possibly one of the most upsetting scenes ive ever seen in a movie. It's all fun and games until it comes to actually skinning the rabbit, the way that scene is shot is excellent, no blood and guts just the horrified reactions of the gang.
brilliant!
I agree that it was an excellent scene, but I didn't find the skinning part as disturbing as the shooting part. It's one thing to hunt a rabbit and cap it with one shot, but as Jake says when told that it's heavy, "It ought to be, he must have 40 rounds in him."
What I liked about the scene was the way it demonstrated what "innocents", what tenderfoot dudes, these children were at the outset. They weren't as horrified by the skinning as they were fascinatedly disgusted---which is why after skinning & gutting the critter Jake ends up tossing it into the ditch.
At the same time as showing their naivete, it was a demonstration of callous depravity. And a waste of food; by the end of the movie Drew was happy to eat a skunk.
Another tidbit - Jeff Bridges acutally skinned a rabbit for this scene - all that blood, guts, and disgust were real.
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I do find the scene kinda ooky, kinda gross, but I can't say that it disturbs me. I actually find it utterly hilarious because, echoing what tjantus said, it so clearly demonstrates that those kids are utterly unfit for the adventures to which they've committed themselves!
Altho it works brilliantly on many other levels, too, Bad Company is an incredibly FUNNY movie. David Huddleston's performance and character alone provide the film with a lot of classic comedy.
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I find the scene sweet, which is what the director, I am sure, intended. Here are these kids who are caught up in all this violence, and they balk at eating a skinned rabbit.
I found the scene where Boog gets shot in the head for taking a pie by far the most upsetting scene in the movie. When I first saw this as a teenager back in the 70's, it shocked me, and stayed with me afterwards.
"I found the scene where Boog gets shot in the head for taking a pie by far the most upsetting scene in the movie. When I first saw this as a teenager back in the 70's, it shocked me, and stayed with me afterwards."
Agreed, it was so graphic, so real, you could see the back of his exploding. Such a sweet kid, killed for something so small and insignificant. I'll never forget that scene.
Well, my take on the rabbit scene was a little different from the other voices so far.
1. I was disturbed by the rabbit scene, first, because a real rabbit seemed to have suffered unnecessarily, albeit briefly. I am referring to the fact that it was clumsily shot, and was clearly in agony until the death shot. Granted, it was brief, so not too far from what happens on a lot of hunting trips if the aim isn't too great, but I still never like animals to suffer in the name of art.
2. I was disturbed -- in a good way -- by the skinning scene, mostly because of the effective use of sound, coupled with the boys' reactions, which I thought was fear, disgust and stupefacation, more than fascination.
3. I didn't think the rabbit was thrown away because they were depraved and just enjoyed skinning it and didn't bother to eat it. That makes no sense to me. I thought they threw it away because no matter how the Jeff Bridges character pretended he knew what he was doing, he didn't have the slightest clue, and by the end of the process all the boys were sick to their stomachs and the rabbit was a ruined mess.
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i thought he was just throwing away the skin and other inedible things.
how is it they can show an animal being shot for the film? this was still allowed in the 70's? now any time an animal has a scene with cruelty you always see the disclaimer that no animal was hurt in the film.
I hated that scene. Just hated it. Poor little rabbit getting shot up like that, like it took all those guys firing that many rounds at a little animal. What the hell? I also didn't like whatever it was they were doing to the cat, tying something on it's feet I guess, and the cat was upset. It reminded me of the cruel scenes involving animals in The Missouri Breaks. I didn't like the language used throughout the film either.
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WTH are you talking about??
They were starving and they consumed the rabbit in the next scene.
Nothing wasted 'cept A LOT of rounds of scarce ammo on a single scrawny bunny.
yeah but the sound editor hammed it up a great deal with all the disgusting sounds he adds
shareIt has been years since I have seen this movie but were all the boys city kids? My dad was born in 1932 and by the time he was 12 he HAD to shoot rabbit for food and he HAD to do it in one shot or his siblings would not eat that day. It must have been the same for farm kids in the 1860's
shareThe Rabbit scene didn't really bother me at all, but I do agree that Boog being shot was the most horrific scene in the film. I was completely shocked when it happened.
shareThe scene does not sound gross to me I was just wondering if they are country or city kids and if that is why they could not shoot and skining a live animal bothers them.
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