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Where Does The Revenant Take Place? A Review of the Film's Awards and Critical Reception



After the two men split up, Fitzgerald ambushes, kills, and scalps Henry. Glass finds Henry's corpse, places it on his horse in an attempt to act as a decoy, and shoots Fitzgerald in the arm. He pursues Fitzgerald to a riverbank, where they engage in a brutal fight. Glass is about to kill Fitzgerald, but he spots a band of Arikara downstream. He remembers Hikuc's words and pushes Fitzgerald downstream into the hands of the Arikara. Their chief Elk Dog kills and scalps Fitzgerald, and the Arikara (who have found Powaqa) spare Glass. Glass retreats into the mountains, where he is visited by his wife's spirit and he is heard breathing throughout the credits.


Was Hugh Glass real and did he get mauled by a grizzly bear?Did Hugh Glass have an Indian wife and son?Was Hugh Glass running from killing a Lieutenant?Was Hugh Glass the expedition guide?What happened to Hugh Glass? How did he die?Who was Fitzgerald and did Hugh Glass kill him?Who was Andrew Henry and was he killed by Fitzgerald?Who was Jim Bridger, how young was he, and what happened to him?Did Jim Bridger abandon Hugh Glass?What was the Rocky Mountain Fur Company?Did the real events of the Revenant take place in the mountains during the winter?What was the fort in the Revenant and where was it located?Was there a fight with the Arikara and who were the Ree?




Where Does The Revenant Take Place




Did the real events of the Revenant take place in the mountains during the winter?Hugh Glass was attacked by the grizzly bear on the Grand River in what is now South Dakota. The brigade continued on to Fort Henry on the Yellowstone River in what is now North Dakota and then on to the Big Horn River in what is now Montana by September. Hugh Glass went down river to Fort Kiowa in what is now South Dakota arriving in early October. So most of the events took place in the summer and along the river in the open planes not in high mountains. However, Glass did go back up river to find Fitzgerald and arrived at Fort Henry on the Big Horn on January 1, 1824 so he would have travelled in the winter and possibly through snow, but not over high mountains. At Fort Henry, Glass was told Fitzgerald had already returned to Fort Atkinson, so Glass left Fort Henry on February 29, 1824 traveling up the Powder River and down the Platte River to Fort Atkinson in what is now Nebraska. The early part of this trip would have been over some rugged country in winter, but nothing like shown in the Revenant. See Timeline page and Map page for more detail.


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.)


As unlikely as it may seem, The Revenant is in fact based upon a real story. Many of the treacherous events that befall Glass throughout the film actually took place, but as we all know, Hollywood does love to play fast and loose with the phrase "based on a true story." Given the vague, and possibly embellished accounts of what happened to Glass out in the wilderness, how much of The Revenant is fact, and how much of it is fiction? Join us as we sift through the details to find the truth, and determine whether, or not the truth even matters.


Soon after he cauterizes his neck wound, Glass is forced to flee a pursuing Indian war party by escaping into a nearby river. In the true Glass story, he built a makeshift raft to aid in his journey, but Glass was attacked by the bear in August, and the 2015 film version of The Revenant takes place later in the fall / winter. In the film, Glass eventually manages to cling onto a nearby log in the river for flotation, but he spends an extended period of time in the cold water, and this is in reality one of the most dangerous situations in the wild.


The player must equip the Mask of the Lost One on their Operator (as a hood on the transference suit) and head into the Plains of Eidolon at night. They must then follow the marked white waypoint at the southwest side of Gara Toht Lake. Spotting a large spectral silhouette of an Eidolon that vanishes into the ground, the player must look around the shoreline in Operator mode for a small blotch of energy with a hand reaching out from it and interact with it. Nakak will then receive a vision from the Unum, explaining that the lake is where Gara had felled the Sentient, and a warden was placed to prevent the Sentient from resurfacing until the warden was lost.


Acting is not an endurance test, though you wouldn't know it from the yearly crop of Best Actor nominees. A win for Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Revenant" would only ratify the tendency to see acting greatness in terms of transformation and misery. In this value system, viewer remarks along the lines of, "I barely recognized him" and "My god, look at how much weight he lost!" and "Was that really him falling off that cliff?" take the place of more nuanced evaluations of the actor's art. Acting becomes a stoic's routine, a form of monk-like self-flagellation to prove devotion to one's craft. Lose that weight. Eat that flesh. Take the punch to the face. Are you man enough?


Ashley apparently was awakened very early in the morning of July 2, with the information that one of his men had been killed, and an attack on his party was imminent. Indeed, at dawn, Arikara warriors from the villages opened fire from an extremely well-defended position. They mainly fired at the land party on the beach, who took heavy casualties. Ashley, on one of the keelboats, attempted to get the boats to shore to take on the men, but the boatmen refused to go near the shore. Eventually some men were picked up by skiffs, and others attempted to swim. Several drowned. The keelboats were cut loose and drifted downstream to a location out of reach of the villages, where the crews went ashore. Ashley made a list of those wounded in the fight. Hugh Glass was among them (Dale 1991, p. 71)2. These events are likely the basis for the battle scene early in The Revenant, although that battle did not appear to be taking place near the villages.


Mark L. Smith: Yeah, they sent me the book in early 2007, and I wanted to adapt it. I liked the story and the general idea so I wrote it in 2007, and we immediately attached an actor and a director. I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world, because I thought it was going to get made that year. And that was 2007, so I'm not quite as lucky. No, I'm kidding, because it worked out perfectly this way. It went through a lot of different iterations. Chan-wook Park was originally the first director, then it was David Slade, and then John Hillcoat and Francis Lawrence. We had a different cast, everyone from Samuel L. Jackson, at one point, to Christian Bale. It went through a gauntlet of things, where we thought things were going to happen. It just took all the right pieces. For Alejandro Gonz&#225lez I&#241&#225rritu to come on... Leonardo DiCaprio had circled it for a few years, but he was waiting for the right filmmaker, the right director. Then Alejandro came on board in 2010, and it all just fell into place.


Mark L. Smith: No, it doesn't. The page count, the page a minute thing, is all so director-related. Like, Alejandro loves long shots. In the film, just the opening, in the stream and in the woods, there are three minutes there where you're just on the water there. The way that he and Chivo (director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki) shoot, you can kind of throw that page count rule out the window. I think our last draft was... I think every draft I wrote was like 102 or 107. I may have gotten to 110, but I don't think we ever went over 110.


Mark L. Smith: We should have been fine. Everything was good, but Calgary had their warmest, least snow in I think two decades. We just ran out of snow. Whenever those mountains were supposed to be covered in snow, there was just no snow to be found. We were actually trucking in dump truck loads of snow to put around a scene. They just couldn't pull it off anymore. They waited two or three months, and then went to Argentina and shot for 10 days. So, all the Fitzgerald Glass chase stuff that takes place after the fort, that was all done in Argentina.


Mark L. Smith: For me, everything starts with character. That's why I think I do different genres, because I don't think it matters. I can take Hugh Glass and stick him in a hotel room in Vacancy, or take the people from Vacancy and put them in the wilderness and figure out a movie. If you start with the big characters and strong characters that people want to get behind, and put them in a cool world, you can do any genre. That's the one thing big films of any genre share, great characters. That's where I always start. I'm kind of self-taught, so I don't have the best technique. I don't outline, so I'm not always the best person to follow, because I spend a lot of time beating my head against the wall because I'm blocked because I wasn't smart enough to outline something before I did it. The thing I learned early on, I wrote a script and I passed it along, I gave it to people and I forgot about it. I'd enter contests, but I wouldn't wait to hear what everybody said before I wrote the next thing. I wrote it, and then I wrote the next one. I'd pass that along to people, and I'd write the next one. You just have to keep writing, and it really is a war of attrition. You just keep going, and you just outlive the bastards. The people that say no early on, you just keep going. I'm very competitive, so part of what pushed me was like, OK, you passed on this. I'll write something else. You've just got to keep going. That is the most crucial element to it all. Just trust yourself, write good characters, tell the story and, after you finish, don't wring your hands waiting to get a response, to see what they're going to say about that one. Always start thinking of your next one and start doing it. The very first workshop I went to was at AFI, years ago, when I decided I wanted to do this. The first thing he said to anyone was, "All you guys who are in here, you think you're going to write a script. None of you will write a script. You'll all want to, and you'll feel like you're going to, but you're not going to do it, because life is going to come in and you'll decide it's too hard. I took that kind of as a challenge, from that point on. It was like, 'Wow, fuck that. I am going to do it.' You just do it. Find your voice and keep going and don't get discouraged. It will work, it really will work out. That's part of the point of continuing to write the next thing, is you don't have time to get down, if the first one didn't work out. Just keep plugging. 2ff7e9595c


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