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Jeremiah Johnson

Surprised someone didn't mention Quigley Down Under. Tom Selleck in a great survival story set in Australia.
 
azranger said:
Surprised someone didn't mention Quigley Down Under. Tom Selleck in a great survival story set in Australia.
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LOL, man that is funny. I'm watching a movie with Tom Selleck (Reversible Errors) right now.

Anyway, +1 for Quigley Down Under. :thumbup:

Doc
 
Another movie no one has mentioned about survival is called (Shoot to Kill), with Sidney Poitier and Tom Berringer. Its a great survival movie. Two guys are chasing a bad man through the Mountains and have to make a snow cave during a blizzard. It came out about 1988.
 
I just rented and watched Jeremiah Johnson with the gf last night. Aside from a few painfully corny parts, we both enjoyed it. I really liked seeing him use the flint and steel to make fire in the snow after he got soaked splashing around in the stream. It was a good reminder that when it's that cold out, you need to be extra careful.
 
For the last year or so, I noticed a new book on the shelves of the local book stores - jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg. I had a quick scan through it and thought it looked interesting. I normally don't buy books of this nature unless they are on the discount table, preferring more in the how-to-do-it genre, although some books, like Into The Wild (Chris McCandless) can be useful for the insight provided.

Anyway, I checked with the library, and they had it but it was out, so I put in reserve for it. That's was months ago :( , but they finally contacted me yesterday to come and pick it up. And so I did. I read it last night and I have to say it was a very enjoyable read - I don't often read a whole book in a night but I didn't want to put it down.

The book was about Yossi Ghinsberg and his.............oh hell, why not read the publisher's description:

"What begins as a dream adventure for four amicable, if hastily met, muchileros (backpackers) quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the jungle. They are an odd mix to be sure: Marcus, the Swiss mystic; Karl, the shady Austrian geologist; Kevin, the well-intentioned American photographer; and Yossi, the Israeli adventurer. "Jungle" is the incredible true story of Yossi Ghinsberg''s triumph over the most adverse and frightening of circumstances. It is a tale of survival and human fortitude against the wildest backdrop on the planet."

So, if you're looking for an enjoyable book that is survival oriented, this is a good bet.

Doc
 
I have seen the movie Jeremiah Johnson more times than I can remember, and enjoy it more each time. And many of the others mentioned, enjoyed them all.

If you want to read a series of books that will make your heart ache for the days when men were men and everything in their way had better be nervous.
Read a author from Minnesota, Frederick Manford.
His series,The Buckskin Man Tales, will take you through time. These are fictionalized accounts of history, they could not be better.

I found the book Lord Grizzly after visting the spot on the Grand River in South Dakota where Hugh Glass was mauled by the grizzly. There is a plaque commemorating the spot.

Lord Grizzly -Mountain man times in 1823-24 (this is the legend of Hugh Glass)
Scarlet Plume-Sioux Uprising in 1862 (Let them eat grass )
King of Spades-Black Hills justice in 1876
Riders of Judgment-Cattlemean times in 1892 (Johnson County Range Wars)

BigBelly
 
Didn't read every page every post, but if it hasn't been mentioned already.....

"Snowwalker" is an EXCELLENT movie!
 
DOC-CANADA said:
"What begins as a dream adventure for four amicable, if hastily met, muchileros (backpackers) quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the jungle. They are an odd mix to be sure: Marcus, the Swiss mystic; Karl, the shady Austrian geologist; Kevin, the well-intentioned American photographer; and Yossi, the Israeli adventurer. "Jungle" is the incredible true story of Yossi Ghinsberg''s triumph over the most adverse and frightening of circumstances. It is a tale of survival and human fortitude against the wildest backdrop on the planet."
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I always thought those geologists were a bit shady - now it appears to be a full on stereotype :p:p
 
Jeremiah Johnson is my favorite movie, saw this when I was kid and got obsessed by mountain men. I even spent a week camping in areas of Utah where the film was shot. While doing research in Wyoming I met a guy that was writing a book on him. He said he had proof that lot of things written about Johnston weren't true, and that both books used to loosely base the movie on were at the least not accurate. He was a prof. somewhere. Interesting side note, Johnston was born in New York and died in L.A. - not very mountain man sounding. Having studied this stuff, most of what we know about this period is more or less urban legend with a little truth thrown in.

Sydney Pollack, the director of Jeremiah Johnson, had to mortage his house to make the movie. John Milius, the screenwriter and well known gun nut, worked for free. He insisted that actual period weapons be used in the movie, and then given to him after the movie was over. Johnston was exumed and reburied in Wyoming with Robert Redford as a pall bearer and he probably financed it.

If you can find it, Discovery channel (I think) did an hour show on the making of "The Edge" when it came out.

Pic of John "Liver Eating" Johnston:

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watched one the other day called"SOUTHERN COMFORT" starring a young powers booth. a squad of national guardsmen on manuevers deep in the swamps of louisanna manage to piss off some backwoods people who start picking them off one at a time.its worth a look if you can find it.
 
jim in ohio said:
watched one the other day called"SOUTHERN COMFORT" starring a young powers booth. a squad of national guardsmen on manuevers deep in the swamps of louisanna manage to piss off some backwoods people who start picking them off one at a time.its worth a look if you can find it.
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That's a rockin' kick butt fun to watch movie!

Keith Carradine is in it also.
 
I watched JJ again last wed. Love that movie. I re-read Crow Killer ever couple of years. Same with One Mans Wilderness. The NPS printed
"More readings from One Man's Wilderness" It covers Poenneke from
1974-1980. 470 pages A great read!
 
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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That is pretty nasty. They use the heart throb of the day, as the actor to portey Jonhson, in Robert Redford. The reality is far from the movie, as you suggest. Hollywood has a way of twisting the truth about much of what they portray as "based on fact", movies.
 
I just bought the DVD's Quest for Fire and The Hunted based on this thread.

The Hunted was better than I expected but a little too action orientated and not enough focus on the tracker skills that the movie is supposed to be about. I'm not sure how the lead Tommy character is able to do all his tracking at a full run...

Quest for Fire was real magic re-watching this one again. I remember going to see it at the theatre when I was younger. At that time I was more fascinated by the sabre-toothed "lions" and of course the sex-scenes. Watching it again, I really enjoyed this movie. There is an amazing friction fire scene (actually 2 scenes), the first one lasts about 3 min that even shows the coal being transferred to the tinder pile and nursing the coal into flame. Now there is a lot more to the process then actually shown (e.g. selecting the right materials for the hearth and fire stick) but I was impressed at how the movie approached this with reverence and probably about as much detail as could be tolerated by the anticipated audience. Personally, I'm not sure I would have left the advanced society especially when my skills were valued as 'stud' services.....Question for others - is one of the lead characters in Quest for Fire play Hellboy???
 
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