The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest

	USA 2010 Director: Anthony Geffen Cast: Conrad Anker, Leo Houlding, Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson Rating: PG Language: English Release Date: 6 August 2010 Running Time: 1 hour 34 minutes The Movie Review George Mallory		The WILDEST DREAM: CONQUEST Of EVEREST Storyline: N/A Cast: N/A Ending: N/A Overall:
	There aren't many documentary movies that you can see in regular cinemas, and I didn't remember whether The Wildest Dream was even screened in Indonesia, but if it did then I kinda repent not having seen it. Movies about Mountain climbing are best seen in big screen. Besides, there is always something interesting and educative about documentary films as they cover real things happen to real people and especially if those things concerning danger and something out of the ordinary. Well, you won't call climbing Mount Everest as something ordinary right? But sometimes documentary could also be as boring as seeing photo albums of someone you don't know. Let's see what exactly you are going to see in The Wildest Dream: Conquer of Everest. The View to Mount Everest What The Wildest Dream try to document essentially centers on a spectacular and possibly controversial climb of a man named George Mallory and his friend, Andrew Irvine. Both were British Climbers who climbed Mount Everest in 1924 on their third attempt to conquer it. By that time, the 20s was the Golden Era of Adventure. George Mallory was possibly interested in conquering the Mountain as it was the only thing left unconquered, standing high as the highest point in our Planet Earth. George Mallory's body was found in 1999 (Don't worry, it's not a spoiler) by Conrad Anker. But the controversial question is... Did George Mallory and Andrew Irvine had already conquered Mount Everest in 1924, which was 30 years before the real documented conquer by the famous New Zealand explorer Sir Edmund Hilary and his Sherpa/friend Tenzing Norgay? Leo Houlding The movie follows the accounts of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine as well as the accounts of Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding. The movie is narrated by Liam Neeson and using real documents/footages/old movies of the real George Mallory and also interviewing his granddaughter. While in this movie Conrad Anker is trying to retrace the steps taken by George Mallory to see if he did really had reached the summit thus making him the first ever man to set foo on the top of Mount Everest. The movie blends everything related to George Mallory including the finding of his frozen body and the attempts of Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding in 2007. The Wildest Dream also features several well-known actors: Hugh Dancy, Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Alan Rickman and Ralph Fiennes who are acting as voices of the deceased climbers. George Mallory himself is voiced by Ralph Fiennes (of Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter film series) for his interaction through letters with his wife Ruth (voiced by the late Natasha Richardson). Conrad Anker and Loe Houlding The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest is distributed by National Geographic Entertainment and directed by Anthony Geffen as his directorial debut and this movie still has flaws. I mean The Wildest Dream delivers interesting and detailed facts about George Mallory and his ascend to Mount Everest and I admire him for having such courage but the movie doesn't entirely make me care enough to know further about him. Probably for British viewers or climbers who know George Mallory even before this movie was produced, seeing The Wildest Dream is a must, certainly. But at some points the movie can boring. The packaging of the detailed facts really needs to be improved next time. For me personally, it would be very nice to see a movie about the success and struggle of Indonesian mountaineering team on Ekspedisi Mount Everest Indonesia 1997 as the first country from South East Asia that reached on the Summit of Mount Everest. Or a movie about Clara Sumarwati, the controversial Indonesian woman climber who claimed and acknowledged to have reach the summit of Mount Everest in 26 September 1996. She has terrible fate of suffering mental illness since 1997. You can know about her more in this page: Pendaki Wanita Indonesia Pertama. > More documentary and drama movies of brave explorers and climbers: North Face (2008), Touching the Void (2003) and Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997). > Cold High Places, Scary Places: Frozen (2010), Vertical Limit (2000). © iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com Twitter: @movielogy posted: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 10:06 pm

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