Leonardo DiCaprio's long-awaited Oscar acceptance speech was right on point. He has obviously been planning this speech for a long time, and I can't think of a better film for him to tie his message on climate change to than "The Revenant".
During shooting of the film, the team struggled to find filming locations with enough snow to make the film seem realistic. Here is an excerpt from an interview with Wired magazine that was published in January 2016:
"I heard you had problems with snow.
We had a lot of complications while shooting, because it was the hottest year in recorded history. In Calgary there were all these extreme weather events. One day we were trying to do a scene and it turned out to be 40 below zero, so the gears of the camera didn’t work. Then twice during the movie we had 7 feet of snow melt in a day—all of it, within five hours—and we were stuck with two or three weeks of no snow in a film that’s all snow. So we had to shut down production multiple times. That’s what happens with climate change; the weather is more extreme on both ends.
You even had to wrap early and resume filming when you could find snow again, right?
We had to go to the South Pole!
That’s crazy.
We had to go to the southern tip of Argentina, to the southernmost town on the planet, to find snow."
You can read the full article here: "The nine lives of Leo DiCaprio" by Robert Capps
Climate change is a real and present danger, and arguably that most important issue our species will face in the coming years. You can view Leo's Oscar speech here (the important part starts at 1:47 if you want to skip ahead...)
During shooting of the film, the team struggled to find filming locations with enough snow to make the film seem realistic. Here is an excerpt from an interview with Wired magazine that was published in January 2016:
"I heard you had problems with snow.
We had a lot of complications while shooting, because it was the hottest year in recorded history. In Calgary there were all these extreme weather events. One day we were trying to do a scene and it turned out to be 40 below zero, so the gears of the camera didn’t work. Then twice during the movie we had 7 feet of snow melt in a day—all of it, within five hours—and we were stuck with two or three weeks of no snow in a film that’s all snow. So we had to shut down production multiple times. That’s what happens with climate change; the weather is more extreme on both ends.
You even had to wrap early and resume filming when you could find snow again, right?
We had to go to the South Pole!
That’s crazy.
We had to go to the southern tip of Argentina, to the southernmost town on the planet, to find snow."
You can read the full article here: "The nine lives of Leo DiCaprio" by Robert Capps
Climate change is a real and present danger, and arguably that most important issue our species will face in the coming years. You can view Leo's Oscar speech here (the important part starts at 1:47 if you want to skip ahead...)