Saw "The Revenant" (Movie Review-Vanity)

GPH | 1/17/2016 | GPH

[dfwgator]

That was just a rumor somebody came up with at an early screening because the bear attack was so violent.

And many of us relished the thought of Leo DiCaprio getting raped by a bear.

[AlmaKing]

The violence was not overdone by any means. Though the story of Hugh glass was not portrayed factually accurately, I find that the violence of the time was. However, I don’t believe the rape story. I’ve read everything I can so far on the fur trapping Era, but have never heard of an incident written down where a native girl was taken as a sex slave.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The REAL mad Trapper (Albert Johnson, not his real name) did not survive and there is a photo of him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johnson_%28criminal%29

Three fictional movies were made about him, A British docudrama;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Trapper_%281972_film%29

One awful one aimed at kids, staring Mike Mazurki; shown over two weeks on TV;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074299/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

And a good one with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. DEATH HUNT.

Both fictional movies show the trapper surviving.

I first heard about it in a story in either TRUE or ARGOSY magazine back in the late 1960s.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I read that some early buffalo hunters, back in the Flintlock days, would drill out the primer hole so when they poured powder into the barrel, they would spit an undersized ball, kept in the cheeks, into the bore, then hit the butt stock on the pommel of the saddle which would settle everything to the bottom and spill some of the powder into the priming pan, cock and fire. without having to stop the horse and reload.

Remington showed this in one of his paintings.

With my luck, the ball would lodge half way down and when fired blow up the rifle.

[Sawdring]

Thanks for that Wikipedia link, it was very interesting!

[jackibutterfly]

Thanks, guys. Like I said, I just couldn’t wrap my mind around that.

[ctdonath2]

In the book, she wasn’t a slave - more like someone who opted for a bad life (other options being worse).

[TruthWillWin]

Story-wise, I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie before, although with variations.

Did you see "Man in the Wilderness"? I saw it in 1971, the Revenant was almost like a remake of this 1971 movie.