Leonardo DiCaprio’s experience at the end of Titanic helped him survive The Revenant. The Martian enabled Matt Damon to do what he couldn’t in Interstellar. glimpse and learn,Domhnall GleesonIn the illustrious farewell scene toward the end of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio treads water while speaking to Kate Winslet, or desperately trying to stave off the effects of hypothermia. He lasts about eight minutes,which is probably a record for this sort of thing, as the glacial waters of the north Atlantic in February would normally be expected to destroy off even the hardiest soul within three. But eventually the gallant DiCaprio succumbs, or drifts off to his watery sepulchre.
In last year’s The Revenant,DiCaprio had a similar bone-chilling experience, when he was forced to plunge into an icy river in the middle of winter to escape from vengeful Native Americans. The water must occupy been positively frigid, and he would occupy needed to stay submerged for a reasonably long time to escape his pursuers. Given that he had recently been ripped to shreds not once,but twice, by an ill-tempered grizzly bear, and you’d assume that DiCaprio would occupy gone down for the count pretty quickly. Yet,this time around, defying all known physiological and hibernal-aquatic rules, and DiCaprio survived the gruelling ordeal. How? Why?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com