Do you remember the scenes in “ The Wolf of Wall Street” in which he was incapacitated? Well, this time he spends half of the time like that, and worse. That’s life in the digital era.ġ – you get to see a man seriously beaten up by a bear, then buried alive, then thrown into a frozen river. Here are My 3 Very Valid Reasons to Watch the Movie, and Love It: If Leo doesn’t get the Oscar this time, The Internet will fall under the weight of the memes produced. It’s the perfect match for Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” – except here there is snow, and arrows. The opening sequence – an Arikara attack against the fur trappers camp – is breathtaking, intense, and particularly powerful. Among the several interesting trivia: the scenes are all shot using natural light (this means NO green screen, ever: all the scenes are real) the crew was filming under extreme environmental and physical circumstances to “find the truth” Leonardo Di Caprio really eats a raw buffalo liver on scene – and being a vegan, he had to consult with his lawyer and agents first. The making of “The Revenant” is already material for legends. I can almost hear the Disco Music in the background.īack to our days. Quite different from the original story anyway, as I have read (I confess, I haven’t watched this one). There was already one version for the big screen, released in 1971 (“ Man in the Wilderness“) with Robert Harris. The man survives the attack (not a spoiler, or there wouldn’t be much of a plot, right?) and starts his incredible journey back home, driven by revenge desire and love for his family. The rest is myth – and it’s fine, because it’s the tale of the American Frontier, and of every Frontier. And he was attacked by a bear, and survived to tell the story. The details are impossible to know for sure, but what seems to be fact-like is that a Hugh Glass really existed, and he was a fur trapper. The plot is inspired by a real story-turned-legend that took place in the early 19th century, somewhere on the Missouri River.
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