The Revenant (2015) - Alejandro González Iñárritu.
It’s okay son… I know you want this to be over. I’m right here. I will be right here… But you don’t give up. You hear me? As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe… keep breathing.
“The title character is an extraordinary composite of my favorite outsider musicians, not consciously constructed in this way, but as he’s emerged from the film he’s like, there are bits of Daniel Johnson’s kind of gentleness and vulnerability and his strange melodic gift. But on the other hand there is quite a lot of Captain Beefheart in him, kind of growlier, Fassbender qualities to him too. He’s always trying to create musical, kind of trying to push the boundaries make music and make things and build things and hear music in everything.”
“You’re just a few ripples of you, there’s no history to you. You’re just a performance of stuff that he performed without thinking, and it’s not enough.”
“And in the end I think I’ve learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I’ve even gone one step further than my father did. The truth is I now don’t travel back at all, not even for the day. I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.”
