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Terrence malick really had dog killed....


....cause he is such a slave to authenticity! No wonder this bastard is a recluse, he'd be beaten to death!

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Can you provide any sources for proof on this? If it's true then that is very unfortunate and would definitely detract from my appreciation of the film, especially in the case of a guy like Malick who is supposed to be such a man of nature and this would be an unnecessary "authentic need" as the shot only lasts for about 4 seconds. However, I haven't been able to find any verification for this on web searches so you need to cite some type of reliable source of information, until then he'll have to remain innocent.

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Has the OP even watched a Malick film before? Malick clearly has an unending love for nature & I can't imagine he'd kill a dog- something real- for a movie.

There. It's on the Internet. Thus it's official

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yeah - i think Malick wouldnt even literally hurt a fly

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You know how they say "no animal was harmed for this movie"? That's because they used to harm animals for movies all the time. I'm not saying it actually happened in this case, i don't know, but once upon a time, it wouldn't have caused such a scandal.

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I'm pretty sure the horse's head in GF1 was actually severed from a live horse. Maybe I'm wrong about them actually killing a horse, but I know that it was a real horse head.

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" I'm pretty sure "

" but I know "

Which is it?

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I heard he also had all those people killed.

"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement."

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The irony is if he did really have people killed for the film no one would care. They would only care about the animals.

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What a moronic thing to say.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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Cut it out, numbskull.

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Cut it out, numbskull.

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If he had that dog killed, he would have shown it.

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It looked like he was still breathing. Beautiful dog. That's one of the most disturbing scenes.

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I don't believe Malick, with the catalogue of films he has, would have ever taken a dog's life, a human life or (as someone above said) would have ever hurt a fly.

I was watching Badlands today and the cuts in the editing and the angle of the shots suggest to me that no harm was done to the dog.

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"The dog in the film was Malick’s own. It was not harmed during the production"

taken from criterion's website-10 things i learned about Badlands.

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Don't be so ridiculous, and stay away from drugs.

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