Old Sport

•Abby•20•Texas• Info Tech major at UH, sufferer of anxiety and ADD. Cats are my life. I pretty much like most pop-culture things. I also think space is pretty cool. I'll tag my thoughts and selfies as #personal

[bespins]

I remember when they screened it [the “I am your father” scene], Harrison turned around and said “I didn’t know that! Why the f*&^ didn’t you tell me?!”

[lousysharkbutt]

HE HAS TO DISCOVER THE TEXTURE

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[yowulf]

This HAS to go viral. This pathetic movie is abusing animals in order to film cheap scenes for human entertainment. The dog is clearly terrified but the “trainers” have no regard for her safety.

Please share and encourage your friends not to spend money on a movie that uses animal abuse to film!!!

http://www.tmz.com/2017/01/18/a-dogs-purpose-german-shepherd-abuse-video/

[hillyosaurus]

Hi yes, ACTUAL dog trainer and dog behaviorist here. Sorry to interrupt your pitchforks and torches fest but this article is extremely misleading and is presented as a shock factor rather then presenting an actual, studied opinion of the video.

If you watch the clip, which I did, there is a lot of subtle stuff going on. First of all, rushing water is scary to ANY sort of animal, let alone a German Shepard who isn’t really a water dog like a Lab. You can see how the trainer is constantly touching the dog gently on the side and loin. He is reassuring the animal while keeping a snug grip on the collar. (Which is a flat collar btw so it can’t really do any damage to the dog even with him holding it) He is also down on the animals level, not hovering above the dog. And if you look closely, you can see that this man is constantly talking to the dog, obviously reassuring the animal. Furthermore, this is a movie dog, they have dealt with all sorts of scary situations before. This is probably the very first time that this animal was introduced to this situation and I bet you money that if we saw more of the clip, you would see them repeat this process slowly and gently until the animal relaxed.

Finally, you see the animal try to pull away. Again, perfectly normal for an animal that is scared, but again, you see the trainer pull the dog back (not yank it sharply back or drag it back) and then place the dog in the water. The actual time in the water is extremely brief and you can see that the trainer doesn’t let go of the dog and immediately pulls the animal out again after a few seconds. Just like putting a child in the bath tub for a little bit, the trainer is establishing that the water won’t harm the dog and kept the training session brief. Convenient that the clip stops before it shows you the trainer rewarding the animal in some way, which I can guarantee you they did.

Finally, I will leave you with two things. One, if the dog was actually being abused it would be responding by trying to snap at the person holding the collar and the body language would be pure terror with the tail language and hackles. German Shepards are not scared to tell you when they don’t want to do something and this dog is no different. Two, there are so many laws and regulations in place to stop the abuse of animals in movies. There is ALWAYS a representative of these organizations on site during filming whenever there is any sort of animal involved.

Don’t spread misinformation and misunderstanding please. Just like your mom forced you to eat your veggies when you were young, sometimes working with animals means encouraging them to go into situations that is way outside their instincts.

[noc10-moved]

*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade* 

hey….

nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.

 it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.

*leaves the way i came*

[more-witches]

This is possibly the healthiest post I’ve seen on this site

[herestothefuturehm-deactivated2]

[shadowenza]

Hey TF2 fandom

WAKE UP

[tastytexan-deactivated20220514]

I AM LITERALLY CRYING, WHAT HAPPENS

[chrisfine]

Felicity Jones and Diego Luna at the 2017 Golden Globes

[awardseason]

Diego Luna poses in the press room during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.

[himborc]

star wars?? lol yeah i love star wars, the way they just [darth vader clenches fist] [someone suffocates and dies]

[eddardsharpe]

[skywalkerapologist]

Underrated moment in Rogue One: A bunch of rebel ships thinking they’re about to make a clean jump to lightspeed only to crash into Vader’s Star Destroyer as he pops in from hyperspace like “bitch you thought.”

[mirroroftime1528-deactivated202]

I have found the true meaning of life

[a-heart-of-kyber]

The “But is Jyn/Cassian really a romantic ship?” starter pack:

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story film directed by Gareth Edwards 

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization written by Alexander Freed

Cassian Andor’s official Spotify playlist. 

[keybladesoras]

Rest in Peace, Carrie Fisher

[resistancepilotfinn]

You are one with the Force. Rest in Peace, Carrie.

[legit-writing-tips]

Carrie Fisher’s Unsung Legacy

While best known as an actor, it shouldn’t go unacknowledged that Carrie Fisher was also ONE HELL of a writer. As a matter of fact, she had a hand in writing some of the best movies in Hollywood. 

Script doctoring, or script consulting, is a skill that often goes uncredited and unacknowledged in Hollywood. Writers will get hired to polish up an existing screenplay; just like doctors, they diagnose problems and suggest solutions. In the case of script doctoring, that means anything from adding in a few new jokes, to implementing massive structural changes or reworking entire characters and scenes.

Carrie Fisher’s career as a script doctor became the stuff of legend in the 1990s. Fisher was responsible for fixing up Hook in 1991, Sister Act in 1992, Lethal Weapon 3 in 1992 and The Wedding Singer in 1998. In 1992, Entertainment Weekly called Carrie Fisher “one of the most sought after doctors in town”—high praise, and one of the only accolades that Fisher would ever receive in printed form, given that she was not credited by name as a writer for any of the films in which she had a hand.

So now you know. Carrie was a brilliant writer, and her legacy will live on forever in many, many different forms. We may never know just how many movies she worked on and fixed up! 

[refinery29]

Rest In Peace, Carrie Fisher. Iconic Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher died this morning. She was 60

Billie Lourd, Fisher’s daughter, confirmed the death today in an official statement. Issued by family representative Simon Halls, the statement to People reads: “It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning.” Her legacy is incontestable – and probably a lot more than you knew.

[refinery29]

Update: we would actually like to report that Carrie Fisher died by being drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra. We apologize for the earlier error.

[helluva-pilot]

y’all its okay to cry even though it’s someone you never actually met. it’s okay to be sad. it’s okay to feel anything you feel.