“Into the Wild” quotes
(2007)
Sean Penn
directed this movie
in 2007
Title Into the Wild
Year 2007
Director Sean Penn
Genre Drama, Biography, Adventure
Year 2007
Director Sean Penn
Genre Drama, Biography, Adventure
Plot – The movie tells the true story of Christopher McCandless, aka Alex Supertramp. After graduating in 1992, Christopher decides to give up everything to leave for Alaska. He thinks the travel will test his ability to live without any comforts. Christopher's family environment is violent though his parents are rich. Since his childhood, the guy reads Thoreau, London, Tolstoy and all the great novelists and intellectuals who had chosen a life in contact with nature. On his way, Christopher meets other people who live his same lifestyle.
All actors – Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian H. Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Hal Holbrook, Jim Gallien, James O'Neill, Malinda McCollum, Paul Knauls, Zach Galifianakis, Craig Mutsch, Jim Beidler, John Decker, John Hofer, Jerry Hofer, Terry Waldner, Robin Mathews, Candice Campos, Steven Wiig, Thure Lindhardt, Signe Egholm Olsen, Floyd Wall, Bryce Walters, Jim Davis, Cheryl Francis Harrington, R.D. Call, Haley Ramm, Merritt Wever, Everett 'Insane Wayne' Smith, John Jabaley, Leonard Knight, Matt Contreras, Denise Sitton, Bart the Bear, Sharon Olds, Carine McCandless, Dan Burch, Joe Dustin, Golbon Eghtedari, Alvin Ellie, Caroline Gelabert, Geri Gilmore, Paul Haasch, Aaron Wayne Hill, Mad Martian, Parris Mosteller, Rocky Self, J. Nathan Simmons, Susan Spencer, Haley Sweet, Edward Tubbs
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“I'm gonna be all the way out there, all the way fucking out there. Just on my own. You know, no fucking watch, no map, no axe, no nothing. No nothing. Just be out there. Just be out there in it. You know, big mountains, rivers, sky, game. Just be out there in it, you know? In the wild.”
“You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.”
“Happiness only real when shared.”
“What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?”
“Now, after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”
“The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.”
“Getting out of this sick society.”
“I know how important it is in life to measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.”
“I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.”
“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom.”
“An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.”
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
“The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up.”
“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
“I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.”
“It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations. Absolute freedom. And the road has always led west.”
“When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.”
“- Rainey: So you're a leather now.
- Christopher McCandless: I'm a leather?
- Jan: Yeah, a leather tramp. That's what they call the ones that hoof it, go on foot.”“The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness.”
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