Kudos to John C. Reilly . . .
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mrs_george_harrison — 17 years ago(May 31, 2008 02:03 PM)
I'm not going to watch it either. After watching Apocalypse Now I was disgusted with the cow being slaughtered and I was angry at Coppola for filming it. However I discovered that they were filming a real tribe killing the animal for a ritual and that Coppola just filmed it and did not willingly engage the act of violence. Although such imagery should not be filmed, it is disgusting to think that a professional director would cut a living being's life short just to include it in a film. What a waste of life. So pointless, pathetic and unecessarily violent. They could have easily edited it, used sound effects and a fake donkey or even a stuffed donkey for the scene. It's a disgrace. I don't want to see this film now.
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Xardas — 17 years ago(July 04, 2008 05:59 AM)
As you say, the killing of the cow in Apocalypse was not planned to be in the movie. I think it was Coppola's wife who by chance found the natives performing the ritual and so they filmed it.
This thing with the donkey is another matter altogether. They were going to put it down anyway because it was old and ill, but setting it on fire? That's FUBAR.
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DC_Collins — 17 years ago(August 09, 2008 06:49 PM)
Nope, no big deal just standard-issue diabolism:
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tripitacha — 16 years ago(July 14, 2009 01:31 AM)
Yeah, how many of us go to fancy restaurants for the sake of entertainment? There's a mongolian restaurant here in Glasgow that serves things such as zebra and kangaroo. Is THAT justified? Oh, we're happy to chomp on the flesh of these animals on a daily basis but killing one for art is wrong?
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esoteric_dissolution — 16 years ago(September 28, 2009 01:35 AM)
lol
You realize the reason he probably intentionally had the donkey killed was because he didn't have the budget for realistic effects?
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GoodRed — 16 years ago(January 21, 2010 11:03 AM)
You realize the reason he probably intentionally had the donkey killed was because he didn't have the budget for realistic effects?
If he wanted to film his script in the first place, he should have worked around it. It's not that he didn't have the budget he didn't have the TALENT, period. By doing that, Von Trier is just as much a hack as Bay is.