10 minutes into the film and I can already see animals being coerced into doing things. Can anyone tell me if there were any responsible animal rights group overseeing the production? This is disgusting. The producers would have been butchered had they dared to do something like this in Hollywood.
shareeverything that happens to the sheep in this film is the same as they would experience every day on a farm. And please - don't pretend like Hollywood is something special, they have businesses that keep trained circus animals ready for film productions - which is disgusting - and a million times worse than anything in Rams.
shareLol! Have you ever been on a farm? I'm not sure what abuses you saw but that's normal on a sheep farm.
shareHi. I worked on the film so I'm going to give you a honest yet truthful answer. A few sheep (five or so) were actually killed before filming (there was no sheep killed on screen) but they were not killed for the film, they were meant to be slaughtered anyway. The horde of sheep that are seen slaughtered in the scene in the farmhouse are actually a mix of special effects, detached wool and those few sheep that were killed. The sheep that is seen dead at the beginning of the movie was actually driven on by a tourist in the summer and was stored in a freezer until filming. The ram that was diagnosed originally was not sick at all but sedated and is still well and kicking, so is the white ram and all the sheep that were in the basement.
sharePlease tell me the brothers managed to rescue the stock in the end... :'(
I mean it's a beautiful ending, but those sheep could have survived the cold right ?
great movie btw, you guys can be proud.
The ending was meant to be ambiguous about the fate of the brothers and their flock. But Icelandic sheep are resilient and it's a good possibility that at least the sheep survived the trip up the mountains. Plenty of sheep can survive the Icelandic winter in full fleece. In my own personal ending of the film there would have been a shot of the sheep in the Icelandic highlands grazing with their new born lambs.
sharethx for the reply, i can sleep a bit better now.
shareNo one cared about dozens of sheep starved to death in a paddock (and other animal mistreatment when making Lord of the Rings.
shareWhat I actually find "disgusting" is that you immediately resorted to bullying and calling for the producers' blood without doing an ounce of research on farm life. It's obvious you know nothing about it, and yet you felt the need to be a gigantic jerk.
"Everything could've been anything else, and it would have just as much meaning."
"The producers would have been butchered had they dared to do something like this in Hollywood."
Yes, because the outstanding ethics found in Hollywood must be the standard which all others are measured against. Right.
Also, you don't find irony in your statement condoning violence against fellow mankind because you perceived the filmmakers mistreating the animals in this production? Very amusing...
Re your question about any responsible animal rights group overseeing the production: I haven't read any specific answers to your question, but I'd appreciate a straight answer too. Apparently there was no overseeing, otherwise a straight answer would have been posted, one would hope.
shareFor what it's worth, I just watched the dvd and at the end of the credits it said 'no animals were harmed in the making of this film.'
I wondered myself, especially after seeing the scene near the end when the sheep are driven outside by the two brothers and forced to go to the northernmost area of Iceland and up a mountainside during a blizzard. That seemed harsh, not only for the animals involved (there was a sheepdog too), but also the humans.
And all the pieces matter (The Wire)share
I suspect they created those conditions for the film, rather than (among other things) put the actors, crew and animals at risk by actually attempting to film in a blizzard.
sharewhen?
When was there any animal cruelty?
You know that movies are not real right?