Were the Indians that deadly in real life? I mean, they were unstoppable creatures in that opening scene, almost like zombies.
Didn't the white men wipe them out with guns and disease? Or was it mostly disease and they were no match for them in combat?
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How were they unstoppable? Several of them got killed and injured. They simply had more men and the element of surprise. And they weren't attacking soldiers they were attacking trappers. And I've read some things that say a large amount of the native population was wiped out by disease before Europeans even arrived in North America. Of course the Europeans and their aggressive push into native lands and fresh batch of disease didn't do the natives any favors either.
shareI read about him after watching the movie. His story is crazy as hell, I think if they told his whole story the movie would be about 5 hours.
They say the bear attack happened, but he never had a son. So Fitzgerald never killed a pawnee kid or tried to kill Glass. They just abandoned him, took his sh** and headed home because he was taking too long to die.
The article said in the end, all Glass wanted was his gun back that Fitzgerald and the kid took from him when they abandoned him. When he made it back home, He couldn't touch Fitzgerald because Fitzgerald had joined the army and was considered untouchable. The kid, he had more sympathy for, knew he was just following orders.
Also says Glass was never chased off of a cliff riding a horse and found warmth in the horse's dead body, but if you read about everything the real glass has been through, those situations were as crazy as someone riding a horse off of a cliff. Or he never met an Indian while sharing a dead buffalo.
Hollywood added the son/revenge story for better storytelling purposes I guess. Because whats a better story. A man wanting revenge for his dead son, or a man who just wanted his gun back?
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He also didn't swim in ice cold water the true story happend late August early September.
shareHollywood added the son/revenge story for better storytelling purposes I guess. Because whats a better story. A man wanting revenge for his dead son, or a man who just wanted his gun back?Bingo. share
And they added the mountains, the snow, the cold, and compressed the time frame. The real story took months, took place on the plains in summer.
The movie is based on a novel. Not reality. Its a movie.
No, actually it's not based on a novel, it's based on a non-fiction book by the same name about the main character, just finished reading it and it's pretty good.
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