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Into The Wild

One of my favourite movies of recent times is Into The Wild - an adaptation of the 1996 book, of the same title, by Jon Krakauer. The movie, written and directed by Sean Penn, tells the story of Christopher McCandless- a college graduate who rids himself of his credit cards and savings and sets out in search of adventure living off the land in the wild. The cinematography of the movie is absolutely stunning and Emile Hirsch puts in an amazing performance as McCandless. Another great part of this movie is the soundtrack. Eddie Vedder delivers a collection of folk/roots songs that add another inspiring layer to the "wild" feel of the movie. I finally got around to downloading the album today and I'm really digging Vedder's folksy-side. The album artwork is really cool too.

Here is Eddie Vedder's Guaranteed from Into The Wild.

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Side note: There is a second soundtrack for Into The Wild featuring the Michael Brook-composed original score. It's also a good listen and it plays a perfect companion in the movie to Vedder's original songs.

If you enjoyed the movie, I would definitely suggest you read the book as well. It offers quite a few interesting side-stories of similar wildnerness adventurers, including Krakauer himself. Also, if you want some more good reading, my favourite Jon Krakauer book is Into Thin Air - Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 Everest Disaster that won Time magazine's "Book of the Year". It's so suspenseful you will finish it in a couple of days.

Well quickly going back to Eddie Vedder, while I was searching for the music video above I found this cool duet with Ben Harper. I reckon they should definitely write a few tunes together! Enjoy.

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Filed under // Adventure Ben Harper Christopher McCandless Eddie Vedder Emile Hirsch Into The Wild Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer Michael Brook Movie Mt. Everest Music Sean Penn Soundtrack

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