Post 4: The Revenant

The Revenant

The Revenant is an american movie from 2015, directed by the mexican producer Alejandro González Iñarritú and starring the well- known actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

The script of this movie was inspired by the novel written by Michael Punke.

- 3 Oscars: best director, best actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and best shots. 

The Plot: In 1820, some Mountain Men* were attacked by Indians in the actual territory of Louisiana, who stole them their coats. Hopefully, some survived, and one of them was Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) who was the only one of the survivers that knew their way, but he was terribly attacked by a grizzly bear. As he couldn't walk longer, his captain Andrew Henry (Domnhall Gleeson) decided to abandon him with his indigen son Hawk, and other two men of his army, the young Jim Bridger, and the ex militant John Fitzgerald. This latter always seemed not to really like Glass, and tried to kill him to "liberate him from his agony". But Hugh's son tried to stop this murderer by pushing him down, but instead of stop it, he get hurted by the knife, and died in front of his injured father. Fitgerald told Bridger that Glass and his son died in normal circunstances, so they moved away. But, Hugh managed to cure himself, and he started his way to survive from the crucial artic weather ad also to find Fitzgerald to get revenge for the death of his son. 

This character fits very well in my opinion, with the idea of the perfect hero. He is the perfect image of the nobel hero who does courageous and noble acts in order to help or defend people. He managed to survive to the indian attack and to the weather just to get revenge from his so's death. Also, before being abandoned by his captain, he was very solidary with his companions. It shows a very noble fact of his personality that makes him fitting vey well in the notion of the nobel hero.