If you haven't rented (or bought) the DVD "Grizzly Man" yet, then I encourage you to watch the re-airing of Grizzly Man on the Discovery Channel tonight!
...it's worth setting the VCR, DVR, or Tivo for.
Jim and I watched it last night, and it's easy to get caught up in this guy's paranoia, his odd personality, and his incredible way with animals.
It's a 3-hour documentary, and there's lots of incredible footage.
In brief: It's a self-made movie of Timothy Treadwell who spent 13 years living with Grizzly Bears in the Alaskan wilderness. What you're seeing is his raw footage... his attempt at "helping" these bears wild while he was living with them in the wild... up until that last moment when he was killed by one of the bears. It was October, 2003.
Here's a preview
"Grizzly Man" was named Best Documentary of 2005 by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. In addition, it has received numerous awards and accolades.
Here are some excellent summaries about Timothy Treadwell and the movie "Grizzly Man":
Listen to two interviews with the movie's director, Werner Herzog: NPR Audio 1 and NPR Audio 2
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You know, in the Maine wilderness where I come from, we tend not to try and ride the moose. Just saw the film and feel it to be more of a case study in manic depression, bi-polar disorder and likely repressed latent homosexuality. Although, I feel for the guy as it appears his heart was in the right place, his methods were utter madness. He certainly was not a scientist. I guess, what Mr. Treadwell was really looking for in these woods was Tim Treadwell. He was searching for himself. I suspect and hope that in those last 6 minutes he finally did, as he surly did listening to the brutal and savage attack upon his young naive companion. You know for the first 15 minutes of the film I thought him to be an environmentalist until I saw the Malibu tag and realized that he was making a movie. He was an Actor. I mean please he is combing his long blonde locks in nearly every scene, and is pathetically re-shooting footage of himself jumping out of the shrubs. Did I hear him yell, ?Cut?. I don?t agree that he got what he deserved though. Who deserves to be ripped apart by a bear and eaten for supper? However, I leave you all with this little tidbit, Do ya wonder if the bears killed within the park the summer after the Treadwell tragedy were lured to within point blank range of hunters rifles by only the all to familiar whisper "Don't worry. You?re beautiful. I love you."
See the Alaskan film Deadly Passion. This film really offers the facts on what happened to Tim Treadwell. For film details go to www.cameraq.com