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Grizzly Man
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Some directors speak to the audience with such a powerful voice it’s hard to ignore anything they do. And when the subject matter is as extraordinary as the film-maker, you have a Discovery Channel special made in film-making heaven. Werner Herzog, and The Grizzly Man.
Timothy Treadwell was the Grizzly Man, and over 13 years used a camera to record his obsession with grizzly bear encounters. Unfortunately the last thing he shot was his own death, at the paws of a possibly camera-shy bear.
- Herzog is known for going to extremes. His 1984 film Fitzcarraldo featured a man trying to transport a 100-tone ship over the Andes. For the film he made the crew… transport a 100-tonne ship over the Andes. Things got quite fraught. His leading man, Klaus Kinski shot him (he survived, luckily for Discovery audiences)
- Grizzly Man was controversial. Opinion was divided on whether Treadwell was a man with a death-wish, or a brave lone voice trying to highlight the plight of bears in North America.
- Even though the footage Treadwell recorded included his own death, Herzog didn’t include it in the final film – and advised the owner of the material to destroy it immediately.
- Grizzly man was given a worldwide cinema release – grossing over $5million, becoming one of the most successful documentaries of all time.
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