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“The Revenant” is the latest work of the Oscar® winner Mexican helmet Alejandro G. Iñárritu - the question is if this film has the potential to win gold this year - the answer is “yes” and “no.”
A contender “yes” because it has the quality of so many talented people working on the set. “No” because never a survivor movie has won an Oscar® for best picture, unless “The Revenant” can be the exception and make history.
In recent years, survivor movies have been snubbed out of gold, films like: "Life of Pi," "Gravity," "All is Lost" have been compensated on the technical categories, not for acting or best picture. To have a positiveturnout, "The Revenant" should be listed as a historical time-period drama to fit in the same category of the Oscar® winners: "Dances with Wolves," "Braveheart," and "Gladiator."
Inspired by real events, “The Revenant” is a visceral and a cinematic experience.
In this epic adventure of "survival" Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), after the attack by a bear is abandoned by his hunting team and betrayed by his own people, including John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). He must fight against the dangers of the wilderness in the hard winter of North America.
The free adaptation from the Michael Punke’s novel was made by Mark L. Smith and Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Some members of the crew said: “The shooting of this movie was a living hell.”
How can you aspire to perfection without any sacrifice?
In the shooting of “Babel,” Adriana Barraza collapsed in the desert due to the heat exhaustion, the production was stopped for more than six hours. The result was an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her.
Perhaps, DiCaprio having suffered the extreme cold weather conditions can be an Oscar® hopeful regardless of his silent character.
The trailer exhibits the beautiful and haunting cinematography by the two times Oscar® winner Mexican D.P. Emmanuel ‘El Chivo’ Lubezki (“Gravity,” “Birdman”). The way the "Revenant" was shot was similar to the work he did in Terrence Malick’s “The New World.” Emmanuel shoots every frame with natural light, an influence from the “dogma” movement.
Lubezki may win his third consecutive Oscar® for this movie.
“The Perfect Storm” has been positioned "perfectly" for Iñárritu’s “The Revenant” at the awards season. Now, we need to wait and see if the weather conditions, the critics, the Academy members, and the audience can say: “This ‘epic' has what it takes to win the gold this year."
Alejandro González Iñárritu "Birdman" Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo
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"Scarface" remake is now in the works and it will be directed by Chilean director
Pablo Larrain ("No," "Tony Manero"). "No" was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign
film last year.
Rumors of the new Tonny Montana could be GAEL GARCIA BERNAL. The actor of "Amores Perros" has been compared with Al Pacino for the intensity of his eyes. He has said "no" to Hollywood. Maybe the lead actor of "The Motorcycle Diaries" will say "yes" at this time. Gael and Pablo become close friends after working together in the acclaimed "No," a project they produced about the end of dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. They may like to team up again in this new and big production.
What is a fact, is that instead of the Cuban immigrants in Miami, the story will move to Los Angeles with be Mexican immigrants.
F. Javier Gutierrez, The Crow (2014). Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo.
"World War Z- 2" is directed by
the Spanish director J. Antonio Bayona ("The Orphanage/El Orfanato, The
Impossible). The Orphanage was produced by Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro. Actor/Producer Brat Pitt made the decision of choosing Bayona to direct the sequel of the zombie saga.
Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu ("Amores
Perros", "Biutiful", "Babel") is doing the "BIRDMAN." Rumors of an Oscar nomination are among the critics. La Binale di Venezia is the place to premiere the film of a former superhero actor that wants his return on Broadway.
Latino directors have won numerous awards around the globe: two years in a row best director in Cannes 2012 Carlos Reygadas "Post Tenebras Lux" and in 2013 Amat Escalante's "Heli." Also best director in San Sebastian went to Fernando Eimbcke for"Club Sandwich." And the cherry on top of the cake this year Alfonso Cuaron won an Oscar for "Gravity." "Scareface," "The Crow," "World War Z-2," and "Birdman" are big productions with big budgets, projects that this new generation of "fearless Latino directors" are making today in Hollywood.
