《荒野猎人》中的复仇与生存_英语论文

Revenge and Survival in The Revenant

摘要

《荒野猎人》是一部由二十世纪福克斯公司发行，亚利桑德罗-冈萨雷斯-伊纳里图执导，莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥、汤姆·哈迪、威尔·保尔特、多姆纳尔·格利森等主演的电影，本电影改编自迈克尔-彭克的同名长篇小说，该影片于2015年12月25日在北美点映，2016年1月8日全面公映，2016年3月18日在国内上映。影片讲述的故事发生于1823年，当时正值美国西进运动，大量的白人开拓者涌入美国中西部，在疯狂掠夺当地资源时与原住民印第安人爆发了激烈的冲突。这个故事有两条主线，一条主线讲述了休·格拉斯为儿子复仇，印第安人为同胞复仇的故事，另外一条主线讲述了受伤的格拉斯战胜自然求生和印第安人求生的故事。显而易见的是，印第安人所遭受的痛苦远远多于格拉斯所代表的拥有更加先进文明的白人。由于落后的文明，他们承受着妻离子散，流离失所，难以生存的痛苦。傲慢与偏见，不同的文明导致了不同种族间的冲突和战争。经历了种种磨难后，格拉斯选择了与大多数白人不同的方式和自然、印第安人共处。该影片故事简明、主线明确，本文希望通过介绍西进运动，以及电影主题复仇与生存的分析，对电影做深度剖析。

关键词：复仇； 生存； 西进运动

Abstract

The Revenant is issued by Fox company in 20th century, which is directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and acted by Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter and so on. The Revenant, based in part on Michael Punke’s novel of the same name, had a limited release on December 25 in North America area and expanded on January 8, 2016, premiering in China on March 18th 2016. It describes a story happened in 1823 when America was going through westward movement. During this time, a great amount of white frontiersmen rushed toward the Midwest of the United States. They pillaged the local resources and intense conflicts were raised between these frontiersmen and aboriginal Indians. There are two major lines of the film. Hugh Glass’s revenge for his son and Indian revenge for their compatriots is the first one, and another is that wounded Glass struggles in nature for survival and Indians resist invaders for survival. It’s obvious that Indians suffered much more pains than Glass, who was on behalf of white men and enjoyed advanced civilization. With lagged civilization, they suffered the loss of family, home and the right to survival. It’s the pride, prejudice and the diffident civilizations that radically lead to the conflicts and wars between races. After suffering a lot, Glass got along with nature and Indian in different ways from that of most white men. This paper aims to carry out in-depth analysis of the movie through introducing westward movement and makes analysis on the theme of revenge and survival.

Keywords:   Revenge； Survival； The Westward Movement

Contents

1 Introduction .1

2 The Background of the Westward Movement .1

3 The Fire of Revenge  .3

  3.1 Glass’s revenge on Fitzgerald .3

  3.2 The Death of Fitzgerald 5

  3.3 Rees leader’s Revenge and Pawnee man’s Revenge 5

4 The hope of Survival6

  4.1 Glass’s Survival 7

  4.2 The Tragic Survival of Indian.7

Conclusion9

References.11