#There is pleasure in the pathless woods quote movie

Third-person narration is used later in the movie using Chris’s sisters voice after she is introduced.

After receiving a visual on Chris, first-person narration is used with Chris’s voice and continuing to develop him as a character. Mountains and Alaskan wilderness surround him as his face is finally revealed and makes us wonder what he is doing there. Chris can’t quite be seen clearly, but we have a better idea of who he is. The first visual we have of Chris is from a high-angle of him stepping out of a truck and walking towards the trail head in Fairbanks. This continues to develop Chris’s character without giving away his physical appearance, providing us a chance to think about what he might look like. Narration during these scenes is done using sentences from letters Chris wrote at the time and displaying the words on the screen. A few minutes into the film, scenes of different buildings in Fairbanks, Alaska are presented. I think mystery is an essential element of keeping an audience entertained and I like how his alias was introduced. Without knowing the story, this would create a mystery for the audience of how this relates to Chris. This quote signifies the protagonist, Chris McCandless’ mindset in the movie and gives the audience insight on who Chris might be.īefore Chris is seen, there is a scene that shows Chris’s alias “Alexander Supertramp, April 1992” written on the side of a train. Within the first few scenes, a Lord Byron quote “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is a society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in it’s roar: I love not man the less, but nature more” is displayed. Being one of my all-time favorite movies, I thought it would be interesting to view it while observing cinematic elements.

It tells the true story of how materialism and the superficial nature of society led a 22 year-old named Chris McCandless to leaving behind $25,000, his family, and all of his possessions to escape into the Alaskan wilderness.

I chose to analyze the movie “Into The Wild”, directed by Sean Penn for my first blog entry.