Project Grizzly
A Canadian outdoorsman who fancies himself a survival expert crosses the wrong side of a grizzly bear. The grizzly begins to attack him, but our hero stares the bear down, nose to snout, inches apart. In that moment of eye contact, our hero has a cosmic connection with the bear and vows to return to meet grizzly face to face again. But he's no fool, so he decides to invent a grizzly-proof suit. For the next seven years he spends hundreds of thousands of dollars developing the whackiest series of full-body armour outfits, each one stronger, stranger, and more invincible, but less mobile. In an insane logic he tests the suits by having speeding trucks knock him down or by swinging half ton blocks of concrete into his head. In his obsession to face grizzly he becomes a deranged captain Ahab, and you are both horrified, uplifted and transfixed as you watch him sink. It's captured for real; you couldn't make this one up.
-- KK
Project Grizzly
Peter Lynch
1997, 72 min
$20, VHS only
Amazon
Director Peter Lynch called his film a 'northern' instead of a western. You can now stream it for free on www.nfb.ca and the NFB iPhone app (also free).
Posted by Moira on January 8, 2010 at 7:03 AM