The Revenant (2015) is biographical Western adventure/thriller movie directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and based on the book of same title by Michael Punke. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domnhall Glesson, Will Poulter, Lukas Haas, and Paul Anderson in lead roles.
The Revenant 2015 Poster
The Revenant (2015) tells the heroic story of a frontiersman named Hugh Glass in 1820s. He was left for dead after a bear mauling and now sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him there and took all his supplies.
The Revenant 2015 Poster
The Revenant (2015) has all the factors a great film needs. It is amazing to see Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy against each other. Well today, I have put together a list of stunning facts about the western thriller The Revenant (2015). Have a look and tell us what you think in comment section.
Bear Mauling
15. Shot in 80 days over a period of 9 months!
The Revenant (2015) was shot chronologically on a 80-days schedule which took place over a period of 9 months. This happened due to the cold weather conditions and the remoteness of the locations. It was also because director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki planned to shoot only with natural light for maximum realism. Only a few shooting hours are available every day and have to be carefully planned in advance.
Movie Scene
14. Leonardo DiCaprio begged Tom Hardy to read script!
Tom Hardy has stated that he doesn’t read scripts at first. He was due to star in action movie Splinter Cell (2017). It was Leonardo DiCaprio , who begged him to read the script for this movie. Tom Hardy read half the script and accepted the role.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is a vegetarian and was so in character he ate real raw meat in a scene depicting Glass surviving off a wild bison’s liver.
Hugh Glass eating Raw fish
11. Reunited DiCaprio and Hardy after Inception!
The Revenant (2015) Reunites actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and Lukas Haas after 5 years. They previously appeared together in director Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010).
There is a film titled Man in the Wilderness (1971), which was loosely based on Hugh Glass’s story but with differently named characters. It featured the actors Richard Harris and John Huston. The Revenant (2015) is based directly on Hugh Glass’s story according to the 2003 book by Michael Punke.
The Revenant Hugh Glass
9. DiCaprio last played in Wolf of Wall Street!
This is Leonardo DiCaprio’s first role in two years. He played Jordan Belfort in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
Inception (2010) is an action/Sci-fi/thriller movie directed and written by visionary Christopher Nolan. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ellen Page, Michael Caine, Marion Cotillard, Dileep Rao, Ken Watanabe and Cillian Murphy in lead roles.
Inception 2010 movie Poster
Inception (2010) tells the story of a thief who steals secrets from big corporates through a dream sharing technology. This time he has to inverse the program and implant an idea into the mind of a CEO.
Inception 2010 movie Poster
Inception (2010) was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and won 4 out of them including Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effect. The movie is highly acclaimed by critics and audience all over the globe. Let’s look at some of the brilliant facts and details about insanely brilliant movie Inception (2010).
Christopher Nolan’s Inception
24. Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece!
Inception (2010) was released on 16th July 2010. It was produced by Syncopy and Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Hans Zimmer gave the music and Wally Pfister did the cinematography of this film.
Inception movie scene
23. Japanese version makes sense!
To ease the confusion in Japan, television broadcasts include text in the upper-left corner of the screen. It was to remind the viewers the level of the dream in which a specific scene takes place.
22. Nolan based characters as in film making process!
Director Christopher Nolan explained that he based roles of the lead character of movie Inception (2010) similar to roles that are used in a filmmaking process. Cobb (Leonardo Dicaprio) is the director of all programs, Arthur (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is the producer, Ariadne (Ellen Page) is the production designer, Eames (Tom Hardy) is the actor, Saito (Ken Watanabe) is the studio, and Fischer (Cillian Murphy) is the audience.
Inception Team
21. Dreams Pay!
The first letters of names of the main characters in the film spells “Dreams” ( Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito ). Adding first letters of names of characters Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf, the whole makes “Dreams Pay”. This is what they all do for a mind thief.
DREAMS PAY
20. Rotating hallway scene was real and practical!
Majority of the breathtaking special effects sequences such as the infinite stairs, rotating hallway scene, mountain avalanche, and zero gravity sequences, were created through practical methods. Inception (2010) only has around 500 visual effect shots, which is very low as compared to other visually stunning masterpieces (atleast 2000 VFX shots.
Inception (2010) is the sixth movie (out of the seven) directed by Christopher Nolan to enter the IMDb Top 250. Others are Memento (2000), Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Interstellar(2014).
Inception Dreams
18. Inception took 10 years!
Director and writer Christopher Nolan completed the screenplay of this movie over a period of 10 years.
Titanic (1997) is a romantic drama movie about a seventeen-year-old aristocrat, who falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic which sank on 14th April 1912.
Titanic was the largest movie object at the time.
Titanic (1997) is directed and written by James Cameron and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart, and Bill Paxton in the lead roles.
The movie won 11 Academy Awards and many other Awards. The movie made history like the subject it’s based upon. Let’s jump to the interesting facts and details about the movie Titanic (1997).
Titanic 1997 movie poster
28. The hands seen sketching Rose are not of actor Leonardo DiCaprio's, but director James Cameron's. In post-production, Cameron, who is left-handed, mirror-imaged the sketching shots so the artist would be appear to be right-handed, like DiCaprio.
27. After finding out that she had to be naked in front of Leonardo DiCaprio, actress Kate Winslet decided to break the ice, and when they first met, she flashed him.
26. When Jack prevents Rose from committing suicide, he shares a story about how he once fell into freezing cold water while ice fishing and how it feels like "being stabbed with a thousand knives all over your body." This was an actual quote from a Titanic survivor describing the temperature of the North Atlantic water.
Jack and Rose in Titanic 1997
25. The post-sinking scenes in the movie were shot in a 350,000 gallon tank where the frozen corpses were created by applying a powder on the actors that then crystallized when exposed to water. Wax was applied to hair and clothes to create a wet look.
24. At $200 million, Titanic (1997) the movie cost more than the Titanic itself. The cost to construct the ship in 1910-1912 was £1.5 million euro, equivalent to $7.5 million at the time and about $120 to $150 million dollars in 1997. Titanic (1997) is also the most expensive movie to be filmed in the 20th century with a budget of $200 million.
Real Titanic Ship in 1912
23. Titanic (1997) was the first film to be nominated twice for an Academy Award, for the portrayal of the same character. Actress Kate Winslet received a Best Actress nomination for her role as Rose and Gloria Stuart received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her portrayal of the older Rose. Titanic (1997) was also the first Best Picture Academy Award winner to be produced, directed, written, and edited by the same person (James Cameron).
22. On the final night of shooting in Nova Scotia, one or more pranksters mixed the dissociative hallucinogen PCP (angel dust) into the clam chowder served to the cast and crew. 80 people were taken ill, and more than 50 were hospitalized with hallucinations. When director James Cameron realized what was happening, he forced himself to vomit before the drug took full effect. Actor Bill Paxton felt listless for two weeks after the incident (although PCP's primary effects only last a few hours, the drug itself can take eight or more days to completely metabolize out of the body). The culprit(s) were never caught.
Titanic movie 1997
21. With her nomination for Best Supporting Actress at age 87, Gloria Stuart became the oldest person to ever be nominated for an Oscar. Gloria Stuart was also the only person involved in the production of the film who was actually living in 1912.
The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) is a biography/comedy movie directed by iconic director Martin Scorsese. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, and Matthew McConaughey in the lead roles.
The movie is based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
The movie is very explicit in nature and received R maturity rating from censor board. Well, today I have put together a list of crazy Interesting facts and details about The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013). Have a look.
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 movie Poster
15. The actors snorted crushed B vitamins for scenes where they are seen snorting cocaine in the movie.
14. Margot Robbie confessed that her sex scene with Leonardo DiCaprio on a bed full of cash was extremely uncomfortable, as the fake paper bills had sharp edges resulting in multiple paper cuts to her back.
13. As of Martin Scorsese that the sequence of Jordan attempting to get in his car while extremely impaired on Drugs (Lemmons) was improvised on the day of filming, and that it was Leonardo DiCaprio’s idea to open the car door with his foot. DiCaprio strained his back during the scene, and was only able to perform the stunt once.
12. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is One of three Jonah Hill movies in consecutive years with Street in the title, coming between 21 Jump Street (2012) and 22 Jump Street (2014).
11. During the kissing scene between Leonardo DiCaprio (Jordan Belfort) and Joanna Lumley (Aunt Emma) in the movie, Leonardo was so nervous that the scene required a reported twenty-seven takes to get it right.
10. The real Mark Hanna, who was portrayed by Matthew McConaughey, stated he bought 25% of Jordan Belfort’s business and worked with him for two more years. This was not depicted in the film.
9. The word ‘fuck’ and its numerous conjugations are said 569 times, making The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) the film with the most uses of the word in a main-stream, non-documentary film.
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Some Actors in the Hollywood are better off without an Oscar. They are the legends of the Industry. They have everything but an Oscar.
Well, who doesn’t want an Oscar.
So, here is a list of 6 great Actors of Hollywood who didn’t get an Oscar even after being nominated for more than Two times.
1. Johnny Depp - It is a well known name in Hollywood. He is Perhaps the most Versatile actor of his day and age in Hollywood. He is been in acting since three decades.
He is known widely for his Pirates of the Caribbean Character as Capt. Jack Sparrow. He has never won an Oscar inspite of several nominations. I don't know where did it go wrong. He was nominated for Oscars 3 times for following movies.
Johnny Depp
Best Actor for- Sweeney Todd:- The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008) - This is the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, AKA Sweeney Todd. He sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Best Actor for- Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of Black Pearl (2003) - This is the 1st movie of the franchise. Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.
Johnny Depp in The curse of black Pearl
2. Tom Cruise - Tom is acting since 1981 and still plays lead roles. He has played various characters ranging from serious to Cool ones.
He has been nominated for 3 Oscars and yet no luck winning them. Following are his Oscar nominated Movies.
Tom Cruise
Best Actor for - Magnolia (1999) - This is an epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Best Actor for - Born On The Fourth Of July (1989) - The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Tom Cruise in Born on fourth of July
3. Leonardo DiCaprio - Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3, to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s, as the hunky lead actor in movies such as Romeo + Juliet and Titanic.
He had been nominated 5 times but no luck getting an Oscar. Movies in which he got nomination are below..
Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actor and Best Picture - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - Movie is based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
Best Actor in a supporting Role for - What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) - Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp
4. Robert Downey Jr - Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.
He has done a variety of roles and still is been nominated for Oscar 2 times only (no luck yet) for Following movies..
Robert Downey Jr
Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Tropic Thunder (2008) - Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
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5. Brad Pitt - An actor and producer known as much for his versatility as he is for his handsome face, Golden Globe-winning actor Brad Pitt's most widely recognized role may be Tyler Durden in Fight Club. But his portrayals of Billy Beane in Moneyball, and Rusty Ryan in the remake of Ocean's Eleven and its sequels, also loom large in his filmography.
He has 4 Oscar Nominations and still no Oscar for his Acting. Last year he Won an Oscar for Producing 12 Years a Slave. ( Still better than others on List ) Following are his Oscar Nominated movies..
Brad Pitt
Best Actor and Best Picture for - Moneyball (2011) - it is the true story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
Brad Pitt in Moneyball
Best Actor - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008) - The movie tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Brad Pitt in Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Supporting Actor - Twelve Monkeys (1995) - The movie is set in a future world devastated by disease. A convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys
6. Edward Norton - He is a well known name in Hollywood for his versatile acting. He is been acting since 2 decades and still no Oscars. He got Nominated 3 times for following movies.
Edward Norton
Best supporting actor for - Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) - A washed-up actor, who once played an iconic superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself in the days leading up to the opening of his Broadway play.
Edward Norton and Michael Keaton in Birdman
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Best Actor for - American History X (1998) - The story of a former neo-nazi skinhead, who tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
Edward Norton in American History X
Best Actor for - Primal Fear (1996) - An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.
Hollywood also copies movie from other language and country. Well, it had copied a lot from others from time to time. Trust Lies was copied from LA Totale.
Here is a list of 6 blockbusters which not only earned a lot of Money but also the Fame.
1. The Departed (2006) – It is a blockbuster from the legendary Director Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg in the lead role. This movie won 4 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. It is a copy of famous Thai movie Infernal Affairs (2002). Which was directed by Andrew Lau.
The Departed (2006) is the story of an undercover cop and a mole in the police, as both attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Movie The Departed & Internal Affairs
Check out 15 Fascinating Facts From Movie The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)!! 2. Scent of a Woman (1992) – Who can forget Al Pacino from this movie. He won the Best Actor Oscar for it. It is directed by Martin Brest and stars Al Pacino, Chris O’Donnell, and Philip Seymour Hoffman in lead roles. Scent of a Woman is a copy of famous Italian Movie Profumo di Donna (1974) directed by Dino Risi.
Scent of A Woman (1992) is the story of a prep school student needing money and a blind man . Student agrees to “babysit” the blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
Scent of a Woman & Profumo di Donna
Check out 41 Lesser Known Facts About 3 Oscars Winning Movie The Godfather (1972) !! 3. Insomnia (2002) – It is 3rd movie directed by Christopher Nolan (you have heard the name before..right ?). Well, it starred Al Pacino, Martin Donovan, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank. Insomnia (2002) is a Copy of Norwegian movie by tha same name Insomnia (1997) .
Insomnia (2002) is set when two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn’t set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
4. I Am Legend (2007) – It is a post apocalyptic movie directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan and Willow Smith. I Am Legend is a Remake ( somewhat copied ) from The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971).
I am Legend (2007) is set in future Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
5. True Lies (1994) – Directed by visionary James Cameron and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton, Tom Arnold, and Tia Carrere in lead roles. It also got a Oscar nomination. Well, It was also a copy of French movie La Totale! (1991).
True Lies (1994) is the story of a fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent, who has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman.
6. Godzilla (2014) – The movie is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Aaron Taylor Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen and Ken Watanabe in lead roles. It is a official remake of Japanese movie Gojira (1954).
Godzilla (2014) is set when the world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.
Best known for his cerebral, often non-linear story-telling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970 in London, England. In 17 years of film-direction, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made.
Nolan began making short movies at the early age of 7 years, using his fathers super-8 camera. Later he attended university to study English Literature at London. There he started shooting shot 16-mm films with U.C.L.’s film society and learned guerrilla techniques, Which he later used in his 1st movie Following (1998) on a very low budget of around 6000$ only (in black and white). And as of Today 7 out of nine movies that He directed are in the IMDB’s top 250 Movies list. [The Dark Knight (2008), Batman Begins (2005), Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Interstellar(2014).] He has directed 9 movies till now. 1. Following (1998) 2. Memento (2000) 3. Insomnia (2002) 4. Batman Begins (2005) 5. The Prestige (2006) 6. The Dark Knight (2008) 7. Inception (2010) 8. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 9. Interstellar (2014)
So, I have put together a list of 8 things ( with help of IMDB ) that you have seen in almost every movie of Christopher Nolan but you didn’t notice ( Even, i didn’t till now ).
Christopher Nolan
8. Christopher Nolan Often casts non-American actors in American roles. Such as Michael caine, Guy Pearce, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Heath Ledger, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Tom Wilkinson. Michael caine has worked with Nolan for 6 consecutive movies. ( what an actor 🙂 )
7. Opening scenes always in his movies are a flashback or a piece of a scene from the middle or end of the movie and his movies almost every time end with a sudden ( yet very effective) smash cut to black. (Interstellar, Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and especially Inception are prime examples.). His movies almost always end with character’s fate open to interpretation ( You remember, right ?? ).
Christopher Nolan movies
6. Christopher Nolan’s movies often take place with scenes out of chronological order with multiple flashbacks. Such as in Following, Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige and the latest Interstellar.
It is like he flip’s the act of a movie to tell the story in an interesting fashion ( and that require us a lot of thinking ).
5. His films usually revolve around characters that are afflicted with some kind of psychological disorder. (Examples: Guy Pearce’s short-term memory “condition” inMemento (2000), Al Pacino’s titular sleeping disorder in Insomnia (2002), Christian Bale’s phobia of bats in Batman Begins (2005) and Aaron Eckhart’s dual personality in The Dark Knight (2008) and Leonardo DiCaprio not being able to grasp onto reality in Inception (2010)).
4. The storyline in Christopher Nolan’s films usually involves a determined character seeking vengeance over the death of a loved one. (Guy Pearce in Memento (2000), Christian Bale inBatman Begins (2005), Hugh Jackman in The Prestige (2006), Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight (2008), and Marion Cotillard in The Dark Knight Rises (2012))
3. Frequently in his films the protagonists, at some crucial moment, feel let down or betrayed by their mentors whom they have been following blindly and with respect. (e.g. The protagonist being cheated by Cobb inFollowing (1998), Leonard “discovering” that Teddy is the culprit in Memento (2000), Hilary Swank’s character respecting Al Pacino as a great detective in Insomnia (2002) only to find out that he is also flawed, Bruce Wayne andLiam Neeson’s character’s confrontation inBatman Begins (2005), Cutter not supporting Angier in The Prestige (2006), Ariadne feeling betrayed by her mentor Cobb when he doesn’t tell her about Mal’s domain over his dreams inInception (2010), Blake feeling let down by Gordon when his lie about Dent’s death is exposed in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Cooper gets angry when come to know about Prof. Brand’s secret in Interstellar (2014). ( that’s how we feel after watching your movie Nolan..cheated. )
Christopher Nolan movies
2. As He Displays the title before the end credits began (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar).
1. The original scores of his films usually play over most of the film, or one piece of music will play over many small scenes, as if they are edited in a montage; there are few moments in his films when there is no music playing in the background. ( Think Think 😉 )
Inception music
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