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 Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
Originally Posted by sarbox68
And the melodrama was prolly more due to Sean Penn's directorial biz as usual. The whole find the leaf in the book, oh nooooes the wrong leaf, getting skinny, getting skinny, getting dead with lots of long shots of zombie pallor and deteriorating motor skills. So FMP... "melodrama in direction"...
Penn lifted most of the melodrama from Krakauer's book and Krakauer lifted much of that from McCandless' own journal. Sometimes situations are naturally melodramatic...should Penn have played it down?
Penn was looking to have a very specific effect on his audience. Dude does nothing artistically by accident... and he tends to be on the melodramatic side of center, as an actor and evidently as a director. No harm no foul. Dude's great. But I think we gotta agree that his artistic vision and license was all over this thing.
And I don't think he should have done anything different than he did. It's his move. It stands as such. MHO was it was a bit over the top in spots. But meh... lot of other people loved it.
Cool cinematography....... 
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