John C. Reilly (“Magnolia”, “Chicago”, “The Gangs of New York”) har forladt optagelserne til Lars von Triers nye film “Manderlay”. Udvandringen skete i protest mod at et æsel skulle slagtes som led i optagelserne.
Peter Aalbæk fra produktionsselskabet Zentropa udtaler: ”Som det er refereret for mig fra Sverige, foregik alt efter forskrifterne og overvåget af en dyrlæge. Det var vi meget opmærksomme på for ikke at få 700.000 amerikanske dyreværnsorganisationer på nakken.”
#31 filmz-Neo DK 20 år siden
Og så er det osse sur
røv at miste en skuespiller som John C. Reilly grundet dette.
Bortset for det kan jeg såmænd godt li Trier og hans perle række af film.
#32 filmz-Sham4n 20 år siden
jamen det kan da godt være at Von Trier byder på æsel med kartofler til aftensmad.
Er det så iorden?
--Bruce Lee
#33 filmz-Le Samouraï 20 år siden
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"Yes, it's true: John C. Reilly got so pissed off at Lars von Trier's decision to kill an ailing donkey for a scene in the currently-rolling MANDERLAY last month that he walked off the film in protest. Reilly has since been replaced by Zelijko Ivanek, a Von Trier regular who's acted in DOGVILLE and DANCER IN THE DARK.
Does it sound to anyone else like Reilly wanted to quit anyway, and he used the donkey thing as a way out?
MANDERLAY executive producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen insisted that the donkey was old and sick and that the killing was entirely humane.
"Everything went by the book and the entire process was monitored by a veterinarian," Jensen said. "We were very conscientious about that, because we didn't want 70,000 American animal rights groups on our back." Jensen added that the production team "could probably kill six children for a film without anyone raising a fuss."
The Guardian wrote in response to this in their news story that "there are no reports of children being murdered on the set of MANDERLAY."
I found another Jensen quote, one allegedly from the Swedish tabloid AFTONBLADET, that's a lot more colorful. He told the tab "that fucking donkey was sick and going to die anyway. But we gave it another two weeks to live so it could be a movie star."
Stressing that a veterinarian was with it and it died according to Swedish law, Jensen allegedly added, "I would gladly have shot that fucking donkey myself.""
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Tja, hvad skal man sige? Jeg synes nu stadigt, at det hele smager af et pressestunt. Om ikke andet, så har Zentropa da - som sædvanligt - formået at få mest muligt ud af næsten ingenting og skabe kontrovers om en film, der ikke engang er nået til klippebordet endnu. De burde starte et kursuscenter for marketingsfolk.
#34 filmz-Le Samouraï 20 år siden
Ifølge Variety har John C. Reilly nemlig slet ikke været på settet!
Snuppet fra et andet forum:
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117904130?catego...
"It now appears Reilly never stomped off the set -- because he was never on it.
Von Trier wanted to work with Reilly on the first film in his American trilogy, "Dogville," but the actor declined because of schedule conflicts.
Reilly then agreed to take a small role in "Manderlay," but when the actor saw a revised script, his part had been trimmed even further -- down to one scene, a new one that featured the slaughtering of a donkey.
Reilly decided the role wasn't worth the trip to Sweden and told Von Trier he'd have to catch him on the next one.
Whether or not Reilly was angered by the donkey's death, any fury would seem ill-placed.
According to Aalbæk Jensen, the donkey was to be put down anyway, and a vet was attending the execution scene.
"Everything was done according to the rules," the producer tells Variety. "Who wants to upset American societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals?"
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Mon ikke vi bare endnu engang har været vidner til Zentropas velsmurte marketingsmaskineri? De har jo en velkendt evne til at plante små historier, der forarger og får folk til at ryste på hovedet, samtidigt med at de hele tiden holder den aktuelle titel i bevidstheden, så længe den er i produktion.