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Mon, Jan 02, 2006
Grizzly Man
The Movie:
The subject of Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man, Timothy Treadwell, was an odd duck. In a nutshell, he was born and raised in Florida, then headed on out to California to become an actor. When that didn't pan out for him like he'd hoped, he somehow managed to get the funding together to start making annual trips out to Alaska every summer for thirteen years where he lived alone (save for his thirteenth and final year where he was accompanied by his girlfriend, Amy Huguenard) and unarmed among the grizzly bears that live in the area.
Treadwell's self proclaimed goal was to protect the bears and study them and to more or less become one with them. During the winter months he would travel around to different schools and present his information and his findings to children without ever asking for a fee, simply to spread the word and get his message out. Fo... Read the entire review
Grizzly Man