Did any animals get injured in films?

Question

In old films say 60's, 70's and 80's did any animals fighting actually get injured? There were no special effects then so how did they do it?

Answer 1

One of the most infamous examples of animal cruelty in film was Michael Cimino's legendary flop Heaven's Gate, in which numerous animals were brutalized and even killed during production. Cimino allegedly killed chickens and bled horses from the neck to gather samples of their blood to smear on actors for Heaven's Gate, and also allegedly had a horse blown up with dynamite while shooting a battle sequence, the shot of which made it into the film. After the release of the film Reds, the star and director of the picture, Warren Beatty apologized for his Spanish film crew's use of tripwires on horses while filming a battle scene, when Beatty wasn't present. Tripwires were used against horses when Rambo III and The Thirteenth Warrior were being filmed. An ox was sliced nearly in half during production of Apocalypse Now, while a donkey was bled to death for dramatic effect for the film Manderlay, in a scene later cut from the film.

Cruelty in film exists in movies outside the United States. There is a case of cruelty to animals in the South Korean film The Isle, according to its director Kim Ki-Duk.[67] In the film, a real frog is skinned alive while fish are mutilated. Several animals were killed for the camera in the controversial Italian film Cannibal Holocaust.[68] The images in the film include the slow and graphic beheading and ripping apart of a turtle, a monkey being beheaded and its brains being consumed by natives and a spider being chopped apart. In fact, Cannibal Holocaust was only one film in a collective of similarly themed movies (cannibal films) that featured unstaged animal cruelty. Their influences were rooted in the films of Mondo filmmakers, which sometimes contained similar content. In several countries, such as the UK, Cannibal Holocaust was only allowed for release with most of the animal cruelty edited out.

More recently, the video sharing site YouTube has been criticized for hosting thousands of videos of real life animal cruelty, especially the feeding of one animal to another for the purposes of entertainment and spectacle. Although some of these videos have been flagged as inappropriate by users, YouTube has generally declined to remove them, unlike videos which include copyright infringement.[69][70]

Answer 2

It depends on the movie. Though computer effects weren't available at the time, I'm sure a majority of movies made use of practical effects.



There are some, of course, cases where animals really were injured or killed though. They used to trip horses with wires in Westerns that required the animal to fall over. This would sometimes lead to the horses breaking their legs and having to be killed.



I forget which movie it was, but there was another case where a horse was forced over a cliff and...of course...died.



There was a movie called "Men Behind the Sun" in which they threw a cat into an actual pile of starving rats. They then really set the rats on fire.



There is a very old Tarzan movie that has a scene where he fights a lion. They actually drugged a lion, which was then stabbed and killed.



There was also a movie called "Cannibal Holocaust" that had some pretty bad animal cruelty in it. They skin some...sort of rodent thing, and then pull a turtle out of the water and actually cut its shell off.



These are probably some of the more notable instances of actual animal cruelty.

Answer 3

An injured animal like that would probably not be able to survive in the wild. It will need long term captive care even if it can be saved. Unless there is such care available nearby, it would not be possible to save the cub. The is nothing unethical or unnatural if a filmmaker were to step in and save the animal he/she is filming, since the world is far from natural with all these wild animals being poisoned or poached or slaughtered because of prejudices against them.

Answer 4

At the end of 1978's Apocalypse Now there is a scene where a Yak gets slaughtered with a large machete. They did not use special effects, they actually killed a Yak for the scene.

Answer 5

Mostly no, but in some films they actually killed animals.

Answer 6

Torture and Death Are NOT REPEAT NOT GOOD ENTERTAINMENT.

It just goes to show the low mentality of the audience and the people who cater t that type of people.

ANYONE WHO WOUL;D DO THAT TO ANY LIVING THING SHOULD HAVE THAT SAME THING DONE TO THEM.