During my usual stint on the treadmill, the TV was on a trashy 1976 Rajnikanth film named 'Thai Meethu Sathyam', a 'western' Tamil movie where everybody is a cowboy, have 6-barrel pistols that shoot forever and ride on horses. The interesting character in the movie was an Alsatian who actually did more work (than the hero) trying to smell out the bandits, outsmart the crooks' dogs (by throwing a butcher's meat for them to fight out), biting off the ropes of the hero when he is tied and the crook is trying to rape his girlfriend and so on...
Even in 'The Artist', Uggie the dog had a meaty role to play like acting with him in his movies and hanging around through thick and thin as well as save him from a burning building.
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| The Artist (2011) |
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Thai Meethu Sathiyam
(where is the dog?) |
In these two movies, the deed of the dogs must have gone a long way in doing well in box-office. People generally like the idea of seeing animals living in harmony with human without a threat but on the contrary being a servant doing chores beneficial to them! Think about it! For the longest time, if you go back to cavemen era, men have been morbidly fearful of thunderous roar of hugest of the beast. His eternal desire to control them started with domestication of cats, dogs, and birds. He showcases his success by caging them in zoos in the name saving them from extinction and research. He goes on further by enslaving them in a circus to perform gruelling stunts which were never part of their natural life - chimpanzees cycling and lions jumping through rings of fire - just to prove to fellow beings that we are indeed more superior to and is above other creations of God. After all, He created us in his true good image, didn't He?
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