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The film has invented some extra obstacles for Glass: it is snowing throughout, even though in real life his trek took place between August and October the Arikara track him and chase him into a tree he has to hollow out a dead horse to make himself a sleeping bag. It has been embroidered many times since. It was first published by another writer in The Port Folio, a Philadelphia journal, in 1825. Though he could read and write, Glass never set his story down in his own hand. The real Glass survived his abandonment and dragged his battered body over hundreds of miles of terrain in pursuit of the men who left him for dead. When Fitzgerald persuades Bridger to bury Glass alive and abandon him, you know Glass isn’t going to go quietly. In the film, the ailing Glass sees Fitzgerald kill his son, giving him an extra motivation to stay alive and seek revenge. This didn’t happen in real life, because Hawk didn’t exist. Hawk interrupts, so Fitzgerald bumps him off instead. When the captain leaves, Fitzgerald tries to bump Glass off. Captain Henry pays Fitzgerald, Bridger and Hawk to stay behind until it is time for Glass’s inevitable burial. Anyway, while historians are not certain of the precise details, the real Glass did get into a fight with a real bear, some time in August 1823. The cinema audience is by this point laughing, half in horror and half because the scene goes on for so long that it becomes comical. It flops on him and dies heavily, squishing him like a punctured bouncy castle full of blood. Splinter! Howl! Slash! Glass shoots the bear. Chomp! Growl! Shake! The bear sniffs him to see if he’s dead, then jumps up and down on his back. If you felt wan after the face-smashing scene at the start, reach for the smelling salts.
WildlifeĪs the men make their way through a forest, Glass happens upon two bear cubs and their angry mama. It has been suggested the real Glass had such a relationship, but there’s no firm evidence – and no evidence that he had any children. The backstory about Glass’s love for a Pawnee woman is fiction. Glass is the goodie, because he loves his son (who is half-Pawnee) in a gruff, manly way that involves telling him off a lot.
Fitzgerald is fighty and racist, so he’s the baddie. They have a conversation, but it’s all so extravagantly mumbled that it’s hard to work out what’s going on. Among them are Captain Henry, Glass, Glass’s son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) and trappers John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) and Jim Bridger (Will Poulter). Various accounts suggest that between 12 and 18 of Ashley’s men were killed. In June 1823, Ashley’s band of around 70 men was attacked by Arikara warriors – they estimated around 600, though in the film it’s more like a dozen. This scene is based on a real-life incident: William H Ashley and Andrew Henry (the latter played by Domhnall Gleeson in the film) set up the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1822.