Into The Wild Man Vs Nature Essay

All of us have different conflicts in life that we need to defeat, whether it is man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. self or man vs. nature. We cannot control the outcome of man vs. nature, it presents challenges we are always looking for. If you can beat nature than you are a real survivor and can defeat anything in your path. For this paper, I am going to focus on two films that face the conflict of man vs. nature head on, Sean Penn’s Into the Wild (2007), and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild (2014). Jean-Marc Vallee’s female character in Wild detaches the typical stereotype shown in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild that wild stories belong to men and navigates and roots women into the American tradition of man vs. wild stories, leading us to question if people will ever say wild stories belong to men again. Although, similar McCandless and Strayed’s journey’s differ due to their gender, solely because in American culture we have seen men vs. nature, not women. First, I’ll show how McCandless is able to own the adventure film by having the benefit of flowing the path of many men that explored before him; then, I’ll investigative
nature films such as Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s The Most Dangerous Game (1933), Peter Brook’s Lord Of The Flies (1963), which one Top Ten Films National Board of Review award, and last but not least one of the most successful man vs. nature films Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975). Jaws won three Oscars for best sound, best film editing, and best music, original dramatic score. Modern and worthy successes of the genre include Into the Wild and Wild. These films are part of a more recent trend. In a modern review of man vs. nature films published in The New York Times, noted film critic A. O. Scott wrote, “The paradox of all these accounts of lonely wandering is that they actively solicit the companionship of readers and viewers”. Defining the features of today’s man vs. nature