It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

in the way it shaped our thoughts on a new release. I'm Scott Tobias here once again with Keith Phipps,

Tasha Robinson, and Rachel Handler. This week we're talking about Werner Herzog's Aguirre

the Wrath of God and Alhandro Gonzalez Inorritus, the Revenant, two period survival adventures about men

and filmmakers driven to the brink. But before we get into The Revenant, a little plot first.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Hugh Glass, who survives wounds from a vicious bear attack that

nearly kills him and the betrayal of a fur trapper, played by Tom Hardy, who leaves him for dead.

His madness isn't quite the same as Kinski's Agira.

Let's just say he's extremely motivated to survive the brutal cold and have his revenge.

Though they take place in extreme heat and extreme cold,

the two films are about the mad visions of filmmakers and characters who try to conquer the elements

and come back bruised for their trouble.

It's all the same up here. You're going to have to go back.

Find another way.

Hold me.

You.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Lay that rag over his eyes, Mr. Bridger. What?

I can't.

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