Here we go with another movie that was inspired by the book that came first. In The Revenant we are introduced to a complete badass, Hugh Glass. The fact that Leonardo DiCaprio was cast for this role made me immediately interested in learning more about this story. Add in Tom Hardy as the antagonist and now we got ourselves a party. I still haven’t gotten around to watching the movie, but Leo finally got his Oscar for his performance in this one. Apparently in order to get into the character of Hugh Glass he would sleep in deer carcasses. I don’t need to see the movie to know he deserved it after hearing that. Now for the book it is a little slow and while the bear mauling scene is obviously pretty wild Hugh is left to crawl around the forest for so long. Which I definitely understand he just got his body ripped to bits by a grizzly bear and probably can’t just walk that off, but reading about his corpse crawl around was not entertaining. All in all it’s a great redemption story, and pulls from historical events on the American frontier so it feels like it could be real which is always appreciated. Read this to learn more about the character Leo got his Oscar for, and if you are sick enough to enjoy bear maulings. Lots of blood. Lots.