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[RC] OT: Your Mission, Should You Decide to Accept...(was: Disney movies) - Linda Marins----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Sullivan" <greymare56@xxxxxxxxx> Cynthia and all, I was right there in front of the tv, especially for horse or dog movies.....but I was later horrified to read (back in 70's), how much animal abuse there was in the 'Disney films, If you are looking for something newer to get upset about, I've got one for you: On the SPIKE cable channel in May, they showed a 2004 martial arts movie made in China called "House of Flying Daggers." During the battle scenes, they are clearly "tripping" horses. For those who don't know, "tripping" horses is an old movie wrangler stunt where you tie ropes to a horse's front legs, anchor the other end of the rope in the ground, the run the horse at full speed until it reaches the end of the rope. The rope goes taut, the front legs are jerked back under the horse, and the horse goes flying tail over head in a visually exciting, catapulting somersalt. Sometimes the horse gets up again. Sometimes it breaks its neck and doesn't get up again. (To see multiple examples of this, rent the old 60's Charlton Heston movie, "Khartoum." There was a very big stink about tripping horses in the '70s. Although it was never made illegal, advocates succeeded in getting the movie production--and more importantly--the movie *distribution* industry to voluntarily agree to never import or distribute a film where horse tripping had been used. The voluntary ban worked. (Newer movies like "Braveheart" have used computer-graphic horses for the gory scenes.) I haven't seen a horse tripped in a movie made since 1975's "The Wind and the Lion. " Until China's 2004 "House of Flying Daggers" on May 22, 2007 on the SPIKE channel. So, anti-cruelty crusaders--go GET 'em. Linda Marins =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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