Grizzly Man documentary

Television Forum

The last two nights the Discovery channel aired a documentary about the making of the film Grizzly Man. It is the story about Timmothy Treadwell, a guy who lived out with the grizzlies in Alaska. He got too close, and he felt he was one with the bear. The guy did this for 13 summers, until he was killed and eaten by the bears in 2003. It is an interesting show, and I would recommend it. It shows parts of the actual film Grizzly Man that showed at Sundance. The guy had to be manic depressive and in a manic phase. He had one part of his video diary where he goes and picks up some fresh bear poop and is crying about how beautiful it is that the bear did that for him and how it was just part of his bear. The film has beautiful scenery in Alaska.

Did anyone else catch it on Discovery?

I saw a thing about this guy a while back, not this documentary in particular though. Dude would go live with bears, he's not trained at all, talk to the bears in little baby voices and was eventually eaten. What a dope.

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He is really ONE with the bear now. And Bear poop as well. He got his wish.


---Whizzle, going to live with the birds. "This bird pooped it's poop for me!!!"

Dave, don't make me come out there and slap ya. If I here that you are building a six foot bird house or something, then I just might

I'm gonna live with the birds, and yes, I WILL FLY.

Just don't poo on Sandy's car. Then you really will be in BIG trouble.

aint making no promises.





And no woodpecker jokes please. Those kind of jokes are beneath us, yes?

I never even thought of woodpecker jokes. So are you a flying bird or just one of those emus who thinks they might fly someday.

I am one with the painted bunting.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Whidden/Whidden%202/PaintedBunting.jpg

He pooped, just for me. The poop is part of him, and now I am one with the painted bunting, and one with the poop.





---Whizzle, about to be killed by painted bunting.

You said woodpecker.

Haha.

Wood.

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Seriously though, I couldn't imagine camping with all those animals.

It would be unbearable.



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I don't mind those idiots that hang with wild animals, and think they have tamed them,

they are taking their lives in their hands and that's fine. But if they bring their kids into it, like the croc hunter dude, then they should do jail time.


I havn't seen this documentary, but the guy must have had some problems. Any man with a loving family life, and good friends, aint going into the woods and living with animals.


Just aint gonna happen. The guy must have been a social misfit, and found some bond he was looking for with the Bears.


Bear with me here. Got to get my bearings.

The guy was so mental that he did not realize that he was putting the bears in danger. He was habituating the bears to humans. If a bear were to get closer to a human than it should it could lead to the bears death.

This guy cried over a bumblebee that died while pollinating a flower.

This headache is unbearable.

Oh and he was protecting bears that were already protected in a National Park! Yep, wacko dude was out camping in the national park thinking that he alone protected the bears.

headaches sucka big time. they are un-bearable.

On his trip the 'Grizzly Man' only took the bear-necessities.

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His poor mind could not bear the weight of society's ills.

When he was a kid he would bear ass others during an aseembly.

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He got lost in the woods, and couldn't get his bearings.

He made his own jelly and jam, his favorite was blue-beary.

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He kissed a bear, but didn't get into trouble, because she was bear-ly legal.

His mother was Jewish, her maiden name was Bearnstein.

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Sadly, he couldn't watch Football in the woods, and missed out seeing his favorite team.

Chicago.


Instead he had to watch the bears.

This is no joke.

I watched Chuck Norris scare away a grizzly bear and save his buddy with a stick and some fire on the end of it yesterday.

Chuck is tougher than a bear.

Chuck is so hold he remembers when Bears weren't Grizzly.

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The guy brought one CD with him, his favorite, Chuck Berry.

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This thread is one of the funniest that I've read in a long time.


I can bear-ly contain myself from busting out in laughter!!!

Well thank you bery much.

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You're beary welcome!

I'm watching this right now on Discovery. I wouldn't have caught without this thread.



This guy is nutzolla.


The fox stuff is neato though. Those wild foxes playing with him. That would be a fun life, if you were immortal, just hanging out with the bears, and the foxes.


The fox stole the mans hat, and homer chases it yelling he wants his hat back.


Too bad he died. He was just too smart for his own good. So smart, he was stupid.

At least I warned you about him crying over the bear poo. Seriously, I think he was bipolar.

I didn't see the bear poo part, I got the first half hour of it, then had to watch Ocean's 12 with Sandy June.


They are repeating it again, I may record it.

Aight, I watched the whole thing. I wish now that I had not. Wound up getting feelings for the guy.


Sure, he was mentally ill, bi polar, sure he was stupid to live with the bears, sure he was into this Nature is pure and right and mankind sucks and the real place is to be in nature,

and sure, he endangered his woman and himself and the bears,


but even saying all that, I felt sorry for the guy, had some empathy for him. What a fregin goofball he was.

He was a drug addict, an alcoholic, had a violent temper, but on the other side of his bi polar disorder, he was full of love and fascination.


A love that blinded him to the fact that he was an idiot to go out and live with creatures that want to eat you for dinner.

but still, I can't slight him for being so full of Love, that it made him a gibbering idiot.


I found the bear poo scene just bizzaro, he was GONE mentally, but having felt that kind of love for Dogs and Cats, (though messing with poop is way outta my league) I can't really fault him for feeling that for bears.

The guy had zero common sense though. He had a death wish, I don't care what his friends said. He spoke of death on that movie as much as the bears.


I respected the director for not adding the death footage, with the sound only. Said he didn't want to make a snuff film. It almost is a snuff film, just knowing that the guy and his woman died like that.

The star of the show was the foxes. They were cool. Now, not in a million years, would I go and live with some stupid bears, but I could be talked into a Fox camp. That would be awesome to have wild foxes come over and let you pet them.

You know, I did see it and I found no sympathy for him. I felt that his actions did more harm to the bears than to help. He was habituating wild animals to humans. IF one of those bears were to come too close to humans, then the bear could be put down.

I do agree with you about the foxes. If there were no bears around there, I would totally be down for camp fox.

He just put himself in a bad position. He should have never started thinking of wild animals as his pets. He got emotionally attached to the bears. I would feel the same way if I lived around them day after day. I think in his mind he really thought they liked him and wouldn't hurt him. I think they just tolerated him. I don't think he developed a relationship with them at all. Only in his mind. I do think he harmed the bears by being there. It is better for the bears if they are afraid of humans.