Into The Wild Movie Post

The way the book and the movie are told are a little different. Such as in the book it started with some moose hunters finding Chris' dead body but in the movie they do not show that they only mention it at the end with some other short messages at the end of the movie.



A majority of the shots in the scenes of the movie can be categorized based on what is in the frame.

• Human action or interaction with another person- usually a close-up shot or a medium ranged shot.


• Objects- usually a close-up or very close-up shot


• Nature- usually wide or establishing shot if it is a shot of the environment but if it is an animal that is in the frame it is usually a medium ranged shot.........also depending on the message trying to be sent about the environment the shot changes. For example when the film makers were showing the rapids in the colorado river the shot was very close up to show how dangerous the river is. Or like when Chris was in L.A. all of the shots of the surroundings were low angled or kind of awkward to show that the part of the city he was in was scary and that he did not like it.


• Interaction between the three above such as Human and nature interaction, all have a range of shots and can be anywhere from a close-up to a very far away bird's eye establishing shot.

The height of the shot changes all the time depending on what is trying to be portrayed in the frame. But, majority of the time the shots are at eye-level or medium height.

In the beginning of the movie it starts out with a quote.

Then as the scene is being set with a bunch of establishing shots and shots from inside a train there where quotes from what seemed to be letters Chris what written to people.

Throughout the movie there were alot of voice overs.

The voice overs were spoken by Chris and his sister.

While Chris was doing a voice over he was usually saying a quote or explaining what a quote ment to him or his life ideals or just sorta narrating his life.

While Chris' sister was doing her voice overs it was usually her talking about there parents and there childhood or explaining how and why she knew what he was doing also who Chris was as a person.

While Chris' sister talked there were a majority of the time(basically all of her voice overs from about the middle of the movie to the end) were flashbacks of their childhood.

Throughout the movie there were times when there were split screens showing the same thing at different angles or two different things at the same time. For example one time when the screen was split was when Chris was out on his adventure and the other half of the screen showed his parents going to visit him at college.

Basically every time the scene would change or sometimes during the scene there was always a shot of nature showing what was around Chris or what was near him. All of these nature scenes were beautiful and it kind of made you understand why it is Chris would want to be out in the wild rather than in the city.

Throughout the movie it was like there were two story's being told. It was the story about everything leading up to Chris getting to Alaska and then the last couple weeks of Chris' life on the bus in Alaska.

Almost all of the shots in the bus were close up shots at either a low angle or high angle.

Emile Hirsch(the guy who plays Chris) is left handed. I noticed while he was writing something in the movie. Im left handed to.

There was a cool shot the started out as an establishing shot but started traveling in a circle moving closer in on Chris until it was a close-up of Chris staring off into the alaskan mountain range and he was happy. I thought it was a pretty cool looking shot.

During one voice over the sister did there was a montage of all the people Chris had met on his journey then it changed to a shot of Chris walking away.

At the end while Chris is dieing. It starts with a Close up of Chris' face then changes to a first person veiw of the sky and there are clouds covering the sun then that and an imaginary scene of Chris and his parents reuniting and they look happy switch back and forth pretty quickly. then it goes to a shot of the clouds finally clearing away from the sun then it goes back to a close up shot of Chris' face and he is smiling and then dies. then the shot zooms very far out to a birds eye veiw establishing shot of the alaskan wilderness that Chris loved and spent his last few weeks in.