Cynthia Chris

And then, you know, again, thinking about this issue recently because of a couple of films that I saw that re-sparked my interest in this question.

You know, something like the Planet of the Apes series.

Where the violence gets really grotesque.

Hand-to-hand combat, right?

A virtual crucifixion scene in one of these films, you know, it is really grotesque.

Or something like Gladiator, I think it's Gladiator 2, where, you know, there's...

you know, digital rhinoceroses and other animals that are subjected to incredible violence.

And no, I think it's numbing.

It's not something that I want to see or that I think is particularly ethical.

You can, you know, these are things that we wouldn't do to a live animal on screen.

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

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

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

Streaming media is full of costume dramas, period pieces where horses are moving around in the background or 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.

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

whether it should be digital or not.