--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you go to:
> 
> http://www.grizzlymanmovie.com/grizzly.html
> 
> The song begins playing when the page loads.

Nice.  Thanks for the link.  Reminds me of Emmylou Harris'
version of the Townes Van Zandt song "Pancho and Lefty."
Few songs manage to capture the *feel* of the West; this
is definitely one.  Interesting that it's by a Brit.

Speaking of all this noble loner in the wilderness stuffe,
if you don't know the Robert Redford film "Jeremiah Johnson,"
it is well worth your time.  Redford plays the real-life
title character, as an Easterner who travels to the West to
become a trapper, knowing diddleysquat about how to survive
there.  Fortunately, he runs into an old trapper who becomes
a kind of guru figure to him.

The basic plot is that Johnson, to save some pioneers' lives,
violates an Indian taboo and becomes a marked man.  For many
years afterwards, there was always one -- and, because he was
big medicine, only one -- Indian assigned to stalk and kill
him.  No matter where he went, no matter what he did, there
was always an Indian out there in the bushes waiting for the
opportunity to kill him.  After years of this, Johnson runs
into his old mentor, and they share some beans around the 
campfire and the old man says to his former apprentice,
"You've come far, pilgrim.  Was it worth it, all the trouble?"

Redford, in one of the most Zen moments ever captured on
film, says, "What trouble?"  One of my favorite moments 
in movies.








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