Grizzly Man

The Grizzly man also known as Timothy Treadwell thought he could be one with nature by going to Alaska and living with bears for 13 years. Some would consider him a transcendentalist like the writers Emmerson and Thoreau. Some would argue he is just a nut case playing with bears just like Thoreau was a loser who played in Emmerson’s back yard only to move back with his parents. Thoreau was so into nature he only lived about 2 miles from town. Some would consider Treadwell and Thoreau very similar. Herzog in his film about Timothy expressed a lot of beauty in nature; but he also couldn’t stress enough that Treadwell’s decision of stupidity was dangerous, and irresponsible. In my opinion I would…

While absorbing the cinematic film, Grizzly Man (created by Herzog), and the intriguing texts, Too Much of A Good Thing (Tracy Frisch interviewing Daniel E. Lieberman) & The Vow of the Weasel (written by Dillard), a more concise understanding betwixt modern-day culture, humans, and animals periodically blossom through each story, adding a new piece to the complex puzzle incorporated within the lexicon of the “humanimal”. Consequently, these forms of media all share a common syntactic thread of…

A Transcendental Grizzly What is nature? Is it the river or lake? Or is it the trees and grass? For Transcendentalists it's much more. Transcendentalism connects to the deepest roots of nature. It's taking in the beauties of the world , it’s not yielding to society's mores, but instead leaving the orthodox routine of life, and escaping to live deliberately, spiritually, and hand in hand with nature at its purest. Many men and women leave their mundane life in the cities to follow this ideal,…

After a five-year hiatus, Grizzly Bear’s dense masterpiece Painted Ruins (RCA Records) proves Grizzly Bear still has it. On Painted Ruins, it is easy to note the band’s connectedness in both the instrumentation, and vocals. This is largely connected to the fact the band collaborated on demos together before stepping foot into the studio; something that did not occur during the creative process of the band’s 2012 release, Shields. The album was produced by Bassist Chris Taylor, who…

documentary, “Grizzly Man”. Into the Wild is more effective at portraying the theme of survival than Grizzly Man because of the movie’s usage of perspective, camera angles and character development. First, camera angles emphasize the atmosphere, emotion, and thoughts of the characters, allowing the viewer to experience the prominent theme of survival . Second, even though both media…

proponents of this movement was Werner Herzog. Werner Herzog was a man who had a very interesting approach to everything he did, but in most of Herzog’s…

and our tormentor, providing the sustenance we require to live, while at the same time assaulting us with powerful storms and virulent diseases that serve as a reminder that our position as the dominant species on this planet is an illusion at best. This basic yet combative relationship is the central theme that lies at the heart of both Into the Wild and Grizzly Man, both films are…

The work of Timothy Treadwell, since its beginnings, has been incredibly divisive as people continue to argue over the effects it had on the bears and their preservation. Werner Herzog aims to highlight this divide, as well as assert his own views, in the film Grizzly Man. While there is no uncertainty that Treadwell views the Grizzlies to be misunderstood creature which may be safely interacted with using certain techniques, Herzog seems to view them as wild, unpredictable animals, ultimately…

Timothy was an outgoing man who had a passionate love for animals, mostly bears. He displays strong emotion for them on camera so that the audience can get a taste of that feeling as well. He pushes the subject of how bears are some of life’s greatest creations based on the feelings that he himself feels. He constantly shoots videos of him directly in front of the camera so that his emotions can be shown and the excitement of being so close to a bear is clear. Nichols writes, “Performance here…

The story The Bear That Wasn’t, covers the concept and idea of people never changing due to outside influence. When the bear awoke from hibernation and found himself in the middle of a factory, he was an outsider to the factory workers. Because the factory workers had never seen a bear at the factory and the only bears they had ever seen were either in the circus or at the zoo, they made an assumption that it couldn’t be a bear. Instead, they insisted that the ‘bear’ was actually a silly man…