Carrying him over rough terrain as winter approaches will doom them all, realizes Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson).
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Only when Glass is motionless after a long, long mauling does she pause in her attack - sizing him up, stepping on his head, sniffing his skin until the call of her cubs distracts her.īy the time Glass' son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) and the other trappers come upon him, Glass is barely clinging to life. In one horrifying, continuous take, she knocks him down, claws, bites, stomps, and shakes his body, ripping his flesh, breaking his bones. He raises his rifle, then hears a loud snuffling behind him: Mama bear.who has correctly figured out what Glass has in mind for her cubs, charges before he can swing his rifle around. Glass, separated from the others, has spotted two bear cubs in the woods. In most movies that would be the scene everyone's talking about - arrows piercing vocal cords in mid-cry, death raining down from trees.īut a few men get away, and are hellbent on getting to the comparative safety of a far-off fort before winter hits. Fur-trapper Hugh Glass, played by a hirsute, bundled-up Leonardo DiCaprio, has helped his fellow trappers escape a harrowing Arikara massacre. and all anyone wants to talk about is the bear attack.Īnd in fact, it's hard not to start there.
Kimberley French/Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox FilmĪn Oscar-winning director, a major star, a survival saga that makes Heart of Darkness look like a pleasure cruise. Leonardo DiCaprio, as Hugh Glass, bears the elements in a scene from The Revenant.