The Revenant is a 2015 American adventure film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It is based in part on Michael Punke’s 2002 novel of the same name, describing frontiersman Hugh Glass’s experiences in 1823. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, and Will Poulter. It premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on December 16, 2015, and it had a limited release on December 25, a expanded it on January 8, 2016.
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The Revenant is a 2015 American adventure film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It is based in part on Michael Punke’s 2002 novel of the same name, describing frontiersman Hugh Glass’s experiences in 1823. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, and Will Poulter. It premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on December 16, 2015, and it had a limited release on December 25, a expanded it on January 8, 2016. At the 88th Academy Awards, the film received 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor, winning Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Cinematography. It also won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actor. It was a blockbuster, grossing USD 533 million worldwide and it mostly received positive reviews, with praise for Di Caprio and Hardy’s performances. It won three Golden Globe Awards and five BAFTA Awards,. including Best Film at both shows. There was slight criticism for its length, with some critics criticizing it for being too long and others saying it was too short. The screenplay by Mark L. Smith and Iñánritu is based on the 1915 poem The Song of Hugh Glass, which is in turn based on Punke’s 2002 novel. The novel is also based on a 1915 poem by William Makepeace Thackeray, which was written in response to the First World War. The movie is set in the present-day Dakotas, in the U.S.
state of North Dakota. The story follows a group of trappers who are attacked by an Arikara war party which is seeking to recover its Chief’s abducted daughter, Powaqa. Many of the trappers are killed during the fight, while the rest of them escape onto a boat. Guided by Glass, the survivors travel on foot to Fort Kiowa, because he believes that traveling downriver will make them vulnerable. While scouting game, Glass is attacked by a grizzly bear and left near death. After a hallucinogenic experience in the lodge, Glass survives and infiltrates their camp and sees the leader raping their horse. The next morning, he is ambushed and driven over a cliff on his horse. He escapes and kills several hunters, including French hunters and Hikucuc, who castrates him. He later encounters Pawnee refugee Hikucee, who says that “revenge is in the Creator’s hands” The men share bison meat and travel together to a lodge for meat and build a makeshift feverish feverish lodge. After the men share a sweat lodge for a few days, Glass emerges to discover that his wounds are healing and he is dying. He is found dead by a trapper and is buried alive in a makeshift grave. After they depart, Fitzgerald admits that he lied about the approachingArikara. Fitzgerald tells him that Glass died and Hawk vanished.
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