less than mile from where he thought it was impassable. Moron. And the selfish f**k didn't even think to call his sister and parents, who were naturally worried sick, to tell them he was okay. Just an overall prick. Hero? No chance.
Are we not on the same page Hood?Where in my comment did you get that I thought he was a hero? How could he be when he threw away his life like that. I agree that he was selfish and pushed away everyone that loved him in the end. Nothing heroic about that!!! But his supertramping helped him to see that there is a higher being. But what's the use of that if your dead in the end??
I suppose that you were there every step of the way on his trek? How do you u know what was depicted in the movies was not real facts? My comment is based on what I saw. Of course I could be wrong but who cares anyway , its just an opinion. Its not going to bring him back.
Because he chose not to buy a map and a compass (items which most people in the same situation would have considered essential), McCandless was completely unaware that a hand-operated tram crossed the otherwise impassable river 1/4 mile from where he attempted to cross. Had McCandless known this, he could easily have saved his own life
Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote: "I am exposed continually to what I will call the 'McCandless Phenomenon.' People, nearly always young men, come to Alaska to challenge themselves against an unforgiving wilderness landscape where convenience of access and possibility of rescue are practically nonexistent [...] When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasnt even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate.
So I'm the fool when this dumb shit is the one who went out and got himself needlessly killed? I'd say the bigger fools are the ones who idolize morons.
Now that I read your comment I realise that he did find the answer he was looking for in the end. That there is a God. Unfortunately he did not get to explanation to why there was so much suffering. I think he wanted to help but did not know how.
That was my opinion from watching the movie. I think he got lost somewhere in life along the way. You are an ignorant sob if my comment should make you vomit. I hope you CHOKE on your vomit!!!!!! It's ppl like you that he wanted to get away from!!! May he R.I.P
Tout, what I don't get is the fans who sit around praising what he did with his life...but none of them have the balls to go out and do it themselves. What's up with that? Anyone can walk out their door with the clothes on their back and swear off the material world, but it seems no one really wants to give up their easy lives. That's fine if you're someone like me who likes the creature comforts and thinks Chris a moron, but what about people like you? Does't that make you a hypocrite?
His wallett was later found with $200 in it and an ID. He never burned his money. He didn't even have an axe. The bus had a window broken out with a tree stuffed through it and into the wood stove. His life was much less glamorous than hollywood portrays....but I still admire the guy. just think maybe with all that free time, maybe he could hike the river for 1/4 a mile and find the way out wich he missed.
life is all about experiance but you can't live with out experiance even if your a house wife your experancing being a house wife!! if you never get off your ass and watch t.v that is an experiance in my eye's what Christopher stood for is a rejection of the "average" human experance and way of life!!! but if you have the courage to live such a way then you must be prepaired to DIE cos it really is no Joke out there
I want to thank you all for the viewing this video! Now I know that my english was poor but I am jsut a kid who made this. But i wish could redo it and make it better. But any ways thanks so much again.
A bright young man who lost common sense along his path to freedom. He failed to respect nature and he paid with his life. The real tradgedy is he realized this when it was too late. RIP.
How did he fail to respect nature? When he killed animals they were to survive by, he made a simple mistake in choosing a plant that looked exactly like another. If anything Chris worshipped nature and freedom.
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KAOS is right on. The guy was a moron and a fool. The only people who rally around and idolize idiots are those who aspire to become idiots themselves.
you have a lot wrong man. he finished college at emory in 1990. a complete education top of the class, he isnt stupid for all the people against him. then he abandoned his datsun in arizona. after that he canoed down the colorado river into mexico. the next significant part is him going to wayne westerbergs then going into the wild
He even said his days were the best when he was pennyless. Just because alot of you out there would not go into a situation like that without proper gear "because your not strong enough to handle it" doesn't give you the right to judge him for setting the bar where he did for himself. He died with the spirit of God shining down on him. Godbless
He went out there with the preperations he wanted take with him for the challenge he set for himself. Its PLAIN to see that if he wanted it to be easy he would have bought what he needed and took it with him. He had a College education, gave 24,000 dollars away, and was not an ignorant man. .....
I just love the way this story changes my point of vieuws in life. To do what you love to do and be happy. Everything else is bullshit. In the end everybody writes there own story but I love yours the most mr Supertramp!
While I repect him for what he tried to do. You just go up there totally unprepared like he did. If you want to hear a good story look up a guy named Richard Proenneke. He went up there in 1969 to a place called Twin Lakes he built a cabin had all his supplies that he needed flown to every 6 weeks or so. He live up there for over 30 years till he got so old he could not take the winters. Now his is a really good story.
smart? A smart person would have taken a basic survival guide at least. Call of the Wild won't feed you! This was a long extended suicide. Still I love the film. It's philosophical, pondering mortality. We need more films like this . Sean Penn's direction is superb.
Just watched the movie Into the Wild... it was excellent...makes me think about my own life and how ive been wasting it with things that are really not important. Chris's story endures and will purpetuate itself in all of us to become better human beings..
all you chris mccandless experts you do all realise that books and films are not entirely fact dont you? toxicology reports demonstrate that no poison was found in his body. fact. he died from starvation. fact. he lived in a bus which was in the wild. fact. if it wasnt fo bus he woulda died in no time. fact. fuck me if it wasnt for bus he woulda died in weeks. the guy would probably have died in a fuking orchard hes that stupid
those are the kind of things that chris walked into the wild. when u called him stupid u judged him. and thats 1 of the things he left 4 cuz people are bad 2 each so much. just stop with the judgment. whats stupider following ur dreams even if they can get u killed?? or not following them all????
i agree. all these ignorant people who are trashing chris just because the way he died, they don't understand the point of the story. he truly had a good heart and hated how bad people were to each other. i for one agree, that is something i just will never understand. why people are so rude. he lived his life more than anyone on here has. he is an inspiration to all. i also know that no one will know the whole story except chris, but still there's no need to be rude.
thats what i mean. if he was gunna try to live out in the wilderness you think he would have learned alot more about it before he tried to live in it.
well thats kinda y he did it. he wanted 2 go out into the wild not knowing anything. he wanted 2 struggle. if he went out there knowing everything then it would be a struggle.
you know what. I am sorry for the spelling errors . I am a really bad speller when I made this video. all I was trying to do is make a film for Chris. I Got some wrong facts.
there's no need for all the corrections. the fact is he died in the wild. mistake or was it? the message is the same no matter what. In fact he was trying to get away from society's bikering about getting everything right. all the complainers here are just what Mccandless was talking about. He got awaay from that.
he died of starvation. plain and simple. from his own stupidiy of not being prepared and having no map. he could of used the hand tram. he didnt die of posin plants....research the story people..
that wasnt the stupidity it was freedom to he doesnt wanted to know everything he was just living for the moment even if he only had 5 days in freedom he would have died a in a thankful way
I know your intentions were good but this video needs to be removed. There are too many spelling errors of very common words, and you have some false information on here.
seen now, your one of society's little helpers trying to guide everyone to perfection. Thanks for your concern but spelling and typing who cares? throw your cares away. And facts get foggy with legends and his legend lives on.
Regardless of The mistakes Chris McCandless made that may have led to his Death I have a Great Deal of Respect for the Man For following his dream. Thanks To Chris Most people will learn from this experience. To me He sacrificed his life and at the same time taught all of us a lesson. As a result Of this Story I have made it a goal of Mine to someday go and visit this Bus and pay Respect to Chris.
Is he your hero coz of this movie or were you aware of the real guy? I think alot of people say hes my hero coz of the movie but they didnt even know the guy, so what the hell would they know about criss?
I haven't seen the movie yet, I read the book. It's not 100% known what he died from, but the author's best guess is from mold, which gradually made him unable to digest the other food in his diet, so he starved to death. It's pretty compelling. Read the book, it's really good.
That's basically what Chris McCandless did. Sounds pretty stupid doesn't it. This person's story is interesting no doubt, but he was one dumb kid to go to alaska and starve to death only 20 miles from the road.
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CHRIS MCCANDLESS IS NO ONE TO LOOK UP TO. OR TO ADMIRE. THATS MOVIE BULLSHIT. CHRIS WAS A CONFUSED AND FUCKED UP PERSON. HE WANTED TO BE ALONE AND DIE ALONE. ITS THAT SIMPLE.
spaceghost30082 2 months ago
superb personality..
itouchthewild 5 months ago
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Hi Chris,
I' m the moose you' ve killed...
I' d feel a whole lot better if you had stayed at home ....
pit2ryan3 9 months ago
Greetings daparas, thanks for taking the time to do this. Please stop apologising to these people who say you spelled things wrong, so did most of them, but so what? Like Chris at least you tried to do something, having a heart and soul that feels and acts instead of just trying to feel superior, while these people likely have not done anything at all in their life except judge others.
666blackmetal6661 10 months ago
He's was on my mind. So inspiring. The music is perfect :)
landsonny 11 months ago
@Griffin147 yo dude easy i was on an internet rant LIKE you were ....so fuck you lol im just kiddin and i think this proves i can be civil..modesty...naww never......so yea check out that episode of iconoclasts on ifc or bravo or somewhere on the net.. its actualy pretty informative..sory fer the rude comment tho i was caught up in the mix of the wholeINTOTHEWILD VIBE.....sorrty
Mr420ways 1 year ago
@Griffin147 it was the magic bus ass hole watch john krakaures iconoclast episode
Mr420ways 1 year ago
The distress note below was purposely not part of the movie.
Attention possible visitors. "S.O.S. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak too hike out of here. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. August ?"
He screwed up and in the end no longer though of himself as the free-spirit Alex Supertramp.
Movie romantic, reality not.
SpiralsHappen 1 year ago
Lots of young people run from their dysfunctional families. Many have use drugs and alcohol as an escape / adventure, sometimes with deadly consequences.
This guy used cross country travel and societal abandonment as his drug. He basically overdosed on some delusional notion that he could live a poetic solitary life in the wild unprepared.
SpiralsHappen 1 year ago
plan and simple, stupidy killed him. not a very good hero. if anyone is a hero for leaving society, its dick proenneke. 30 years in the woods of alaska.
burkdogg12 1 year ago
wronggggg, 112 days (a).
FUCKSPANJE 1 year ago
Great work! Thank you so much for this introduction. Are you a local resident near the bus? For me, Chris is also a hero, for his courage to lead his own life and seek his own worth. He is not a "clever" man indeed form the "general" viewpoint of the society, but he is a brave man to live his own life as his wish.
By a video made in 08, I was shocked that the Magic Bus is savagely damaged by some men, even the suitcase is thrown out of the window!!! What kind of FUCKER would do this?!!!
billcste 1 year ago
Spell much?
joryrand 1 year ago
@Griffin147 it's a bus in the middle of nowhere... fawk yeah thats a magic bus allright!
LivArs 1 year ago
@Griffin147 hey its the thought that counts man ya know?
ilovemyhonda250ex 1 year ago
Chris McCandless is no hero. Read some Henry David Thoreau, some Tolstoy. :)
SubtleChaotic 1 year ago
@Griffin147 like i said i made this 2 years ago and i kinda fucked up on it so give me a break
Thank you
daparas 1 year ago
Chris showed how controlled we are by the Societies we are born into and that many of us don't realise how much that indoctrination effects the paths we take and the lives we lead.
True he had his faults like all of Us do and should have been more sensitive regarding his family and friends,.
He said that joy didn't principally come from human relationships, but in the end his journey showed him it's the people you share your experiences with in life that makes them special....R.I.P. Chris.
rael1999 1 year ago
like, this way to the 60's, man
pahlorstoker 1 year ago
Chris!
your my hero brother. You Did what noone else wanted to. You Came to know the truth on life. You were like the buddha, Always trying to help everyone. you do not know how much you helped me. i will soon go Into the wild.
iloveaustrailiawomen 1 year ago
@iloveaustrailiawomen Bring a condom!
uplusion22 1 year ago
You said in the video that he died from eating bad berries. I have read the book and they said they really didn't know why he just starved.they speculated that he had eaten some of the potato seeds he carried with him out there because he was planning on planting a garden and got desperate. Potato seeds are mildly toxic and they think that might have thrown him over the edge. The movie has a totally different view of how he died. Again, this isn't justified. Read the book.
stankwagon 1 year ago
This man had something that you or me will never have..total freedom...This country is not free anymore. We pay taxes, social security, gas prices, the list goes on. Freedom is not having to work for pay check to paycheck. He done what nobody else has the nuts to do. I respect and envey him. He didn't mean to die. It was just a tragedy. He died free...not many people can say that.
mohawk102 1 year ago
Why are we supposed to admire this guy? He seems like a selfish ham for the camera to me. Then he died in an idiot way.
guarddog22 1 year ago
Chris lived & died living in freedom & of his dream. I now know after seeing several of the majic bus videos what actually happened to him. Thanks for telling his story
explorr1 1 year ago
I dont idolize "supertramp" but I respect him and understand his views. I believe that if he was still around today in this world, he would be appalled.....He was trying to make a point and deep down, I wish I had the guts to even try to do what he did!!!! Rest in peace Supertramp!!
SaulAndLuke 2 years ago
I just look at this person as someone who had a priveleged but troubled childhood who decided, when he could, to live an exaggerated life. Without saying anything bad about this McCandless fellow I think its absolutely ridiculous how ppl idolize him. It is okay to want to experience life outside of "civilization" but I think he went a bit overboard. Although I understand them, his actions were impulsive and ill thought out. Nothing to aspire to imo.
GreazyMuhfoh 2 years ago
@GreazyMuhfoh well yeah, but why dont you go 113 days in alaska with a rifle and a notebook and tell me if you make it. Even if you planned for years you would still end up like he did. Wouldnt you? and no cheating. he didnt. Cheating means taking canned food or already made food.
iloveaustrailiawomen 1 year ago
Neither of them were well educated in survival, you can just expect that everything is going to be ok idiots
mikehickey56 2 years ago
Until anybody else has done the voyage themselves then I think that we just keep our judgements to ourselves for whatever reason a person is dead and in desperate times or condition we do not know what we would really do so leave him be in peace
elizawai 2 years ago
Chris didnt poach anything he sastaned his life on the animals
huntinguy532 2 years ago
Buena Vida!! Chris!!
:) Jesus love!!
emmanooale 2 years ago
I just want to Thank All of You for Watching my film. He is a hero to me
I know he did a lot of mistakes while he was in the wild. But he still touched my hearts
Sorry for the miss spelling of words
R.I.P
Chris J. McCandless
daparas 2 years ago 3
@daparas thank you for sharing this film. Christopher's story really touched my life too! I can't explain it all... how deeply his story has touched my life. Chris lived with profound integrity. Don't listen to people who can't understand... Chris had profound courage. I hope that someday I find that same courage :-) God bless you and be with you always.
OPHELIAwatercolorDRM 2 years ago
sorry,title of the song???
thanks
MultiMichael84 2 years ago
No ceiling by Edie Vedder
and Society Edie Vedder
daparas 2 years ago
grazie daparas
MultiMichael84 2 years ago
@daparas heroes are meant to make mistakes.
Ninitos1 1 year ago
thanks to him i changed my life... mi mind
deanpancho14 2 years ago
Def gave me different look on the life I lead, thank you and god bless
cooperstand 2 years ago
this man is in my mind everyday...
R.I.P. Christopher Mccandless.
u are my hero:)
layla251 2 years ago
Seems like there is a similarity between Christopher and Timothy Treadwell aka Grizzly Man. Both had this dream of living with nature but did not realize how harsh the Alaskan environment can be.
whatmortal 2 years ago
oh my god, they couldnt be more different. this idiot went into the wilderness unprepared in the most inconsiderate and unbelievably stupid ways. timothy treadwell, was experienced, well prepared and his purpose was to protect the bears and document them unlike this guy who did nothing more than committ suicide in the woods.the only qualities they shared were their own insecurities in their own bodies and both made up shit about themselves because their real stories were just not "good enough".
mysticx0 2 years ago
Grizzly Man lived with bears for 12 years, McCandless lived in the wild for 6 months. I definitely think both had a meaningful philosophy, but were maybe a little too idealistic for their own good.
LaShnike 2 years ago
i have been doin alot of research on him and they say that the berries weren't what killed him.. sure they may have made him feel worse but i guess they never found traces of the poisonous berries in his autopsy and they state that he died from just straight up starvation.. i dont know but definitely sad:(
layla251 2 years ago
he didnt eat berries it was an alaskin potato. he ate the poisones root!
Totalnonstopmma 2 years ago
lol i know i messed up:)
layla251 2 years ago
i wasn't there but if he realised he was unwell and going to die as the book he was carrying suggested (in the film) then i think if that was me if i had the use of my legs i would of gone for help straight away.
ladyfuzz1966 2 years ago
he tried to go back but couldn't since the river he had to cross (which is the same one he crossed getting in ) was too rough at the time and too flooded, although if chris only knew there was a way out couple miles ahead he would surely get there , problem is he used a cheap map he got a gas station who did not show that place... sad and ironic but thats the way it goes in life sometimes ;)
absolumer 2 years ago
You're entirely right. I live in Fairbanks and know the area where McCandless lived. The Teklanika in the late summer is almost entirely empty - he could have crossed it easily. He either chose not to cross it or was already too weak from starvation. Little did he know that help was only 3-4 miles away in Denali. If he had a good map of the area he would be alive today.
LaShnike 2 years ago
I was born in Fox (just outside of Fairbanks), 59 years ago. We hunters knew that bus very well. What the poor lad died of was the coated fruit of a plant in the pea family. But it's not the fruit that is deadly--it is the fungus that grows on the fruit. We Caucasians who grew up amongst the Athabascans knew not to eat that. And there are other organic, growing dangers in the Denali country that you avoid. How we all feel so deeply that Chris had not run into a wise old Native American. . .
ballardbullshit 2 years ago
me and my boyfriend loves this man.....forse un giorno anche noi ci troveremo accanto al magic bus ......
valelu86 2 years ago
he didn't starve from bad berries, it was poisonous potatoe seeds, right?
sq4718 2 years ago
I´ve jsut read the book and I feel terribly sad; he was apparentlx an amazing guy, so much charisma
verrebleu 2 years ago
the book doesn't give all facts....
AnonShawi 2 years ago
I'll say for starters I enjoyed the story
But it would seem he was foolhardy
lawlers69 2 years ago
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lawlers69 2 years ago
This iwas not just a guy who just wanted to live in creature comforts. He had unresolved ISSUES big time! This IMHO was a huge SOS.He became supertramp was because he could not understand the suffering in the world .He felt that ppl were enslaved to materialism and hence had no love. I actually think he had a big heart but this was not the way to find the answers and he died an unnecessary death. His life would have made a bigger difference than his death did!
Toutlaguerre 2 years ago
Toutlaguerre :
You're explination is the best of what we can get from the life of McCandless. And I think the same! You sayed the interpretation perfect.
Greetings from Holland
Sandrarun 2 years ago
Chris was simply looking for the true purpose of life!!!! Something you can only learn if you draw close to the Creator and not the creation!!!
Toutlaguerre 2 years ago
Wait, let me finish vomiting before I respond to your comment. Oh, yeah, I don't recall much religious BS in Chris' journal. Where do you get your information?
crhood2166 2 years ago
excuse me? Did you watch the movie? Read the book? In his letter back to Ron as published in the book "Into The Wild", "I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and fail to discover all the wonderful things GOD has placed around us to discover"(57). Chris (Alex) continues, "GOD has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience"(57). Get your facts straight pal. There are plenty of other references to God and a higher power throughout. it is clear
pinkstones23 2 years ago
Pink, no I did not read the book, so I don't doubt you that there's much more in the book than the movie. However, I didn't get much of a religious tone from the movie. What I did get was a sense of wonder as to how people could admire such an utterly unlikable moron who tacitly committed suicide out of sheer ignorance. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if Chris did believe in God or Santa Claus...his judgment was clearly lacking in other areas as well.
crhood2166 2 years ago
I'm not even going to dignify your small little mind and gross underestimations of the capacity of someone's mind to believe in something greater than the conventional conceptions of life with a response. Amazing how blind people can be. Still find it funny that you questioned someone's statement for facts, facts were provided and now you still insist on ridiculing people for their beliefs. A belief in God is far from a lapse in judgement.
pinkstones23 2 years ago
I conceded that I hadn't read the book and that there must be more religion in the book than the movie where I didn't get much of that vibe at all (creative decision?) If you don't think a belief in God is a lapse in judgment, how about a lapse in logic? Belief in God (in the traditional sense) allows no room for logic, the belief has to be based on emotion because there's no logic to support it. Of course, millions still try to argue there's no evolution and the planet is 10k years old.
crhood2166 2 years ago
You just don't get it do you? You should try to supertramp like Chris did. At least he realised that their is a higher being. And go watch the movie again or something before you thrash ppl's comments!!!
Toutlaguerre 2 years ago
I have no problem with a person who wants to go rough it in the wild. The reason he's a moron is because he made no reasonable preparations and died because of it. No map, no flares, no radio/phone...he didn't even know he could have crossed the river less than mile from where he thought it was impassable. Moron. And the selfish f**k didn't even think to call his sister and parents, who were naturally worried sick, to tell them he was okay. Just an overall prick. Hero? No chance.
crhood2166 2 years ago
Are we not on the same page Hood?Where in my comment did you get that I thought he was a hero? How could he be when he threw away his life like that. I agree that he was selfish and pushed away everyone that loved him in the end. Nothing heroic about that!!! But his supertramping helped him to see that there is a higher being. But what's the use of that if your dead in the end??
Toutlaguerre 2 years ago
and lol smartass , he did have a map ...
absolumer 2 years ago
lol, go watch the movie again roflmao
There IS a difference between real facts and movies y'know ;)
AnonShawi 2 years ago
I suppose that you were there every step of the way on his trek? How do you u know what was depicted in the movies was not real facts? My comment is based on what I saw. Of course I could be wrong but who cares anyway , its just an opinion. Its not going to bring him back.
Toutlaguerre 2 years ago
I just don't take a movie as an example when arguing about facts.......
AnonShawi 2 years ago
Because he chose not to buy a map and a compass (items which most people in the same situation would have considered essential), McCandless was completely unaware that a hand-operated tram crossed the otherwise impassable river 1/4 mile from where he attempted to cross. Had McCandless known this, he could easily have saved his own life
AnonShawi 2 years ago
Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote: "I am exposed continually to what I will call the 'McCandless Phenomenon.' People, nearly always young men, come to Alaska to challenge themselves against an unforgiving wilderness landscape where convenience of access and possibility of rescue are practically nonexistent [...] When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasnt even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate.
AnonShawi 2 years ago
its ok man , it happens to the best of us , being a fool like u is quite common in our modern world ...
so i dont see any reason u should feel bad
absolumer 2 years ago
So I'm the fool when this dumb shit is the one who went out and got himself needlessly killed? I'd say the bigger fools are the ones who idolize morons.
crhood2166 2 years ago
yea u are the fool , show some respect .
even if he was wrong thats a human error u could make urself .
so stop acting as if ur so smart since obviously by ur posts ur not
absolumer 2 years ago
You don't have to be "smart" to avoid dying needlessly. It wasn't error that killed him, it was lack of preparedness and ignorance.
crhood2166 2 years ago
Now that I read your comment I realise that he did find the answer he was looking for in the end. That there is a God. Unfortunately he did not get to explanation to why there was so much suffering. I think he wanted to help but did not know how.
Toutlaguerre 2 years ago
That was my opinion from watching the movie. I think he got lost somewhere in life along the way. You are an ignorant sob if my comment should make you vomit. I hope you CHOKE on your vomit!!!!!! It's ppl like you that he wanted to get away from!!! May he R.I.P
Toutlaguerre 2 years ago
Tout, what I don't get is the fans who sit around praising what he did with his life...but none of them have the balls to go out and do it themselves. What's up with that? Anyone can walk out their door with the clothes on their back and swear off the material world, but it seems no one really wants to give up their easy lives. That's fine if you're someone like me who likes the creature comforts and thinks Chris a moron, but what about people like you? Does't that make you a hypocrite?
crhood2166 2 years ago
"what I don't get is the fans who sit around praising what he did with his life...but none of them have the balls to go out and do it themselves"
lol thats exactly why they see him as hero , cuz he did something we all would wanna do but dont have the guts too... lol
yea well , try again cuz ur comment wasnt the smartest one i ever read lol
absolumer 2 years ago
His wallett was later found with $200 in it and an ID. He never burned his money. He didn't even have an axe. The bus had a window broken out with a tree stuffed through it and into the wood stove. His life was much less glamorous than hollywood portrays....but I still admire the guy. just think maybe with all that free time, maybe he could hike the river for 1/4 a mile and find the way out wich he missed.
adolfoliverpubes 2 years ago
life is all about experiance but you can't live with out experiance even if your a house wife your experancing being a house wife!! if you never get off your ass and watch t.v that is an experiance in my eye's what Christopher stood for is a rejection of the "average" human experance and way of life!!! but if you have the courage to live such a way then you must be prepaired to DIE cos it really is no Joke out there
torturedgenius662 2 years ago
Hello all!
I want to thank you all for the viewing this video! Now I know that my english was poor but I am jsut a kid who made this. But i wish could redo it and make it better. But any ways thanks so much again.
And
R.I.P Chris McCandless your my hero!
daparas 2 years ago
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ASpringer22 2 years ago
Your English is atrocious, but I admire your intentions.
Alejandroenfuego 2 years ago 2
haha someone has to spellcheck!
vr431 3 years ago
A bright young man who lost common sense along his path to freedom. He failed to respect nature and he paid with his life. The real tradgedy is he realized this when it was too late. RIP.
topdown84 3 years ago
How did he fail to respect nature? When he killed animals they were to survive by, he made a simple mistake in choosing a plant that looked exactly like another. If anything Chris worshipped nature and freedom.
Thejbirdy 2 years ago
Lost common sense? hahaha and who are you? What do you do? lol common since! nice choice of words.
RBs2THEGRAIN 2 years ago
this is a movie review
metalcrosss 3 years ago
There's way more to the story.
swiss112476 3 years ago
rip from Ireland
emm876 3 years ago
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KAOS is right on. The guy was a moron and a fool. The only people who rally around and idolize idiots are those who aspire to become idiots themselves.
crhood2166 3 years ago
your grammar is poor
allybug8701 3 years ago
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he was an arrogant loser - nothing more, prolly a whole lot less....
drinkgirl 3 years ago
Have another drink numbskull..
Dogcreek 3 years ago
WHAT!,FUCK YOU!..no he wasn't!....basterd
blazer1470 3 years ago
Nice video..but lots of misspelled words?
Trulyours2322 3 years ago
He wasn't born in DC, but in southern california where he lived in el segundo til about age 6. then moved to d.c. suburbs. Nice video
powderstash 3 years ago
Thanks a lot!. I made some errors cause i was not finsh reading the book when i made it.
But thanks for your comment
R.I.P
Supertramp!
daparas 3 years ago
you have a lot wrong man. he finished college at emory in 1990. a complete education top of the class, he isnt stupid for all the people against him. then he abandoned his datsun in arizona. after that he canoed down the colorado river into mexico. the next significant part is him going to wayne westerbergs then going into the wild
Blupie7 3 years ago
he graduated "collage"
ThiefInLaw 3 years ago
He even said his days were the best when he was pennyless. Just because alot of you out there would not go into a situation like that without proper gear "because your not strong enough to handle it" doesn't give you the right to judge him for setting the bar where he did for himself. He died with the spirit of God shining down on him. Godbless
Lurkingcreatures 3 years ago
He went out there with the preperations he wanted take with him for the challenge he set for himself. Its PLAIN to see that if he wanted it to be easy he would have bought what he needed and took it with him. He had a College education, gave 24,000 dollars away, and was not an ignorant man. .....
Lurkingcreatures 3 years ago
was the bus in the movie the real bus that mcCandless stayed in?
xLookAtMoi 3 years ago
no the director didnt want to disturb the real bus so they found another bus and made it look like the original.
Amberella12 3 years ago
oh okay thanks!! yeah that is a smart thing to do!!
xLookAtMoi 3 years ago
Where did you find this information? The info. is correct, I was just wondering. (:
jpalover 3 years ago
DVD extras on Into the Wild
Amberella12 3 years ago
I just love the way this story changes my point of vieuws in life. To do what you love to do and be happy. Everything else is bullshit. In the end everybody writes there own story but I love yours the most mr Supertramp!
roos448 3 years ago
While I repect him for what he tried to do. You just go up there totally unprepared like he did. If you want to hear a good story look up a guy named Richard Proenneke. He went up there in 1969 to a place called Twin Lakes he built a cabin had all his supplies that he needed flown to every 6 weeks or so. He live up there for over 30 years till he got so old he could not take the winters. Now his is a really good story.
ericpieper69 3 years ago
smart? A smart person would have taken a basic survival guide at least. Call of the Wild won't feed you! This was a long extended suicide. Still I love the film. It's philosophical, pondering mortality. We need more films like this . Sean Penn's direction is superb.
geridg 3 years ago
you spelled no where wrong
TopSoul13 3 years ago
"happiness is only real when shared"
whats the name of the song?
TopSoul13 3 years ago
No ceiling by eddie vedder
daparas 3 years ago
Just watched the movie Into the Wild... it was excellent...makes me think about my own life and how ive been wasting it with things that are really not important. Chris's story endures and will purpetuate itself in all of us to become better human beings..
BLITZBOXER 3 years ago
Hey everyone!
Thanks for the comments. Chris is real hero to me and i wanted to make it for him!
R.I.P supretramp
daparas 3 years ago
You're welcome my friend.
He must be proud of you.
I am going to post some songs of the movie. I will sing for him...
Bye.
Snougdoug 3 years ago
Chris lived his life completely. Rest in Peace Supertramp...
pulpfiction93 3 years ago 2
Thank you for this tribute to Mr supertramp.
Snougdoug 3 years ago 6
great video thanks!!
kepfingered 3 years ago
We all have no idea what it means to truly live and be happy, Chris did
JLelievre85 3 years ago
R.I.P. from Italy...you are a lengend
teo131988 3 years ago
all you chris mccandless experts you do all realise that books and films are not entirely fact dont you? toxicology reports demonstrate that no poison was found in his body. fact. he died from starvation. fact. he lived in a bus which was in the wild. fact. if it wasnt fo bus he woulda died in no time. fact. fuck me if it wasnt for bus he woulda died in weeks. the guy would probably have died in a fuking orchard hes that stupid
smcgro12 3 years ago
those are the kind of things that chris walked into the wild. when u called him stupid u judged him. and thats 1 of the things he left 4 cuz people are bad 2 each so much. just stop with the judgment. whats stupider following ur dreams even if they can get u killed?? or not following them all????
oriontiger68 3 years ago
Well stated. RIP supertramp you are an inspiration to us all
chuckhf420 3 years ago
i agree. all these ignorant people who are trashing chris just because the way he died, they don't understand the point of the story. he truly had a good heart and hated how bad people were to each other. i for one agree, that is something i just will never understand. why people are so rude. he lived his life more than anyone on here has. he is an inspiration to all. i also know that no one will know the whole story except chris, but still there's no need to be rude.
thanks for the video!!
pozdynshev 3 years ago 2
wow what an idiot. he died from eating berries?!!
Tr3v3336 3 years ago
your an ediot for calling chris mccandeles an ediot he did what he had to
JAYTASTICROCKS 3 years ago
u could die from eating berries 2 tr4v3336. if u dont know shit about the plantlife out in the forest 2 could get killed. so dont judge.
oriontiger68 3 years ago
thats what i mean. if he was gunna try to live out in the wilderness you think he would have learned alot more about it before he tried to live in it.
Tr3v3336 3 years ago
well thats kinda y he did it. he wanted 2 go out into the wild not knowing anything. he wanted 2 struggle. if he went out there knowing everything then it would be a struggle.
oriontiger68 3 years ago
it wouldnt be a struggle. my bad forgot the nt in wouldnt. great video.
oriontiger68 3 years ago
you know what. I am sorry for the spelling errors . I am a really bad speller when I made this video. all I was trying to do is make a film for Chris. I Got some wrong facts.
but please no more comments about the errors.
I was trying to make a film to Remember him!
daparas 3 years ago
there's no need for all the corrections. the fact is he died in the wild. mistake or was it? the message is the same no matter what. In fact he was trying to get away from society's bikering about getting everything right. all the complainers here are just what Mccandless was talking about. He got awaay from that.
maxwest333 3 years ago
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emm876 3 years ago
It's never been proved he died of poisounous seeds of a plant, it's only suggested.
Daphuhnuh 3 years ago
he died of starvation. plain and simple. from his own stupidiy of not being prepared and having no map. he could of used the hand tram. he didnt die of posin plants....research the story people..
23v0lv32 3 years ago 2
that wasnt the stupidity it was freedom to he doesnt wanted to know everything he was just living for the moment even if he only had 5 days in freedom he would have died a in a thankful way
Dice198 3 years ago
I know your intentions were good but this video needs to be removed. There are too many spelling errors of very common words, and you have some false information on here.
mahpiohazi 3 years ago
seen now, your one of society's little helpers trying to guide everyone to perfection. Thanks for your concern but spelling and typing who cares? throw your cares away. And facts get foggy with legends and his legend lives on.
maxwest333 3 years ago
he graduated in 1990
learn the facts before you make a video about him
mycatsoupa14 3 years ago
when you were making this video did you decide to close your eyes and mash your head against the keyboard or are you just plain illiterate.
VinniePaziola 3 years ago 2
wait...he graduated collage in 1990..
abby2489 3 years ago
sorry but he spent 113 days in the bus and he spent the first 79 days wanting to be their then he tryed to go escape but couldnt because of the river
slyth999 3 years ago
such a good person
deathtrpaband 3 years ago 2
Regardless of The mistakes Chris McCandless made that may have led to his Death I have a Great Deal of Respect for the Man For following his dream. Thanks To Chris Most people will learn from this experience. To me He sacrificed his life and at the same time taught all of us a lesson. As a result Of this Story I have made it a goal of Mine to someday go and visit this Bus and pay Respect to Chris.
SPRINGSTEENFAN4 3 years ago 4
same hear, i am going to the bus in the fall.
Chris is a big hero to me!
daparas 3 years ago
Is he your hero coz of this movie or were you aware of the real guy? I think alot of people say hes my hero coz of the movie but they didnt even know the guy, so what the hell would they know about criss?
yoyo6450 3 years ago 3
what is this song? It's beatifull!
thebaso89 3 years ago
the first song is no celling and then at the end society both songs are song by eddie vedder
daparas 3 years ago
Too bad he wasn't into proper wilderness survival books...his message was cool, but he was an idiot considering he could have easily survived.
Bredac 3 years ago
He ate very posinouse berrys and was to weak to walk to civilization to get help... no survival books could help you there, and he was very smart...
SeitekiBlondeBoy 3 years ago
he even knew which plants to avoid eating. what killed him was the mold on the wild potatoes he ate.
kokoshmusun 3 years ago
In the movie he died from the posinouse berrys...?
SeitekiBlondeBoy 3 years ago
I haven't seen the movie yet, I read the book. It's not 100% known what he died from, but the author's best guess is from mold, which gradually made him unable to digest the other food in his diet, so he starved to death. It's pretty compelling. Read the book, it's really good.
kokoshmusun 3 years ago
Ok, thx!
SeitekiBlondeBoy 3 years ago
He died from starvation and ignorance. Nothing more or less.
ORBEX 3 years ago
Your sentiment would be more appreciated if you spelled correctly. Given how much Chris was into books and literature, you'd think it'd be obvious.
mikezes 3 years ago
I told you i can not spell all
sorry i did my best
~~ Daparas
daparas 3 years ago
I just found out about this story; great einzelgänger-ism, good music, but what a sucker this guy was.
chocvoice 3 years ago
They actually never found the real cause of death, the poison plants thing was never fully proven, and most the results came up negative.
Gruffylawl 3 years ago 2
he died on my birthday :(
alisha81893 3 years ago
see mine also .... R.I.P. Chris
KRETLS 3 years ago
Hai guyz, I was thinking about quitting my job and burning all my money to go live in a bus and starve to death. Sound like a good idea?
clif21082 3 years ago
What do you mean?
daparas 3 years ago
That's basically what Chris McCandless did. Sounds pretty stupid doesn't it. This person's story is interesting no doubt, but he was one dumb kid to go to alaska and starve to death only 20 miles from the road.
clif21082 3 years ago
well thats what he wanted to do.
i bet you even read the book... if you did it would make more since why he did that
daparas 3 years ago
man Daparas your so bad at spelling.
mcquaytbay87 3 years ago