McCandless is - was - an upper-middle class Emory graduate who decided to veer off the established path. He knows him as Alex, though the full alias is Alexander Supertramp. The young vagabond stranger is Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), but Franz doesn’t know that. Because Hal Holbrook’s face is achingly beautiful, never more so than in “Into the Wild” when his Ron Franz is asking - near begging - a young vagabond stranger to be his grandson. Someone once told me about a local Barnes & Noble employee who went around the store asking people to choose: “beautiful” or “achingly beautiful”? My unromantic adverb alarm went off and I picked beautiful.
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