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* AccidentalAesop: The documentary is supposed to be a lesson on why nature is dangerous when underestimated, the other lesson can be interpreted as "Popularity and fame are corrupting influences that can enable a person's worst habits". While Treadwell did indeed manage to survive his trips and physically interacted with bears and their cubs, the attention from the media and the public more than likely encouraged his antics by treating him like a celebrity and treating his dangerous behavior as just wacky shenanigans, and probably contributed to his self-mythologizing behavior that would eventually lead to his death.
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* AccidentalAesop: The documentary is supposed to be a lesson on why nature is dangerous when underestimated, the other lesson can be interpreted as "Popularity and fame are corrupting influences that can enable a person's worst habits". While Treadwell did indeed manage to survive his trips and physically interacted with bears and their cubs, the attention from the media and the public more than likely encouraged his antics by treating him like a celebrity and treating his dangerous behavior as just wacky shenanigans, and probably contributed to his the self-mythologizing behavior that would eventually lead to his death.
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* HarsherInHindsight: In-Universe, the pilot's insults towards Treadwell, including calling him "retarded" and that "he got what he deserved", are really difficult to forgive after the film continues to explain ''just how bad it was.'' It also doesn't help that Treadwell was actually mentally ill, making the ableist slur even more harsh and unnecessary, and that the coroner report showed that Treadwell did everything he could to save Amie from the bear that killed them. This is brought home with the scene where Herzog listens to the tape, and is so horrified that he has to turn it off. It's made clear by this that ''no one'' deserves to die like that, [[WhatTheHellHero and that the pilot was absolutely wrong to say this.]]
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* AccidentalAesop: The documentary is supposed to be a lesson on why nature is dangerous when underestimated, the other lesson can be interpreted as "Popularity and fame are corrupting influences that can enable a person's worst habits". While Treadwell did indeed manage to survive his trips and physically interacted with bears and their cubs, the attention from the media and the public more than likely encouraged his antics by treating him like a celebrity and treating his dangerous behavior as just wacky shenanigans, and probably contributed to his self-mythologizing.
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* AccidentalAesop: The documentary is supposed to be a lesson on why nature is dangerous when underestimated, the other lesson can be interpreted as "Popularity and fame are corrupting influences that can enable a person's worst habits". While Treadwell did indeed manage to survive his trips and physically interacted with bears and their cubs, the attention from the media and the public more than likely encouraged his antics by treating him like a celebrity and treating his dangerous behavior as just wacky shenanigans, and probably contributed to his self-mythologizing.self-mythologizing behavior that would eventually lead to his death.
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* AccidentalAesop: The documentary is supposed to be a lesson on why nature is dangerous when underestimated, the other lesson can be interpreted as "Popularity and fame are corrupting influences that can enable a person's worst habits". While Treadwell did indeed manage to survive his trips and physically interacted with bears and their cubs, the attention from the media and the public more than likely encouraged his antics by treating him like a celebrity and treating his dangerous behavior as just wacky shenanigans.
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* AccidentalAesop: The documentary is supposed to be a lesson on why nature is dangerous when underestimated, the other lesson can be interpreted as "Popularity and fame are corrupting influences that can enable a person's worst habits". While Treadwell did indeed manage to survive his trips and physically interacted with bears and their cubs, the attention from the media and the public more than likely encouraged his antics by treating him like a celebrity and treating his dangerous behavior as just wacky shenanigans.shenanigans, and probably contributed to his self-mythologizing.
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* CaptainObviousAesop: Nature and wildlife are indeed beautiful and enchanting, the animals themselves still have instincts that drive them for survival. The documentary shows that while Treadwell's actions were indeed awe-inspiring, he still put himself in danger and refused to acknowledge how dangerous his own actions were.
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* CaptainObviousAesop: Nature and wildlife are indeed beautiful and enchanting, but the animals themselves still have instincts that drive them for survival. The documentary shows that while Treadwell's actions were indeed awe-inspiring, he still put himself in danger and refused to acknowledge how dangerous his own actions were.
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## His inappropriate and insensitive behaviour towards others (such as saying gay people don't have problems compared to him, chastising a fly for eating from a dead fox cub in front of him). He refused to acknowledge how dangerous his behaviour was, and he ignored concerns from Amie and the park authorities. He was also highly critical of others, as he interpreted messages from fans as death threats and saw the "Treadwell Rule" as a threat to his work. Finally, he thought little of the park authorities and believed he knew better than them. (lack of empathy).
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## His inappropriate and insensitive behaviour behavior towards others (such as saying gay people don't have problems compared to him, chastising a fly for eating from a dead fox cub in front of him). He refused to acknowledge how dangerous his behaviour behavior was, and he ignored concerns from Amie and the park authorities. He was also highly critical of others, as he interpreted messages from fans as death threats and saw the "Treadwell Rule" as a threat to his work. Finally, he thought little of the park authorities and believed he knew better than them. (lack of empathy).
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* AccidentalAesop: The documentary is supposed to be a lesson on why nature is dangerous when underestimated, the other lesson can be interpreted as "Popularity and fame are corrupting influences that can enable a person's worst habits". While Treadwell did indeed manage to survive his trips and physically interacted with bears and their cubs, the attention from the media and the public more than likely encouraged his antics by treating him like a celebrity and treating his dangerous behavior as just wacky shenanigans.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Treadwell was officially diagnosed as Bipolar. His actions in the documentary suggest that he had a God Complex.
## Treadwell believed he did a better job protecting the bears than the park authorities did and that group of poachers saw him as more of a threat than the park services. The documentary also speculated that he wrote messages on rocks for himself to find in his videos so it would look like he was under threat of being murdered by poachers (inflated sense of self-importance).
## He believed he was admired by wild bears and wanted to be seen by the public as a protector of grizzly bears who defended them from poachers (a deep need for admiration).
## His inappropriate and insensitive behaviour towards others (such as saying gay people don't have problems compared to him, chastising a fly for eating from a dead fox cub in front of him). He refused to acknowledge how dangerous his behaviour was, and he ignored concerns from Amie and the park authorities. He was also highly critical of others, as he interpreted messages from fans as death threats and saw the "Treadwell Rule" as a threat to his work. Finally, he thought little of the park authorities and believed he knew better than them. (lack of empathy).
## He recklessly interacted with bears despite being reprimanded and being warned constantly by the park authorities. As said before, he saw the "Treadwell Rule" as an affront to his work when the park authorities were looking out for his safety. They were simply asking him to move his camp at least a mile away from the animals every seven days since it could put him in danger. He also believed that the park belonged to him and that the authorities were in ''his'' territory (entitlement).
## Treadwell believed he did a better job protecting the bears than the park authorities did and that group of poachers saw him as more of a threat than the park services. The documentary also speculated that he wrote messages on rocks for himself to find in his videos so it would look like he was under threat of being murdered by poachers (inflated sense of self-importance).
## He believed he was admired by wild bears and wanted to be seen by the public as a protector of grizzly bears who defended them from poachers (a deep need for admiration).
## His inappropriate and insensitive behaviour towards others (such as saying gay people don't have problems compared to him, chastising a fly for eating from a dead fox cub in front of him). He refused to acknowledge how dangerous his behaviour was, and he ignored concerns from Amie and the park authorities. He was also highly critical of others, as he interpreted messages from fans as death threats and saw the "Treadwell Rule" as a threat to his work. Finally, he thought little of the park authorities and believed he knew better than them. (lack of empathy).
## He recklessly interacted with bears despite being reprimanded and being warned constantly by the park authorities. As said before, he saw the "Treadwell Rule" as an affront to his work when the park authorities were looking out for his safety. They were simply asking him to move his camp at least a mile away from the animals every seven days since it could put him in danger. He also believed that the park belonged to him and that the authorities were in ''his'' territory (entitlement).
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* WhatAnIdiot: Treadwell was a reckless, mentally ill man who never got the professional help he needed. The outcome of his last summer is sad, horrific, and not [[BlackComedy funny]] or gratifying in any way. You can only shake your head in despair at what came of him.
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** The bear fight that ended with one of them taking a dump mid-attack.
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** The bear fight that ended with one of them taking a dump mid-attack. (While this ''is'' normal, it can be pretty funny who those who aren't overly familiar with animal behavior.)
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** Two people died in RealLife. They died horribly, and it was needless.
** Watching Herzog listen to the tape is agonizing. The owner of the tape says she still owns it; she now keeps it in a bank safe-deposit box, however, and has never listened to it nor let anyone else listen to it since the documentary was made.
** The Don Edwards song "Coyotes" playing towards the end.
--->''Well he cursed all the roads and the oil men,''\\
''And he cursed the automobile,''\\
''Said this is no place for an hombre like I am,''\\
''In this new world of asphalt and steel.''
** Two people died in RealLife. They died horribly, and it was needless.
** Watching Herzog listen to the tape is agonizing. The owner of the tape says she still owns it; she now keeps it in a bank safe-deposit box, however, and has never listened to it nor let anyone else listen to it since the documentary was made.
** The Don Edwards song "Coyotes" playing towards the end.
--->''Well he cursed all the roads and the oil men,''\\
''And he cursed the automobile,''\\
''Said this is no place for an hombre like I am,''\\
''In this new world of asphalt and steel.''
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* ParanoiaFuel: Even if you believe those "evil poachers" left the carved messages ([[WildMassGuessing some think they were made by Treadwell himself or his girlfriend]]), it takes a very high level of paranoia to consider "Hi Timothy Treadwell - See you next summer" and a freaking ''smiley face'' as death threats.
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** Even if you believe those "evil poachers" left the carved messages ([[WildMassGuessing some think they were made by Treadwell himself or his girlfriend]]), it takes a very high level of paranoia to consider "Hi Timothy Treadwell - See you next summer" and a freaking ''smiley face'' as death threats.
** Even if you believe those "evil poachers" left the carved messages ([[WildMassGuessing some think they were made by Treadwell himself or his girlfriend]]), it takes a very high level of paranoia to consider "Hi Timothy Treadwell - See you next summer" and a freaking ''smiley face'' as death threats.
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There is no direct evidence Treadwell was killed by a 'rogue bear', and his actions clearly played a role in his death, as he repeatedly ignored sound advice and got both himself and his girlfriend killed. Blame on him is not misplaced.
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* {{Misblamed}}: Treadwell is frequently held up as a reckless idiot whose insistence on treating bears the way he did led him to an inevitable, gruesome death. While he certainly made his share of mistakes in the wild, none of the bears he interacted with during the summer attacked him, and he was not killed while filming a bear at close range. He and Amie were attacked in the rain, in their tent, by a rogue bear desperate for food. True, he was not supposed to be there that late in the season for that precise reason (any other bears would already be hibernating), but even his lack of bear spray was a conscious risk he took on after spraying a bear and feeling terrible about it.
