About Makalu Ming-Ho Gau
Is Makalu Ming-Ho Gau(The leader of the Taiwanese expedition team) in this movie?
shareYes - but he's not featured. The Taiwanese expedition is not shown in very good light. Early on, the Krakauer character stops one of the Taiwanese from putting his crampons on upside-down.
The movie makes it seem as though Jon Krakauer was everywhere at the same time, witness to everything; there are also a number of pretty big leaps - things I didn't read about in the book or in "The Climb" by Boukreev.
Sort of a cheesy flick. I'd like to see a remake of this one - it's an intriguing story, but this movie leaves out a lot.
yes i wish a bigger budget movie studio would actually do a full-feature movie about this tragedy and use all of the different opinions like boukreev's, david brashears', ed viesturs', sandy pittman's, neal beidleman's, et al and not just krakauer's. it was apparent that krakauer had some rather obvious bias toward the boukreev, fisher & pittman group because they were on the team that had more money to throw around. it was a classic case of "class envy". that being said, krakauer still wrote a helluva book that this tv movie just couldn't do it justice. give it about a $50 or $60 million budget or more with some top-draw actors and a director like ron howard, oliver stone or jerry bruckheimer and you're talking about an oscar-worthy movie.
shareKrakauer had his opinions just like anyone else. Opinions are like birthdays, everyone has one and none of them matter unless they're your own. I think Krakauer was criticized way too much for expressing his. I always felt he did the best he could up there considering his skill level and the conditions and some of what he said in the book was in response to the flak he took for not doing enough up there to help.
The movie was not very good, though, compared to how gripping the book was. I just read the book again and it IS a helluva book.