I haven't seen the movie, and I'm not sure I will, but I saw this story on CNN, and it really freaked me out coz it's TRUE!!!

Here is a snippet of Roger Ebert's review of the movie Grizzly Man:

..."Ironically, Treadwell and Huguenard had left for home in the September when they died. Treadwell got into an argument with an Air Alaska employee, canceled his plans to fly home, returned to the "Grizzly Maze" area where most of the bears he knew were already hibernating, and was killed and eaten by an unfamiliar bear that, it appears, he photographed a few hours before his death.

The cap was on his video camera during the attack, but audio was recorded. Herzog listens to the tape in the presence of Palovak, and then tells her: "You must never listen to this. You should not keep it. You should destroy it because it will be like the elephant in your room all your life." His decision not to play the audio in his film is a wise one, not only out of respect to the survivors of the victims, but because to watch him listening to it is, oddly, more effective than actually hearing it. We would hear, he tells us, Treadwell screaming for Amie to run for her life, and we would hear the sounds of her trying to fight off the bear by banging it with a frying pan. ...

..."I will protect these bears with my last breath," Treadwell says. After he and Amie become the first and only people to be killed by bears in the park, the bear that is guilty is shot dead. His watch, still ticking, is in its stomach. I have a certain admiration for his courage, recklessness, idealism, whatever you want to call it, but here is a man who managed to get himself and his girlfriend eaten..."



Here's a link to the entire article:

http://rogerebert.suntime...26001/1023

First, bitches!!

I want to go and see this. I watched a documentary on him a week or so ago and it was very interesting.

I was shocked at the numerous seasons he lived with the bears and didn't get hurt. I do think, after watching the documentary on him, that even though it was a horrible death, that he died happy. Or, at least I'd like to think so. Probably not happy knowing that his girlfriend wasn't going to make it, but happy because his "friends" were the ones to destroy him and not us.

AzureStarr said:

Why did they shoot the bear? That makes me sad.

Reincarnate said:

They really didn't say on the documentary that I watched, but I imagine it's because they considered that bear unsafe. They have tours on this land and people get quite close to them, throw rocks to fend them off, etc. So, probably for safety reasons?

They did say that this bear was one of the oldest bears on that land and was quite grumpy.