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Mt. Everest Film Analysis

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Everest Review | The mountain wins but movie fails to scale the summit
Watching this movie leaves the viewer in no doubt that the hero of this movie is Mt. Everest.Everest is by no means what would be called an entertainment film. The mountain is brutal in real life and similarly is reflected in this movie. The opening few texts take care of business and get us right into how mountain-climbing, an activity for highly trained explorers transformed into an Adventure tourism. Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) is the man in charge of one such company called Adventure Consultants. Rob leads one such expedition in the summer of 1996 leaving his pregnant wife Jan Hall (Keira Knightley) behind in New Zealand. The story is based on a real-life tragedy during …show more content…

Things go wrong and if the weather turns bad it can cause havoc. As viewers, we’re left with the feeling of wanting to scream at the characters to turn around and not go further as events unfold which seals the climbers’ doom. Comparisons to one of the all time disaster movies Titanic are inevitable, though here Director Baltasar Karmakur fails in his attempt for the audience to connect with the character, though he does his best to wrangle the huge character sets. It was at times difficult to keep track of who’s who as the climbing gear often masked the face and muffled their voices. The screenplay is crisp in its writing and the movie moves along briskly as it hits all the beats with precision, though it suffers from under-developed characters and often at times using scenes which lead to nowhere.
Baltasar and the writers Mark Medoof, Simon Beaufoy & Justin Isbell handicapped the movie from reaching its summit and figured the awe-inspiring spectacle of Everest and its visual would carry the film. We are left with a bit of a disappointment that the film could have been more. The movie is a definite watch for the visuals which transport you to the top of the world. Overall a finely made film but little care in handling and it would have surely got this film to the summit it set out to

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Jon Krakauer is looking to fulfill a childhood ambition by finally climbing Mount Everest. After being assigned to write a brief piece about the mountain for Outside magazine, Krakauer manages to convince his bosses to fund a full-fledged expedition to the top. Bold. Krakauer is climbing with Adventure Consultants, a commercial group led by experienced climber Rob Hall. The journalist befriends several members of his group, such as Andy Harris, a guide, and Doug Hansen, a fellow client and postal worker back home.

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In the long run, Krakauer concludes that complete arrogance is in part to blame for the tragedy that takes place on Everest. Hall "bragged on more than one occasion that he could get almost any reasonably fit person to the summit. " Their arrogance also caused their clients to lower their guard and not fully appreciate the risks of the expedition. Overall, Krakauer taught many different themes within the novel that everyone should

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, it is important to note that the characters portrayed in this book are real people. The unique conditions and the weather of the setting forced the climbers to make choices that they could not have made in a different situation. The tough choices made by the climbers and the setting influenced the result of the story. Krakauer’s tone for the most part is respectful toward the guides and climbers, and he narrates as objectively as possible, while including his own concerns and doubts. His tone in the beginning expresses excitement and nervousness, but later turns into

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79) (Simile). "The wind kicked up huge swirling waves of powder snow that washed down the mountain like breaking surf, plastering my clothing with frost." (pg. 125) (Simile).These smilies really compare, and show the reader the harsh conditions the climbers faced everyday. The main paradox in the book is that experience and preparation ultimately means nothing on Mt. Everest. In particular, no one thought that such a tragedy could occur on an expedition guided by Rob Hall, the most celebrated Everest guide dog of the decade.

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Mountain climbing is a very tough activity that includes years of training before someone is ready to complete an exhilarating climb. Looking around the world, there are many amazing places to climb. Although two of the most difficult and intense climbs include the Devil’s Thumb in Alaska and Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on earth. “Everest,” by Erik Weihenmayer and “The Devils Thumb,” by Jon Krakauer have some similarities and some differences in terms of the author’s perspective, organization structure, and tone and word choice. As the two authors wrote, they showed their struggles and feats of every situation through words.

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All in all, the author manages to balance out his appeal to emotion with the intense sequences of his journey up Mount Everest. Describing how sad he was when he saw his teammates buried in the snow ice cold, and also rescuing one of his teammates, only to see him die a few minutes later from severe

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Into Thin Air is a non fiction book written by Jon Krakauer which shows the dangers and challenges of climbing this almighty mountain known as Everest. In this extract, he emphasizes on the uncertainty the mountain offers and how the higher you go, the more fatigue will start hitting in. Jon Krakauer’s emphasis on the dangers and difficulties on climbing Everest, purposeful use of diction as well as also contrasting the dangers with beauty, deeply portrays how even in the toughest of times, people should always see the positives and in this scenario he admires the beauty Everest brings. Krakauer reiterates the difficulties/dangers of climbing Everest and how you have to adapt to any obstacles that might come your way.

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You are looking up at the top of the mountain that you have been climbing for weeks. Do you take the short dangerous route and expedite the time it takes to get to the top or the longer safe route and lengthen the time it takes to get to the top? Since Erik Weihenmayer and John Krakauer have both climbed burdensome mountains, they had to make decisions like these all the time. John Krakauer, who is the author of the memoir “The Devil’s Thumb”, successfully climbed Devil’s Thumb with no disabilities, but on the other hand, Erik Weihenmayer, who is the author of “Everest”, successfully climbed Mount Everest blind. Krakauer wrote his story more than a dozen years later and shared it with the reader by flashbacks and a more negative tone.

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Krakauer explains how following the discovery of Everest as the highest mountain in the world, the journey to the top would take the lives of 24 men, the efforts of 15 expeditions and the passage of 101 years before someone would finally reach the summit. This demonstrates how all though the expedition to the top was not easy, and would require the lives of many men, people would not stop trying because that is human nature. Not all people climb Mt. Everest in their lifetime, but most people, if not all, work hard to achieve something or be successful. Whether that success may be in their professional life, their personal life, or anything else, Mt. Everest can symbolize all of it. It symbolizes a journey to success and relates to the theme of humans natural drive and passion to pursue what they want.

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