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how did they control the lions?


I'm assuming the lions were real (if they were fake they looked pretty damn convincing). How did they get the lions to do everything in the movie? Were they trained?

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I think they were the circus lions
or may be they were pet lions

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Of course they were trained. But it was very impressive nonetheless, lions are dangerous and you can never really trust them.

Pet lions? Please...


"Hmm.. impressive. Is it magic? OR MAGNETS!"

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in california my dad told me a elementry school class was visited by a lion trainer. he brought in a lion that was born in captivity and had been trained his whole life. never the less, the lion proceded to grab a kids head and bite down until the kid died. with lions, you can never be too careful. i would stay away.


detroit lions rule

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I hope he also told you never to feed your mogwai after midnight.

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Yep, I just hate I can't give him a bath....he's starting to stink.

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"he brought in a lion that was born in captivity and had been trained his whole life. never the less, the lion proceded to grab a kids head and bite down until the kid died."

And you never thought that this story sounded like utter *beep*

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it was actually pretty obvious that some scenes were CG, i think only some scenes without actual action were done by real lions. Still the CG looked pretty amazing, i guess that is cuz they only had to animate the lions and nothing else like in many other big budget cg flicks and therefore could concentrate on creating them...



* my cloverfield-inspired poster: http://porvorim.po.funpic.de/cloverfield.jpg

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Nobody here knows of Kevin Richardson I guess?? That guy CUDDLES with lions, hyenas, ....

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I got the feeling that half the footage of the lions in the film was footage they got just from filming the lions doing things for a day and they cut it up and edited it together as it fit the scenes. Some scenes are specific (eg. the lions running in the distance behind them) but they are cut quite quickly.

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wow gotta see

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