Quote Originally Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic
Funny thing, I was flipping channels and see Grizzly Man. So I hit the info button and see it's about a guy who spent 13 summers living in Alaska amongst the grizzlies. When I saw he died in 2003 my first thought was "mauled by a grizzly". sure enough...

Poetic justice.

I suppose there's something noble about dedicating your life to animals, although I quesiton this guy's sanity. Seems to me the guy started thinking he WAS a bear - albeit one without the claws and femur-cracking jaws.

They said the grizzly that killed him was an old scrawny bear with bad teeth. Basically an animal on the verge of death that stumbled upon an easy meal. I saw part where he was lamenting the lack of rain and going on about how the drought was forcing mother bears are eating their cubs. Didn't Mr Wannabe Alpha Bear reason that if a mother bear will eat its own cubs to survive that he was nothing more than an hors d'ouvre waiting to happen? Obviously not.

I'd wager at some point that summer he saw that old, scrawny bear and thought, "He won't make it through the winter unless he puts on some weight." Like I said, poetic justice.

And don't give me the old, "at least he died in the place he loved most" bullshit. Nobody hopes they die going feet-first into a chipper/shredder. I'm sure in his mind he would be shot in the back by a poacher. I feel bad for the chick. Imagine what was going through her skull as she watched a bear maul and kill Grizzly Man, then stalk her down. I wonder if she was on her period? Maybe that's what brought the bear into camp. Surely they had food around too. A regrettable, but laughable and predictable situation.

If only he'd become compelled to live amongst the sheep instead of grizzlies he'd be alive today; possibly cooing "I love you" happily-ever-after on his own Brokeback Mountain...
Almost everything you said was covered in the show had you watched it. The guy was defiantly mentally unstable, there is no question about it. He did go crazy and start to think he was a bear too. He did see and even film the old bear that later kill him. He had lost all of his objectivity and was out of his mind to think his personal "love" for the bears could overcome their basic animal instincts to survive.

But then again he made it 13 seasons with the bears before he was killed which was about 12 seasons more than anyone would have guessed.

Again, I donā??t understand why judging him as a person would make you like or dislike this movie. Like one of the native people said, he crossed a line between man and nature and that itself is disrespectful. So you can even HATE Tim Treadwell if you want. But its still an amazing and moving story irregardless. Not to mention very well put together and narrarted by the director Werner Herzog!