Posted on 11/25/2013 5:18:20 AM PST by bryan999
American Humane Association monitor Gina Johnson confided in an email to a colleague on April 7, 2011, about the star tiger in Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. While many scenes featuring “Richard Parker,” the Bengal tiger who shares a lifeboat with a boy lost at sea, were created using CGI technology, King, very much a real animal, was employed when the digital version wouldn’t suffice. “This one take with him just went really bad and he got lost trying to swim to the side,” Johnson wrote. “Damn near drowned.”
King’s trainer eventually snagged him with a catch rope and dragged him to one side of the tank, where he scrambled out to safety.
“I think this goes without saying but DON’T MENTION IT TO ANYONE, ESPECIALLY THE OFFICE!” Johnson continued in the email, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. “I have downplayed the f— out of it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
Hmm.. now why would the AHA let a few animal deaths and mishaps slide...?
The parallax scrolling on that page is really cool. Usually I hate these technologies but Hollywood Reporter has used it well.
Oh my God! Some fish were killed. The humanity of it all.
I hate H-wood, but considering all the stuff going on to destroy Israel, the USA, why the timing on release of this stuff now? Distraction? Get it out now since 0bummer is fundraising in SoCal this week? Hmm? I suspect things are bad for H-wood but haven’t a clue why all this leaking now.
***Who are the Left’s enemies and perhaps 0bummer has blackmailed them to donate more??? Or he’ll release more dirt?
I suppose this is easier and less inflammatory than investigating the destruction of child actor’s lives.
Disney seems to have created the template for destroying little girls like Miley Cyrus and Britny Spears.
While Hollywood itself allowed the molestation of boys like Corey Haim, Cory Feldman and so many others.
Let’s all hear for the animals. That’s a feel-good, politically correct thing to do.
Safe, very safe.
Disclaimer:
*member Humane Society and contributor to Best Friends.
**No animals were injured in the making of this post.
Well, it’s a Hollywood Reporter story that they’ve probably been working on for a while... not sure if the timing is suspect. Drudge, however, is headlining it in a big bad way (several links plus a picture).
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was on to the story behind the story...
This sad story isn’t surprising in the least. The movie industry has found ways around animal abuse accusations by cozying up to the oversight organizations and by legal means.
A friend of mine had a horse who was selected to be a Secretariat double when they were filming at Pimlico, but the deal was that Disney would only use the horse if they could buy him from her for the duration of the film’s production (he would remain in her care but they would be the legal owners of the horse, meaning she had no say in what he was used for or any means to sue them if something happened to him), and then they’d sell him back to her several months later.
Any right-minded horse owner would walk away (as my friend did), but sadly there were many owners who didn’t, owners who cared more about saying their horse was on screen for two seconds regardless of the risks involved in selling it to Disney for six or eight or twelve months.
As for the exotic animals in these movies, nearly all of them are bred and raised in captivity, often in subpar conditions, and then “trained” to act and perform on command. A lot of them have been rescued and placed in animal sanctuaries, including the Wild Animal Sanctuary here in Colorado.
It’s very sad how Hollywood exploits these animals — and they do it to children, too, thanks to bad parents who care more about fame than welfare.
As long as Hollywood can continue to produce nubile young cuties willing to strip for PETA fundraisers, who gives a crap about the animals?
as long as the Humane Society would rather have cars crash into deer instead of allowing Americans to continue their hunting traditions, they can go pound sand.
this goes for not just deer hunting but all forms of hunting in this country which is regulated to keep healthy herds of animals without competing with human needs.
Good grief. This country is falling down around our ears and Drudge is screaming Peta headlines! we just took a giant step toward nuclear confrontation in the missle east this weekend...how many dogs and horses are going to die then?
Hunting is the best way to control deer population
Don’t support the National group. Give to your local Humane Society. They do the spaying, neutering and vacinations for the community.
Give directly to them. They always need money for local outreach and maintaining the shelters.
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