It’s also hopelessly cheesy at times, as when an obvious man-in-a-bear-suit attacks.īut give it credit: the narrative hand-holding in the 1971 movie is actually a refreshing departure from the overindulgent, pseudo-philosophical bullshit The Revenant uses to swaddle its audience. It’s a somewhat obvious survival story that, like a lot of 1970s studio movies, tends to over-explain itself with specifics it begins with a title card that reads, “What occurred on this expedition is historically true,” for instance. Like Fitzgerald, though, Huston is positioned as the villain who tells the men to watch Bass and kill him if he’s still clinging to life by morning.Ĭharacter similarities aside, Man in the Wilderness thematically has less in common with The Revenant than it does with, say, Castaway. In Man in the Wilderness, John Huston plays the top-hatted, boisterous hunting party leader equivalent of Domhnall Gleeson’s Revenant character, Captain Henry.
In The Revenant, Tom Hardy’s marble-mouthed Fitzgerald guts Glass’ son and bears the brunt of Glass’ hatred after leaving him to die. It also doesn’t include the murdered son character so prominent to the plot of The Revenant.īut the left-for-dead story structure is basically the same, as are the characters who leave Glass/Bass to die. For instance, the lead character of Man in the Wilderness (played by original Dumbledore himself, Richard Harris) is named Zachary Bass. Both take dramatic license with the story to varying degrees. Sarafian - the filmmaker behind cult classic hot rod movie Vanishing Point - Man in the Wilderness is, like The Revenant, only partly inspired by Glass.
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