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Watch Grizzly Man Tonight on Discovery @ 8PM (EST & PST)!

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This may well be the first time I encourage our readers to watch something on TV. But, as I was checking a link for this post on The Internet Movie Database, I saw an ad for the “World Television Premiere of Grizzly Man today, Friday, February 3, 2006, at 8PM Eastern and Pacific on the Discovery Channel. Given that I had thought of blogging on the film, it seemed a sign that I should first encourage readers to watch it.

I saw the flick Wednesday night at a special screening for members of Film Independent and it blew me away. When I ran into some friends afterwards, we couldn’t stop talking about the film. And yesterday I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It is one of the most thought-provoking documentaries I have ever seen. The tale it tells is almost mythic. I don’t want to say anything more about it as that must compromise your experience of this cinematic masterpiece. So, just WATCH THIS MOVIE, tonight on the Discovery Channel at 8PM (Eastern and Pacific).

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

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  3. I’m afraid I’m going to have to differ on this… Treadwell was mentally deluded; he believed that grizzlies were just big, lovable, friendly cartoon characters who would accept him and never hurt him. His delusion got him ripped to strips, predictably. The thing that offends me is that he not also got his girlfriend (who he was supposed to be responsible for, and who had done nothing to deserve this) killed along with himself, but his acclimatization to humans by those bears he loved meant that they had to be killed to prevent other attacks on humans.
    I saw a discussion about Treadwell by a park ranger; he made the point that when bears lose their fear of humans they almost always have to be destroyed because they almost always end up attacking a person- they lose their natural instinct to avoid people. If you’ve ever wondered why you’re not suposed to feed the bears, there you go.
    If Treadwell had died of his delusion alone it would be diffeent- but he got an innocent woman and a lot of the bears he “loved” killed, and put and put a number of other people (including not just the park rangers and State Troopers who had to investigate and retrieve his remains, and deal with the bears, but also any campers or hikers the bears could have attacked before they were killed) at serious risk.

  5. Eco-warrier is what Treadwell dubbed himself. He also told people he was a British foundling or an Australian who moved to California as a teenager and grew up a juvenile delinquent in a rough society. Although none of that turned out to be remotely true . . . Treadwell emerged from a period of serious drug and alcohol abuse with the radiant conviction that he was meant to go forth and live among the bears. . . .

    Sound like he would fit in well among some of our regular moonbat posters.

  9. Tivoed and watched the movie last night. Wow. Werner Herzog did an amazing job. Unlike many of our “elites” who can’t be judgememtal, I appreciated that Herzog interjected his views as well. My husband, son and I burst out laughing when the ecologist read the letter about increasing the number of grizzlys at the Berkley Campus. The one UC my son wouldn’t apply to.