I guess cruelty against spiders doesn't count as an animal cruelty because they are small and their lives don't matter,they don't feel pain,they don't have a home they are just sent by God for this stupid movie.
shareI do love this movie but I don't approve of killing spiders. I have a pet tarantula of my own so it would be like seeing her killed.
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Well...no, I mean I am not 100% sold on the idea that SpiderLives matter. I am just being devil's advocate here.
I do have a personal catch and release position. But I am still a recovering arachnophobe, so on the list of potential life matters, a spider's one ranks quite low.
However, I do believe I witnessed more actual spider deaths in this film than in any other and that could be distressing to many. I would like to suggest the possibility that the Spider Actor's Guild were firmly in the loop on the spider killing potential when approving the screenplay. Either the spider actors knew and took their chances or the union just never informed them just how BAD it might get.
I like to believe the spiders understood the difficulties they faced. I mean, that belief isn't any more far-fetched than that in some supernatural god type entity or that Trump could win U.S. presidency some day.
Even in the 70s, a spider actor took home a fortune for a film like this one and it could be argued that generations of spiders benefited from the noble sacrifices of these brave trampled and run-over arachnids.
If it makes any spiders feel better, it seems to me there had to have been a lot of human injuries during the making of this film as well. It all could have been movie magic, but I doubt it. I should have checked the trivia beforehand to see the statistics on how many people were bitten by spiders, hit by moving automobiles, lightly burned by fires, thrown on the ground by Shatners, etc.
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I hope somebody will throw boiling water on you someday in your miserable life and you'll understand what it's like to get tortured for something you're not even supposed to do.Those spiders are not actors you s*c* so pls f*o*.
shareI've had boiling water thrown on me. It hurts. Thanks for the kind thoughts. However, I fail to see the connection to the actions of the tarantula actors in this movie. The kitchen scene was about 10 seconds in the film, for the most part the spiders were just crawling on the ground. How is this not something they normally do?
I lived in an environment shared with tarantulas for 3 years and I always saw them crawling on the ground, even in daylight. I saw them crawl up the side of objects. I saw them get into vehicles. About the only thing I did not see was them getting into ductwork. So that one is a fair point.
How can you be so certain the spiders are not actors? What is your evidence to prove that they aren't enthusiastic about being in the movie? I have certain evidence that tells me that they are, in fact, actors and know the risks they took to be in the movie. But as you are attacking the procedure, the burden is on you. If you can present this in a convincing manner, I would definitely consider it and potentially change my position on it.
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Welp. Trump is President, so it turns out your belief structure is more prescient than even you thought it would be. I'm now waiting on the official press release from the Spider Actor's Guild letting us all finally know we can breathe easy because the spider actors involved DID actually understand the risks involved in this production.
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shareRemember that this was filmed in 1977 - I believe that was before there was *any* concern over animal cruelty in movies.
In today's movies, the producers won't put the disclaimer if even insects were intentionally harmed. (IIRC there's a movie where they even tried to get a bird to eat "fake" insects because of the "no animals were harmed" thing)
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Philo's Law: To learn from your mistakes, you have to realize you're making mistakes.
Okay Mr. Compassion. Why then don't cockroach lives matter? Mosquitoes? Sure, you can make an argument that spiders are more beneficial to humans because they catch and kill many bugs we don't like, such as flies and mosquitoes. But surely there is some insect right on the borderline, a bug that we find both helpful and annoying/dangerous. Where then do you draw the compassion line and become outraged for this or that insect? If you see a family of brown recluses hanging around your baby's crib, are you really going to take the time to escort them all out of your home safely? You wouldn't consider proactive measures of pest control and spray the room, potentially killing spiders that don't really "deserve it"?
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By the time they filmed "Men in Black," cockroach lives DID matter. They needed to document the use of special effects to prove they weren't needlessly killing cockroaches.
Times have changed.
Don't like this film? Don't see "Food of the Gods" where they kill live rats on screen (sometimes shooting their faces with BB guns, close up because they're "giant" rats)
You want to talk about ridiculous? In Shawshank Redemption, they got in trouble because they were going to feed a live maggot to Jake, the crow. Some PC police stepped in and said it was cruel to the maggot. They had to find one that died of natural causes and use that instead. Ironically, years later the director admitted that he killed the maggot himself just to keep the schedule going.
shareYour right! That’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. I would like to see those PC police today to see how they turned out.
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