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Jeremiah Johnson

I just never get tired of posting this pic:

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Chosen-frozen said:
I`m suprised nobody has mentioned "Little Big Man"
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Oh, Yeah -- one of my favorites.

Has anyone watched "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" recently? I haven't seen it since I was a kid, and I have no idea if it stands the test of time. I sure loved it back then though.
 
RoyalM said:
I watched this film as a kid and recently got a copy. The same goes for Death Hunt with Charles Bronson. These were the films that first sparked my interest in outdoors and every few years I like to watch them to kind of stoke the fire in me to go out and really enjoy the woods and hills around me.

I was wandering if there are other films of this type that I should be watching? I don't intend to use these films for instructional purposes more just to enjoy a look back at, for me, a better age.

So if you know a film that fits the bill then post it here please. I'd also be open to some good books to as i'm always needing another book to read next to a camp fire. Something maybe with a bit of history and a story in it. While I really enjoy a Ray Mears book I was looking for something a little more informal and fun.
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Both of those, Man in the Wilderness, with Richard Harris (I think based on a Hugh Glass story - mauled by a Grizzly, left fer dead....) and Mountain men, with Brian Keith. I don't have the Bronson movie - forgot abou that one. We didn't have a TV but we went to the movies once in a while. The few movies we saw were memorable - my Dad always picked them out.:thumbup:

Alex p. Schorsc said:
It is interesting to note that the real historical personage that the movie Jeremiah Johnson was based on was known as "Liver-Eatin' Johnson". He defeated many Crow indians in one-on-one duels but what the movie doesn't show is that his trademark after killing was to eat the liver of his victem.
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Even if it didn't taste so good, it was a marvelous psychological tool.:D
It would make ME think twice about venturing out alone.:eek: Man, you gotta love something that could scare you that bad.:thumbup: We live very protected lives - having been taught to not be "afraid of the dark," when not-so-many years ago, "we" were not so well-equipped as those many other critters we shared the globe with. I think that we, as a species, have become pretty arrogant and take for granted where "superstition" came from. Yes, we were more "one with nature" and more likely become "one with whatever else a large local carnivore ate that day." Still happens in Africa, India and other places where people are out and about among things bigger and badder than we. Maybe too much Peter Hathaway Capstick on my bookshelf, but it puts things into perspective, like these movies. Even only a hundred and fifty years ago, a .62 or .75 caliber lead sphere at about 1800 to 2000 feet per second was not a whole lot of insurance against the "big bears" but it beat the hell out of a pointy stick! And then there were the bipedal natives of whatever foreign place one decided to explore, even in spite of the big, hairy quadrupeds - much to thrill a kid (whether he is eight or sixty eight) in those movies and much to make one think and appreciate (or acknowledge) how protected we are by "civilization," even as we shun it, as we evnture far into the woods or mountains today. Today, we worry about the bank or the IRS making us "move." Back then, you worried about wild animals or perturbed native neighbors "evicting" you - with a bit higher a "late fee.":D
 
Dogwood said:
"A Far Off Place," a little known movie with a young Reese Witherspoon about three teenagers (one a bushman) crossing the Kalihari. It's an exceptional adventure/survival film.
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The movie A Far Off Place butchered the original books. Ignore the movie and read Laurens Van Der Post's originals. A Story Like the Wind (1972), and A Far-Off Place (1974).
 
There was one with Kevin Bacon where he took some boys up in the mountains to camp. He was a real dick, I remember he fell off a cliff or somethin and the boys had to get him out. Cant remember the name for the life of me....
 
Liam Ryan said:
Is there a scene in Dersu Uzala where they make a shelter out of reeds real fast because it's getting late and a storm is coming up?
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Yes. And it is a great scene, but I am very biased, I love this film.

No other like it, really.


BLACKROBE is beautifully shot, remarkably enacted, and takes a whole bunch of "romantic notions" out of the "noble savage" concept of Rousseau. Extremely well done, in my opinion.

Get THE POSTMAN in the book, and tear out the last few chapters. The book is an old friend, done wrong, by Costner in the movie. Costner could do so much, if he could leave his ego at home when he's shooting/directing/starring in a movie.


Mountain Man loses itself in nonsense love story. Brian Keith is wonderful in it, however.

Two seldom mentioned, but worth seeing are: Nanook of the North (don't laugh...if you saw it as a kid, you just didn't see techniques and brilliant documentary recreation. Living, trapping, sea-hunting...magnificently done, and done in 1923!!!

And The Fast Runner, an Innuit film, is a marvelous depiction of an Innuit legend, done in the old language. Award winning for its photography and ...er...other stuff. Same thing...survival, but not as an exception, but as a way of life.


The Hunted, with T.L. Jones, and some twit, could have been wonderful, but got over-influenced by Tom Brown and some of his most ridiculous concepts. May be the best, most accurate depicition of two knife fighters...fighting. BUT, I can't watch it without cursing about the way the film...which could have been GREAT...goes so far off from reality and how the director falls in love with the inner facets of a character, who just isn't that interesting, and is poorly cast.


There's another "Hunted" or "Hunter" about a psychopath who lives on a mountain, stashes cash from an airplane crash, and is a bow hunter who kills passers-by. Considering how few movies there are, it is ... ok.

With my biases clearly included.


Kis
 
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Ok. Time for me to get corny. Anybody remember those movies The Wilderness Family? There were a few of them, about a family that moved from the city to the remote wilderness to live. Every movie had a 'villan' that was some type of animal. It was a grizzly bear in one movie, a wolverine in another...

Edit: Ok, I looked it up, and it was actually called The Adventures of the Wilderness Family.
 
Ha! Yeah Sean Astin was in that. It was a pretty cool flick.

The Goonies is one of my all time favorite movies. baaaabbby rrruuutttthh!!!
 
I always considered Jack London's "To Make a Fire" to be the ultimate story about the serious nature of outdoor survival and the consequences of failure.

Also, don't forget that great old book and movie, "The Yearling", for a realistic look at a near-wilderness lifestyle.
 
I admit, I may be a little partial to the movie Jeremiah Johnson! :D

And the 2 books it drew from, Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher and Crow Killer:The Saga of Liver Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Thorp.
 
man.. lots of great flicks named here...:thumbup: i have forgotten about a lot of these... jerimiah johnson is a favorite of mine...

first blood, was originally a book first and like a lot of others, was adapted to film later... the book is a really good read and the movie doesn't really do it justice, though it is also another favorite of mine...:o

last of the mohicans is an epic movie, and once again, an even better book... james fenimore cooper's "leatherstocking" tales of natty bumpo(hawkeye), are really cool... they can be a bit dry at times, but all in all cool books..:)
 
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