Really, photography and director does their best to capture the breathtaking and merciless beauty of Nature, as the magnificent stage on which the small, insignificant stories of the characters take place. Depicted in a time when the Struggle between humans and their environment was still in balance. “The Revenant” will provide many true eye-opening moments.ģ – you get to see the real protagonist of the story, in all her naked beauty: Nature, with capital “N”. I am sure we haven’t seen the best of this guy yet. He is also famous for his roles in Inception (again, with Di Caprio), Bane in The Dark Knight Rises or the amazing Mad Max: Fury Road, but for a real astounding proof of his talent, check out Legend (2015, a biopic of two twin brothers / gangsters set in London in the Seventies). He breathes true life, realism, psychology and some more devilish qualities into his Fitzgerald, who becomes the Archvillain and is able to sustain half of the plot on his shoulders alone. Really, Di Caprio is impressive, but Hardy is a ghost. Here delivers an impressive performance.Ģ – you get to see yet another extraordinary performance by that genius that is Tom Hardy. His work with voice, mimics, expressions is exceptional. Tom Hardy is becoming a paragon actor for character with a twisted, tormented psychology. Opening the gates to a new world for the main character).

(By the way: the Bear is The Mentor, here.

Then, to my disappointment, I realised that the bear is made in CGI, covering real stuntmen. It happens very suddently, and is so realistic – so natural – that I was wondering to myself “woah, how did they even do that? Can you train an animal so well?”. The bear scene: it had me completely shocked. “Oh wow, did he REALLY get assaulted by a bear on scene? How was it even possible?”. Not for the character: for the actor! That’s what they call “a committed performance”. His beard is authentic (and 18 months old), he swims in frozen waters, eats roots and bloody raw meat, is dragged and buried in a shallow grave, and generally gets beaten up so much for the part, that I actually felt sorry for the guy. Seriously, if he doesn’t get the Oscar this time, then I don’t know what else he has to do. 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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