1-is a young idealist who adopted the name Alexander Supertramp, will leave their possessions and

savings to charity and leave the civilized world bound for the Alaska Wild to contact with Nature
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11-McCandless then travels to the Colorado River and, though told by park rangers that he may not
kayak down the river without a license, ignores their warnings and paddles downriver until he eventually
arrives in Mexico.
14-Ronald Frantz gives Alex a ride to his camp at Oh-My-God Hotsprings. Frantz, who had lost his wife
and only son some forty years earlier in a car accident, felt a connection with Alex. Frantz and Alex
developed a relationship and spent a lot of time together. Frantz, who was a leatherworker, instructed
Alex in the craft. Frantz also fed Alex. One day Alex announced that he was going to San Diego. Frantz
was sad, but insisted on driving him. McCandless went on to Seattle, but returned soon to California. In
California, McCandless met up with Frantz again. Alex wanted to go out to South Dakota, where Wayne
Westerberg had a job waiting for him-- Frantz drove him part way there, video-taping their journey.
Later, Alex wrote Frantz a letter from South Dakota, urging him to become more nomadic. Frantz took
his advice, and occupied Alexs old campsite


Into the Wild (film)
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Into the Wild

Original theatrical poster
Directed by Sean Penn
Produced by Sean Penn
Art Linson
William Pohlad
Screenplay by Sean Penn
Based on Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Starring Emile Hirsch
Marcia Gay Harden
William Hurt
Jena Malone
Catherine Keener
Brian Dierker
Vince Vaughn
Zach Galifianakis
Kristen Stewart
Hal Holbrook
Music by Michael Brook
Kaki King
Eddie Vedder
Canned Heat
Cinematography Eric Gautier
Editing by Jay Cassidy
Studio Square One C.I.H.
Linson Film
River Road Entertainment
[1]

Distributed by Paramount Vantage
Release dates
September 21, 2007
Running time 148 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $15 million
[2]

Box office $56,255,142
[3]

Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama survival film written and
directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the
same name by Jon Krakauer based on the travels of Christopher
McCandless across North America and his life spent in the Alaskan wilderness in
the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless with Marcia Gay
Harden andWilliam Hurt as his parents and also features Catherine
Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook.
The film premiered during the 2007 Rome Film Fest and later opened outside
of Fairbanks, Alaska on September 21, 2007. It was later nominated for
two Golden Globes and won the award for Best Original Song "Guaranteed"
by Eddie Vedder. It was also nominated for two Academy Awards including
Holbrook for Best Supporting Actor.
[4]

Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
o 3.1 Filming
4 Release
o 4.1 Critical reception
4.1.1 Top ten lists
o 4.2 Awards
4.2.1 Winnings
4.2.2 Nominations
o 4.3 Box office
o 4.4 Home media
5 Soundtrack
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, cutting back and forth between
McCandless's time spent in Alaskan wilderness and his two-year travels leading
up to his journey to Alaska. The plot summary here is told in a more
chronological order.
In May 1992, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) arrives in a remote area
just north of the Denali National Park and Preserve inAlaska and sets up a
campsite in an abandoned bus, which he calls The Magic Bus. At first,
McCandless is content with the isolation, the beauty of nature around him, and
the thrill of living off the land. He hunts wild animals with a .22 caliber rifle, reads
books, and keeps a diary of his thoughts as he prepares himself for a new life in
the wild.
Two years earlier in May 1990, McCandless graduates with high honors
from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Shortly afterwards, McCandless
rejects his conventional life by destroying all of his credit cards and identification
documents. He donates nearly all of his entire savings of $24,000 to Oxfam and
sets out on a cross-country drive in his well-used, but reliable Datsun B210to
experience life in the wilderness. However, McCandless does not tell his parents
Walt (William Hurt) and Billie McCandless (Marcia Gay Harden) or his sister
Carine (Jena Malone) what he is doing or where he is going, and refuses to keep
in touch with them after his departure, leaving them to become increasingly
anxious and eventually desperate.
At Lake Mead, Arizona, McCandless' car is caught in a flash flood causing him to
abandon it and begin hitchhiking instead. He burns what remains of his dwindling
cash supply and assumes a new name: "Alexander Supertramp." In Northern
California, McCandless encounters a hippie couple named Jan Burres (Catherine
Keener) and Rainey (Brian H. Dierker). Rainey tells McCandless about his failing
relationship with Jan, which McCandless helps rekindle. By September,
McCandless stops in Carthage, South Dakota to work for a contract harvesting
company owned by Wayne Westerberg (Vince Vaughn), but he is forced to leave
after Westerberg is arrested for satellite piracy.
McCandless then travels to the Colorado River and, though told by park rangers
that he may not kayak down the river without a license, ignores their warnings
and paddles downriver until he eventually arrives in Mexico. There, his kayak is
lost in a dust stormand he crosses back into the United States on foot. Unable to
hitchhike, he starts traveling on freight trains to Los Angeles, California. Not long
after arriving, however, he starts feeling "corrupted" by modern civilization and
decides to leave. Later, McCandless is forced to switch his traveling method back
to hitchhiking after he is beaten by the railroad police.
In December 1991, McCandless arrives at Slab City in the Imperial Valley region
of California and encounters Jan and Rainey again. There, he meets Tracy Tatro
(Kristen Stewart), a teenage girl who shows interest in McCandless, but he
rejects her because she is underage. After the holidays, McCandless decides to
continue heading for Alaska, much to everyone's sadness. While camping
near Salton City, California, McCandless encounters Ron Franz (Hal Holbrook), a
retired man who recounts the story of the loss of his family in a car accident while
he was serving in the United States Army. He now occupies his time in a
workshop as an amateur leather worker. Franz teaches McCandless the craft of
leatherwork, resulting in the making of a belt that details McCandless' travels.
After spending several months with Franz, McCandless decides to leave for
Alaska despite this upsetting Franz, who has become quite close to McCandless.
On a parting note, Franz gives McCandless his old camping and travel gear
along with the offer to adopt him as his grandchild, but McCandless simply tells
him that they should discuss this after he returns from Alaska; then departs.
Four months later at the abandoned bus, life for McCandless becomes harder
and he becomes less discerning. As his supplies begin to run out, he realizes
that nature is also harsh and uncaring. In the pain of realization, McCandless
concludes that true happiness can only be found when shared with others and
seeks to return from the wild to his friends and family. However, he finds that
the stream he had crossed during the winter has become wide, deep, and violent
due to the thaw, and he is unable to cross. Saddened, he returns to the bus, now
as a prisoner who is no longer in control of his fate and can only hope for help
from the outside. In a desperate act, McCandless is forced to gather and eat
roots and plants, but he confuses similar plants and eats a poisonous one, thus
as a result falls sick. Slowly dying, he continues to document his process of self-
realization and accepts his fate, as he imagines his family for one last time. He
writes a farewell to the world and crawls into his sleeping bag to die. Two weeks
later, his body is found by moose hunters. Shortly afterwards, Carine returns her
brother's ashes by airplane from Alaska to Virginia in her backpack.
Cast[edit]

*The webmaster of this site has also just made a Humans of Kristiansand website
inspired by Humans Of New York by Brandon Stanton. Pls share if you like it.*
This website is designed to give you a complete overview of Christopher McCandless
(Alexander Supertramp) and the book/movie 'Into The Wild' that followed his passing.
It is a moving story about a young man chasing after his dream and ultimate Alaskan
adventure.
The slideshow you see above are pictures that Chris took as well a picture of his belt
that he made with Ronald Franz.

For those of you unaware, Chris was a young man that travelled throughout North
America living off the barest of essentials and in most cases, off the land.
Unfortunately, he paid the ultimate price for this in the end and was found perished
in an abandoned Fairbanks City bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska. His name became
famous after Jon Krakaeur wrote an award winning book about his adventures which
eventually became a world famous movie by Sean Penn. After being exposed to this
amazing story, I felt compelled to design this website. This website and my endeavors
have connected me with the McCandless family. In August 2010, Billie and
Walt McCandless sent me some pictures and information about Chris in his early years.
You can see them on his Early Years page.
I have also been in contact with Chris's sister Carine. She has submitted a personal
letter to the visitors of this site, as have a few of Chris's other siblings. They can be
read here. For more information on Carine's work and efforts dedicated to Chris, you
can visit her website.

I have been working with Chris' parents Walt and Billie McCandless on a new book
about Chris and his adventures through his journal and hundreds of photographs.
We have received a paper from a staff member of the Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, and a published author who has won numerous awards for fiction,
nonfiction and poetry. You can read his paper and theory on Chris McCandless' death
here.
Here is the official trailer to the 'Back To The Wild' DVD narrated by Hal Holbrook
(who played Ron Franz in the movie 'Into The Wild'.