How I Would’ve Directed Leonardo DiCaprio In The Revenant Bear Attack Scene by Mark W. Travis

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Aug 28, 2017 · 4 min read
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How I Would’ve Directed Leonardo DiCaprio In The Revenant Bear Attack Scene

by Mark W. Travis

Film Courage: You’re saying the interrogation process works when there’s another person interrogating them?

Mark W. Travis: Yes.

Film Courage: Let’s take something where…slightly different scenario…maybe I am making a different way around it in that…let’s take a movie like THE REVENANT and let’s take Hugh Glass’s character before the bear attack. He’s alone in the forest. How are you interrogating Hugh Glass to stumble across the bear or encountering it in some way? How are you getting him ready for this scene?

Mark W. Travis: Okay…first I am just getting back to what you said in the beginning about interrogating involves someone else. The interrogation process is usually between someone who is not in the scene and the person who is in the scene. So whether there is one person in the scene or 12 people makes no difference. Each actor needs that other person and it’s usually someone who is not in the scene.

But getting to how do you interrogate someone to play a scene like Hugh Glass’s scene where he is going through the forest (the woods) and then he’s attacked by a bear. One thing you’ve got to be very clear about, the interrogation is pretty simple yet profound for a moment like that. But first of all you’ve got to remember in any scene, the character that you are interrogating does not know…(Watch the video on Youtube here).

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MARK W. TRAVIS is regarded by Hollywood and independent film professionals internationally as the world’s leading teacher and consultant on the art and craft of film directing. He is known as “the director’s director.”

Fueled by the desire to generate organic and authentic performances in an instant, Mark developed his revolutionary Travis Technique™ over a span of 40 years. Not limited to filmmakers, The Travis Technique™ has proven to be an essential set of tools for all storytellers, writers, directors and actors.

Mark Travis has taught at many internationally acclaimed film schools and institutions, including Pixar University, American Film Institute, UCLA Film School, FAS Screen Training Ireland, NISS — Nordisk Institutt for Scene og Studio (Norway), Odessa International Film Festival (Ukraine), CILECT — The International Association of Film and Television Schools, and the Asia Pacific Screen Lab (hosted by Griffith University Film School, Brisbane, Australia).

Productions directed by Mark W. Travis have garnered over 30 major awards, including: an Emmy, Drama-Logue, L.A. Weekly, Drama Critics’ Circle, A.D.A, and Ovation awards.

His film and television directing credits include: The Facts of Life, Family Ties, Capitol, Hillers, and the Emmy Award-winning PBS dramatic special, Blind Tom: The Thomas Bethune Story. Also the feature films Going Under (for Warner Bros. starring Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty), Earlet (documentary), The Baritones, and The 636.

On-stage, over the past 20 years, Mark has directed over 60 theatre productions in Los Angeles and New York, including: A Bronx Tale, Verdigris, The Lion in Winter, Mornings At Seven, Equus, Café 50s, And A Nightingale Sang, Wings, Linke vs. Redfield, The Coming of Stork and others.

Mark is the author of the Number-One Best Seller (L.A. Times), THE DIRECTOR’S JOURNEY: the Creative Collaboration between Directors, Writers and Actors. His second book on directing,

DIRECTING FEATURE FILMS (published in April of 2002) is currently used as required text in film schools worldwide. His third book, THE FILM DIRECTOR’S BAG OF TRICKS: Get What You Want from Writers and Actors was published in 2011. Mark’s popular DVD, HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTING, is available now.

MARK TRAVIS and ELSHA BOHNERT offer workshops and consultations on all aspects of storytelling for writers, directors and actors.

MARK TRAVIS and ELSHA BOHNERT offer workshops and consultations on all aspects of storytelling for writers, directors and actors. ELSHA BOHNERT is Chief of Staff of Boyden Road Productions and the director of The Travis Story Center in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of DON’T TRIP OVER THE GARDEN HOSE (Deuxmers 2013). Her stories and poems have been published in literary journals and she is an award-winning visual artist as well, with works in public and private collections throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Elsha teaches workshops in “Art & Writing for Healing” and is the only teacher authorized by Mark W. Travis to teach the “Write Your Life” Travis Technique™.

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