Into The Wild A small presentation on Hollywood movie, Into The Wild.

1. Presented By:
Varun Venugopalan(231)

2. Itinerant
 An itinerant is a person
who travels from place to place with no
fixed home.

3. Into the Wild
 After graduating from Emory
University, top student and athlete
Christopher McCandless abandons his
possessions, gives his entire $24,000
savings account to charity and
hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the
wilderness. Along the way, Christopher
encounters a series of characters that
shape his life..

4. Christopher Johnson
McCandless
 Born: February 12, 1968
 Died: August 1992 (aged 24)
Stampede Trail, Alaska, United States
 Body discovered: September 6, 1992

5. Into the Wild
 Duration: 148 min
 Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama
 IMDB rating: 8.2/10
 Director: Sean Penn
 Writers: Sean Penn (screenplay), Jon
Krakauer (book)
 Stars: Emile Hirsch, Vince
Vaughn and Catherine Keener
 Release Date: 21 September 2007
 Budget: $15,000,000 (estimated)
 Production Companies: Paramount
Vantage, Art Linson Productions, Into
the Wild, River Road Entertainment.

6. Plot
 In 1990, Christopher McCandless a
college graduate from Emory University,
rejects a materialist, conventional life,
and his parents.
 Destroys all of his credit cards and
identification documents, donates
$24,000(nearly his entire savings).
 Sets out on a cross-country drive
to Alaska, to experience life in the
wilderness.
 He then assumes a new name:
Alexander Supertramp
 Hitchhikes for two years, before
making it to Alaska.

7. Plot
 McCandless crosses a stream in a
remote area of Alaska and sets up camp
in an abandoned Fairbanks Transit bus
which he encounters.
 Exhilarated by the isolation, the beauty
of nature around and the thrill of living
off the land as the spring thaw arrives.
 Hunted wild animals with a .22 rifle,
reads books, and keeps a diary of his
thoughts.
 Later, realizes that nature is also harsh
and uncaring.
 Pain of realization seeks to return from
the wild to his friends and family.

8. Plot
 McCandless finds that the stream which
he crossed in the snow has become
wide, deep, and violent due to the thaw,
and he cannot return.
 Supplies run out, he is forced to gather
and eat roots and plants.
 Confuses similar plants and becomes
violently ill, slowly and painfully starves.
 Accepts his fate, as he imagines his
friends and family for a final time, and
writes a farewell to the world.
 Two weeks after his death his body is
found by moose hunters.

10. Christopher McCandless