![]() Glass has joined other civilian privateers engaged in a US military expedition led by Andrew Henry ( Domhnall Gleeson) along the Missouri river to establish a lucrative fur-trapping base. This story fictionalises and intensifies his personal circumstances and payback motivation. Screenwriter Mark L Smith has worked partly from the 2002 novel by Michael Punke, and partly from the real-life story that itself inspired the book: the adventures of Hugh Glass, a Wyoming mountain man who survived a bear-mauling and went on an incredible odyssey to track down the two men who abandoned him to die. ![]() But it’s about power, fear and rage, and this moment, quite as much as the human duplicity that follows, is the driving force for this film’s theme, commoner in the movies than real life: revenge, revenge against men and maybe a kind of revenge against nature.
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