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Double D
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Sep 13, 2014 - 01:27pm PT
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Nice read Ed.
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Sep 18, 2014 - 09:30am PT
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I'm not sure what Film Bitcharat saw but the Upraising is a great film, it's about Freedom and it Rocks. . .df
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AE
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Boulder, CO
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I enjoyed the film for what it was, on the first night premier at Chautauqua, but also relate well to Bisharat's critique.
First, after 7 years of effort, congrats to these blokes on a very professional film that will certainly appeal to a much broader audience than most other "insider" flicks that smack of a different set of cliches - to paraphrase the ironic assessment of climbing mag articles of 30 years ago, "The World's Greatest Climb, by the World's Greatest Climber- Me".
This is of course both the strength and shortcoming of the movie. The storyboard demands a clear flow, free of too many footnotes and messy asides which drag or confuse the plot; here, they chose to simplify greatly, manufacturing a bit in the eras but arguably justifiable, nevertheless.
My personal peeve is how the historian/filmmakers once again create or reinforce the prevalent paradigms and except for new, obscure footage, offered no new revelations to challenge them. YC is obviously a shrewd businessman, who seems to conveniently forget all the partners like Frost, a real designer too nice to seek the spotlight, Salathe whose pitons he copied, etc.
I would like to know why Mort Hempel has conveniently been discarded in the polite history of climbing, both in the Valley and the Tetons, etc. Perhaps a mentor/equal to Pratt, the man who reputedly dragged Yvon up the Snazz (and Yvon's marginal contribution to Tetons lore being his one-time record longest leader fall?). He still lives in Boulder, I believe, but nobody bothered to pay his ticket to the Camp 4 reunion, or otherwise look deeper into the darker side of one whose climbing ambitions did not fulfill the script requirements.
Just my two cents.
Short version, if you don't like the movie, please make your own and put it out there for all the flamers to judge.
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