![]() ![]() It’s the perfect movie to extend and deepen your Into the Wild unit and even though it’s 2-1/2 hours long, with so many literary gifts to explore, it’s time well spent. If there was ever a movie to “read,” Into the Wild is it. It’s easy to mistake the narration for his own writing (especially when details in the scenes echo imagery in the poem), but when his sister Carine (played by Jena Malone) asks, “Who wrote that?” Chris responds with, “Well, it sounds like it could have been one of us.” Jena Malone plays Carine McCandless and Emile Hirsch plays her brother, Chris, in this Into the Wild scene from graduation day at Emory University in Atlanta. ![]() For example, in Chapter 1, Chris recites the entire thirty-line poem, “I Go Back to May 1937” by Sharon Olds.Ĭhris reads the poem as he imagines his parents’ graduation days and the life events that occur after. The nine literary allusions are interwoven seamlessly into the narrative and in some instances form the narration. For example, the movie is divided into five chapters: 1) My Own Birth 2) Adolescence 3) Manhood 4) Family and 5) Getting of Wisdom. There’s a definite structure to the film. If you’re unfamiliar with Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and the 2007 movie directed by Sean Penn, read this post. And guess what? I discovered SO MANY MORE literary references packed into this brilliant film! However, I also noticed some especially poetic passages that piqued my curiosity.Īnd then I started to do some googling while I watched. To be sure, all those literary references were thankfully and thoughtfully added to the movie, but upon a recent viewing I started to pay particular attention to several lines in the movie… some especially beautiful lines that made me think, Wow, Chris McCandless would have been one heckuva writer! Sure, I noticed a few references to Thoreau, plus a few others from passages read aloud by McCandless (played by Emile Hirsch) from novels such as Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Literary allusions in the movie Into the Wildĭid you know that the 2007 movie, Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn and based on the book by Jon Krakauer, is FULL - and I mean FULL - of literary allusions? Granted, the movie’s inclusion of literature mirrors Krakauer’s book, especially when you consider that nearly every chapter is preceded by an excerpt from the literature that was found with Chris McCandless’ belongings after his death. ![]()
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