Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Well he kept a couple of them alive for a couple of weeks in a very real sense
More4 tonight (24th Mar) 22:00 TRUE STORIES: GRIZZLY MAN
- Thread starter Gingerman
- Start date
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
The 'fuck rant' was pretty impressive.
What really grated though was how he kept going on about 'protecting' the bears. He didn't do that in the slightest, as far as I could see.
Well no, he didn't even confront those people throwing rocks at 'Titch' or whatever that bears name was.
What was that message on the branch about btw? And the smiley face on the rock?
Voley
🐭
Voley
🐭
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
I liked it when the bear was walking on the shorey bit and Timmy was like, prancing around him while the bear just ignored him. AnD then Timmy tried to touch his back and the bear just turned around and growled at him. 
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Fucksticks. Missed it.
CAtch up anywhere?
Innit. If only someone had thought to bump this thread just before it started.
Some people just aren't community minded.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
The more I think about the more it seems like a spoof. When he goes into that long speech about the bee dying while pollenating the flower and then 'oh, the bee moved'
Strumpet
gypsy girl
And yet they still chatter on. Not caring if some of us are desperately sad we missed it.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
You two obviously didn't care enough.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
And yet they still chatter on. Not caring if some of us are desperately sad we missed it.
Nope. Crying in our cups and do they bat an eyelid?
It's hard to believe that they could switch on their tellyboxes, think to themselves, ''ooh look, a programme about some nutter who gets his head bitten off by bears'' and not follow that thought by, ''bet you quimmy and strumps would like that. I'll bump that thread.''
teuchter
je suis teuchter
And yet they still chatter on. Not caring if some of us are desperately sad we missed it.
Instead of nattering away on here about how terrible it is that you missed it, because you aren't able to co-ordinate your evening's entertainment without direction from internet people, you could have just switched onto more4 +1.
Strumpet
gypsy girl
I know. I hardly slept...dunno about you, quim
I was dipping my toe in the real world, u know! Interacting with real ppl n shit. And why leave that remark for 17 minutes?!? You even made me miss the MOre4+1 thingy!Instead of nattering away on here about how terrible it is that you missed it, because you aren't able to co-ordinate your evening's entertainment without direction from internet people, you could have just switched onto more4 +1.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
I think the film is a glaring indictment of the tough, competitive world of wildlife photography where today's heroic filmer of wild grizzlies is tomorrow's steaming pile of bear shit.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
He was a hippy with a narcissistic personality disorder. However, he also managed to get some pretty raw footage of bears in the wild. He did manage to survive a hell of a long time without getting eaten. Maybe that's what fooled his lady friend into thinking it would all be safe. She must have had balls though, whacking the bear with a frying pan as it tucked into her boyfriend's head.
They only got eaten because they went back, and all the bears he knew were hibernating and this old bear was starving.
Quite a striking resemblance to Klaus Kinsky, hey?
Did noone notice that the foxes were the best bit? Though i reckon that little one committee suicide out of embarrassment
I agree, the foxes were just amazingly endearing and cute beyond words!
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
That hadn't actually occured to me, but yes, there is a bit of a resemblance. Herzog obviously has a thing for blonde nutters.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
That hadn't actually occured to me, but yes, there is a bit of a resemblance. Herzog obviously has a thing for blonde nutters.
He did mention (Werzog), towards the end of the documentary, how he reminded him of of someone else he had worked with...
What a strange film - having read the thread beforehand, I was prepared for it to be must darker and more sinister than it was, rather than a tragi-comedy.
I felt rather sorry for him, he was quite crazy but rather touchingly naive - he was just like a small child with his emotional devotion to the animals, irrational tantrums and overactive imagination.
I felt rather sorry for him, he was quite crazy but rather touchingly naive - he was just like a small child with his emotional devotion to the animals, irrational tantrums and overactive imagination.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I think the most surprising and interesting thing about it was that he used to be an alcoholic and the only thing that cured him was finding meaning in life by protecting the bears and living in the wild... Also he refused to take medication because he said it made him not be himself, I thought that was a very dignified thing for him to do, for some reason that really touched me.
Makes you think about all the people who end up addicted to things...
Makes you think about all the people who end up addicted to things...
I thought Treadmill was much more unpleasant and much less interesting than Herzog realised. I couldn't detect any interest in the animals just grandiose self-obsession and impulsive self-destruction. The only times Treadmill showed real emotion was anger at the park for restricting his behaviour and anger at tourists encroaching on his turf. It didn't surprise me in the least that he had a history of run ins with the law or that he was a compulsive liar or that he would turn up in court to watch criminals being evicted. I do agree that he made some interesting footage but that was more a product of him meticulously manipulating his own self-image.
Voley
🐭
It's a classic thing with manic depressives that, though. They reckon there's nothing wrong with them and refuse to take their meds. It's hell on the people they have to live with. There's nothing dignified about it at all, believe me.
5t3IIa
Registered User
I sort of liked TT but I wouldn't have wanted to go anywhere near him IRL.
I do wonder spoke in that little neverland voice all the time? When he was making love to Amy as close to the bears as he made her go did he squeak sweet nothings into her ear, slightly raising his voice over the drone of 6billion mosquitos? It's quite chilling to imagine that he actually SHOUTED in a proper grown-ups manner at her to run for it while he was being eaten.
I do wonder spoke in that little neverland voice all the time? When he was making love to Amy as close to the bears as he made her go did he squeak sweet nothings into her ear, slightly raising his voice over the drone of 6billion mosquitos? It's quite chilling to imagine that he actually SHOUTED in a proper grown-ups manner at her to run for it while he was being eaten.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
There were a few bits where I was thinking... Michael Jackson.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Some of the bits could honestly have been on a wry dark comedy of human observation.
Like when he asked the ex girlfriend if he felt like a widow, and she looked at him all confused and like 'wtf?' and then suddenly she obviously changed her mind and said 'yes, yes I do'
Like when he asked the ex girlfriend if he felt like a widow, and she looked at him all confused and like 'wtf?' and then suddenly she obviously changed her mind and said 'yes, yes I do'
Similar threads
