An edited piece of footage of a fairly innocuous event igniting an extreme emotional response, clogging a million message boards with all-caps rants. Additionally, companies who train close protection dogs also often use dogs eye view video footage in their sales videos to show how quickly a dog is. The dog in this video is a pretty good allegory for the confused state the media has fallen into thrown into turbulent waters, unsure which way is up. Our attitudes toward animal and even human injustice seem hilariously hypocritical at best. (Just for the record, I am a proud carnivore). It’s funny how brief footage of a dog’s discomfort has the power to cause such intense emotion when pigs, cows, and chickens are being methodically mistreated and slaughtered by the thousand, every day. Stunt dogs are used to scary situations on set, and in the vast majority of cases are treated exceptionally well by their handlers.
Any dog owner who has to go through the ordeal of bathtime has seen something resembling the panic seen in this video. The thing is, even if the aforementioned German shepherd was forever traumatized by his moment in the water, it still amounts to nothing more than strong discomfort, rather than pain. It’s only January and already we have a new animal martyr for 2017. Remember Cecil ? The lion on the game reserve with the black mane, who wasn’t supposed to be shot because he had a black mane? Or Harambe, the gorilla who could’ve easily endangered the life of the child in his enclosure? The slaughter of both of these creatures was tragic, but hardly worthy of the hysteria they inspired. A part of me is experiencing a gleeful schadenfreude watching this film get destroyed by its own hypocrisy before it even hits the cinema screen.īut it’s clear that this is an overreaction. But the octopus, despite being a frighteningly intelligent animal, doesn’t quite provoke the same emotional response as a dog.Ĭheap, sentimental animal movies like Dolphin Tale and Marley and Me are indisputably annoying, albeit harmless. The scene required four separate takes, meaning that actor Choi Min-shik had to eat four octopuses alive. The scene is not embellished with any trickery, and the tentacles struggling against the actor’s face are real. The 2003 South Korean masterpiece Oldboy contains a disturbing scene where the protagonist consumes a live octopus. It’s only fairly recently that animal rights have come under such an intense spotlight, but even then, we’re very particular about which animals we care about. The history of Hollywood leaves a trail stained with the blood of dead horses, stuntmen, and extras. It’s funny how far we’ve come, in a sense. Jobs will be lost, reputations stained and death threats will be sent.
The dog is extremely resistant to going into the churning water. The scene involved a German Shepherd swimming through rough waters, an effect achieved by placing eight outboard motors into a pool, according to TMZ s sources. Amblin Partners and Universal Pictures sent TMZ a statement saying theyve seen the footage and are investigating.What we do know, is that heads will roll. TMZ posted footage taken November 2015 at a filming location outside Winnipeg, Manitoba. TMZ reports that director Lasse Hallström was present during the particular scene, and that at least one crew member felt extremely disturbed by how the German Shepard was being treated. You can hear panic set in as people yell, ∼ut it, and two handlers rush to help the animal. A trainer in the pool attempts to call him towards her, but the scrambling dog ends up submerged. After a trainer attempts twice to force the animal in once holding him by the collar as hes dipped into the pool the dog does eventually end up swimming, though the video cuts out the part showing him actually entering the pool.Īt the end of the clip, the pup is seen pushed down to the end of the pool by the turbulent water as he struggles to swim across. The scene involved a German Shepherd swimming through rough waters, an effect achieved by placing eight outboard motors into a pool, according to TMZs sources. TMZ posted footage taken November 2015 at a filming location outside Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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