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Sydonai said:
The guy that made that video didn't actually watch the movie before making that.
The gun was basically this;

given a "SCIENCE!" makeover.
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Hmm.

I just looked at a bunch of sites that all said dart gun, and I somehow remember the image of a dart in Wilde's neck.

Its possible that myself and a bunch of others all somehow got the same false memory, but I know that there are also some differences in the film's regional releases (for instance, the newscaster is a different animal in the American, European, Australian, and Chinese versions). The version I saw had Chinese subtitles. Could it be that there are other small differences between that and the other versions?

Granted, I don't know WHY they'd switch between dart or pellet for different countries (seems like a really weird thing to go out of your way to change), so maybe it is just mass delusion.
 
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Blake Hannon said:
Its possible that myself and a bunch of others all somehow got the same false memory, but I know that there are also some differences in the film's regional releases (for instance, the newscaster is a different animal in the American, European, Australian, and Chinese versions). The version I saw had Chinese subtitles. Could it be that there are other small differences between that and the other versions?

Granted, I don't know WHY they'd switch between dart or pellet for different countries, seems like a really weird thing to go out of your way to change.
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They didn't switch between a dart and pellet, people are just using incorrect terminology.
 
Actually, I think I might have found the cause of this - Bellwether has a line in the climax, "Fear always works, and I'll dart every predator in Zootopia to keep it that way."

So, maybe the writers didn't know the correct terminology - or, there again, maybe Bellwether doesn't. After all, she contracted out the shootings, so it's entirely possible she's not familiar with all the details of how her plan is put into action.
 
Imrix said:
Actually, I think I might have found the cause of this - Bellwether has a line in the climax, "Fear always works, and I'll dart every predator in Zootopia to keep it that way."

So, maybe the writers didn't know the correct terminology - or, there again, maybe Bellwether doesn't. After all, she contracted out the shootings, so it's entirely possible she's not familiar with all the details of how her plan is put into action.
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I know I've said 'darted' in referring to the preds getting shot, because saying 'pelleted' doesn't sound very good when saying it. Even though it's a pellet gun.
 
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Who here thinks that the Cheetah that was next on the list to be hit with the Night Howlers was going to be Clawhouser?
 
Cyrus 21 said:
Who here thinks that the Cheetah that was next on the list to be hit with the Night Howlers was going to be Clawhouser?
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Not sure why that would be the case, since he was already being relocated to the filing office.

In the briefing scene, we saw some tiger officers in uniform among the rhinos and elephants. One of them would be a more likely target, especially if it was done while they were on patrol and surrounded by schoolchildren or something.
 
Blake Hannon said:
Not sure why that would be the case, since he was already being relocated to the filing office.

In the briefing scene, we saw some tiger officers in uniform among the rhinos and elephants. One of them would be a more likely target, especially if it was done while they were on patrol and surrounded by schoolchildren or something.
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I think that the idea behind dosing Clawhouser was that even the nicest predator could become a crazy monster. Or something.
 
Cyrus 21 said:
Who here thinks that the Cheetah that was next on the list to be hit with the Night Howlers was going to be Clawhouser?
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There was that one cheetah at Gazelle's peace demonstration. At least I think she was a cheetah. The one that got told to 'go back to the jungle' or some such. That would have been nicely chaotic.
 
Strunkriidiisk said:
There was that one cheetah at Gazelle's peace demonstration. At least I think she was a cheetah. The one that got told to 'go back to the jungle' or some such. That would have been nicely chaotic.
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Pig:"Go back to the forest!"
Cheetah:"I'm from the Savanah!"
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It's somewhat hilarious because, if Zootopia is on the Africa-analogue like I think it is, the Cheetah is closer to their place of origin than the Pig.
 
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Sydonai said:
It's somewhat hilarious because, if Zootopia is on the Africa-analogue like I think it is, the Cheetah is closer to their place of origin than the Pig.
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That's the one. I came across a theory that she might have been the target. I doubt that there would have been concerns about Doug's ability to hit Clawhauser; nimble, he is not.
 
TheOtherSandman said:
Lately? You mean his videos ever weren't complete crap?
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I've never subscribed to him, but a couple of his videos have been thought provoking. Mostly FNAF. His videos about the undertones of Until Dawn's misapplied Psychology, and the narrative hints in Smash Brother's were pretty interesting. At least entertaining enough to justify themselves.

He's no JohnTron, but he can hit a ball on occasion.
 
Sydonai said:
4: Otterton rambled about Night Howlers before he got dosed, not after.
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Nope. Happened after he was hit. We know it took Manchas several seconds after being hit to go feral. That's enough time for Otterton to yell the colloquial name for the plant. He had no reason to yell anything to Manchas beforehand, and we saw him sitting calmly in the back of the limo. He was going to talk to Mr Big about it, but when he got hit he knew he had no time for that, and needed to tell the closest person as quickly as possible.

I also want to point out that, while it's true that Manchas going feral after being scratched would have worked well in a rabies plot, I think it's actually there as a misdirection. Adults in the audience who know about rabies might be watching it and thinking "Oh, I think I know where this is going" only to be thrown for a loop when it turns out to be something entirely different. The entire movie is about subverting prejudices, why not that too?
 
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RedDwarfIV said:
I also want to point out that, while it's true that Manchas going feral after being scratched would have worked well in a rabies plot, I think it's actually there as a misdirection. Adults in the audience who know about rabies might be watching it and thinking "Oh, I think I know where this is going" only to be thrown for a loop when it turns out to be something entirely different. The entire movie is about subverting prejudices, why not that too?
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I'll admit, I did think that when it first happened.
And there was a kid next to me that went, *gasp* "Zombies."
Sydonai said:
Manchas runs out into the rain and they go "Wait, doesn't Rabies cause severe hydrophobia right around the time it drives them to randomly attack".
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Rabies also usually results in death after a few days. Which means that if that was the case, given how long the animals had been missing, would've made for a much darker movie. Poor Mrs. Otterton, crying over a casket instead of a hospital bed.
 
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Sydonai said:
Yeah, I've seen people with that reaction, right up until Manchas runs out into the rain and they go "Wait, doesn't Rabies cause severe hydrophobia right around the time it drives them to randomly attack".
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I did think it was some disease but not rabies-specifically.

The bit I picked up on was Machas turned after being injured by an aggressive individual.
 
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