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Long, long agone in a Hollywood far, far abroad, Leonardo DiCaprio came close to wielding a lightsaber as Jedi-gone-bad, Anakin Skywalker. Back in 2000, reports cited the then-26 year old histrion equally George Lucas's preferred candidate to play Luke'due south dad in the howeverhoped-for titled Episode 2. But the franchise-wary DiCaprio ultimately declined the opportunity to tell Natalie Portman why she's and so much amend than sand. "[I] just didn't experience prepare to take the dive," he afterward remarked in interviews.

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Bound ahead 15 years and DiCaprio is, coincidentally enough, experiencing his own Star Wars moment at the same time that the side by side chapter in the Skywalker space opera, The Force Awakens, is setting new box-office records. Of course, DiCaprio'south new film, The Revenant, is mostly light years removed from the J.J. Abrams-directed blockbuster. A roughshod, encarmine 19th-century Western, The Revenant recounts the stranger-than-fiction true-life tale of Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), a frontiersman who improbably survived a bear attack and abandonment by his companions. Only director Alejandro González Iñárritu stages one sequence that'southward instantly, if inadvertently, reminiscent of a famous scene in what'due south widely considered the best Star Wars gamble: 1980's The Empire Strikes Back.

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The scene in question arrives late in the pic, afterwards Glass has already lived through the same comport attack, in addition to getting buried alive and hauling his wounded body across the frozen tundra in pursuit of his betrayer John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). Having swiped a horse from a party of French hunters, Hugh is pursued by a Native American hunting political party. With no other means of escape, he rides over a cliff, horse and rider tumbling to the distant ground below.

A tree breaks Glass's autumn, simply the horse dies instantly. With night budgeted and temperatures speedily dropping, he has to find a way to stay warm without inviting the attention that a campfire might bring. So he takes a knife and slices into the equus caballus's belly, pulling its steaming guts and intestines into the snowfall. It's slow, gruesome work that Iñárritu's camera doesn't cutting away from, observing dispassionately equally Glass dislodges the horse'due south stomach and abdominal tract to create a space within the dead animal'south body that'southward big plenty for a man to crawl inside and go along warm.

Audio familiar all the same? Early on in Empire, Han Solo uses the same method to protect an injured Luke Skywalker from the intense cold of the ice planet, Hoth. Having survived an almost-fatal Wampa set on — Hoth'due south answer to a deport — Luke is stranded in the snow, when he's visited past a blue-tinted vision of his old Force tutor, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Just equally he passes out, Han Solo shows up riding a Tauntaun — Hoth'southward respond to a horse. The Tauntaun promptly keels over expressionless from the cold.

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Facing whiteout atmospheric condition, the smuggler-turned-reluctant Rebel has to observe a quick way to keep his friend warm and safe until they can brand their way back to the Rebellion base. In a scene that, to this twenty-four hours, still elicits both "Ewwwws" and "Wows" from young viewers, Solo picks up Luke'southward lightsaber and slices into the stomach of the Tauntaun, its conflicting innards spilling out. "This may smell bad, child, just it'll keep you warm until I get the shelter up," Han promises equally he shoves a delirious Luke into the creature'south recently vacated gut. "I thought they smelled bad on the outside," the ever-snarky pilot adds.

For providing a shocking burst of gore in the generally bloodless Star Wars universe, the Tauntaun scene has inspired much chatter over the decades, appearing on lists of the franchise's scariest moments and having its science fiction veracity challenged past actual science. Similarly, DiCaprio's night inside a horse carcass is already generating headlines. In a widely-publicized interview with Yahoo Movies earlier this yr, DiCaprio cited "sleeping in beast carcasses" as one of the most challenging aspects of making The Revenant, along with eating raw bison liver. Production designer Jack Fisk recently revealed that the horse scene was created through gruesome movie magic. "The horse was congenital and the guts inside were created out of latex and hair," he told Business Insider.

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Earthbound wildlife experts are existence quick to circumspection amateur survivalists near Glass's methods. "The primary problem would be staying dry, so that you don't get chilled after yous crawl dorsum out," biologist Robert Reed recently told Slate, while ecologist David Steen pointed out the variables one would have to take into account, including the outside temperature and the size of the horse. (Interestingly, it'south unclear from the historical record whether the real Glass resorted to such sleeping methods during his fourth dimension in the wilderness.) Should DiCaprio ever change his mind and journey to Star Wars' galaxy for an upcoming episode, at least he and Mark Hamill will have something in mutual to talk about.

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