No Animals Were Harmed

[sean miguel]

“LAST WEEK WE ALMOST
F—ING KILLED KING IN THE WATER TANK,”

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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.”

Kind of a long read but eye-opening.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/

Maybe they should amend that disclaimer to "No Animals were harmed while cameras were rolling, or on purpose."

 

[Jack Davenport]

Is this like the albums that had 'No synthesizers were used in the production of this album" printed on them ?

 

[bobjustbob]

And Brian Griffin is now dead.

 

[ApolloBalboa]

I read this at work. The hypocrisy some of these animal welfare/rights groups exhibit is astounding.

 

[johnnyv0523]

It's ok the tiger wasn't really a tiger anyway