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davidjennings's Archive on Jan 27, 2006
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The story of how the film was made, and some reflections on it.
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Timothy Treadwell's problem was that he saw wild nature as essentially friendly; Herzog sees it as essentially hostile. Where Treadwell saw the signs of personality in the eyes of the bears, Herzog sees "only the overwhelming blank stare ... [and] a half-bored interest in food." It's a bleak vision, pitting Treadwell's American optimism against Herzog's Germanic pessimism, and sometimes during Grizzly Man you catch yourself wanting to believe in the former