Favorite scenes?
All the scences with Emile Hirsch unshaved.
No, seriously, there are indeed a lot of great scenes:
1. When he steps into the wild at the beginning, crossing the Tek and so on (music “Long nights”)
2. When he finds the bus, moves in, explores the surroundings, writes his stuff on wood (music “Best unsaid”)
3. The discussion with Wayne in the bar about Alaska, the wild and “Society”
4. On the train (“King of the road”)
5. Salvation Mountain
6. When he leaves the bus and walks back to the Tek (music “No ceiling”)
7. When he wakes up in the bus with nausea – not a nice scene, but really impressing.
8. The very end, when the photo of the real Chris comes up
And that's just the very best ones. Actually, the whole movie is still my favorite one.
SteveSalmon wrote:The scene at the end where he embraces his parents.
That's actually one of the few scenes I don't like. First of all, it's too long. And then it always seems to me like a deal between Sean Penn and the parents. Something like: You are allowed to make the movie if you include a scene persuading the spectators that our son had finally forgiven us (which he might have done, maybe, or maybe not; in any case he didn't leave any message for them, so no one will ever know).
Well, that's my personal impression regarding that scene, but I might be completely wrong, of course.