Dog Killing
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Cape Fear
SomeDesperado — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 03:50 PM)
Am I misremembering this? We never actually see the dog die, right? It's weird since we do see Nolte's sort-of-girlfriend getting assaulted but a dog being poisoned is too far? Does anyone know if there was a specific reason why Scorsese went with the "tell, don't show" school of filmmaking when it came to the dog killing? I get why we didn't see the maid being murdered but there didn't seem to be any reason to omit the dog dying. Is it just the unwritten Hollywood rule of never killing animals on screen?
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rgibson-20 — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 07:31 PM)
Not likely. Remember Josh Brolin shot an attacking dog point blank in No Country for Old Men. And Anthony Hopkins drove a wooden stake through a bear (or, more accurately, caused the bear to impale itself on the stake) in that Alaska movie with Alec Baldwin. Horses get shot (on purpose or not) on the screen all the time.
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Keiwei — 9 years ago(November 17, 2016 03:44 PM)
They show animals being killed all the time in movies. In the movie FEAR with Wahlberg/Witherspoon they show the gang sticking the decapitated head of the family dog through the doggy door. It was probably up to the discretion of either the director, studio, or an audience who may have screened the movie and didn't like the scene.