On April 26, 2003 Aron Ralston was hiking alone through Blue John Canyon, in eastern Wayne County, Utah, just south of the Horseshoe Canyon unit of Canyon lands National Park. When the unexpected happened where suddenly Aron’s life was on the line. Aron Ralston was an arrogant and independent adventurous. Ralston would do anything adventurous that didn’t involve family or someone helping him. He wouldn’t talk to any of his family. Ralston would ignore them because he thought they couldn’t help him. Also, he thought they would want someone to go with him in case of an emergency. After an hour or two of climbing mountains and hiking in the canyon Aron tried climbing down Blue John canyon. This canyon which only is three feet wide and seventy …show more content…
feet deep. Aron came to this eight hundred pound boulder which shifted and pinned his right arm to the wall of the canyon as he was lowering himself. Aron managed to maneuver his feet so that he was standing upright. Even though Ralston was standing upright his right arm was between an eight hundred pound boulder and the canyon. Forcefully Aron tried using some of his equipment to move the rock but it was too heavy. For five days Aron Ralston was trapped in the canyon where temperatures were as low as thirty degrees. Ralston had a couple of items that kept him alive for the time in the canyon. His video camera, three hundred milliliters of water, climbing equipment, two burritos, a flashlight and a cheap multi tool which carried a two-inch knife. On the following Tuesday Ralston ran out of water and food which led him to drinking his own urine. On Thursday, May 1st Aron Ralston knew this was his last day of survival due to having no water or food. He videotaped his last apology and goodbyes before any last attempts of making out alive. The movie 127 hours released on November 5, 2010 is a drama/thriller movie about a hiker Aron Ralston who finds himself trapped between a boulder and a canyon.
The movie was a huge sell out grossing $18, 335, and 230. James Franco who plays the role of Aron Ralston goes into the Utah canyons alone on a nature hike. He meets two women hikers who are having trouble finding their way around the canyons. Aron convinces them to go on another hike with him. “They go swimming in a beautiful cavern pool were these women learn more about Aron” (127 Hours: Aron Ralston's story of survival). They invite him to an upcoming party, which Aron agrees to. As Aron continuous to hike alone through the canyon’s he comes upon Blue John canyon. Aron struggles to lower himself into the canyon with the materials he has. As he gets deeper a boulder smashes his right arm against the canyon trapping it. Aron can’t believe what just happened. He starts sarcastically talking to himself as if he tries to forget what happened. He doesn’t want to think he’s stuck and will never get out. He cries for help, but he is alone, and miles from anyone. With his video camera, he starts taping his situation to sort of talk himself through it. He looks through his stuff to try and organize what he has. He then drinks a substantial amount of water of the three hundred milliliters, unknowingly thinking he isn’t going to be stuck for the next hour. He realizes this when he tries to physically move the boulder. Now …show more content…
that he knows that he isn’t going to free himself anytime soon he starts conserving everything he has. With a pocketknife, he starts hitting the rock, hoping it would break into pieces, but it doesn’t. Through all of this he tapes everything from apologies to goodbyes. As he lays there hopeless, he starts getting hallucinations from his past. Memories from his early childhood of his sister playing the piano to this girl he used to love. Aron realizes that he’s going to die anytime soon. He runs out of water, food and his camera is going to die. Aron takes matters into his own hands and does something know person should endure. Aron’s life revolved around climbing and being in the free world of nature. Also, the drama of his life and the way people including his family saw who he was. This ignorant and independent loner who liked searching deep into earths most beautiful places. Watching someone do things people usually wouldn’t do like falling through a canyon and into water and bravely getting stuck in a canyon and having little resources to finally escaping. If I were to get stuck in between a three feet canyon I wouldn’t be able to breath and know what to do. Its very breath taking and suspenseful you wouldn’t think someone trapped in a canyon would have such will to go to extreme measure to escape. Motivation and hope was a big factor in this movie. Even though there’s no sign of hope, motivate yourself to find it. The Director of 127 hours Danny Boyle, filmed this movie identical to the real story with the help of Aron Ralston himself.
Aron was behind the scenes to make sure the movie played out his experience. Reading through the real story and watching the movie it’s hard to find a couple differences between the two. Even though this film was created to play out the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston, Danny Boyle had to make the film appealing to the audience. First, it is true that Aron did run into a couple of lost girls before his accident. Also, he did actually help them find where they were going but Aron and the girls didn’t have that adventure. In the movie the three of them went hiking and swimming in a beautiful blue water hole located in the canyon. The girls were interested in Aron and had a fun time with him. Before they left, the girls invited Aron to a party which he accepted. In reality, Aron saw these two girls needed help with where they were headed and he helped them. Its understanding why Danny Boyle put in this whole adventure and made these girls interested into Aron. An audience always loves a little excitement and romance in a movie. Also, the beautiful blue lagoon they were swimming isn’t really located in Blue John canyon. Aron also had a scene where he hallucinated into a game show host. He was also the audience and the contenders. This didn’t actually happen but Boyle put it into the movie because it shows how effective the hallucination
was. He had no food and water for some days and this is the effect because of that. Most of the movie is played out as close as possible to the real story. They portrayed Aron’s personality as expected in the beginning and how it changed throughout the movie. They got most of it right even to the materials he brought with him. Finally, the producer does an amazing job of filming the movie as accurate as possible and still making it appealing to audiences. The little changes that the producer Danny Boyle made throughout the film were effective towards the audience. He does a great job switching between footage taken by the camera Aron had and getting the close and wide shots from the studio camera’s to really capture the emotions of the actor. Also, doing this captures the beautiful scenes of canyons and mountains. Instead Boyle could have just played the film through an old video tape recorder which would have been boring and less impactful to the audience. It wouldn’t show the emotions of Aron or of what actually happened off camera. The women that Aron helped find their way through the canyons was also a great scene. Making the decision for Aron to interact with the girls by going swimming with them and having an interest for them really captivated the film. If this scene was filmed of Aron only helping them find their way, it would be boring. Instead this way makes it more appealing to the audience because of the happiness and romance that goes on. Next, adding the game show was very effective in showing the audience that having no water, food, and zero contact with other humans could have on person. Finally, adding the blue lagoon makes the movie more appealing because it creates this beautiful scenery that’s eye-opening. Boyle does an amazing job adding small details to the true story to make it more appealing towards an audience. The decision to make the real life story of Aron Ralston into a movie was impactful. During this time people around the world still in devastation due to the massive deep water horizon oil spill that left people and animals dead and family’s broken. The movie based off an incredible story of someone overcoming hopelessness and finding light in the darkest place. Danny Boyle did in amazing job making the story into movie. After watching the movie it gives off that feeling towards the audience. Even though times are tough there’s always a way out. “Instead, the job was entrusted to Boyle, one of the most hyperactive filmmakers on the planet” (127 Hours shouldn’t have worked, but here’s why it does). Knowing the real life story isn’t filled with joy and signs of hope, Boyle did a great job by placing it into the movie. Finally, the Producer and cast did an amazing job of capturing the truth of Aron Ralston and making it into what it is now 127 hours.
People make bad choices in life every day, some may be recovered from whereas others have fatal consequences. A reporter named Jon Krakauer wrote a biography called Into The Wild which is about a young man named Chris McCandless who makes a fatal decision which lead to his demise in Alaska. Aron Ralton's book called Between a Rock and a Hard Place is about his near death experience from making a bad choice. His perseverance and problem solving skills become his salvation in the hot and dry terrain of Utah. Chris and Aron were both eager for adventure and both had a love for nature and the outdoors. Chris died because he lacked Aron's prior knowledge of survival tactics, making Chris ill prepared for his journey.
In 1996 “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer was published and quickly became a National Bestseller. The book follows the adventures of Chris McCandless as he traverses the Alaskan wilderness and eventually meets a tragic end. The death of McCandless has been the subject of controversy since the book was released. However in September 2013, the author of “Into the Wild” released an article entitled “How Chris McCandless died” and stated that he had found the legitimate cause of McCandless’ death. While McCandless was in the Alaskan wilderness, he had to depend on his surroundings in order to survive. Wild potato seeds were common in his area, and were unknown to him to be deadly. Throughout the article, Krakauer provides new evidence of ODAP poisoning being the cause of his death, from the wild potato seeds which made up the majority of his diet while he was in the wild.
Chris McCandless was a young man who gave up his belongings to live in the wild away from society, and his journey was to find fulfillment and the meaning of life through nature. In the nonfiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer writes about the details of Chris McCandless’s journey to find and reinvent himself as he lives off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. Throughout the book, Krakauer portrays McCandless as a hero for rejecting society and falling victim to this bravery. However, Chris McCandless’s death is not an example of heroism and he did not fall victim to his courage. Instead, McCandless died as a result of ignorance and overconfidence that clouded his self-perception and ultimately led to his downfall.
“When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn’t even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he had a good map, he would have walked out of his predicament using one of several routes that could have been successful” (2). “Trusting Samel and Thompson, veteran Alaskan hunters who’ve killed many moose and caribou between them, I duly reported McCandless’s mistake in the article I wrote for Outside, thereby confirming the opinion of countless readers that McCandless was ridiculously ill prepared, that he had no business heading into any wilderness, let alone into the big-league wilds of the Last Frontier.
In Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction novel Into the Wild the well off, upper-middle-class, Chris McCandless disappears donating all of his savings to charity and hitchhiking to Alaska to live off the land, but 119 days later he is found having starved to death at the age of 24. Chris McCandless was and is a very heavily discussed topic due to the mysteries of how he died. His “Great American Odyssey” was short, but lack of divulging his plan to anyone else left it in a shroud of guesswork and minimal evidence.But despite that there is just enough evidence to show that Chris McCandless was for the most part, at fault for his own death.
The book, Into the wild, takes us into the world of a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless. He travelled across the western United States from 1990 to 1992, and on April 28, 1992, he started his last adventure and walked into the wilds of Alaska. About 112 days later, he died of starvation. Unsurprisingly, public opinion polarized on his behavior. Some may admire his courage and noble ideals, though some regard him as an idiotic and arrogant narcissist. Although he died on his way to find the truth and back to nature, I believe that Chris McCandless should be considered as a hero, but I cannot completely approve of all his behaviors.
Chris McCandless, all throughout his Alaskan adventure, showed the transcendental quality of striving to live closer to nature. One great
Chris McCandless’s story, in Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer is an important story to be heard, but it should be read as a cautionary tale for all people wanting to go into the wilderness unprepared. Anyone going into an inhospitable region should be aware of this story and should not make the mistake of being
In Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, he documents the events that led up to the death of Chris McCandless. McCandless was a teenage boy who dealt with tremendous amounts of pressure from his parents to do well in school and keep family secrets — they apologized for it through buying him things that they thought he needed. However, Chris hated this and just wanted peace, and honesty at home. There was one place in which Chris could get this, and it is in nature — there was no chaos or dishonesty amongst his family. Before he would go to college, he would drive to unknown places on his own — cherishing the peace that he gets. And when he decides to go to Alaska, his journey leads him to
Zig-zag, back and forth, down, down, down, Jonathon, Dad, and I went into a mysterious new world. Now that I have gone into this hot, dry canyon surrounded by monstrous hoodoos, I have seen what it is really like to leave the small town of Seymour, and emerge into the greatness of this world. I have now seen several other National Parks on one of the most renowned places on earth for mysterious creations, the Colorado Plateau. Of all the beautiful places on it, even the Grand Canyon, I have found my favorite one. Bryce Canyon National Park. I thought it was amazing, because it was the most diverse to anything I have ever seen before. We hiked down into it and I felt like I was surrounded by skyscrapers. We trekked around a little, but we didn’t
In Ava DuVernay’s film 13th she analyzes the pioneering events that led up to this toxic system known as the Prison Industrial Complex. She critically examines how the same golden ticket that, supposedly, granted our freedom was the same rabbit hole that kept black Americans in a cycle of slavery. DeVernay illuminates the ideology that if this system of “militarism, racism, and capital” could somehow manage to criminalize black Americans their institutions could continue and perhaps excel. Jordan Camp & Christina Heatherton’s Policing the Planet expounds upon this ideology that allowed those systems of “militarism, racism, and capital” to maintain power. Broken windows policing, “emerges as an ideological and political project,”(2) ideological in the sense of DeVernay’s examination of embedding criminality on the character of the
Chris and Jon’s life have many parallels and contrasts at the same time. Both gave up most of their possessions to go after a dream they had. Ones dream was to live off the land in the remote regions of Alaska, the other too climb the Devils Thumb, a mountain peak that had never been scaled by man. Each man was aware of the risks, but were they equally prepared when each began their own adventure? I feel that Chris McCandless was at a disadvantage when he first started off. Raised by a wealthy family and just graduating from Emory University I feel he wasn’t as prepared as he could have been. Fortunately his father had taken him on hiking trips so he was at least somewhat familiar with the wilderness but in no way was he prepared at all for the severity of the Alaskan wilderness. I think it would have been quite a feat just for Chris to have been able to live off the land in a local forest. To be fair to Chris I’m sure Krakauer didn’t start off by just one day deciding he would climb the Devils Thumb after he was inspired by making it up the climbing wall at the local county fair. Both men had to gradually work their way up to a...
McCandless is a very independent person, a person with high hopes, that has a lot of courage, and is a very brave man for going out by himself in the wild of Alaska of the Stampede Trail. Chris McCandless had a lot of courage on going to Alaska by himself at a young age. While Chris was at any city or anybody’s house, he was ready to go to Alaska. But while he was there, close to the end of his life, he left a note on the back of the bus saying, “S.O.S I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here i am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of god, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return by evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. August?” Chris McCandless was by himself at the time. He shows his courage because while by himself, he went back out even though he was near death. He went out for food. Food for his health. That shows how much courage he had for his trip. Chris McCandless encouraged many young men to ...
In 1971, American columnist Hunter S. Thompson went on an adventure to find the American Dream. In his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas he uses Gonzo journalism to record and impart his drug and acid full experience roaming through 1970's Las Vegas. All through the book, he frequently references and derides the traditional ideals of Horatio Alger and takes stab at our social, overpowering need to enjoy.
It made $212m in its second weekend in the US. In my opinion, it's better to see a film without hearing too much about it beforehand. With The Passion I was expecting to be bored for the first hour while seeing Christ preaching to his followers and healing the sick, but Gibson didn't tire us all with that, he filmed it in an interesting way which pleasantly surprised me. In fact, I was very impressed with the opening scenes. Instead of showing us Jesus' life from birth to death, Gibson set the film at the last two days of his life while having the odd flashback to Jesus' earlier days.