Increasingly strong complaints about cases of animal abuse, such as the one recently registered against a dog groomer in Luján, are a sample of the growing sensitivity of these times regarding the care of other forms of non-human life. Part of the same phenomenon is the growing interest of many people to turn to vegetarianism, veganism or ecology, practices that promote a more respectful attitude towards animals. But the world of cinema has several signs of exercising and having exercised the opposite logic. just passed away Ruggero Deodatothe filmmaker Italian who in 1980 directed “Cannibal Holocaust”, a shocking cult film about anthropologists who are massacred by a tribe. But the real massacre was not committed against humans: a coati, a snake, a spider, a turtle and several monkeys died in the film.
A year earlier, another film about a violent clash of cultures had in its production cases of animal abuse: “Apocalypse Now”, from Francis Ford Coppola, where a water ox is sacrificed on stage, according to the rites of the Philippine Ifugao tribe, whose members were extras in the film. Also, being filmed away from USAthe film was able to circumvent all the laws that said country had incorporated at that time against animal abuse.
In this matter, the film “The Hobbit”, by Peter Jackson, was the subject of controversy after she was accused of mistreating dozens of horses and farm animals during her filming. Although the production denied the accusations, and obtained the seal of the American Humane Association (the famous legend of “no animals have been harmed during the recording of this film”), it must be borne in mind that the AHA only guarantees the treatment of animals during filming and not the periods of training, transfer and living conditions of the same.
Also the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar He had a complaint for animal abuse in 2002, because of his movie “Talk to her.” On that occasion, environmental groups denounced the film director and his production company “El Deseo SA” for violating the Animal Protection Law, because in the film he had killed several bulls. Sources from the production company confirmed that, indeed, those bulls had been killed, but that for them they had contacted a bullfighting school and asked to film a student killing said bulls. “We follow all the steps with the law in hand,” they sentenced at that time from El Deseo.
A recent case occurred in 2012, when HBO canceled “Luck”the series with Dustin Hoffmann Y nick nolte set in the world of horse racing, after three of them died during filming. In addition, one of them had to be sacrificed due to injuries sustained during it.
by RN
