Sickening Animal Abuse

Animals were tied up and floated in the water, the elephant was "lassoed" and scared, the ostrich was ridden and harassed, the confrontation between the dogs and tiger terrified the tiger .... I could go on and there was more stuff like that. Fits my definition of animal cruelty.

Mind you i have to say after further investigation that who knows what goes on with some of these productions.

A link below which says more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Humane_Association

Contrary to popular belief the AHA was set up in 1939 after a scene in the movie Jesse James involving a poor horse.

I do think the Swiss Family Robinson scene was staged with trained actors though as the dogs are clearly wagging their tails and if you pause the film look to be playing with the tiger and not attacking it. Just clever editing and sound effects added post production make it look like an attack.

Incidentally another article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_animals

From that article.

Animal cruelty has long been an issue with the art form of filmmaking, with even some big-budget Hollywood films receiving criticism for allegedly harmful—and sometimes lethal—treatment of animals during production. One of the most infamous examples of animal cruelty in film was Michael Cimino's legendary flop Heaven's Gate, in which numerous animals were brutalized and even killed during production. Cimino allegedly killed chickens and bled horses from the neck to gather samples of their blood to smear on actors for Heaven's Gate, and also allegedly had a horse blown up with dynamite while shooting a battle sequence, the shot of which made it into the film. After the release of the film Reds, the star and director of the picture, Warren Beatty apologized for his Spanish film crew's use of tripwires on horses while filming a battle scene, when Beatty wasn't present. Tripwires were used against horses when Rambo III and The Thirteenth Warrior were being filmed. An ox was sliced nearly in half during production of Apocalypse Now, while a donkey was bled to death for dramatic effect for the film Manderlay, in a scene later cut from the film.

Cruelty in film exists in movies outside the United States. There is a case of cruelty to animals in the South Korean film The Isle, according to its director Kim Ki-Duk.[50] In the film, a real frog is skinned alive while fish are mutilated. Several animals were killed for the camera in the controversial Italian film Cannibal Holocaust.[51] The images in the film include the slow and graphic beheading and ripping apart of a turtle, a monkey being beheaded and its brains being consumed by natives and a spider being chopped apart. In fact, Cannibal Holocaust was only one film in a collective of similarly themed movies (cannibal films) that featured unstaged animal cruelty. Their influences were rooted in the films of Mondo filmmakers, which sometimes contained similar content. In several countries, such as the UK, Cannibal Holocaust was only allowed for release with most of the animal cruelty edited out.

More recently, the video sharing site YouTube has been criticized for hosting thousands of videos of real life animal cruelty, especially the feeding of one animal to another for the purposes of entertainment and spectacle. Although some of these videos have been flagged as inappropriate by users, YouTube has generally declined to remove them, unlike videos which include copyright infringement.[52][53]

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has contracted with the American Humane Association (AHA) for monitoring of animal use during filming or while on the set.[54] Compliance with this arrangement is voluntary and only applies to films made in the United States. Films monitored by the American Humane Association may bear one of their end-credit messages. Many productions, including those made in the US, do not advise AHA or SAG of animal use in films, so there is no oversight.[55]

Simulations of animal cruelty exist on television, too. On the September 23, 1999 edition of WWE Smackdown!, a plot line had professional wrestler Big Boss Man trick fellow wrestler Al Snow into appearing to eat his pet chihuahua Pepper.

I'm actually pretty disgusted to find out about Heaven's Gate.

Another example below.

http://www.peta.org/feat/bullmovie/index.html

Bullfighting is also disgusting in a civilised society.

Almodovar’s production company claimed that it was simply filming a bullfighting training session. However, photos were taken of Almodovar directing the matador during the filming. The production company also dismissed the animal protection law as only applying to "pets."

According to the Associated Press, a study found that 20 percent of bulls are drugged before they step into the ring. Of 200 bulls, "1 in 5 had been given anti-inflammatory drugs, which mask injuries that could sap the animal’s strength." Former bullfighters have confessed that bulls are fed laxatives to debilitate them days before the fight, have the muscles cut in their necks to prevent them from lifting their heads up all the way, and usually have petroleum jelly smeared in their eyes to affect their vision.

Oh and heres a complete list of ratings by the AHA.

http://www.ahafilm.info/movies/movieratings.phtml

Deemed unacceptable.

Abyss, The n/a
Annihilation of Fish n/a
Antarctica 20th Century Fox
Antarctica 1984 n/a
Apocalypse Now United Artists
Arabian Nights United Artists
Big Bad John n/a
Cannibal Holocaust Transcontinental
Conan, The Barbarian Universal Pictures
Conan, The Destroyer Universal Pictures
Crocodile Cobra Media (US)
Crystal Eye Avatar Films
Curse Of The Starving Class n/a
Deathstalker III Concorde Pictures
Faces of Death Parts I & II Gorgon Video, MPI Home Video
Ferryman Unknown
First Blood Orion Pictures Corporation
Fist of Fury II 21st Century Distribution
Heart Of The Stag New World Pictures
Heartland Levitt-Pickman
Heaven's Gate United Artists
In The Blood n/a
Lawrence Of Arabia n/a
Legend Of The Lone Ranger Universal Pictures
Lion Of The Desert United Film Distribution
Lord Of The Flies Columbia Pictures
Moments of Truth Unknown
Mondo New York Fourth and Broadway
Mountains Of The Moon Tristar Pictures
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video New Line Cinema
One Man's Hero MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) aka MGM-UA, Orion Pictures Corp.
Prophecy Paramount Pictures
Rambo III Tri Star Pictures
Reds Paramount Pictures
Return To Snowy River Buena Vista
Rodeo Bloopers 2 Rodeo Video, Inc.
Roger & Me Warner Bros.
Savage Of The Canibal God New Line Cinema
Southern Comfort 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Suburbia You Wouldn't Want to Live There New World Pictures
The Black Cobra Unknown
The Chisholms aired on CBS
The Field Avenue Pictures
The Lion Speaks Unknown
The Long Riders United Artists
The Lord Of The Flies Nelson Entertainment
The Mountain Men Columbia Pictures
The Snakefist vs The Dragon 21st Century Distribution
Tom Horn Warner Bros.
Tomcat n/a
Triumphs Of A Man Called Horse Jenson Farley Pictures
Tundra Great Circle Films
Vampire's Kiss Hemdale Film Corporation
Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold

I'm surprised to see the best movie of all time Lawrence Of Arabia on the above list.

I tend to find that those not bothered by animal cruelty are usually the same people who would be quickest to inflict human cruelty, indeed serial killers usually start out with animals and insects first before progressing to humans.

Comments like get over yourself help no one and are frankly not helpful or nice, it's a shame that people don't care more but hearts are sometimes less open in some people than they should be.

Lets not even start the meat eating argument, killing for food and killing for entertainment might be a fine line for some but there is no excuse for killing just for a movie set such as blowing up a horse in Heaven's Gate - Michael Cimino is just sick for doing that. ( my opinion )

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I wonder what percentage of animal rights lovers think it's horrible to accidentally kill an animal during the filming of a movie 40 years ago but abortion is okay ?