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Eddie Vedder on Into the Wild
By Fred Topel | Image property of Paramount Vantage.
Into the Wild
Eddie Vedder Scores Into the Wild
"Sean had some resources," Vedder said. "People call him back immediately because of the amount of respect he's gained and earned over the years. I was just another one of those calls and immediately I responded, and said goodbye to what I thought was going to be a vacation after doing a long stretch with the band. Our friendship is incredibly important to me."
It sounds like Vedder was involved in the film's location shooting, or maybe they're just weekend warriors together. "We've had some really memorable times, whether it's running rapids or having coffee. It's amazing how those things with Sean can be really similar. To work with him is to work with somebody. With Sean, that's where you get into the good stuff beyond 'Hey, how ya doin'. How's the family?' That's all great but to work with somebody and really get into it, I really enjoy that. That seems to further the friendship. It just gets deeper. The work is really where it gets exciting. As this has formed and it now seems to be done, it was a real gift. I'm really glad that he heard my voice in all that because it's been a real gift."
The filmmaker gave the songwriter freedom to fuel his own artistic journey. "It just kind of grew organically. I may have been intimidated if Sean were to have said, 'We need this, and we need a theme, and it would be nice if it were structured this way or that way, and then it revisits this at the end.' None of that happened, or not consciously, and he started finding places to put the songs. With the music basically he allowed me to write my own lines, a couple of cover songs, so that was nice. He gave me a few lines that I could interpret. He gave me a lot of freedom, and I think the biggest thing was trust, which was just kind of unspoken. The story is so inspiring, just so inspiring, and the images were inspiring, and it was so easy to focus that it really became kind of an out of body experience. It went real quick and instruments were being handed to me and we were just doing all the takes real quick, and then we'd send it to Sean and he'd find places for it, and ask for a couple of more. It just kind of grew that way."
Even Vedder knows that most Hollywood productions don't allow that kind of freedom. "I don't know if I'd want to do this again, because I know it wouldn't be as good as this experience was, so I could just leave it at this. This was great."
Vedder particularly recalled a musical cue where Penn's direction made him laugh. "One of the directions that Sean gave me, [Chris] is leaving the bus before he gets to the river and the river is overflowing. Just a short little note he sent up, and he said, 'On this scene, don't be afraid to be too literal with the lyrics. He knows he's leaving, he knows he's leaving the bus, and he's not going back to his parents, and he's not going back to f*ck the 16 year old girl (I don't know why).'"
Into the Wild is out in theaters now.
For the trailer, review and more movie info, go to the Into the Wild Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Paramount Vantage.
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