it's called art.
Ruggerio is called a savage and his film is condemned. Why the hypocrisy?
"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." Eeyore
So I've never seen this movie but I'm debating watching it - however hearing claims of real animal deaths is seriously deterring me...
In all my ignorance (and truly no sarcasm or trolling here), has it been confirmed that animals were killed for this film?
Also, what movie of Coppola's does this happen?
Sorry for being so dumb on this, I really avoid anything with animal death - even fake / simulated animal death. I just can't deal with it.
Thanks for your input!!
Yes, sadly the animals were really killed for Cannibal Holocaust.
1. Spider - crushed by knife
2. Snake - chopped with knife
3. Monkey - head chopped, brains eaten
4. Muskrat - stabbed and cut open with knife
5. Turtle - decapitated, then cut open.
6. Pig - shot
This is all I can think of off hand. I probably missed some along the way. Also, I do not support any of this. I am merely giving you a list so that you know what to expect if you ever decide to watch this film. I always fast forward through these scenes as they are entirely to graphic for my taste.
The Coppola film was Apocalypse Now and the scene occurs near the end wherein a water buffalo is hacked to death with machetes. The scene contrasts Martin Sheen's savage killing of Marlon Brandon's character. In the documentary Hearts of Darkness, which details every bit of Apocalypse, Coppola defends the scene by stating that it was a common ritual and that he included it in the film for the reason I mentioned above, as a contrast to the killing of a brutal human being.
Although Coppola did get a lot of fire for this scene, and he should have, the film is considered a masterpiece by most and it seems all kinds of hypocritical that many would go out of their way to condemn Ruggero's cruelty in his films and praise another director for doing essentially the same thing.
How terrible it is to see the cruelty of animals exploited for entertainment purposes, but here in the states, we have numerous hunting shows that show such things and they receive very little criticism from the public.
"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." Eeyore
The only one you missed was a second monkey, for they had to reshoot the monkey scene again.
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I think neither movie should have killed animals because it wasn't necessary and focusing on their torture is sick.
"It's never over!"
- The Tall Man
I think Ruggerio was later little bit sorry about the animal deaths...but yeah, it is totally hypocrite.
shareCoppola goes into detail about this in Hearts of Darkness: he became fascinated by the practices of the Montagnard tribe who played Kurtz's minions. He supplied the buffalo we see getting sacrificed, but the ritual would have taken place anyway. Coppola's crew was just filming it. Coppola said he would have felt guilty if he had staged the incident, which was to the Montagnard a deeply solemn religious sacrifice. The animal killings in Cannibal Holocaust, however, were gratuitous and exploitative--purely there to shock and disgust its audience.
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