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    The Film Grizzly Man

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    follows a man of the name Timothy Treadwell: his life before his death, his actual death, and the impact of his death. He spent 13 summers of his life within close proximity of grizzly bears until one takes his life. Before this event, the public only knew him as a passionate nature enthusiast, with his focus mainly on bears. They found entertainment in watching a cheerful idiot embracing these animals as friends. However, the film makes an effort to show that Treadwell has more depth as a person

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    Initially the film presents as a cinematic memorial to Treadwell even going so far as the places name and date of birth and death on the lower third of the screen which acts like a gravestone in the opening shot of the movie. This commeration continues throught the film but as with other aspects of Treadwell's personality Herzog works to complicate and at times undermine Treadwell's approach to the natural world he achives this a number of different ways but primarily uses juxtaposition between interviews

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    before. Timothy Treadwell, a bear enthusiast, is an interesting environmentalist; however, he lacks knowledge of the natural world around him. His inadequacy of understanding undomesticated animals living in the wild is what causes Treadwell to face a plethora of problems throughout his journey. For starters, Treadwell fails to understand that bears are wild animals and cannot be made into house pets. He becomes too close to the untamed mammals and attempts to be their friend. Treadwell does not

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    focuses on Timothy Treadwell’s attempt to live with grizzly bears. Both have a certain tragic plot about them, The Cove because of the cold blood slaughter and Grizzly Man because of Treadwell’s death. Both choose to focus on one species, for The Cove its dolphins, Grizzly Man, its grizzly Bears. They may be both focused on the same topic but are they’re both fantastic explorations of the same idea. The Cove combines the personal relationship between a man and dolphins and expands it to

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    “Grizzly Man” follows the life of wild life enthusiast Timothy Treadwell from birth to death. The documentary has many good clips that Timothy recorded while he lived with the bears. The documentary didn’t just have the opinion of the director but everyone who was close to Timothy. The documentary goes as far back to when Timothy was a kid and how he acted around animals. The film also goes as far to help the audience understand why Timothy became the person that everyone knows him as. The director

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    Throughout time, many people have given up their normal lives in order to live simply. Whether it’s going out and living in the wild alone or giving up electricity and running water. “Sometimes the weight of civilization can be overwhelming. The fast pace ... the burdens of relationships ... the political strife ... the technological complexity — it's enough to make you dream of escaping to a simpler life more in touch with nature.” (Nelson) Some just can’t handle it, but some have too. Whether it’s

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    Grizzly Man is a more than a documentary than a film. It recorded the real life of Timothy Treadwell who lived among wild bears in Alaska without any acting. What touched me most is his unselfish love to wild animals. Not only to bears but also to other animals. These animals became the most important part in his life. He smiled because of bears. He cried because of bears. He spent 13 years to live with bears without any measures to protect himself. They are bears. That can kill and tear him into

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    machines and guns and sell the forest resources as far away as China,” and we are "unsurprised" and accept this “as a picture of human behavior.” (LatE 85) Then comes the Grizzly Man, and all of these ideas we accepted as truth come into question. Timothy Treadwell is a disruption; he shakes and challenges and fights himself, those he comes into contact with, ecocritics and ecofighters, society at large, and even nature itself, resulting in his eventual death at the claws of a bear. Others who knew of

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    The great western planes of the United States, undeveloped, powerful, and majestic; Though humans try to colonize the vast expanse they cannot do any such thing. From lack of water to powerful tornados, the colonization is at least partially ceased by nature’s own advances. How can people continue to think that the world is their oyster when it obviously rejects them in so many ways? Explorers of the sea set out to discover some long lost treasure only to discover a murky grave below the depths.

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    ATTACKED!!! Few people will ever see or come in contact with a grizzly bear. But Todd Orr, a Montanan from southwest Montana, was one of those few who has. In an article from New York times by Christine Hauser called “In a Montana Bear Attack, Lessons on Hope, Survival and First Aid,” explains what Mr. Orr did for survival and first aid to get away from the angry grizzly. The New York Times is an American daily newspaper that was founded and published in New York city since September 18, 1851. Christine

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