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2005 documentary picture show by Werner Herzog

Grizzly Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed past	Werner Herzog
Written past	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Kevin Beggs Billy Campbell Phil Fairclough Andrea Meditch Erik Nelson Tom Ortenberg Gem Palovak
Starring	Timothy Treadwell Werner Herzog
Narrated by	Werner Herzog
Cinematography	Peter Zeitlinger
Edited by	Joe Bini
Music by	Richard Thompson
Product companies	Discovery Docs Existent Big Production
Distributed by	Lions Gate Films
Release date	August 12, 2005 (2005-08-12)
Running fourth dimension	104 minutes^[one]
Country	Us
Language	English
Box office	$4.one million^[2]

Grizzly Homo is a 2005 American documentary film past German director Werner Herzog. It chronicles the life and decease of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell. The moving picture includes some of Treadwell'southward ain footage of his interactions with chocolate-brown bears before 2003, and of interviews with people who knew or were involved with Treadwell, as well equally professionals dealing with wild bears.

Treadwell and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, who were both originally from New York Land, were attacked and killed by a bear on Oct 5, 2003. Treadwell's footage was found subsequently his death. The bear that killed Treadwell and Huguenard was later encountered and killed by the group who retrieved the pair's partially consumed remains. An sound recording of the assault was captured past Treadwell'south camera, simply has never been released. The final moving picture was co-produced by Discovery Docs, the Discovery Channel'southward theatrical documentary unit, and Lions Gate Entertainment. The film's soundtrack is by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson.

Synopsis [edit]

Herzog used sequences extracted from more than 100 hours of video footage shot by Treadwell during the final five years of his life. He also conducted and filmed interviews with Treadwell'southward family and friends, and bear and nature experts. Park rangers and deport experts commented on statements and actions by Treadwell, such equally his repeated claims that he was defending the bears from poachers. Park rangers noted that there had never been a recorded incident of poaching at Katmai National Park.

As some other example, Treadwell claimed he had "gained the trust" of certain bears, sufficient to approach and pet them. Park rangers pointed out that bears are wild and potentially dangerous animals; given that, Treadwell was lucky to have survived every bit long as he had without being mauled. One park ranger suggested that the bears were so confused by Treadwell's direct, coincidental contact that they were not certain how to react to him. Other park rangers point out that the bears were non threatened by poachers, only Treadwell'due south deportment put them at real take chances of harm and decease. By familiarizing them with human contact, he increased the likelihood that they would arroyo human habitation seeking food, and crusade a confrontation in which humans would impale them.

In 2003, Treadwell was camping ground in Katmai National Park with his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard. Treadwell usually left the park at the end of summer but that year stayed into early October. This put him and Huguenard at greater gamble, as in this period, bears are ambitious about searching for food to store up calories for hibernation during the winter. Herzog speculates that their staying afterward in the season ultimately resulted in Treadwell'due south and Huguenard's deaths.

In improver to presenting views from friends and professionals, Herzog narrates and offers his own interpretations of events. He ended that Treadwell had a sentimental view of nature, thinking he could tame the wild bears. Herzog notes that nature is cold and harsh; Treadwell's view clouded his thinking and led him to underestimate danger, resulting in his expiry and that of Huguenard.

Treadwell's video camera captured an audio record of the bear assault. Herzog refrained from making this a part of the picture, simply he is shown listening to it, clearly disturbed. The director advises Jewel Palovak, the possessor of the tape and Treadwell'southward ex-girlfriend, to destroy it rather than listen to it herself. He would later repudiate his ain advice, saying it was:

Stupid ... silly communication born out of the immediate daze of hearing—I mean, it'south the most terrifying thing I've e'er heard in my life. Being shocked like that, I told her, 'Yous should never heed to it, and you should rather destroy information technology. Information technology should non be sitting on your shelf in your living room all the time.' [But] she slept over it and decided to do something much wiser. She did not destroy it but separated herself from the tape, and she put it in a depository financial institution vault.^[three]

The coroner gave Palovak Treadwell's wristwatch, which had been retrieved from his left arm, one of the few remains found. Willy Fulton, the airplane pilot who discovered the remains of Treadwell and Huguenard, had noted seeing the lone arm with the wristwatch and not being able to continue the image out of his mind.

Product [edit]

Treadwell spent thirteen summers in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Over time, he believed the bears grew to trust him; they allowed him to arroyo them and he had even touched them. He gained some national notoriety for his work with the bears and founded Grizzly People with his friend Gem Palovak. They worked to protect bears in national parks by raising awareness.

Park officials repeatedly warned him that his interaction with the bears was unsafe to both him and to the bears. "At best, he'south misguided," Deb Liggett, superintendent at Katmai and Lake Clark national parks, told the Anchorage Daily News in 2001. "At worst, he'southward unsafe. If Timothy models dangerous beliefs, that ultimately puts bears and other visitors at hazard." Treadwell filmed his exploits, and used the films to raise public awareness of the problems faced by bears in North America. In 2003, at the terminate of his thirteenth visit, he and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were attacked, killed, and partially eaten by a bear. The events that led to the attack are unknown.

Producer Erik Nelson had begun work on developing a narrative television special based on Treadwell's life and career. Notwithstanding, during a take a chance encounter with manager Werner Herzog at the Jackson Pigsty Wild animals Festival, Nelson was convinced to turn the project into a characteristic-length documentary and to give Herzog directing duties. With the project now having taken the direction of a documentary, Jewel Palovak was sought out to make employ of Treadwell'southward archival footage.

Jewel Palovak, co-founder of Grizzly People and a close friend of Treadwell'southward, had to give her approval for the motion picture to be produced, as she controlled his video archives. The filmmakers had to deal with logistical also equally sentimental factors related to Treadwell'south footage of his bear interactions. Grizzly People is a "grassroots organization" concerned with the handling of bears in the United states of america. After her friend'southward death, Palovak was left with control of Grizzly People and Treadwell's 100 hours of archival footage. As his close friend, quondam girlfriend, and confidante, she had a big emotional stake in the production. She had known Treadwell since 1985 and felt a deep sense of responsibleness to her belatedly friend and his legacy.^[iv]

Palovak said that Treadwell had often discussed his video archives with her. "Timothy was very dramatic," she once said. She quoted Treadwell as saying, "'If I die, if something happens to me, make that movie. You make it. Y'all show 'em.' I thought that Werner Herzog could definitely practise that." ^[4] ^[5]

Exhibition [edit]

Grizzly Homo premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and its express The states theatrical release began on August 12, 2005. It was later released on DVD in the United states on December 26, 2005.^[6] The Discovery Channel aired Grizzly Man on television on Feb iii, 2006; its 3-hour presentation of the picture show included a thirty-infinitesimal companion special that delved deeper into Treadwell's relationship with the bears and addressed controversies related to the film.

The DVD release lacks an interview with Treadwell by David Letterman, which was shown in the original theatrical release. Letterman had joked that Treadwell would be eaten by a bear. The versions televised on the Discovery Aqueduct and Beast Planet both retain this scene.

Response [edit]

Box office [edit]

Grizzly Man opened on August 12, 2005 in 29 Due north America venues. It grossed US$269,131 ($9,280 per screen) in its opening weekend, ranking number 26 in the box role.^[7] At its widest indicate, it played at 105 theatres, and fabricated US$three,178,403 in North America during its run, with $882,902 overseas for a worldwide total of $four,061,305.^[two]

Critical reception [edit]

Upon its Due north American theatrical release, Grizzly Human was acclaimed past critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 92% "Certified Fresh" score based on 136 reviews, with an average rating of eight/10. The site's consensus states: "Whatever opinion you come to accept of the obsessive Treadwell, Herzog has once once more found a fascinating discipline."^[8] Metacritic reports an 87 out of 100 rating based on 35 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[nine]

David Denby of The New Yorker said:

Narrating in his extraordinary German-absolute English, Herzog is off-white-minded and properly respectful of Treadwell'south manic self-invention. He even praises Treadwell every bit a good filmmaker: as Treadwell stands talking in the foreground of the frame, the bears play behind him or scoop upwards salmon in sparkling h2o; in other shots, a couple of foxes leap across the grass in the eye of a Treadwell monologue. The footage is full of stunning incidental beauties.^[10]

Picture show critic Roger Ebert, a longtime supporter of Herzog's work, awarded the film 4 out of 4 stars.

'I will protect these bears with my terminal breath', Treadwell says. After he and Amie become the first and only people to be killed by bears in the park, the conduct that is guilty is shot dead. Treadwell's watch, still ticking, is institute on his severed arm. I have a certain adoration for his backbone, recklessness, idealism, whatever you want to call information technology, but here is a man who managed to get himself and his girlfriend eaten, and you know what? He deserves Werner Herzog.^[eleven]

Charlie Russell, a naturalist who studied bears for many years, lived well-nigh them and raised them for a decade in Kamchatka, corresponded with Treadwell and wrote virtually the motion picture:^[12]

Herzog is a proficient filmmaker and then a large percentage of those who sentry the moving-picture show Grizzly Human, overlook Timothy's amazing way with animals even though to me this stands out very strongly. The fact that Timothy spent an incredible 35,000 hours, spanning xiii years, living with the bears in Katmai National Park, without whatsoever previous mishap, escapes people completely. Fifty-fifty with his city-child background, I found myself mesmerized by what he could practise with animals.^[12]

The film placed at No. 94 on Slant Mag 's best 100 films of the 2000s.^[13]

Awards [edit]

Nominated for the Gotham Accolade for Best Documentary^[14]
Won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary/ Non-Fiction Movie
Won the New York Film Critics Circle Accolade for Best Non-Fiction Moving picture
Won the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Honor for All-time Documentary
Won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize^[15] and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Picture Festival
Won the Toronto Moving picture Critics Association Accolade for All-time Documentary
Won the Anugerah Seri Angkasa 2008 Angkasapuri.

References [edit]

^ "GRIZZLY Homo (fifteen)". British Board of Film Classification. December 16, 2005. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Grizzly Man (2005)". Box Office Mojo. Net Motion picture Database. November 25, 2005. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
^ Davis, Robert (April eleven, 2007). "Werner Herzog: The Tests and Trials of Men". Paste.
^ ^a ^b "Werner Herzog Film: Home". Wernerherzog.com. Retrieved November three, 2011.
^ "Grizzly Man – Feature". Discovery Channel. Archived from the original on October viii, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2011.
^ "Grizzly Man:About This Moving picture". IGN. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
^ "Weekend Box Office Results for August 12–14, 2005". Box Office Mojo. Internet Motion-picture show Database. August 15, 2005. Retrieved March thirty, 2016.
^ "Grizzly Man (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
^ "Grizzly Human reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
^ Denby, David (Baronial viii, 2005). "Loners". The New Yorker.
^ Ebert, Roger (August 12, 2005). "Grizzly Man". Chicago Sun-Times.
^ ^a ^b Russell, Charlie (February 21, 2006). Letters from Charlie. cloudline.org.
^ "Best of the Aughts: Moving picture". Slant Magazine . Retrieved Feb ten, 2010.
^ By Recipients – IFP Gotham Awards
^ Sundance Film Festival 2005 - MUBI

External links [edit]

Grizzly Man at IMDb
Grizzly Man at Box Role Mojo
Grizzly Man at Rotten Tomatoes
Grizzly Man at Metacritic
Roger Ebert's review
Peter Bradshaw'south review
Regarding the Hurting of Others:Grizzly Human by Laurie Rock nthWORD Magazine Shorts