The Edge w/ Anthony Hopkins

Foilist said:
I'm willing to have some forebearance for Hollywood's poetic license in throwing some luck and set-ups their way. What I really liked was the emphasis on attitude and thinking as the main survival tools.
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Yup! Movies are to tell a story. It's fiction. I have no problem if they need to rearrange reality in order to advance the drama. I loved the movie too. It's just not an instructional video on wilderness survival. When the bear snatched the dude from the lean-to, I was like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHH! :D
 
I have fond memories of this movie. I went to see it in the theater with a very, very nice looking young lady. She grabed hold of me every time the bear attacked.
 
I am afraid that a real survival movie will would be as exciting as the SWAT movie I made. It was 90 minutes showing me covering down on a doorway.
 
I did a bit of work on that movie, and I got to share a drink of scotch with Hopkins. A real gentleman and very interesting to talk to.

Alec Baldwin is a complete grade A a$$hole.

Most of it was filmed just west of Calgary near Banff.

BB
 
From what I recall, it was several dozen fair sized poles that they built the spiked fortification out of... I guess I assumed he'd had to cut them down. Is it likely to find so many lovely straight limbs just lying around? I don't know...

nemoaz said:
What couldn't they have done with the "little folder". Cut the black guy? Shave the fallen trees into a point? Cut the thread off his sweater. I don't really remember the knife being used for anything else.
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From what I recall, it was several dozen fair sized poles that they built the spiked fortification out of... I guess I assumed he'd had to cut them down. Is it likely to find so many lovely straight limbs just lying around?
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Hmmm... don't remember a spiked fortification. Maybe its been too long. All I remember were those big improvised spears. They were made out of the trees the bear knocked down while chasing Hopkins.
 
Its the scene when they're huddled around the fire, the night after the black dude was taken... they've got them staked into the ground all around them. If memory serves....
 
Foilist said:
I'm willing to have some forebearance for Hollywood's poetic license in throwing some luck and set-ups their way. What I really liked was the emphasis on attitude and thinking as the main survival tools.
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Yep. I think they had enough fur to make more then a dapper vest each though, it was a big bear.
 
BUFFALO HUMP - "Is it likely to find so many lovely straight limbs just lying around?"
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It is with both Lodgepole pine (think of the American Plains Indians' teepee supports), and aspen.

L.W.
 
Its the scene when they're huddled around the fire, the night after the black dude was taken... they've got them staked into the ground all around them. If memory serves....
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Hmmmm. I thought they were in some lean-to looking rubbish shelter. It's just been too long, I guess. I'm sure you are right. I do remember thinking "no where did they get that rope/cordage" when they let loose that flying thingamajigger (hillbilly term) to annoy the bear.

Hollywood. I'm just happy when they get anything right.
 
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