Mountain Man, Hugh Glass and the Movie, The Revenant

Looks like a great movie, if it's not too obnoxious.

bearthedog said:
Man In The Wilderness (1971) is based on similar events.
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I was going to mention that, which seems to follow the same theme. Man in the Wilderness is a fine movie, more introspective and more quiet than The Revenant trailer.
 
Being not much of a DiCaprio fan, I'm really looking forward to this movie.

While I watch them, the whole super-tactical-hero badazz out for vengeance thing has become pretty boring.

I crave more of the outdoors-themed adventure movies. I recently found a copy of "The Edge" (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, et al) for $4 and thoroughly enjoyed it (albeit Hollywood-ized). The scenery was amazing and the field-craft stuff was enjoyable as well.
 
While it doesn't mention the Hugh Glass episode, Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto is the classic non fiction book about the fur trade and the mountain men. DeVoto won the Pulitzer for it in 1948 or 49.
 
There's a new trailer for The Revenant. It's apparent that the movie is merely "inspired" by the Hugh Glass story as advertised, and that's it's not at all an actual account. As entertainment, though, it still looks pretty good. BTW, it was filmed using natural light for almost all of the scenes. I suspect this is why the cinematography looks so good.

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Reference the Grizzly Bear, I think that the quote from the Lewis & Clark expedition after having to shoot a Grizzly Bear numerous times to kill it is appropriate :

"I find the curiosity of our party is pretty well satisfied with respect to this animal". John
 
Bushcraft guru, Mors Kochanski, spent 25 days consulting on the realism of mountain man skills used in The Revenant; I'll go see it for that reason alone.
 
Di Caprio, I guess that Caitlyn Jenner wasn't available.......... fkn Hollywood.
 
Just watched the movie last night on video. It was entertaining. Fire-making, shelter building, wilderness first-aid, it was all in there. The perseverance of Hugh Glass was astonishing. That bear scene was pretty intense too.
 
The May 2016 American Rifleman magazine has a really good write up on the true story compared to the movie. By all accounts throughout history it seems the one thing that drove Ole Hugh Glass was that he wanted his really nice rifle back that they took when he was left for dead,,, yep,, he got it back to !
 
fmajor007 said:
Being not much of a DiCaprio fan, I'm really looking forward to this movie.

While I watch them, the whole super-tactical-hero badazz out for vengeance thing has become pretty boring.

I crave more of the outdoors-themed adventure movies. I recently found a copy of "The Edge" (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, et al) for $4 and thoroughly enjoyed it (albeit Hollywood-ized). The scenery was amazing and the field-craft stuff was enjoyable as well.
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I really enjoy "The Edge" for it's realistic dialogue, amazing scenery, and proper use/respect for the knife.
 
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