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During the Godfather scene

posted 8 years ago by filmsbythefire
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I couldn't help wondering about the whole "skunk butt rug" thing... like, if you think about it even a little, it gets really creepy.

This is a world where animals (mammals, anyway) are all sentient and semi-human. Skunks are mammals and presumably members of Zootopia's population, even though we don't seem to see any.

So... how can a Skunk rug be a thing? Wouldn't that be like a human presenting the dried skin of a dead person to somebody? Perhaps that's why Mr Big was so offended; Nick must have some sick connection to a mortuary or something, where is he getting skinned corpses from?

(Incidentally, I also wondered about how fast Fru-Fru seemed to get pregnant - but apparently, shrews have a gestation period of around a month, so I guess it makes sense that it would progress so quickly. Yikes, why did I look that up...)

[–] tylerism1 8 years ago

If you watch the scenes where Nick and Mr. Big talk about the rug (the limo scene and the office scene) they will say that the rug was made with just the fur of the skunk's butt and not the actual butt skin of the skunk. I was also mistaken about that early on as my mind seemed to skip those parts for some reason.
You know, now that it's brought up, I'm actually wondering about how that all happened. Who is the skunk that Nick got the hair from, how did Nick get the hair, how was it made into a rug, how the heck did he even get the idea to do it, why would Nick be so ballsy as to even try to sell such a rug to someone that is certainly some type of mob boss and how exactly did Mr. Big find out about the true origin of the rug?

WHERE THE HELL IS THE SHORT THAT EXPLAINS THIS CRAP!?! If the answers to these questions never come the "skunk butt rug" is gonna turn into the movie mystery equivalent of the three seashells from 'Demolition Man'.

"Last question: What is the difference between a duck?" - Postal (2007)

[–] mrmoo2001 8 years ago

After the whole film riles against discrimination and bigotry, I wonder what skunks have done to be so loathed and despised that Judy "Only bunnies can call other bunnies cute" Hopps was 100% fine with everyone calling skunks gross?

Take them to the security kitchen!

[–] tylerism1 8 years ago

I don't know, but in my last four weeks of vehicular travel I've driven over and by enough dead skunks that I'll never have a positive opinion of them as long as I live. I guess it's kinda hard to have a good opinion of skunks when it feels like the inside of your nose is being eaten alive from the stench of their decaying carcasses.

"Last question: What is the difference between a duck?" - Postal (2007)

[–] OpinionsByLennon 8 years ago

I've lost track now how many times I've seen this brought up. It was a joke in the film I really wished they would of talked about more clearly!

So from Byron Howard, this is among his tweets and he's said it a few times! The hair was naturally shed. Their wasn't any skin attached to it. Think of how a wool rug is made, it made from hair fibers that are woven into strings then made into a rug or whatever. It doesn't have any skin attached to it, it's just fur/hair. The same method would of been used to make a skunk butt rug. Fur naturally falls or or is brushed out, its collected then woven into thread and the made into a rug or whatever.

[–] mrmoo2001 8 years ago

Great. Now I'm picturing Nick coming around to a skunk's house every day to comb his butt for a month.

Now I'm wondering if there is art of that...

Take them to the security kitchen!

[–] OpinionsByLennon 8 years ago

Nick was a conman with a lot of connections. I wouldn't put anything past him if he thought it was funny enough to screw with someone he didn't like.