# The Grey - spoilers wanted **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912 "2012-01-27T22:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/1 "2012-01-27T22:06:01Z")
Okay, I’m too sensitive, or too ridiculous, or just too much. But my husband and I were going to see The Grey this afternoon, when it occurred to me they might show some wolves being slaughtered. Wolves eating people - I’m fine with that in a movie. People hurting wolves - no matter how much I tell myself that it’s a movie and no wolves were actually hurt,band most are probably CG - I can’t stand it. So how much animal injury or death is shown? We went to see Contraband instead. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/2 "2012-01-28T00:32:17Z")
Watching wolves chew up people doesn’t bother you but watching people kill wolves does? Wha?? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/3 "2012-01-28T01:05:36Z")
Full spoiler description: [http://themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/thegrey.html](http://themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/thegrey.html) Short answer? Yes. **Cubsfan** , I can be the same way - certain types of film or book violence I can shrug off as being just fiction, but other things stick in parts of my brain and torment me. Most regular fighting, gunfights, etc., I can shrug off, but serious torture, rape, harming kids, or cruelty to animals? Oh god, no. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/4 "2012-01-28T02:50:04Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Okay, I’m too sensitive, or too ridiculous, or just too much. But my husband and I were going to see The Grey this afternoon, when it occurred to me they might show some wolves being slaughtered. Wolves eating people - I’m fine with that in a movie. People hurting wolves - no matter how much I tell myself that it’s a movie and no wolves were actually hurt,band most are probably CG - I can’t stand it. > > So how much animal injury or death is shown? We went to see Contraband instead. Umm…from what I have heard (assuming that is accurate) they did kill four wolves during the production of the movie. They ate two of them. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/5 "2012-01-28T02:57:54Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > Watching wolves chew up people doesn’t bother you but watching people kill wolves does? Wha?? Yep. I’m pretty sure I’d hear if real people died during the filming of a movie, but I know I wouldn’t hear if any animals were injured or died. So I can relax if people are in danger during a movie, but I can’t if an animal is in danger. Thank you for your posts; I’m skipping it. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/6 "2012-01-28T03:07:39Z")
* * * > [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Full spoiler description: [http://themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/thegrey.html](http://themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/thegrey.html) > > Short answer? Yes. > > **Cubsfan** , I can be the same way - certain types of film or book violence I can shrug off as being just fiction, but other things stick in parts of my brain and torment me. Most regular fighting, gunfights, etc., I can shrug off, but serious torture, rape, harming kids, or cruelty to animals? Oh god, no. Yeeesh! That link hung up my computer to the point where I had to do a shut down, **FH** sorry. Maybe it’s just a busy site, but I couldn’t even close out of it. Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/7 "2012-01-29T03:37:04Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Yep. I’m pretty sure I’d hear if real people died during the filming of a movie, but I know I wouldn’t hear if any animals were injured or died. So I can relax if people are in danger during a movie, but I can’t if an animal is in danger. > > Thank you for your posts; I’m skipping it. But neither people or animals were \*really \*killed during the filming of the movie. Are you asking if when they kill the wolves on screen if they were _actually killing the wolves in real life_? 😕 I saw the film today (it was better than I had expected, though of course wolves rarely ever kill humans, so the whole premise was a bit stupid. I think there have been 11 known cases in the past 100 years. But other than that it was done well.) and whenever a character was fighting with a wolf it looked very animatronic. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/8 "2012-01-29T03:41:51Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > But neither people or animals were \*really \*killed during the filming of the movie. If reports by PETA and others are to be believed, FOUR wolves were killed in the pre-production and production of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grey-spoilers-wanted/610912/9 "2012-01-29T04:02:10Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > If reports by PETA and others are to be believed, FOUR wolves were killed in the pre-production and production of the movie. Yeah, I find that hard to believe. Doing a quick search online just now, apparently they got several frozen wolf carcasses from a local trapper so they could taste the meat to “get into character.” Wolves that the trapper had already (legally) killed and were in his freezer. Perhaps a pointless exercise, but it’s hardly the same thing as the claim that the production crew killed four wolves for their use in the movie.