shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com january 12, 2016 • Page 9 ‘The Revenant’ Lemmon Hosts Screening Of Film With Area Ties Photo: 20th Century Fox/TNS Leonardo DiCaprio stars in “The Revenant,” a film based on a true incident that took place in what is now South Dakota early in the 19th century. By LAUREN DONOVAN The Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune LEMMON (AP) — Jack Deland gamely put on a fake bear coat and gnarly toothed hood to pose on the red carpet with dozens of Lemmon, South Dakota, folks Wednesday night. Deland was a stand-in for the historical figure of Hugh Glass, who was practically ripped to shreds by a grizzly bear near Lemmon in 1823, and whose survival story is the essence of a new movie “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Lemmon scored the Dakotas’ only screening, prior to the national release Friday, and the town made the most of the occasion by rolling out a red carpet, photographing everyone who came — with Deland as the long dead hero of the saga — and holding a social afterward, The Bismarck Tribune reported. “Why not?” said Deland, who moved to Lemmon from Florida a decade ago and fell in love with the area, maybe the opposite of Glass who nearly died in the attack and crawled 200 miles to get revenge on his fur trapping companions who left him for dead. The audience of about 200 was an interesting mix of cowboys, sequined ladies and buckskinned men, who enjoy re-enacting the fur trade era at summer rendezvous. One in buckskins was Pete Gusenius, of Keldron, who said he’s been looking forward to the screening ever since it was OK’d by the studio last month. Like most people from the Lemmon area, he’s known the Hugh Glass story since he was a kid. “I expect this (retelling) to be pretty Hollywood. It’s not the real story, but it’s still Hugh Glass,” Gusenius said. John Lopez, who created a sculpture of the grizzly attack and parked it out front of the theater for the screening, said the night was shaping up to be the success he and other organizers hoped for. Even if the scriptwriter changed up the story, Lopez said, it’s the connection to Lemmon that really counts. “This will go worldwide and a lot of people will try to travel out here,” he said. Theater owner Angela Lane said she was equal parts excited and nervous about hosting the screening. “It’ll be good for the theater and for the whole town,” she said. If she had one wish, it’s that the movie would have been filmed where the grizzly attacked Glass, a site that’s well known and marked with a monument at the Shadehill Reservoir southwest of Lemmon. “I wish they would have filmed at least part of it here,” she said. Need people to find your business? Get your display ad here! MV Shopper MV Shopper M I S S O U R I VA L L E Y www.missourivalleyshopper.com 665-5884 M I S S O U R I VA L L E Y Do you have SLOW, Quota Limited or Non-Existent Internet Service today? Does your data bill look like a mortgage payment? Are you ready for something more? Are you ready to stream all your favorite content when YOU want? It’s Here. Local High Speed Wireless Internet Service Unlimited and Unbundled. If you answered YES to the questions above, then you qualify for Half Price Installation. If you currently have a Participating Businesses Are… competing wireless internet provider Riverfront Event Center we will take $100.00 OFF our normal $199.00 installation fee when you Go Local and Sign up with Yankton Wireless. CREATIVE CORNER Data Plans starting at 59.95 $ /mo. with NO DATA USAGE LIMITS and NO HIDDEN FEES. Bronze Service: 3Mbits Download/1Mbit Upload Speed Silver Service: 5Mbits Download/1Mbit Upload Speed Gold Service: 10Mbits Download/2Mbits Upload speed J&H Cleaning Services YANKTON WORKS Want your REAL-TIME MESSAGE on the most visited media website in the Yankton area? Join our ‘Friends2Follow’ program! Contact your Yankton Media Representative today! 605-665-7811 Go Unlimited, Go Unbundled, Go Local, Go with Yankton Wireless Internet Service. Call 605.760.9764 email info@yankton-wireless.com or go to our website: www.yankton-wireless.com for more information.