Into the Wild

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was there.

Into the Wild was there.

Gone Baby Gone was there.

A bunch of really great movies.

Chelsea Guignabreau's Saint-Germain novels, starting with Hotel Transylvania in 1978 and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire from 1976, both helped establish the vampire as a romantic brooding figure.

LJ Smith's The Vampire Diaries series from 1991 featured is the closest direct ancestor of the Twilight-style young adult formula, published a year before Coppola's film and made into its own YA TV series in the wake of Twilight in 2009.

See also the TV show True Blood, which came out in 2008, but that one was a bit more adult, based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlene Harris, published from 2001 onwards.

But none of their vampires had been sparkly or vegetarian.

and proved that with a visual presentation on how she saw twilight with pale, beautiful creatures in the Pacific Northwest, capturing the feeling of ecstasy that she felt from the book.

And for that reason, no other director was ever in contention.

And because at this point Summit didn't yet own the rights, they had Catherine Hardwicke on board for a potential adaptation, but they needed to contact Stephanie Meyer, who by this point had been burned by the MTV film's adaptation and was pretty reluctant to give the rights away again.

They needed to prove that they were planning a faithful adaptation with no guns and no jet skis.

Those are illusory labels we made up.

there are only two types of people on the planet those who have compassion for others and those who don't don't let politics consume you and finally travis i understand you are preparing to abandon civilization and walk about there is great wisdom in solitude but enlightenment does not require you to disappear into the wilderness so before you go i encourage you to watch the film into the wild Now listen carefully, all four of you.

The shadow self is part of your consciousness that has become attached to fear, desire, identity, and the illusions of this world.

And the path to enlightenment begins when you learn to laugh at these attachments rather than allowing them to control your lives.

Jake, you are struggling with teenage horniness and masturbation.

You must rid yourself of these demons and then put on your pack and say, Bustin' makes me feel good.

I think it's very funny that he suggested I watch Into the Wild.

And I have seen that film, which is why I got familiar with what the actually edible plants in my area is.

For the 2007 films, we've got Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton, which I haven't seen yet.

We've got Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James, Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War, Hal Holbrook from Into the Wild, which I love the film.

I wouldn't say he was particularly incredible in the film, but I did like him in it.

And the winner, and in my opinion, like I say, I haven't seen a lot of them, but a great, great role, one of the best villains ever, Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Odd Men.