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How many animals they killed for this movie?


OMG, in 1990 there are no CGI, they must killed a lot of buffalos for filming.

How is this acceptable???????

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Watch the dvd extras and you'll see not a single one. Nice try to troll.

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They wouldn't put it on DVD for people to see their atrocity.

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Give me a few thousand dollars, and I'll make you a totally convincing dead buffalo out of crap I bought at the craft store.

I'll even drizzle it with a few things from the grocery store to attract enough flies to make it look real.

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Do you even watch the movie? They aren't unmoving buffalos, they tumble, roll.

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All I remember is the dead buffaloes.

As for the tumble and roll, I believe that's done with tripwires. Cowboy movie stunt riders used to do that all the time.

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In that speed, even tripwires didn't kill them, it will cause harm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9kQtd4_WcU

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Yeah, the cowboy stunt riders had to stop using tripwires on horses because so many of the horses ended up with broken legs and had to be put down. Of course a modern riding horse has legs that are more fragile than those of a wild animal, humans have been breeding them for speed and not durability for hundreds of thousands of years. So I *hope* that the buffalo came to no harm, although I think there's a good chance they did and nobody's admitting it.

Even if "no animals were killed in the making of this film", I bet a bunch were thoroughly pissed off.

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