![]() The three walk hand-in-hand as the police begin to shoot at them. The trainer was directly off camera supervising, but Tango was having so much fun she hardly noticed. After Jay and Silent Bob exit the diner, they stand on the stairs speaking to the police as the orangutan just hangs out and climbs on the railing next to them. The trainer dressed Tango in the outfit that she was very comfortable wearing. When the gruesome twosome take the orangutan out of the diner, Tango is dressed in clothes that supposedly disguise her as a child. The hug that the actor gives Suzanne was done on cue and very well received by both. Orangutans love sweets and one of Tango’s favorites is gummy bears, although the banana split seemed to be an acceptable substitute. Suzanne sat very comfortably in the booth and ate some of her split then generously shared a spoonful with Silent Bob on a cue from her off- screen trainer. One of the orangutan’s favorite scenes seemed to be the one in the diner where she enjoyed a banana split with the two stars. A trainer stood off camera and used hand signals to get Tango to achieve the action. When we first see the orangutan, it sits on a log across from Jay and Silent Bob and makes faces at them. She loved to kiss him and to be carried over his shoulder – Tango’s favorite way to be held. Suzanne was played by a female Orangutan named Tango, who bonded with Kevin Smith, the actor/director playing Silent Bob. There was a motorized prop inside the bag that Silent Bob carried and when turned on, it moved and appeared as if an animal was inside. Later in the editing room, technical wizardry placed everyone together in the scene. After the animals were wrapped, the actors were filmed. Each trainer released their animal and cued it to run to another waiting trainer off camera. The camera was set in one position and remained filming as each animal was placed separately. Various animals exit the lab through the front doors with Jay and Bob who appear to have an animal in a bag they are carrying. The cages were filled with various stuffed animals and the lighting in the scene was so dark that it gave the illusion that real animals were present. The camera pans the room showing several cages and shadows of animals inside. Jay and Silent Bob break into the medical laboratory to rescue the animals from being used in experiments. A computer was used to create a big grin on the dog’s face. The trainer put the dog on its mark inside the van then stood off camera holding up the dog’s favorite toy to get it to look in certain directions. The dog was introduced to all of the actors before filming began so everyone was at ease. The alleged joint was a natural, herbal cigarette. The dog continues to lie in the middle of the van as the people smoke a marijuana joint. We have contacted the University and have discontinued our funding.” This is a big victory for animals and an encouraging sign that animal experimentation is rapidly on its way to becoming another chapter in the history of severely messed-up stuff we wish we had never thought of in the first place.A Great Dane sits in the van surrounded by cute girls as Jay and Silent Bob are given a lift on their way to Hollywood. ![]() ![]() Strickland also talked about a deadly physiology test on taste reception in rats that PETA had discovered Coca-Cola was funding through the year 2008, saying, “Recently senior management became aware that research involving rats was being conducted as part of a grant we had funded at Virginia Commonwealth University to study taste reception. … We are sending letters to our partners and research organizations who may conduct safety evaluations on … ingredients insisting they use alternatives to animal testing ….” “The Coca-Cola Company does not conduct animal tests and does not directly fund animal tests on its beverages. Here’s what Coca-Cola’s senior vice president, Danny Strickland, said in his letter to us announcing the company’s decision: Coke had something of a history of invasive animal experimentation-including cutting open chimpanzees’ faces in order to conduct taste tests and force-feeding chemicals to rodents to test “caramel color”-so this compassionate decision by the company is a huge step forward, and it sends a powerful message to all companies that still test on animals about how a responsible, progressive company does business. Just weeks after Pepsi announced that it would stop testing on animals, Coca-Cola has sent a letter to PETA announcing that it will no longer fund or conduct animal experiments. ![]()
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