Audiences around the world are flocking to experience what not even The Edge had made available to them in so primal an encounter. With The Revenant, we now have a leap forward in technological moviemaking, as the camera is able to place us in the middle of a grizzly attack, in an even more viscerally terrifying way. Up until The Revenant arrived on the scene, this was the go-to film if you wanted to experience vicariously the terror of actually being trapped in the forest with a vicious predator after you. I am hard pressed to name a wilderness survival drama that equals this one in terms of dramatic power.Ī large part of the cinematic impact of The Edge comes from Bart the Bear, a trained Kodiak bear who should have won an Academy award for best actor for his role. Episode by episode, things could always go either way, but each man defines himself slowly but surely with little choices along the way, as both their humanity and animality is allowed free rein within the state of nature. Mamet is a master, is that the character’s choices are never foreordained. Part of the excitement of the drama, of which Mr. Placed in the state of nature, surviving the existential threat of an attacking bear, the societal conventions that kept them from engaging in a violent struggle with one another slowly dissolve, and then their souls are finally laid bare. In a nice twist, once the two men defeat the killer bear that spends much of the film pursuing them, the two men then turn on each other. They must cooperate in order to survive in nature. When the two men find themselves stranded in the wild and hunted down by a vicious bear, they are forced to come together, despite the mutual suspicion and hostility they carry with them from society. Baldwin’s character, a photographer, is having an affair with his wife, a model played by Elle Macpherson. Hopkins plays a billionaire whose plane eventually crashes deep in the Alaskan wilderness. It is a gripping wilderness thriller written by David Mamet. My friend was referring to the 1997 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, The Edge. Against all odds, however, he struggles to survive in the wilderness and get back home to the trading post. The Revenant tells the story of how, in 1823, a bear attacks Glass, who is then left for dead by his fellow fur trappers. DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, inspired by the actual frontiersman of that name. Heading out to see the new Leonardo DiCaprio film, The Revenant, my friend joked, “Get ready for The Edge - Part Deux!”
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