Thursday, March 02, 2006

No Oscar Awards for the Canines

A happier anecdote from NPR: a director of a film (Tsotsi, I think) was talking about the difficulty of filming with infants and especially dogs. One scene in the movie involves a dog who is injured. He said that they had a dozen "audition" dogs who had been trained to act as though they were injured. All of the dogs were very intelligent and performed excellently, with one major flaw: because they were trying to please their trainers, they all wagged their tails! :-)

The director ultimately chose a Doberman solely because it had a minimal tail...

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