Posted by Adam H. Kerman on 03/23/07 20:19

At 7:16am -0700, 03/23/07, thad@thadlabs.com wrote:
>On Mar 23, 3:01 am, "the dog from that film you saw"
><d...@removethisportionbtinternet.com> wrote:
>> <t...@thadlabs.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1174611633.605716.214030@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > The cut that still bewilders me is the placing of the rat in the pink
>> > breathing solution in THE ABYSS. The BBFC (British Board of
>> > Film Censors/Certificators) claims they required that cut because
>> > of trauma to the rat.
>>
>> > Uh, didn't they realize the rat had already been placed in the
>> > pink liquid when the movie was filmed? :-)
>>
>> > And it's a rat, fer crissakes.
>>
>> the BBFC have no choice - there's a specific law that prohibits the
>> depiction of animal cruelty in films.
>
>OK, but later in the movie humans are shown breathing the same pink
>fluid with the same initial trauma (letting fluid into their lungs).
>
>Does the UK value rats over humans? If so, misplaced values.

Same thing is true in the US! Do you ever see a note at the end of the movie
that no actors were hurt during the making of this film and that no
babelicious girls slept with the producers during casting?

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