Unlike Tracy who had that magnificent speaking voice for the narration, no narration here. Like The Old Man And The Sea was for Spencer Tracy The Revenant is a personal film for Leonardo DiCaprio. It's so good the landscape, cold and forbidding, becomes almost a character in the film. The Revenant also won the Cinematography Oscar for the shooting of the rugged winter country these men are in. Unlike Richard Harris he does not find a friendly tribe of Indians to take him in. DiCaprio who was guide to the expedition of fur trappers is badly mauled by a grizzly bear and is after being toted for quite a distance is abandoned by Tom Hardy who claims he died. The plot is best compared to another mountain man picture A Man Called Horse that starred Richard Harris. He does it well and should share his Oscar with the cameraman who did all those closeups of him. He's on screen for most of the time and with minimal dialog DiCaprio has to use facial expressions and body language to convey his emotions. It would have been hard to deny Leonardo DiCaprio a Best Actor Oscar this time around. It goes up against such items as Across The Wide Missouri, The Big Sky, and Mountain Men, Jeremiah Johnson all pretty good films. The Revenant by dint of its many nominations has laid claim to being the greatest film about that era ever made. No white people in great numbers, just single shot weapons, they were the ones outnumbered so survival against the Indians was far more an even struggle than in the post Civil War west. A favorite era of mine for film stories has always been the mountain man era in the American west.
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