big game hunting

His obsession with human ambition and conquest against nature, particularly in films like 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' and 'Fitzcarraldo', explores the predatory relationship between man and wilderness.

His Western films deeply examine the mythology and morality of hunting, conquest, and the frontier, questioning the ethics of pursuing and dominating what is wild and untamed.

His visceral exploration of human violence and primal instinct, especially in 'The Revenant', uses the hunt as a meditation on survival, revenge, and man's savage nature.