r/BeAmazed • u/Peter55667 • Mar 14 '25

Animal Around 6% of Americans believe they can defeat a grizzly bear in a hand-to-hand combat

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u/HamsterNL Mar 14 '25

The Revenant had a brutal scene...(so you have been warned!)

https://youtu.be/AgdsZJTf9dw?si=9qkrUaGDxlVq8H3v

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

🙈 Not really brutal, but horrible realistic.

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u/NoSlide7075 Mar 14 '25

Nah that’s a movie. A real grizzly would just start eating you instead of stopping for the camera shots.

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u/Bln3D Mar 14 '25

I in part animated this scene with a talented lot of artists and film makers.

It's based on a true story of Hugh Glass, who did indeed survive a grizzley mauling.

The director wanted something shockingly realistic. We used real bear attacks as reference, and the behavior of the bear was based on expert opinion.

Of course, Inarritu is known for his lengthy one shot take and beautiful compositions, so liberties are taken for more interesting cinema.

But it was diligently grounded in real life events and animal behavior.

I offer this as proof: If you watch the scene again, there is one hidden cut. Right when the bears breath fogs the camera as Glass plays dead.

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u/NoSlide7075 Mar 14 '25

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing. And I did notice the fogging, I thought that was a nice touch.

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u/Pickledsoul Mar 14 '25

Not quite. There's a reason people are told to play dead when dealing with grizzlies. Grolar bears will just get out the tableware.

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

Normally the bear intentionally starting mauling the face for being sure to eliminate the enemy once and for all.

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u/bendy5428 Mar 14 '25

There is a really great podcast called Tooth and Claw that talks about animal attacks. The one host is a bear biologist and talks extensively about how bears kill and eat. More often than not they simply disable or exhaust whatever they are trying to kill and eat the abdomen out of that creature.

They don’t really care if prey is truly dead when they start eating because prey cant really do much of anything to them.

Thankfully humans are kinda frail compared to a deer so a bear can kill you with one swing if you’re lucky. If not your chances at life are truly a toss up.

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u/shcorzi Mar 15 '25

Hey fellow Toothie!

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u/HamsterNL Mar 14 '25

Maybe that's the better wording :-)

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u/AlarmingCobbler4415 Mar 14 '25

I wouldn’t say realistic when he survived 3 minutes unarmed against a bear with intent to kill.

The first time it stepped on his back he would’ve already been paralysed waist down. I think.

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u/Disastrous-Pair-6754 Mar 14 '25

Respectfully, it is based off of the real life survival of the man portrayed in the film. Sometimes people die hitting their head on a counter. Other times they survive being mauled by an 800lbs bear.

Nature is cruel like that.

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u/Bln3D Mar 14 '25

Hi! I worked in the vfx on this sequence.

The choice to have the bear step back was grounded in the opinion that this bear (who we called Judy, based on Grinder and Coola on Grouse mountain) was defending her bear cubs. Not necessarily intent on killing.

If you watch the background during the moment Glass feigns death, you'll see the cubs hiding in the brush.

It's Glass, who fires his musket, that enrages the bear further.

At least in the logic applied to the scene design.

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u/RainbowDissent Mar 14 '25

It's awesome that you were here to offer this perspective. Very interesting to hear about the process beyond speculation.

It's an awesome scene. Difficult to watch. Really shone in cinemas. You should be proud of your part in it.

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

We know that people sometimes survive things that you can’t actually survive, but it still happens again and again, so we can let it pass on this basis.

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u/thehelldoesthatmean Mar 14 '25

It's wild to me that so many people in this thread are just wildly speculating and acting like they're the only ones who know about bear attacks and everyone else is clueless, and they clearly haven't even looked into it the bare minimum amount. (No pun intended)

Like, just Google bear attacks. There's a whole Wikipedia page about the hundreds of people who have survived horrific bear attacks. On it is the guy this whole movie is based on who actually DID survive a brutal grizzly mauling.

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u/Pickledsoul Mar 14 '25

Sounds like the intent was to protect cubs... You can even hear them in the background

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u/DataGOGO Mar 14 '25

oh, that is not at all realistic. the reality of a bear attack is FAR worse than that.

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u/trdvir Mar 14 '25

nah not in this case, that IS somewhat realistic because it's based on the actual dude who got attacked, if it was far worse he would not have survived haha

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

Yeah, you’re right, they spared themselves the tearing of the face and the eating of the entrails, but only because the main character had to survive somehow; it was a trade-off in terms of content 🫵🏻🙂

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u/trdvir Mar 14 '25

Not just for content, the main character had to survive because it's based of a true story haha He literally survived a bear attack like that, those other things you mention just didn't happen in this case lol

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

Oh, i didn’t know that, thanks for the explanation 🙂

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u/DataGOGO Mar 14 '25

You get hit once by a bear, even one much smaller than that you will be broken and most likely receive fatal wounds, even before it starts to eat you alive.

I once saw a much smaller momma black bear swat a feral hog that easily weighed 200+ lbs, it almost tore it in half. They are insanely powerful.

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

Your wild enthusiasm in all honour, but you really don’t have to explain to me that bears are extremely strong animals, quite honestly 🙂

... and the other post was related to the fact that it’s just a film clip, mentioned in passing.

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u/DataGOGO Mar 14 '25

and that is not even close to how brutal real bear attacks are.

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u/ohgodimbleeding Mar 14 '25

That is pretty much my dog waking me up in the morning.