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I’m not that big of a fan of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization. It’s not that I don’t want animals to be treated ethically. The opposite in fact. If someone were to stop me on the street and say “do you want animals to be treated ethically?” 10 out of 10 times my answer would be “I do want that.” But, I don’t know, I just think we live in a problematic world and would be much more interested in the outraged complaints of People for the Ethical Treatment of People. We don’t even have that one worked out yet, so maybe let’s figure that out and THEN get to saving the bunnies. But, so, anyway, now PETA is staging non-protest protests? It’s complicated. That’s what PETA’s Facebook status says. From the HollywoodReporter:
Usually Hollywood’s arch-nemesis, PETA is actively supporting 20th Century Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, since no real simians are used in the film. Instead, the movie—which opens in theaters Friday—relies on cutting-edge performance capture created by Peter Jackson’s WETA Digital to portray the apes. Andy Serkis plays Caesar, the lead ape and the story’s central character.
The animal-rights org even went so far as to bestow Rupert Wyatt, director of Apes, with the Proggy Award, given annually to animal-friendly companies, people and products. And the movie itself has been given PETA’s official seal of approval. The Proggy was announced earlier this week, just days after members of PETA showed up at the Apes’ premiere in Los Angeles, happily waving placards, “Real Apes Love CGI.”
WE’RE HERE! WE’RE PETA! WE WANT TO GET MARRIED ON THE OCEAN! You know what, fair enough. I still think it’s a very weird thing to do, but I also think that people are not told often enough when people APPRECIATE them. Everyone is so quick to complain when they don’t like something (speaking from every single experience) but they rarely make the effort to do the opposite. Again, they are just enthusiastic because a movie has a bunch of cartoon monkeys in it, so it is still a weird choice, but it’s a nice enough choice out of all the choices.
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James Franco’s parents were also there with “Thanks for Babysitting Our Son” signs.
So where were they for the Johnny Bananas premiere?
poor peta must fuck like dog shit.
And everyone is clothed in that picture! Are we sure this is really PETA? I think we’ve been had.
they were all able to purchase clothes with the money they’ve saved by not having to buy buckets and fake blood.
“real apes love CGI” is our generation’s “real men don’t buy girls”
I’d rather Frieda Pinto go naked than be in a movie with real monkeys!
Mr. President of my local chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment of People over here.
Fun Fact: Freida Pinto is actually cutting-edge performance capture created by Peter Jackson’s WETA Digital.
I second the motion put forward by “huckabeast” vis a vis the Frieda Pinto matter. Sustained.
WE’RE NOT GONNA PROTEST! WE’RE NOT GONNA PROTEST!
What do we want? PROTESTING! When do we want it? NEVER!
HELL NO, WE’LL GLADLY GO! HELL NO, WE’LL GLADLY GO!
ONE! TWO ! THREE! FOUR! GET A DRINK AND LARGE POPCORN!
The blonde girl on the left is pretty.
“Well, this movie looked stupid before, but now that I know it was ethically produced I should probably go see it.” – people who aren’t invited to hang out at my place
PETA members are protesting geniuses. It’s like living with Picasso, and being like, “Should I protest a little something-something?”
I don’t get how this is ethical. Hundreds of apes lost work because of the decision to go with CGI. Won’t someone think of their starving children?!
Roddy McDowall’s kids still talk with tears in their eyes of the day daddy came home and said “Tonight, we eat”
I smell an Screen Apes Guild strike in the works…
Does PETA hate the use of all animals in films, even domesticated cats and dogs?
For example, did they see that scene in X2 where Wolverine almost kills that cat with his claws and say to themselves (collectively and individually) “All hell naw!” and storm out of the theater in protest?\
These are the questions that keep me awake… at work.
PETA hates the use of animals in any way ever. They asked the city of Fishkill to change their name. Frankly, I’m surprised they’re getting behind anything done by 21st Century FOX.
But wouldn’t the apes love to be in a Planet of the Apes movie? I mean, it’s a movie about how they overpower mankind and take over the entire planet. What ape would be like “Nah, not really my thing, ruling the planet and all.”
not supposed to be a reply to basattak…
Wait, does this mean we can eat apes now?
Ape Law in this country is not governed by reason.
I’m normally a PETA apologist, but this is just dumb. Do they do this for every movie that doesn’t have any animals at all? Did they do it for Rio since all of those exotic birds were animated? It just seems like that would be the entire organization’s job if they were going to anti-protest every animal friendly film.
Also, doesn’t pretty much every single movie nowadays have the “No animals were harmed during the making of this film” tag at the end? What is even the point here????
ALSO, this seems like a particularly weird film for them to get behind, because even if they don’t use real apes in the filming, the movie is ABOUT USING APES AS EXPERIMENTAL TEST SUBJECTS! Huhhhhhh????? The more I think about this, the more I think they should’ve chosen Rio as their pet movie.
But there are tons of outraged complaints of People for the Ethical Treatment of People that do exist Gabe. We havn’t worked it out to the point that we globally agree on the nature of those treatments but i don’t see how the progress of those organizations need to correlate with PETA’s existance. I’m all for saving people, but wanting to save bunnies as well doesn’t de-value my human concern.
With that said, this protest is just fucking dumb.
the Pro Life movement should count in that regard, friend
If only PETA knew the truth about “CGI apes.”
It takes six live apes to create a single digital ape.
The process involves a buzzsaw and a large format scanner.
I guess you can’t please everybody…
I am not pleased you chose to crop out the pretty blonde girl on the left hand side of the original photo.
Me either, now that you mention it.
REAL MONSTERS LOVE VIDEOGUM !!!
THANKS FOR NOT USING ACTUAL MONSTERS !!!
This message brought to you by the fine people at METM — Monsters for the Ethical Treatment of Monsters
honestly, has there ever been a successful movie that didn’t involve at least one ape injury during production? i mean… citizen kane, it’s a wonderful life, the good the bad and the ugly. how about all of those apes that were beaten on the set of the wizard of oz?
I actually did a double take on your comment. I read it, though to myself, “Yep. Wizard of Oz. Flying monkeys,” then scrolled up the comment thread only to then think, “WAIT A MINUTE! Those were guys in suits!”
Bravo, sir.
leaving this after the fact which no one will read which is fine. I don’t want to fight. just want to put my 2 cents in. i do think they took a risk by doing all cgi, and it looked fake. I do think it was a bold move. I think peta gets criticized too much for being negative so a positive protest sounds like a good idea to me. i really can’t wait until videogum moves on from the ‘lets not be TOOO nice to animals’ theme. Videogum is my favorite blog and animal rights is my favorite cause. The cognitive dissonance is hurting my brain and my monkey heart.