Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Entertainment grade: B–
History grade: C–
This article contains spoilers.
Hugh Glass was a frontiersman working in the upper Missouri river area in the early years of the 19th century. On a fur trapping expedition in 1823, he was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear.
Violence
Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is one of a group of men finishing up a fur trapping expedition in the wilderness. They are attacked by Ree (Arikara) warriors. Whoosh! Someone gets impaled on a spear. Bang! Someone gets shot off his horse. Crack! Someone’s bones shatter. There’s an unflinching close-up of an arrow thwacking into a face, a gun butt bashing into a face, a flying kick to a face. A horse gets shot in the face. It’s exceptionally well choreographed and filmed.
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This scene is based on a real-life incident: William H Ashley and Andrew Henry (the latter played by Domhnall Gleeson in the film) set up the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1822. In June 1823, Ashley’s band of around 70 men was attacked by Arikara warriors – they estimated around 600, though in the film it’s more like a dozen. Various accounts suggest that between 12 and 18 of Ashley’s men were killed.
Characters
In the film, 10 men get away. Among them are Captain Henry, Glass, Glass’s son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) and trappers John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) and Jim Bridger (Will Poulter). They have a conversation, but it’s all so extravagantly mumbled that it’s hard to work out what’s going on. Fitzgerald is fighty and racist, so he’s the baddie. Glass is the goodie, because he loves his son (who is half-Pawnee) in a gruff, manly way that involves telling him off a lot. The backstory about Glass’s love for a Pawnee woman is fiction. It has been suggested the real Glass had such a relationship, but there’s no firm evidence – and no evidence that he had any children.
Wildlife
As the men make their way through a forest, Glass happens upon two bear cubs and their angry mama. If you felt wan after the face-smashing scene at the start, reach for the smelling salts. Chomp! Growl! Shake! The bear sniffs him to see if he’s dead, then jumps up and down on his back. Splinter! Howl! Slash! Glass shoots the bear. That really gets on its wick. It tries to rip his throat out. He stabs it in the neck. It flops on him and dies heavily, squishing him like a punctured bouncy castle full of blood.
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The cinema audience is by this point laughing, half in horror and half because the scene goes on for so long that it becomes comical. Anyway, while historians are not certain of the precise details, the real Glass did get into a fight with a real bear, some time in August 1823.
Murder
The men find Glass in a rum old state. Captain Henry pays Fitzgerald, Bridger and Hawk to stay behind until it is time for Glass’s inevitable burial. When the captain leaves, Fitzgerald tries to bump Glass off. Hawk interrupts, so Fitzgerald bumps him off instead. This didn’t happen in real life, because Hawk didn’t exist. In the film, the ailing Glass sees Fitzgerald kill his son, giving him an extra motivation to stay alive and seek revenge. When Fitzgerald persuades Bridger to bury Glass alive and abandon him, you know Glass isn’t going to go quietly.
Survival
The real Glass survived his abandonment and dragged his battered body over hundreds of miles of terrain in pursuit of the men who left him for dead. Though he could read and write, Glass never set his story down in his own hand. It was first published by another writer in The Port Folio, a Philadelphia journal, in 1825. It may well have been embroidered then. It has been embroidered many times since.
Hardship
The film has invented some extra obstacles for Glass: it is snowing throughout, even though in real life his trek took place between August and October; the Arikara track him and chase him into a tree; he has to hollow out a dead horse to make himself a sleeping bag. It’s brilliantly filmed, but the characterisations and dialogue don’t match the sophistication of the visuals. Moreover, by the second lingering closeup of a horse’s eye or the sixth epic landscape shot with four-fifths sky and one-fifth land, even those sophisticated visuals begin to feel repetitive. As for the ending, it has been changed in one significant way: in real life, nobody got killed.
Verdict
The Revenant is an impressive film inspired by Glass’s real-life story, but lays it on a bit thick and ends up curiously unmoving. The whole thing is begging to be sped up into a two-minute YouTube video set to Benny Hill music.
In the Oscar-nominated film “The Revenant,” Leonardo DiCaprio, also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, plays Hugh Glass, a fur trader left for dead after a bear attack, who embarks on an ongoing, crawling battle over hundreds of miles and through six weeks of dark, cold nights, for survival…and revenge, in the early 19th-century wilderness of South Dakota. The film was shot in starkly beautiful, but dangerously frigid locations across British Columbia, Alberta and other remotely inhospitable areas.Filming in the frosty forests and on the tundra was rough enough, but the character of Hugh Glass endures being shot at by both the French and Indians; being half buried; sleet and snow; a broken ankle; punctured organs, gaping wounds and slashed skin from the claws of a vicious bear; malnutrition; heartbreak; riding a horse off an escarpment; and falling into icy, raging rapids.
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Dr. John Dery is an emergency room physician at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. “My wife and I saw the movie and in was an incredible story. You have to love Hollywood for telling a good story,” he says about the lengthy, but preposterous film. Here are the reasons Glass should have been in a wooden box:
COLD SPLASH: “Jumping into frigid water instantaneously causes all of your blood vessels to squeeze in vassal constriction and it can cause a shock to your system by shunting blood flow away from your periphery. Someone who has high blood pressure or cardiac risk factors would be in danger of cold-induced stress.”
WEEKS OF DAMP SHIVERING: “The worst case scenario is being cold and wet. Once you get wet it is very hard to get dry in those harsh conditions…and once you get cold it is very hard to get warm,” says Dery. “The survival instincts of the Native Americans in the story helped. They grabbed dry sticks and brush and packing them into their clothes to try to create some dry space between the skin and the clothing. They didn’t have all the nice Gore-Tex and North Face clothing we have now, but the idea was to increase the amount of warm air surrounding their bodies at all times.”
HIS SURVIVAL RATE WAS REDUCED EVEN FURTHER BY THE ELEMENTS: “The amount of trauma that was taking place at the same time he was battling the elements was overwhelming,” Dery insists. “It’s a well-known fact in the military that you have a greater than 85-percent chance of dying if you have a concurrent trauma as because it prevents your body from healing and stops it from responding the way its’ supposed to.”
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FATAL FROST: “The frostbitten tissue is actually frozen and dead – there are ice crystals growing inside of it. We often say that you freeze in January and we amputate in July because it takes several months to find out where the line of the good tissue or bad tissue is. It takes a long time to declare itself,” Dery explains. “Anyone who has ever waited outside for a school bus has felt that freezing in the tips of your fingers and ears. Then when you got inside to warm up you felt a burning sensation for about 15 minutes. That’s a little frost nip: it’s the start of frostbite. The exposed areas are the highest at risk: your face, neck and fingers, which we tend to not cover up, and were uncovered through much of the movie.”
HYPOTHERMIA: “We try to avoid hypothermia as much as possible in our traumatically injured patients. We try to keep them as warm as we can to keep the blood flowing to all of their tissues,” says Dery. “But sometimes we will actually try to use hypothermia to our advantage medically. We recently treated a woman who had a cardiac arrest. We were able to get her blood pressure back and started to wake her up a little bit, but then we actually kept her unconscious and intentionally made her hypothermic. It slows down your body’s reaction, slows down the chemistry, the heartbeat, the cerebral blood flow, and we used that to a clinical advantage in a controlled situation because it puts you that much closer to being in a comatose state. It’s almost a standard of care for someone who’s had a cardiac arrest.”
BODY ROT: “A Native American who helps Glass solemnly tells him ‘You’re dying. You body is rotten,’ Dery recalls. “All those damaged and frostbitten tissues were just dying off. There were some ways he desperately tried to remove those dying tissues in a very well depicted experience of having a lot of bad cold weather exposure. You saw Glass cuddling close to a rotting animal carcass and laying his bare back against it. The carcass had a lot of maggots throughout it, which are known to eat infected and dead – necrotic - tissue. Believe it or not we still use that method in modern medicine. Sometimes we have very bad diabetic foot ulcers to treat. We try to kill off and remove all the dead tissue and leave the viable tissue by applying specially grown, bacteria free maggots. They will only eat the dead tissue on the legs and leave the viable tissue intact.”
TRUE SURVIVORS: While the endurance of Glass is unlikely, Dery says there are real-life, modern survivalists. “If you really want to see people with survival skills, look at the homeless people outside on the streets,” he points out. “They are cold weather, winter survival experts. They are always looking to add layers of clothing to stay dry. They stuff their shoes, socks and clothes with plastic bags or anything they can find to try to protect their core body.”
Advice? “Keep dry material close to you so you can light a fire when you need to. Try to find Willow tree bark with natural oils and tannins which will light even if it is wet.”
'>In the Oscar-nominated film “The Revenant,” Leonardo DiCaprio, also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, plays Hugh Glass, a fur trader left for dead after a bear attack, who embarks on an ongoing, crawling battle over hundreds of miles and through six weeks of dark, cold nights, for survival…and revenge, in the early 19th-century wilderness of South Dakota. The film was shot in starkly beautiful, but dangerously frigid locations across British Columbia, Alberta and other remotely inhospitable areas.
US actor Leonardo Di Caprio listens during a press conference in Mexico City, on January 26, 2016 to promote his new movie 'The Revenant'. (Photo Credit RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
Filming in the frosty forests and on the tundra was rough enough, but the character of Hugh Glass endures being shot at by both the French and Indians; being half buried; sleet and snow; a broken ankle; punctured organs, gaping wounds and slashed skin from the claws of a vicious bear; malnutrition; heartbreak; riding a horse off an escarpment; and falling into icy, raging rapids.
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Icy rapids and conditions were some of the elements Leonardo DiCaprio battles in 'The Revenant' (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
Dr. John Dery is an emergency room physician at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. “My wife and I saw the movie and in was an incredible story. You have to love Hollywood for telling a good story,” he says about the lengthy, but preposterous film. Here are the reasons Glass should have been in a wooden box:
COLD SPLASH: “Jumping into frigid water instantaneously causes all of your blood vessels to squeeze in vassal constriction and it can cause a shock to your system by shunting blood flow away from your periphery. Someone who has high blood pressure or cardiac risk factors would be in danger of cold-induced stress.”
WEEKS OF DAMP SHIVERING: “The worst case scenario is being cold and wet. Once you get wet it is very hard to get dry in those harsh conditions…and once you get cold it is very hard to get warm,” says Dery. “The survival instincts of the Native Americans in the story helped. They grabbed dry sticks and brush and packing them into their clothes to try to create some dry space between the skin and the clothing. They didn’t have all the nice Gore-Tex and North Face clothing we have now, but the idea was to increase the amount of warm air surrounding their bodies at all times.”
HIS SURVIVAL RATE WAS REDUCED EVEN FURTHER BY THE ELEMENTS: “The amount of trauma that was taking place at the same time he was battling the elements was overwhelming,” Dery insists. “It’s a well-known fact in the military that you have a greater than 85-percent chance of dying if you have a concurrent trauma as because it prevents your body from healing and stops it from responding the way its’ supposed to.”
FATAL FROST: “The frostbitten tissue is actually frozen and dead – there are ice crystals growing inside of it. We often say that you freeze in January and we amputate in July because it takes several months to find out where the line of the good tissue or bad tissue is. It takes a long time to declare itself,” Dery explains. “Anyone who has ever waited outside for a school bus has felt that freezing in the tips of your fingers and ears. Then when you got inside to warm up you felt a burning sensation for about 15 minutes. That’s a little frost nip: it’s the start of frostbite. The exposed areas are the highest at risk: your face, neck and fingers, which we tend to not cover up, and were uncovered through much of the movie.”
HYPOTHERMIA: “We try to avoid hypothermia as much as possible in our traumatically injured patients. We try to keep them as warm as we can to keep the blood flowing to all of their tissues,” says Dery. “But sometimes we will actually try to use hypothermia to our advantage medically. We recently treated a woman who had a cardiac arrest. We were able to get her blood pressure back and started to wake her up a little bit, but then we actually kept her unconscious and intentionally made her hypothermic. It slows down your body’s reaction, slows down the chemistry, the heartbeat, the cerebral blood flow, and we used that to a clinical advantage in a controlled situation because it puts you that much closer to being in a comatose state. It’s almost a standard of care for someone who’s had a cardiac arrest.”
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BODY ROT: “A Native American who helps Glass solemnly tells him ‘You’re dying. You body is rotten,’ Dery recalls. “All those damaged and frostbitten tissues were just dying off. There were some ways he desperately tried to remove those dying tissues in a very well depicted experience of having a lot of bad cold weather exposure. You saw Glass cuddling close to a rotting animal carcass and laying his bare back against it. The carcass had a lot of maggots throughout it, which are known to eat infected and dead – necrotic - tissue. Believe it or not we still use that method in modern medicine. Sometimes we have very bad diabetic foot ulcers to treat. We try to kill off and remove all the dead tissue and leave the viable tissue by applying specially grown, bacteria free maggots. They will only eat the dead tissue on the legs and leave the viable tissue intact.”
TRUE SURVIVORS: While the endurance of Glass is unlikely, Dery says there are real-life, modern survivalists. “If you really want to see people with survival skills, look at the homeless people outside on the streets,” he points out. “They are cold weather, winter survival experts. They are always looking to add layers of clothing to stay dry. They stuff their shoes, socks and clothes with plastic bags or anything they can find to try to protect their core body.”
Advice? “Keep dry material close to you so you can light a fire when you need to. Try to find Willow tree bark with natural oils and tannins which will light even if it is wet.”
The visuals in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Oscar-nominated film are absolutely incredible, and as you watch the film in preparation for the 2016 Oscars, you'd be forgiven for wondering where The Revenant is supposed to take place. Although the The Revenant was mostly filmed in an extensive area near Calgary in Alberta, Canada, its remote filming locations also included a scene shot in the neighboring state of Montana as well as — for lack of snow — the southern tip of South America in Argentina. Such is the illusion of Hollywood; it's hard to imagine the real-life fur trapper and frontiersman John Glass, much less his Hollywood counterpart Leonardo DiCaprio, screaming and struggling through Patagonia. Yet, that's how this illusion of the film's actual setting came to be: Montana and South Dakota.
As the The Revenant 's script was written by Iñárritu and Mark.L. Smith, based in part on Michael Punke's historical novel and inspired by the experiences of Glass in Montana and South Dakota in 1823, it also chronicles a fascinating time in history before all orginal 50 states were formed into what we know as the United States of America. It was a time when lucrative fur trapping was extending into the Western territories and required the true grit and entrepreneurial bravery of men like Glass, who weren't above sleeping in animal carcasses to stay warm in winter, and who weren't afraid of intruding into hostile territory.
The Revenant 's plot takes its characters into the wilderness of the Louisiana Purchase. In case you forgot history class, that's a huge swath of land across the U.S. and Canada that includes Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska and portions of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Louisiana and Colorado. It was huge.
By filming in Calgary, the production crew obviously got Canada portions right, but the rest is all Hollywood magic.
In the film, after Glass and a third of the original company narrowly escape an ambush by Arikara Native Americans, Glass makes the decision to abandon their raft and begin the journey back to Fort Kiowa on foot. Since so much action revolves around getting back to Fort Kiowa, as well as intrigue when Glass manages to return, it's worth knowing that Fort Kiowa was an actual place originally named Fort Lookout, which was a 19th-century American Fur Trading post in South Dakota. Unfortunately, Revenant fans won't be able to visit Fort Kiowa as it was abandoned in the 1840s, and later flooded.
However, fans can still visit the location of the infamous scene where Glass stumbles upon and is badly mauled by a grizzly bear wildly defending her cubs if you're feeling masochistic and a little creepy. According to the Telegraph, while no eyewitness account exists, The Revenant's true story reveals that it happened in 1823, five months after Glass joined a South Dakota fur-trapping expedition funded by Major Andrew Henry and William Henry Ashley. By that account, the horrific mauling took place near the banks of the Grand River when Glass unexpectedly came upon the grizzly bear and her two cubs. (On second thought, don't visit this place. It'd be weird. And possibly dangerous.)
Now knowing all you do about The Revenant 's film locations and history, come Oscar time, we're sure that you'll definitely be rooting for the film with renewed appreciation.
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