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Here we are back in
Albert Whitlock's painting - the top part.
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This is obviously a real leopard.
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In fact, I believe this is our...
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Maybe it's our friend the Chinese
leopard before he split his head open
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but anyway, it's a real leopard.
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And he is drugged up.
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Unfortunately, of course, if he was
actually dead, there would be rigor
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but then he wouldn't
look like a leopard
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so it's constantly a trade-off.
1:17:53
This was a scene
that I was a little disappointed in
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primarily because I didn't think
we really had the technology
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to do it the way
it should have been done.
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With today's technology, you would...
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you could do the scene
in a more interesting way.
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But the autopsy on the leopard
never felt right
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because we were faking too much of it.
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Between the real leopard
and the fake leopard.
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And also it's sort of
based on a device
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that was a little hokey.
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It was...
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It's hokey now and it was hokey then -
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the idea of the hand
coming out of the leopard.
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I think the idea for the scene
was a good idea
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but we didn't have the time or
the technology to do it absolutely right.