Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Posted by Kyle Watkins (Member # 986) on 08-25-2004, 09:30 PM:

From http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/trivia

With the moive The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

Im all aginsist cruelty to animals but a maggot is going a little over board in my opinion.
Like to hear yours opions on this.

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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals monitored the filming of scenes involving Brooks' crow. During the scene where he fed it a maggot, the ASPCA objected on the grounds that it was cruel to the maggot, and required that they use a maggot that had died from natural causes. One was found, and the scene was filmed.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 08-26-2004, 04:00 AM:

They should have used an animal rights activist who had died from unnatural causes.

Edited several hours later to add this afterthought: How the hell did they know that the maggot had succumbed to natural causes anyway? Did they do a post-mortem on the critter? If I was the cow, I don't think I'd have wanted to eat it after that, which would make the cow an animal cruelty victim too.

[ 08-26-2004, 08:05 AM: Message edited by: Leo Enticknap ]

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 08-26-2004, 01:23 PM:

Was the crow hungry? Just because the crow has an acting career doesnt mean that he needs to become a vegan. I have never been on a movie set but I hear that they have food on set to eat, do they get mad about that?

Posted by Brandon Willis (Member # 2345) on 08-27-2004, 12:38 AM:

Marge: "Homer, when did you become a member of PETA?"

Homer: "You know me, Marge, I love animals. Beef, pork,poultry."

-The Simpsons