Opinions needed! TV/Movie animals...

[Dekka]

I knew the monkey Kookaburra. And I love how they put the northen loon call in in places where they don't live (like rainforests)

I knew the horse who did the race scene for the black stallion. He was a little tb event horse named Ziggy (zig zag) He was a true black but was likely faded due to lots of turn out time.

 

[Laurelin]

I wonder why they use the wrong animals for so many vocalizations?

 

[Dekka]

cause the public doesn't seem to care?

Or know for the most part that things are wrong. Would you have known that was a loon call? Or what a kookaburra sounds like? (Ok I know the loon as I hear it often enough in the summer)

 

[lizzybeth727]

Its a pet peeve of mine when animals are not paying any attention to their environment but are starting off frame..

YES! So annoying. That was my big complaint with the dog that played Eddie on Frasier, he was TOTALLY devoted to his trainer. He did some really cool stuff, but it was still distracting when he was staring off set all the time.

There was an English Shepherd on one episode of House from one of the first seasons.... the dog played a service dog.... Anyway, I can't remember a whole lot of details about the dog but I do seem to recall that it was a particularly good performance.

 

[Dekka]

Yes Eddie was well trained but didn't act like a JRT in anyway lol. (including being very into his humans)

Soccer wasn't bad. ETA Soccer was the dog who played Wishbone.

 

[lizzybeth727]

Soccer wasn't bad. ETA Soccer was the dog who played Wishbone.

LOVED Wishbone when I was little. I actually saw part of an episode a few months ago and wasn't that impressed anymore. But still, I do think he was better than Eddie.

 

[drmom777]

My favorite movie ever is the old Lassie Come Home with Nigel Bruce, Elizabeth Taylor and Freddie Bartholomew. It is practically perfect in every way, except that the dog they used for Lassie just clearly didn't take to Freddie Bartholomew. S/he did great in every other way, and as I have gotten older and seen the movie more times, I have gotten used to it, but it used to bother me, especially when you compare how Lassie greets her master after a long absence to how my hounds just greeted me when I got back from a three day trip.

 

[Zoom]

(dog fixated on "prey" and barking as its tearing after prey item. Screaming, maybe, but not deep barking/snarling).

Dogs also seem to bark at people a lot in movies. I don't know about your dogs, but Roman will bark in a defensive way, like an alert or when he can't get to something that he wants. He doesn't bark at me or random people to get their attention. He uses his nose My mother's dog will vocalize, but he doesn't bark.

Also how dogs always yelp when they die.

You've never met Sawyer :rofl1: I'll try and get him on film chasing a rabbit or something, it's BARKBARKBARKBARKBARK the entire time. Which is probably why he never catches one.

 

[Laurelin]

You've never met Sawyer :rofl1: I'll try and get him on film chasing a rabbit or something, it's BARKBARKBARKBARKBARK the entire time. Which is probably why he never catches one.

Lol he's an Aussie.

Yeah the shelties did the barkbarkbarkbark thing too. Mia doesn't at all (until she trees something). But on the chase she's silent.

 

[KhayNette]

I'm always a little sad when I see animals in films....I know dogs usually don't have this problem but animals like chimps and what not are often used for their part then thrown away into some cramped cage :-( I can't think of anything that irritates me though, probably don't pay enough attention to the details lol

 

[Xandra]

You've never met Sawyer :rofl1: I'll try and get him on film chasing a rabbit or something, it's BARKBARKBARKBARKBARK the entire time. Which is probably why he never catches one.

Please do!

Lol he's an Aussie.

Yeah the shelties did the barkbarkbarkbark thing too. Mia doesn't at all (until she trees something). But on the chase she's silent.

I guess I can kind of see a sheltie or an aussie doing it, but take this scene:

(WARNING DOG DIES IN SCENE)
YouTube - No Country for Old Men Favourite Scene

It seems so unnatural to me. What I would expect IRL is either silence or to hear screaming when the dog is still restrained but knows he's about to be let loose on the guy, silence running (maybe a little screaming), a little screaming when swimming (so close but he just can't swim fast enough! lol) and then silence for the final charge.

Also (sorry for getting all morbid on you guys), either shot in the head and no yip or shot in the body and no instantaneous cession of movement.

And the post mortem dog looks really fake.

AND. There's a part where the bad guy takes a shot at a crow, which is perched on the railing of a bridge under a light... and its nighttime... and the crow flies away cawing lol Crows roost at night, you silly Cohen brothers.

Otherwise the movie was pretty realistic (minus the silenced shotgun lol), they just can't help but muck up the animal parts.
Love the pit bull they use he's so cute in his intensity when he's swimming