..every single one of the members of that safari party deserved the same fate as that unfortunate slob who was encased in clay and roasted over a fire. Being trussed up like a turkey, chased and stabbed; or being bitten to death by a cobra; was not harsh enough punishment. Cornell Wilde's character was no better than the savages who were chasing him.
shareYou feel warmly in the matter. So do I. Nevertheless, you do your cause ill service by implying moral equivalency between human beings and the elephant (or any other animal, for that matter). There is none. (If you haven't yet seen it, I suggest you check out John Huston's The Roots of Heaven, 1958.) You'll never convince a human being that eating the Christmas goose on Christmas Day is the same as par-boiling auntie Ruth's left bicep for the same purpose.
Btw, The Naked Prey isn't about who was better or worse but about who, under the circumstances, manages to survive and who does not.
The guy who paid for the expedition freaked me out. What an attitude.
shareI got the feeling that scene was filmed separately as part of an actual safari with real hunters, then edited into the film.
At least, in the film, the hunters ate the elephant meat as well. Cornel Wild's character seemed a little annoyed at the other man for shooting more elephants with no ivory "out of sport."
~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.
The elephants being shot footage was undoubtedly from stock footage of real hunts (culling) which were allowed and managed by different countries as a method of controlling the elephant populations due to overcrowding. At least up to 1995 in South Africa according to National Geographic. Now it's being considered again as a last resort to the overpopulation of the elephants. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/elephant-management/lange-text Director/actor Wilde included other stock footage of African wildlife throughout the picture- it's obvious from the mis-matching quality of the footage. I believe he tried to avoid harming any wildlife while making it. I don't think he had a big budget to work with either so it would have made sense to use stock footage which was no doubt widely available.
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