Where The Wild Dads Are (feat. Debra Granik) | Episode 98

Oh, dads! They love things like the great outdoors and mansplaining political movements. But where does one draw the line between normal dad and egomaniac, survivalist dad? Does your father rant about consumerism or the coming nuclear holocaust? Does he ship your family off to the jungle to act out a colonialist fantasy? On this episode of Be Reel, Chance and Noah look at movies about wild dads and their wild dad ways. From Harrison Ford in “Mosquito Coast” to Viggo Mortensen in “Captain Fantastic” to Ben Foster in the recently released “Leave No Trace”, the guys break down how this off-the-grid genre portrays, glorifies, damns and justifies fathers with a dream of a simpler life.

At the 20-minute mark, director Debra Granik joins Chance to talk about portraying the Pacific Northwest's local flavor in “Leave No Trace," rendering a creeping sense of fear in her 2010 breakout "Winter's Bone," and what it means to take only what you need in America.