Herzog makes a very important statement about how he doesn’t view documentaries and feature films differently. This is important because if he doesn’t make a clear distinction then how will the audience know. He “invents and scripts” to stylize the documentary. He said in the beginning that he was not going to make “Grizzly Man” a feature film because all the events are too real but then says that “Grizzly Man” is his best feature film.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Timothy Treadwell: Dying for his Love
The whole point of this class is to open up our mind to realize manipulation and deception from the author as well as from the characters within the book. Therefore I don’t know to expect when listening and reading about Timothy Treadwell.
Scott Simons, the host of the interview, in the first paragraph describes Werner Herzog as an obsessive man. He focuses on certain aspects that drive people to achievement or ruin. That is an interesting way to introduce a man in an interview.. “He was haunted by demons,” Herzog said about Timothy and discussed how his interaction with the bears drew out the better side in him. Timothy was saving the bears as much as the bears were saving him. That is an interesting statement to make considering Timothy died by being brutally mutilated by bears. However, an interesting fact that Herzog even brings up, is that normally bears do not attack humans. They stray away, unless lets say a mother is protecting her cubs and sees the human as a threat. Timothy had a death wish when it came to “loving” these bears. Timothy was just an enthusiast when it came to studying bears. He literally placed himself into the wild to study these wild creatures without the background experience required. As Herzog describes Timothy, he “wanted to be a star” and did so through these tapes.
Herzog makes a very important statement about how he doesn’t view documentaries and feature films differently. This is important because if he doesn’t make a clear distinction then how will the audience know. He “invents and scripts” to stylize the documentary. He said in the beginning that he was not going to make “Grizzly Man” a feature film because all the events are too real but then says that “Grizzly Man” is his best feature film.
Herzog makes a very important statement about how he doesn’t view documentaries and feature films differently. This is important because if he doesn’t make a clear distinction then how will the audience know. He “invents and scripts” to stylize the documentary. He said in the beginning that he was not going to make “Grizzly Man” a feature film because all the events are too real but then says that “Grizzly Man” is his best feature film.
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The idea that Timothy wanted to be a star is really fascinating because it makes his fanaticism almost understandable based on this secret motive. He didn't really just want to help the bears-- he wanted to show the public that he was helping the bears. He wanted to seem like nature's warrior. We get a glimpse into Timothy's feelings about himself when he talks about his relationships with women in the documentary. He said he thought he was fun and interesting but that women didn't seem to want to stick around. He wanted women to glorify him, just like he wanted the public to glorify him for his work. His obsessive personality, which caused him to become addicted to drugs, alcohol, and bear protecting, also made him obsessed with being glorified and recognized. Timothy's ultimate glorification came from dying in the most gruesome and unique way possible, which I would argue may have been his purpose.
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