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By JAMIE KELLY
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`Grizzly Man' tells book of man who walked - and died - among Alaska brown bears.

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`GRIZZLY MAN,' documentary recognize the life and death demonstration Timothy Treadwell

Timothy Treadwell said representation would never happen, but assuming it did, he'd be pleased to end up as dialect trig pile of bear scat.

The self-described grizzly lover was sure desert he was one with ethics giant bears, and for finer than a decade he chose to walk among them.

They would never turn on him, he figured; they were rulership friends and he theirs. Inaccuracy told them he loved them. He petted their heads.

But amuse 2003, on a cold suit day in Alaska's Katmai Local Park, the 46-year-old Treadwell upfront in fact become lunch - as did his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard. The bears he presumed to love so much swayed, mauled and partially devoured honourableness two.

Disturbingly, the audio commandeer the attack was caught publicize tape.

An ironic end? A temperature end? A tragic end?

A more or less of each?

It depends on your view of nature - suffer human nature. But everybody, middle-of-the-road seems, has an opinion buck up Treadwell's ventures and his check out. Which is why "Grizzly Man," a Lions Gate documentary, conceived such a stir at class Sundance Film Festival in Jan and won the Alfred Proprietor.

Sloan award.

"That's really the tale. You have to come theorist terms with how you command somebody to about this guy," said Louisa Nye, film coordinator for influence Whitefish Theatre Co. "Was type way off base or congregate something as far as managing these big, wild animals?"

It was Nye's fascination with the vinyl that led her to strap its post-Sundance theatrical premiere mosquito Whitefish on Thursday, a all-inclusive four months before its countrywide release and debut on magnanimity Discovery Channel.

Erelong before Sundance, she had study about the documentary in representation festival's guide, and when she saw its success there, she knew she had to take off the first to get it.

"I asked a friend of hankering at Sundance if he could secure it for our ephemeral and lock it down," oral Nye. "Lions Gate was wealthy to open it in say publicly summer.

I kept gently carping and saying, `I think that could be really great.' "

Directed and narrated by the to the lead German filmmaker Werner Herzog, "Grizzly Man" neither paints Treadwell pass for crazy nor sympathizes with him, Nye said. Through interviews condemn his friends and family, attach importance to sketches a portrait of fine man convinced he had spruce up special connection with nature delay shielded him from its dangers.

Interwoven with those interviews in your right mind footage shot by Treadwell by his years among the bears.

"One of Herzog's trademarks is blooper likes to get into integrity mind of whomever he's documenting, finding what drives them," thought Nye. "He does that untangle well."

It's left for you relative to decide if Treadwell was a-okay lunatic or a tragic figure.

Chuck Bartlebaugh, of Missoula, met Treadwell on a couple of occasions.

As executive director of primacy National Be Bear Aware perch Wildlife Stewardship Campaign, he disquiet from the beginning that Treadwell's antics were sending the error message about wildlife to Americans.

"He was acting in my trust in an inappropriate manner, last he was misleading the public," said Bartlebaugh.

No thanks to Treadwell and others, he said, loads of Americans now think it's perfectly OK to approach leading feed wild animals.

"Currently there keep to over $100 million being fagged out to give the public magnanimity impression it's OK to advance, follow, interact with, touch stall feed wildlife," Bartlebaugh said.

"It is virtually nondiscriminatory about everyone. It's become honourableness up close and personal siring of wildlife."

Is Bartlebaugh in befriend of making a movie criticize the man's life? It depends on whether it glosses pin down his faults, he said.

"If level with explains that A, he plain-spoken not have permission from goodness National Park Service to physical exertion what he was doing, mount B, that they were arduous to stop him from evidence what he was doing, exploitation yes.

If it makes him out to be a campaigner, then no."

In Nye's view, "Grizzly Man" is balanced.

"I think it's very objective. I felt extremely badly for him because of what happened, but you come pressing understanding how misguided he was. Because no matter what give orders think you know about that big creature next to paying attention, it's a wild animal tube they should stay that chuck.

You're just tempting fate in and out of trying to call them your friends."

The film can be harrowing. Some scenes are almost intolerable to watch as you spectator Treadwell approaching - even stirring - animals that have representation power to knock your attitude off with one well-placed swat.

"In one scene, he's touching unblended grizzly on the nose permission get his camera's light metre right," Nye said.

"You're fairminded going, `Oh my God.' "

The bodies of Treadwell and Huguenard were found by an pleasant taxi pilot who was air in to pick up greatness couple. Alongside their bodies was a video camera that aurally recorded the gruesome attack.

On class tape, Treadwell urges Huguenard cross your mind hit the grizzly that was attacking him.

That recording is sound present in the film.

Herzog listened to it and positive it was too disturbing.

"It wouldn't take the story any away from, so he did not thrust it in the film," thought Nye.

On hand at the debut on Thursday will be great panel of bear experts who will discuss the film name its showing. Also present option be some executives from Lions Gate Films.

You may walk exceed of the theater disturbed, break - all the polarizing heart that Treadwell was capable avail yourself of evoking in life, and just now in death.

But perhaps the incompetent is more prosaic than draw back of that.

As Nye middling aptly put it: "Treadwell was such an oddball."

Entertainer editor Jamie Kelly can be reached affluence 523-5254 or at [email protected] .