Do you feel more sympathy for Animals or People in movies?

[Raziaar]

I gotta say, I feel more sympathy for animals... I dunno... even the character I attach with the most in a good movie, I just feel so much more awful when for instance, their pet dog dies, moreso then when they die.

How bad is that? However... when it comes to real life, i'm not the same way.

 

[Que-Ever]

I don't connect to people in movies. Must be why I don't like 'em too much.

mindless action movies FTW!

 

[Danimal]

I hate people. So it's obviously a stab at my heart when an animal dies.

 

[baxter]

Animals….I’ve yet to see an animal talking a load of shite

 

[Absinthe]

Animals.

It's funny how this applies to the real world as well. For instance, I feel more inclined to give some spare change to a bum with a dog than a bum without one, even though I am consciously aware it's a psych tactic to cough up some dough.

 

[Glirk Dient]

Your poll options suck. I don't care for animals or people in movies not because I think they all should die but because I realise it is a movie and is fake so I am not gonna cry when one of them gets hurt/dies.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Usually the guy who dies early or some kind of old or underappreciated person who is rarely on screen or something like that. The more sentimental, the better/worse.

Some of the moments I've felt the saddest in films:

Happy Texas, when the gay cop realises he's been tricked by the second main character and he's not in love with him. It's supposed to be a comedy but when I saw it I just kept thinking of that and how betrayed the cop must've felt.

We Were Soldiers, that old vietcong man who charges at the good guys but dies instantly. I mean, he looks at pictures of his wife and kids (IIRC) and prepares to be a great hero, rushes through the woods and just 'poof' and he's dead.

I guess I have sort of a special place in my heart for broken people.

 

[Nat Turner]

With people sometimes. It ususally depends on if they're cool enough to deserve my sympathy, or if they're whining pussies who need to die.

Animals get my sympathy too, because they're just so innocent.

 

[Raziaar]

The saddest moment i've felt in a show or movie, was futurama... Jurrassic Bark. Oh, and the episide... luck of the fryrish.

 

[Drackard]

Your poll options suck. I don't care for animals or people in movies not because I think they all should die but because I realise it is a movie and is fake so I am not gonna cry when one of them gets hurt/dies.

Talk about ruining the feel for the thread -.-


Either way i say Animals, like in Independance Day when they almost lose their Dog, it brings a tear to my eye.

 

[Raziaar]

Your poll options suck. I don't care for animals or people in movies not because I think they all should die but because I realise it is a movie and is fake so I am not gonna cry when one of them gets hurt/dies.

All threads with a poll need to have a mandatory random oddball option.

 

[French Ninja]

Seeing as how I laugh out loud when they show the Korean nightclub scene from Collateral and got a bit disturbed when "that guy" on The Shield(?) strangled his own cat, I guess I feel more sympathy torward animals.

 

[Ren.182]

I feel more towards animals. Especially ones that are hurt for no reason in the movies. Like some evil deictator walking down the street and kicks a dog for no reason

 

[Que-Ever]

For animal cruelty... wouldn't that be more empathy than sympathy? I thought sympathy was knowing what the person was going through, and empathy for feeling sorry for them, even if you hadn't gone through whatever...
like, if you grandma had died, then your friend's had, you could sympathize.
If you goldfish died, then you friend's grandma died, that would be more empathy.

can't really sympathize with a dog... you're not a dog! or something.

 

[Raziaar]

For animal cruelty... wouldn't that be more empathy than sympathy? I thought sympathy was knowing what the person was going through, and empathy for feeling sorry for them, even if you hadn't gone through whatever...
like, if you grandma had died, then your friend's had, you could sympathize.
If you goldfish died, then you friend's grandma died, that would be more empathy.

can't really sympathize with a dog... you're not a dog! or something.

I think you got it reversed. The definition of Empathy is...

em·pa·thy Audio pronunciation of "empathy" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mp-th)
n.

1. Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives. See Synonyms at pity.
2. The attribution of one's own feelings to an object.

 

[Bait]

I broke out into hysterics when Bambi's mother got shot. My little sister began to cry. I felt awful afterwards, but goddamit, that deer got ****ed good.

....Anyways, I suppose it's about context. If a dog is getting towed behind a car while some guy realizes the love of his life is really a man or something, I would feel more sympathetic for the dog.

 

[Dog--]

No one likes when an animal dies in a movie, when people die on the other hand, that just plain kicks ass!

Also, as was mentioned before in this thread, the episode of futurama where fry finds his fossilized dog, wants to bring it back to life, and in the middle of the process thinks how good of a life the dog must have had, but it ends up the dog wasted it's life wating for fry, and didn't have a happy life at all..

 

[joule]

Depends on how well developed the character or animal is in the movie.

 

[Sanada]

I generally find moments more sad when an animal dies over a human. Probably the saddest animal death moment for me is in the Fly 2 with the dog.

Sometime in the film they test the teleporter on it and the dog is mutated. When Martin puts it out of it misery I always feel sad and it brings a tear to my eye. ;(

 

[Greatgat]

Well, kind of relating to something some friends and I were talking about, so:

I can totally see myself eating a person to stay alive. Can't really see myself eating a cat. What does that say about me as a person?

So, I guess more sympathetic toward animals in movies, or in general. They have no control over what we do to them and have little means to defend themselves. I guess I'm referring more to domesticated animals of course, as the same could not be said about, say, a shark with laser eyes.

 

[Que-Ever]

I broke out into hysterics when Bambi's mother got shot. My little sister began to cry. I felt awful afterwards, but goddamit, that deer got ****ed good.

Oh, man, the bambi deleted scenes...

*boom*
*brain splatter*
"Hot Damn, boy, you seen that shot?"
"I sho did, pappy!"
and so on.

 

[Steven]

I feel sympathy for the animals, who cares if a character dies, it's much more emotional when a mindless fish dies that doesn’t even feel pain. I also disagree with animal testing, would you rather have a monkey killed or just kill someone’s son/daughter instead?

 

[Jintor]

Animals. Because they can't speak to tell us how crap they are anyway.

 

[Shodan]

Depends on how well developed the character or animal is in the movie.

Exactly, if the story is about a Dog or something, of course you're gonna be pissed off about it, but it its some insane, rabid dog that eats somebody's kids then you'll be happy about it.