The name of Leonardo di Caprio is known to all and foremost because of a great tragedy where a flock of rich people set on a cruise died as their ship sunked and drowned into the sea. The reason is well-known. The sole accused of it all was a huge iceberg hidden underwater in the North Atlantic Ocean standing there like a rock, unmoved. And Leo had to die. Although the love story in the movie was a fiction but his role must have been of many of those lovers who had to go through the same. After a 100 years and more of the incident and decades after the movie, Hugh Glass shows you that those icebergs cannot break ships now.
He is very concerned about how the entire world has found a way to melt those icebergs and left only a few standing but fortunately not big or strong enough to break another Titanic.
Ladies and gentlemen he very much means the Global Climatic Change.
Although the Oscar winning movie for best director and actor is about a legend of a rarely known Native- American myth. But during the long enduring hours of shooting in natural light and the number of places he had to roam to find snow as they desired to shoot the conditions of the 18th century, he had a Titanic Realisation. A realization of the rise in the global temperature, that could be extremely felt in those polar regions.
He was so moved that he made his most awaited Oscar winning speech about this very matter. He said:
" Making The Revenant was about man's relationship to the natural world. A world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people out there who would be most affected by this. For our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed. I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much."
I only have to say that this man chose a time when the world was watching him to stand for this cause. Isn't it late for us to realise our part to do with this terrible change in the planet that they have to make a movie and then an Oscar speech about it, so that we get the severity of it.
