The Revenant
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Can't wait to see this. Probably gets Leo his Oscar this year (unless something crazy happens). He's long overdue and it's a pretty weak category this year IMO.
The Revenant is as close to experiencing the western frontier in the 1820s as you are going to get. Nothing - at least to my knowledge - is askew historically. I think the character Hugh Glass gets back on his feet a little quicker than most would after being mauled (twice) by a huge grizzly, but that was the only "Hollywood" I took from the film. I'm not easy to please when it comes to historically based films, but I was super impressed. The movie's cadence bogs down a bit at times but the opening is gripping in the same way as "Saving Private Ryan." I will see it on the big screen again and it will become part of my DVD collection. As I said, just go see it.
I'm very skeptical when they mix any kind of "true story" into a movie. I think a movie is an inherently bad medium for conveying truth. Viewers emotions are too easily manipulated and as a result the filmmakers don't have any incentive to stick to truth if they can come up with an alternative that is more emotionally compelling, which the usually can.
I just looked up The Reverent on Wiki and it says the movie is based on a fictional retelling of actual events. I wouldn't trust a movie to convey truth even if it was based on a non-fictional retelling. That's not to say movies are bad in general but just that they should be for entertainment rather than education.
I just looked up The Reverent on Wiki and it says the movie is based on a fictional retelling of actual events. I wouldn't trust a movie to convey truth even if it was based on a non-fictional retelling. That's not to say movies are bad in general but just that they should be for entertainment rather than education.
