The Revenant
The Revenant is arguably one of the biggest films of 2015, testament of which is the large number of Academy awards it received. One of the most phenomenal aspects of the film is its ability to suck one into the icy, ruthless world of Glass while tugging you along a very simple plotline. The film follows a group of trappers in the Dakotas who flee an Indian ambush, their guide, Hugh Glass is nearly mauled to death by a grizzly that sees him as a threat to her two cubs. The party carries Glass on a stretcher before the leader, Andrew Henry, offers to pay whoever is be willing to remain with Glass and give him an honorable burial shouldn’t he make it. Fitzegerald and Bridger remain in addition to Glass’s son, but the former is scheming …show more content…
The script is inspired by The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge, by Michael Punke which is in turn based on the struggles of a man to survive the wild after he is mauled by a grizzly bear in the 1820s. Although the script bears modifications such as being shot in the winter and the bloody fight between Glass and Fitzgerald, these modifications go a long way to add to the entertainment value of the film keeping mind that it is, above everything else, a work of art (Barber, 2016). The film director, Alejandro Innaritu shot the entire film in natural lighting and in unmodified natural spaces, a fact that undoubtedly goes on to add to the great verisimilitude of each scene in the work. The only artificial addition to the work is the grizzly bear which, nonetheless, did little to take away the impeccable acting flair of Glass (played by Leonardo DiCaprio). Critics have expressed the opinion that for an actor with a knack for good execution in scenes that involve a lot of speaking, DiCaprio’s action in the Revenant—which grips more with his action than anything else—was in every way worthy of a Best Actor Academy Award for received for the role of Hugh Glass (Tallerico, 2015). It was only fitting, therefore, that DiCaprio bagged the award at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. Tom Hardy’s performance as the character of John Fitzgerald and Will Poulter’s execution of Jim Brigder were also commended along with the Innaritu’s
The Revenant is arguably one of the biggest films of 2015, testament of which is the large number of Academy awards it received. One of the most phenomenal aspects of the film is its ability to suck one into the icy, ruthless world of Glass while tugging you along a very simple plotline. The film follows a group of trappers in the Dakotas who flee an Indian ambush, their guide, Hugh Glass is nearly mauled to death by a grizzly that sees him as a threat to her two cubs. The party carries Glass on a stretcher before the leader, Andrew Henry, offers to pay whoever is be willing to remain with Glass and give him an honorable burial shouldn’t he make it. Fitzegerald and Bridger remain in addition to Glass’s son, but the former is scheming …show more content…
The script is inspired by The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge, by Michael Punke which is in turn based on the struggles of a man to survive the wild after he is mauled by a grizzly bear in the 1820s. Although the script bears modifications such as being shot in the winter and the bloody fight between Glass and Fitzgerald, these modifications go a long way to add to the entertainment value of the film keeping mind that it is, above everything else, a work of art (Barber, 2016). The film director, Alejandro Innaritu shot the entire film in natural lighting and in unmodified natural spaces, a fact that undoubtedly goes on to add to the great verisimilitude of each scene in the work. The only artificial addition to the work is the grizzly bear which, nonetheless, did little to take away the impeccable acting flair of Glass (played by Leonardo DiCaprio). Critics have expressed the opinion that for an actor with a knack for good execution in scenes that involve a lot of speaking, DiCaprio’s action in the Revenant—which grips more with his action than anything else—was in every way worthy of a Best Actor Academy Award for received for the role of Hugh Glass (Tallerico, 2015). It was only fitting, therefore, that DiCaprio bagged the award at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. Tom Hardy’s performance as the character of John Fitzgerald and Will Poulter’s execution of Jim Brigder were also commended along with the Innaritu’s