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#100 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 22, 2019, 02:56:56 am


Some interesting, and surprising, comments from Honnold, in this interview with Lance Armstrong.

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#101 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 22, 2019, 02:16:47 pm


Some interesting, and surprising, comments from Honnold, in this interview with Lance Armstrong.
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Honnold's face when LA talks about having kids and decreased performance  ;)

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#102 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 23, 2019, 03:32:10 pm
Off to see Free Solo tomorrow night. It eventually arrived in the backwater that is Edinburgh  :icon_welcome:

Canny wait

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#103 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 23, 2019, 06:00:53 pm
showed it twice in Aberdeen, first time i was busy, second time they didn't publicise, now busy for third showing too.

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#105 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 24, 2019, 10:49:22 am
Bit of an odd question but is the Dawn Wall a loud film (in terms of sound track, power screams etc.)?

It's showing in Leeds at The Climbing Lab this Friday but I'm looking after a friends dog for the weekend. They are happy for me to bring a dog into the wall whilst the showing is on but if it's a loud film I don't think it would be fair on him.

He's very well behaved, quiet so no problems with disruption - I'm just worried about the noise...

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#106 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 24, 2019, 10:58:59 am
There’s lots of swelling music etc, and it was relatively loud in the cinema (not Nolan loud or anything). I’ve not been to the Lab but I’m assuming that they don’t have a full Dolby surround with subwoofers, so I reckon the doggo will be fine.

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#107 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 24, 2019, 01:46:46 pm
subwoofers, so I reckon the doggo will be fine.

lol.

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#108 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 24, 2019, 01:48:27 pm
On the subject Honnold's social awkwardness and fear response, I found this BBC podcast interview very interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06y7htv

The key bit that stood out for me was that he views "not being scared" as a practicable skill and just... practices. It sounds like a lot of his social awkwardness could be attributed to his family dynamic during his childhood without having to resort to any labels.

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#109 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 25, 2019, 04:20:19 pm
.. he views "not being scared" as a practicable skill and just... practices. It sounds like a lot of his social awkwardness could be attributed to his family dynamic during his childhood without having to resort to any labels.

Totally relate to that. Practicing maintaining function while feeling scared.

There's a difference between "feeling fear" and "behaving scared".

I'd suggest Alex means practicing not behaving scared, and that he has grown accustomed to feeling fear.

There are times when I'm reminded just how much fear I used to feel when soloing, but I was the one determining the outcome (at least hoping to!).

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#110 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 26, 2019, 01:21:57 pm
How ironic the opening quote :

"Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.“

And THAT is what our pursuit can help us all understand.

Climbing is one sport in which the yin/yang approaches to problems can beautifully co-exist - wanted to avoid the unnecessary gender reference.

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#111 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 26, 2019, 01:30:07 pm
I got half way through. Seems to me like like a lot of over interpretation and possibly trying to fight battles with the wrong people. Id argue that the millions of normal tourists driving laps round yosemite are more likely to be doing more to destroy and ignore the history/spirit/whatever of the place. Or maybe being a white male cis climber im just a cunt?

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#112 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 26, 2019, 08:37:32 pm
One of my female friends was going on a bit of a rant once, saying that it was a disgrace that the patriarchy had stolen the word "cunt" to use as a swear word, and that it was about time women took the word back. I said that while they were about it, could they take "minge" as well? This did not go down well.

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#113 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 26, 2019, 08:48:37 pm
Why can’t men and women both use the word cunt? Cunt.

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#115 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 26, 2019, 09:07:37 pm
Why can’t men and women both use the word cunt? Cunt.

Prime material for a fresh thread on UKC. Fiend - when you’re un-banned you know what to do :)

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#116 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 27, 2019, 02:10:20 am
I prefer to use the other four letter C word.

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#117 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 27, 2019, 05:13:36 pm
There’s lots of swelling music etc, and it was relatively loud in the cinema (not Nolan loud or anything). I’ve not been to the Lab but I’m assuming that they don’t have a full Dolby surround with subwoofers, so I reckon the doggo will be fine.

I forgot to reply to this after work, sorry!

But thanks for the response, all went okay except the pooch kept farting....

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#118 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
January 28, 2019, 12:56:45 pm
Was she in the same cinema as you?

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#119 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
February 11, 2019, 09:46:53 am
Saw the premiere of Free Solo in Kendal last night. It is the most moving and inspirational film I’ve ever seen on lots of different levels beside the obvious.

I'm a bit late to the party, and hadn't really had any interest in seeing this (nor the Dawn Wall film). However, last night I ended up at The Palace in Longridge 'being sociable'.

I'd agree with Shark on this one. It has to be the best climbing film I've ever seen by a fair margin. From my reading about it, that isn't what I'd imagined 'the move' pitch to look like.

 :o :o :o

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#120 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
February 11, 2019, 10:24:58 am
Free Solo won the best documentary Bafta last night.  :thumbsup:

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#121 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
February 11, 2019, 05:18:37 pm

From my reading about it, that isn't what I'd imagined 'the move' pitch to look like.

 :o :o :o

For entertainment purposes: Honnold set a replica of the Boulder Problem at Vaux Eas:



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#122 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
February 11, 2019, 06:57:17 pm
Saw the premiere of Free Solo in Kendal last night. It is the most moving and inspirational film I’ve ever seen on lots of different levels beside the obvious.

I'm a bit late to the party, and hadn't really had any interest in seeing this (nor the Dawn Wall film). However, last night I ended up at The Palace in Longridge 'being sociable'.


 :o :o :o

I hope you stood for the national anthem Paul! ? :blink:

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#123 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
February 12, 2019, 09:43:18 am
I did, with my mug of tea.

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#124 Re: Dawn Wall and Free Solo films
February 21, 2019, 07:54:18 am
Backtracking to an earlier topic in the discussion -- from an interview with Vasarhelyi and Chin (who's known him for a decade):

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/free-solo-risks-falling-oscar-best-documentary-winner-1202044480/

"While Honnold has never been formally diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum, the filmmakers suspect he falls there somewhere."

Also, people may appreciate this, in which Honnold enjoys the shit out of terrible terrible Hollywood climbing scenes:


 

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