Here’s what you should and shouldn’t do. Good day all. Recently, I wrote a post regarding the rape incident between Leonardo DiCaprio and a bear on the set of his movie, Revenant. The whole thing took on a life of it’s own, with the studio denying any such thing had occurred.
DiCaprio also spoke about the scene. In an interview in ABC News Australia:
“What he achieves cinematically is something that I think is very ground-breaking, and that is the ability for an audience to be in a sort of very raw, violent, savage bear attack, yet feel the intimacy of both man and beast.” DiCaprio said the sequence was a visceral one for the viewing audience.
“You feel the sweat, and the heat coming off the animal,” he said.
“It’s almost like he awakens other senses within you as an audience member, and you feel like you’re some voyeuristic animal watching something that you shouldn’t be watching. “But most of that is achieved in a lot of the silent moments that he creates in that sequence.”
Umm, yeah. Why do I feel like I just read a description of “50 Shades of Bear?” Now on the other hand, we recently had a real life incident of a Bear looking to assault someone. In this case, a Boy Scout Leader had a run in with a horny hungry bear and took exception to the bear’s advances on him. Here are the details from Fox News:
A New Jersey Boy Scout leader fought off an attacking black bear with a hammer while hiking at a local reservoir Sunday afternoon, authorities said. NJ.com reported that Christopher Petronino, 50, was showing a cave to three young Scouts when the bear grabbed him and pulled him inside. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Bob Considine said Petronino suffered bites on his leg and both shoulders.
Considine said that after hitting the bear twice in the head with the rock hammer, Petronino “pulled his sweatshirt over his head and curled into the fetal position. He yelled to the scouts, who were outside the cave, to leave and go get help.”
Fortunately, Mr. Petronino was rescued after a dog traveling with his group barked and drew the bear out of the cave. The scouts with him called for help and the scout leader was rescued and taken to the hospital. This story shows the apparent differences. Leonardo DiCaprio seems to indicate that you should just lay back and let the bear dry hump you and enjoy the experience.
Scout Master Petronino took a much different approach to being assaulted by the bear. He didn’t lay back and enjoy it, he tried to beat the bears brains in with a hammer. What is it with Hollyweird people anyway? To much time, to much money and just way to kinky I think. I’m glad that Mr. Petronino was rescued and I’m assuming he will have a full recovery. As for Leonard’s movie? Yeah, I don’t think so.
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This again. I’ve bloviated about this before, though maybe not here. Hugh Glass (no relation to the legendary “Hugh Jass”) got himself Darth-Mauled by a *female* bear with cubs, an ancient danger even mentioned in the Bible. Of course the filmmakers were happy to mess with the story, transferring an incident taking place near what’s now the N-S Dakota line to more scenic country farther west–portrayed in the movie by Alberta & Argentina. In those days grizzlies ranged across the Great Plains there, as the Mandan warned Lewis & Clark some 20 years earlier.
Yeah yeah yeah, I know, but work with me here. If anyone deserves to be molested by a bear it’s that jerk. 😉
Evidently DiCrapio is more annoying than I’d realized (not usually paying much attention to him).
Here’s a case in point. The 2004 tsunami. Sandra Bullock donated $1 million dollars. There was no announcement, she said nothing. Someone happened to notice it and mentioned it to the press.
DiCrapio heard about this and also donated $1 million and you couldn’t shut him about it. Think Sean Penn “Rescuing” people after Katrina.