Muzzleflashes unrealistic?

[Defender]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger

this is a scene from the movie "idi i smotri" which was made in the early 80s. This specific scene was shot in a time and atmosphere when health and safety and animal rights weren't a major concern.
What you see starting from 3.22 is actual machine gun fire and real tracers, note that it's dusk and that the machine gun muzzle flashes are well visible

WARNING: the cow in the scene actually gets it, it's no trick, so if you are for the rights of cows or don't wanna see a cow being hit by a machine gun, don't watch it.

Poor cow, pretty sure that director is a total wank considering he broke rule number 3 of movie making. "MAKE BELIEVE" ... shooting a real cow crosses that line of movie magic and human "cruelty". Animals for food I get, riddling a dairy cow with machine gun fire for entertainment to trigger an emo response is just lame.

Sorry, I had to say something on it...apart from that, it illustrates your point well

[swiss]

I can't see anything which would make me believe the really shot the cow.

Originally Posted by swiss

I can't see anything which would make me believe the really shot the cow.

..it's in the interview to the director and the actor on the DVD. Plus, if you tell me how to let a beam of light go through a cow and let the poor thing jump 3 ft in the air without using any CG I'll try the trick myself..