really? how was it made?

@@drendelousThey actually trained the dog. Just thinking about the process is insane.

@@buggiemara4902 I figured that some subtle CGI or even some sort of prosthetic eye mask was used during the overdose scene. The dog's eyes are just so drugged out and lifeless! How'd the heck they do that? Hard to believe that it's purely training.

@@gbeneviste They simply overdosed the dog.

​@@gbenevisteVI la escena original y quedé sorprendida.

SAME, insane! HOW did they do that?

There are french interviews with the dog's coach on YT, they explain that for this particular scene they trained the dog to play dead first by teaching him how to lay down on the side, then by letting his head feel heavy, then the body. For the eyes it was CGI and the vomit part there was a tube beneath the head of the dog, and someone just had to push a button to make all the nasty stuff come out of the tube. You can find the videos explaining the training labeled as [ "Anatomie d'une chute": on a rencontré le chien Messi qui joue Snoop dans le film ] or [ Les coulisses d'Anatomie d'une chute : Messi, le chien à la Palm Dog ] But there are no English subtitles only French. Hope my answer helped ^^

@paperman712 thank you so much for this comment!!😭 wow amazing

@@paperman712wait what.. i strongly beleive we need an award for the trainers and the animals then

LMAO CG EYES genius@@paperman712

oh yes!

Yeah - they already have one at Cannes.

Messi (the dog) won the Palm dog award at Cannes

Not a good idea. Producers would start racing to get it, leading to a lot of animal abuse.

@svoboda8267 not really, there's a lot of rules and guidelines preventing animal abuse in movie media and commercials, and there's always a team who observes this guidelines in every major movie or commerial, a Academy Award racing cound't have the power to change that for any reason, just like unions and secutiry guidelines for actors.

Snoop is the character, the actor's name is Messi

Nah, the true adage goes like this: "never work with children or animals because they will outshine you."

@@carwyn3691 the dog’s real name is Messi, like the footballer? awww 🥹

Snoop double g

His trainer said she taught Snoop (real name Messi) to act the overdose scene with lots of pets and treats. :)

So the dog can act AND improvise??? DEFINITELY DESERVES A LOT OF TREATS AND AN OSCAR 🏆

Because it's actually her dogl!

@@crabstick250 It's not the actress' dog. It's a professional dog who works in movies, with a trainer named Laura. Pure skill. Pure intuition. Pure craft :)

​@crabstick250 the one where the actress owns the dog is the lady from The zone of interest, thats why he followed her everywhere

That last scene and the part where snoop just comforts her it actually broke meeeee

I am in complete shock, the scene when he looks at the picture....like, how???????????

Why didn't he win any awards?!

@@Raheel_Ishaq He won the Palm dog award at Cannes

I agree. He was so good in that scene. Wow!

The director said that the vomit was cgi added in post. Which for me doesn't really lessen any of his acting because I assumed it was a tube fed underneath him anyway

@@MrTriplej79 exactly right! Like the reactions don’t seem fake at all or like one of those scene where you can sense the trainer signalling them in the background to do certain actions.

Showing more acting talent in a few minutes than the entire cast of Riverdale during it's 25 year run

Hey, Riverdale includes Charles Melton, and that guy gave one of the best performances of 2023 :D @@minuishaq631

@@minuishaq631i mean duh, almost everything is better than riverdale

He deserved a whole new category just for him, the most Epic perfomance! 😅

Ronaldo better

Messi. His real name

Daniel Dog Lewis

@@keimat4470 Donald Woofterland

Leonardog Decaprio

Robert RedSetterford

they froze his face with CGI the same way they freeze humans when they are trying to play dead but cant hold there breathe long enough or if they are having trouble not blinking

@@breakbad9753I heard it was just the eyes 👀

I mean realistically he's a child in a absolutely crazy situation trying to figure out the truth behind the death of his own dad, realizing his whole view on his family has been completely wrong. It's not hard to understand where that action came from.

i immediately thought of jed when watching this. it's absolutely the expression in the face and the body movement. many dog actors are very well trained but you can tell they are depending heavily on the trainer and due to the precision of commands they tend to look a bit "mechanical" in their movement and faces. most people can't tell and so their acting work is perfectly fine but not exceptional. jed and messi have a way about them that feels like they are interpreting the instructions given by the trainer in their own unique way, the same as a human actor might do with a script.

@@someembarrassingLPs Sorry to reply three weeks behind, but something else Messi here definitely shares with his "phenomenal animal actor" predecessor is his complete lack of looking at the camera. The one time in The Thing where Jed looked directly into the camera, it fit with the story and actually worked to add tension to the scene and make the audience uncomfortable - pushing toward the common compliment Jed was given by his trainers and costars that any move he made, that would be "just something an animal actor will do" to almost every other animal in film, seemed to fit perfectly with the character he was playing. And now, throughout Anatomy of a Fall, Messi's never making eye contact with the camera either. He's fantastic. There are dogs in Horror that can't be focused on directly when playing dead, especially for such long shots, because they can't keep still or make it as believable as Messi managed. Whether that's because he's a Border Collie and Jed was a Wolfdog, or because he and Jed are/were actually aliens disguised as Good Boys, us humans will never know. But they definitely have a special talent for the roles they've been given.

The last is actually his trainer telling him to jump up on the bed and lay down

From what ive heard that was just improvised. The dog just did that

@@cheycheyfriend247 no i saw his trainer and she said she commanded to do it

Yep he was trained to act sick. The vomit was added in with CGI but everything else was just good training

And yet he was snubbed by the academy.

He did two months of training for that scene but I'm still flabbergasted at how he was able to do it. What as seriously impressive performance from Messi.

border collies are super smart and clearly the owner of Messi trains him incredibly well

I think they used some VFX for the eyes as well

Jfc no, they didn't really POISON the dog. The playing dead is superb, but the eyes are CGI, the vomit is from a hidden tube.

he was invited again by POPULAR DEMAND

It's a great one, very thought-provoking