The Film The Revenant

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The Revenant And How One Scene Shaped A Tale Of Revenge

The film The Revenant, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tim Hardy, is based in part on Michael Punke’s novel with the same title. The film is about a frontiersman name Hugh Glass, mauled by a bear, members of his own team kills his son and leaves him for dead. “The Revenant” is a revenge film but unlike Kill Bill and “Django Unchained” this is one man not fighting an army of people to avenge the one he loves but fighting nature. It would be reasonable to say the scene when Fitzgerald actually kills his only child,

Finally, Hugh shoots the bear again and kills her but that wasn’t the worst of he’s worries. He’s team finds him near death, they sat he’s broken bones and sews up he’s bear clewed back and neck and carries him up the hill trying to keep him alive. As the film moves on with Glass being carried on a wooded bored, you can see the lifeless expression on his face. He knows he’s going to die, he just doesn’t know when but when he’s son gets murdered right in front of he’s face and then Hugh gets buried in a shallow grave by a determined Fitzgerald. Glass is also determined and filled with some much angrier and sadness that he has no choice but to seek revenge on this one

In an interview with GlobalNews.com Glenn Ennis, the stuntman and actor who plays the bear, says “What’s interesting if often, an attack will be quite violent for a brief bit, and then the bear becomes seemingly calm. Has a graze, takes a little break, and then goes back to being very vicious and violent. We thought it was like a cat playing with a mouse. It runs the show, it’s a non-emotional creature, and probably feels like it has nothing to fear”. This is exactly how the bear was acting in this film. After storyboarding how the scene would play out, with the genius of Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro G. Iñárritu They brought to life a scene that could really change how film making is done with animals. For example, Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg staring Roy Scheider is about a killer shark, by the middle of the movie that shark is determined to kill these people, if you leave a shark alone long enough that shake would move on but this shake in Jaws never let up. The whole movie, this shark was jumping out of water almost on to a boat to just get some flesh out of these people. This is a highly unlikely scenario, given what we know about sharks. By contrast, the bear in The Revenant was just protecting her cubs, nothing less. Hugh Glass was at the wrong place at the wrong