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Before cats ruled the internet, Hollywood had always been in love with all the animals.
Like their human counterparts, some of the animals in Hollywood have led pretty awesome lives, but other animal’s stories are filled with exploitation, imposters and depressing deaths.
Fausto Fernós is the host of iTunes’ #1 LGBT talk show, the Feast of Fun podcast, which he produces and hosts with his partner, Marc Felion.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Fausto Fernós created the Feast of Fools in 1998 as wacky artists variety show in Chicago, Illinois. Feast of Fun grew out of an audio blog to promote the live show into the world’s most downloaded talk show aimed for gay people.
When he’s not blogging, recording or sleeping, Fausto can be found at the gym or appreciating the beauty found in nature.
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interesting show!
Although I’m here to say that Fausto was totally wrong about the history of Milo and Otis(The Adventure of Chatran). It didn’t surprise me though, since most of the info out there is all false. There are a lot of rumors and accusations of animal cruelty from that film, but none have been proven.
that 20-something death count original came from some Animal Rights group in Australia of all places, who accused the film of animal cruelty, shortly after it’s original Japanese release. Yet they were completely baseless accusations because they had no proof to go by. They just made that number up. I’ve seen lots of other numbers thrown around of how many animals died, none are true or have been proven.
You have to do some deeper research to find the truth. Since this film was made in Japan, in the late 80s, where there were no animal rights rules to protect any animals, no one really raised any questions behind the making of the film. Years later the Humane Society investigated the making of the film, but found no cases of animal abuse. Was it a little too late? Probably. because of the fact that this film was made in a foreign country 20 years ago, not enough people cared to find out the whole truth, which is probably why there is little information out there, and instead what you DO have is false, unproven accusations of animal cruelty.
Most of the film was filmed on a man’s farm, and most of the trained animals were his. An animal expert who I can’t remember the official title of also worked on the film. You can also find a few videos of the film being made. Was it possible some animals died during the shooting by accident? It’s possible, but I have a very hard time believing that they would maliciously slaughter dozens of cats and dogs for the sake of the film. Plus, you’d be surprised by what a dog or cat can go through and not die. Yes, some of the animals in the film went through some extremely stressful situations, but I know that the film makers of the film were animal lovers, and would not intentionally harm those animals.
The reason why I am defending this film so much, is because it probably is my favorite animal themed movie. My parents recorded the English version of it on VHS and I watched that film to death when I was a little girl. When I was an adult I found out about it’s murky history, but still, it did not deter me from enjoying the film. I’ve seen the original Japanese version, it’s much different, the English version was cut and edited for Western kiddies to enjoy, and the narration bu Dudley Moore was added to keep the Western kiddos from getting bored. It was a charming little film for it’s time.
Of course these days a film like that could never be made. Another film I loved as a kid was Disney’s Homeward Bound. I’m pretty sure no animals were severely harmed in the making of that film, although the animal actors were put through some pretty stressful situations.
Once semi-recent account of animal cruelty happened from a Disney film. I don’t know if you know of those stupid straight to DVD kid’s movies with golden retriever puppies? Well, during the shooting of one of those films(there are lots of them) the puppies they were using were too young to be put through any acting to begin with, and they all had Parvo(a very contagious and fatal disease puppies can get), and died from it. So while conditions have gotten much better for animals in film, sometimes stuff like this happens, which is unfortunate. It’s just negligence really.
I dunno why these film companies keep churning out these crappy-animal themed movies, I guess they think there is still a market for him.
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I don’t know if I have a favorite animal movie. Perhaps Marley & Me though it reduces me to tears at the end (I am a total dog lover, especially labs).
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I love ‘Charlie the lonesome cougar’. Mainly because of the male lead, Ron Brown. I think he was my first crush when I was in grade school.