Cynthia Chris

I'm not sure that we should do them to digital animals either.

Well, again, it's a little bit of a mixed bag.

You know, like you suggested earlier, you know, I'm not so uncomfortable with seeing a dog in a lot of places on screen or horses.

You know, streaming media is full of costume dramas, right?

Period pieces where horses are moving around in the background or, you know, we're dashing off in our carriage.

And I'm a lot less uncomfortable with that.

That's work that those animals would probably be doing and have been doing for millennia, right?

Even if they weren't on screen doing it.

But there are times when I think that there's a little something that's lost.

And this has to do with the quality of the visual effects and what we tolerate, not...

you know, whether it should be digital or not.

I mean, a film that I was really, uh, found very distracting was the remake of, uh, Call of the Wild from a few years ago, 2020, uh, with Harrison Ford.

Um, first of all, like it's a, it's a adaptation of the Jack London novel.

It is absolutely not true to the book, which is a

Which was, you know, there was some scanning from a real dog and a motion capture actor did some of the work.

But a largely digital dog comes off kind of goofy.

And if you've ever read Call of the Wild, you know that that was really not London's intention.

It's very distracting.

You have a very grizzled Harrison Ford and a very goofy Lady and the Tramp kind of dog in the same scene.

And it's a distraction.