It looked very real. I cannot believe they would have Leonardo DiCaprio mauled by a real bear. Did they use some sort of dummy with a real bear whenever you couldn't see his face? That would create a very difficult editing task, I would think.
"Extremism in the pursuit of moderation is no vice."
Here you go! http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/637188/leonardo-dicaprio-mounted-raped-by-bear-revenant-is-the-bear-real?
shareThanks. Actually, I never thought there was anything sexual about the scene. It just looked like someone really being mauled by a grizzly bear. That's quite an achievement.
"Extremism in the pursuit of moderation is no vice."
Of course the bear doesn't rape the protagonist. Where do people get this stuff and why?
The bear attack is one of the most astounding pieces of filmmaking I've ever seen. It's obviously a real bear, which means how they created that sequence is unfathomable to me.
It was real but tame, from a circus. They got him to look like he was snarling by putting peanut butter on his gums (like Mr Ed). Unfortunately he had a bad reaction to the peanut butter and died (you may have seen the dedication at the end of the credits)
sharehahaha. Also, the horse that went over the cliff was actually a flying horse - the kind they grow in Borneo when the moon is in Scorpio. That's how they kept from harming that animal during the making of this film.
sharehahaha. Also, the horse that went over the cliff was actually a flying horse - the kind they grow in Borneo when the moon is in Scorpio. That's how they kept from harming that animal during the making of this film.
No it wasn't.
From telegraph.co.uk ;
Just in case the pictures of stuntman Glenn Ennis in a big, blue, beautifully ridiculous bear suit that hit the internet earlier this week weren’t enough to convince you: the Revenant’s bear definitely wasn’t real (and not was it played by Andy Serkis, contrary to some reports). Instead, a combination of CGI and motion capture was used to create the animal attack scene.
“In rehearsals, I would wear a blue suit with a bear head,” Ennis told Global News. “Obviously that doesn’t make it into the film, and the CGI guys paint the bear in. Alejandro [Iñárritu] was adamant that the blue bear moved just like a real bear would move, and it was essential that it had the same nuances that a bear would have. Even though it was a big Smurf bear, it still had to be as authentic as possible.”
CGI/motion capture. It looked fake and took me out of the movie. It would have been more realistic had they only used computer effects where necessary, and substituted a trained bear or man in a suit wherever possible.
shareIt definitely looked fake. The motion was oddly jerky.
shareIt kind of did look fake in some parts, but it didn't take me out of the scene.
shareThe fish he caught was also badly faked.
A real fish, which had just been swimming along seconds earlier, would have twitched & twisted in his hands like crazy while he bit into it. His fish clearly came from the supermarket.
Yeah. I thought that the fish was a little off, too. Still, nothing major.
shareYou are incorrect.
shareI figure that bear was cgi too and you are correct, a real bear was never used. I looked up an article where a production designer, Jack Fisk, revealed in the interview how that scenario was done with stuntmen and added cgi. Apparently they didn't go with trained bears because they wanted to depict a wild grizzly bear in this film, and felt trained bears wouldn't cut it.
https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/movies/bear-scene-revenant-shot-visual-special-effects-dicaprio-inarritu-cgi.html
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You're nuts. That scene was fantastic.
shareIt was obvious to a lot of people the bear was fake. It doesn't even look real in stills. http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwj-spaUj5nPAhUo6YMKHRqHCW8QjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-3414857%2FHow-feels-mauled-bear-new-film-Revenant-Leonardo-DiCaprio-brutally-savaged-grizzly-fact-FAR-terrifying-fiction.html&psig=AFQjCNE2k0A0Fu1Rr-H1l3LEFCQVR7kpFg&ust=1474295023611937
shareOf course it was a fake bear!
However, it was a fantastic special effect. If you think otherwise, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Oh, perhaps next time you can find a smaller, crappier picture to help support your point.
Of course it was a fake bear!Obviously, but the OP wasn't sure and after two posts you weren't making yourself clear.
it was a fantastic special effect. If you think otherwise, you have no idea what you are talking about.Why? Because a distractingly obvious CGI bear suddenly being inserted into the most crucial scene in the movie didn't do it for me? Not everyone is so easily accepting, and for all the talk about realism during production, it could have been done better. The natural lighting and locations just made the CGI animals look more out of place.
perhaps next time you can find a smaller, crappier picture to help support your point.Can you find a picture where it actually looks convincing? Take your pick, do any look like a real bear? https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=588&q=revenant+bear&oq=revenant+bear&gs_l=img.3...20758.23923.0.24878.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.0.0.2CM7d61Rspw#imgrc=_
Joe_538,
I think the flaws that concern you would not concern more than a very small number of film viewers. Do you go to movies looking for goofs? Of course some goofs are obvious. It looked very real to me. Are you a special effects professional? I imagine professionals would see flaws most of us wouldn't see.
"Extremism in the pursuit of moderation is no vice."
it looked CGI to me.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog
All the animals in this movie looked like CGI "cartoons"
shareNot remotely.
shareJust watched in on HBO, and was really looking forward to the bear scene because of all the hype. Yet another major CGI disappointment. I can't believe anyone would claim they thought it was a "real bear". I'm going to assume those people are just blind or something else. It looked completely fake and really took away from the scene. The only thing that made the scene horrific in any way was Leo's acting and the sound f/x during it. For me those two things almost completely made up for the cheesey cartoon bear.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Yeah, I was really disappointed by this movie. It was obviously made by people who have never spent any time in the outdoors, and who know nothing about animal behavior, wilderness survival, Native Americans or American history. And it was supposed to take place in Missouri?? haha! It looked like the arctic.
shareJust saying, we were still in the little ice age and Missouri could have well been that cold.
We are in Virginia a few years ago at Madison's homestead and we were told that Dolly Madison had ice cut from a nearby pond and the cut ice stayed solid unit September. I know in Canada we got ice in August from an ice house, the ice stored in sawdust. Pretty amazing. But can you imagine Virginia ever to be that cold you can cut ice from a pond?
You said the ice stayed solid until September. How did they keep it frozen through the summer? The sawdust like you mentioned? Was it buried? That's pretty fascinating.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
The ice was just in a shed. Sawdust is an amazing insulator. I found it hard to believe too. We were going to a cabin that had no utilities but it did have an ice box. And we had a big block of ice.
shareWasn't really talking about the "cold." Missouri has NEVER had huge Mountains, Caribou, glaciers or Grizzly bears -- even in the 1820s...or 1620s or 1420s. Maybe if you went back to the days when Wooly Mammoths were hunted by cave people, haha. The movie takes place only 40 years before the Civil War and the KS/MO area was pretty much how it is today.
shareIt didn't take place in the state of Missouri, but along the Missouri River up in the Dakotas. I had to pause the movie and look it up, since I too knew that there's no mountains like that in Missouri state.
shareAnd it was supposed to take place in Missouri?? haha! It looked like the arctic.It wasn't supposed to take place in Missouri. It took place on the Missouri River which runs through Montana.
Re: Was it a real bear?
Cheesy cartoon bear? You have no idea what you are talking about.
shareNo it was a stuntman who was CGIed into a bear
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