Blog #4

- They had Billy McCandless' dream in the beginning
- The movie made it clearer of how Alaska looked
- The guitar music made the movie seem more earthy and naturey
- I liked the shots of the mountains
- His graduation is too early in the movie
- The poem Chris recites is added

Into the Wild’s adaptation in the movie has a lot of differences when compared to the book. In the movie, the order of scenes is different than in the book. They don’t actually have Krakauer in the movie, the main focus is on Chris. There also is more of a focus on Chris and Tracy, even though the book didn’t say much about them together. The movie’s narrator is Carine, Chris’s sister, rather than Krakauer. The book shows Chris’s “bad side,” and the movie portrays him as a more “Chris like” person.
The film improves on the book because it actually shows how Alaska looked to Chris and showed what Chris did while he lived in the bus. The book is more superior to the movie because it makes Chris seem more realistic and it has more details about his life. I would say that the film was really good, but showed Chris as someone more Chris like and unnatural. I really liked the book because it was almost like a biography of Chris and analyzed him to see why he would do such a thing as go out to Alaska unprepared.