Guess the movie answers banjo4/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The first rabbit is caught in a trap by Peter, who brings it to his mother as a surprise. But that moment where I’m whipping the horse with the blanket? I hate to tell The New York Times but obviously it’s me and a camera with reins around it. ![]() And I did experience all of that in my body. “It’s not just riding the cattle herd or castrating the animals, but I needed to somehow experience all of that in my body. It was a visual trick where he’s lashing out at a camera with reins tired to it. UPDATE: On February 8, Cumberbatch told the New York Times that while he did learn to ride and to castrate a bull, but he did not actually hit the horse in that scene. When Phil learns that his brother, George (Jesse Plemons) has married the widowed Rose, the volatile rancher takes his anger out on a horse, swatting at is head and chasing it out of the stable. The dogs are fine, but we see two dead cows and two rabbits are killed (details below). “It looks like a dog with his jaw wide open,” says Peter, who points to the shadow. Later, he asks Peter what he sees in the hills and is astonished when the younger man tells him he sees the shadow of a barking dog. At one point, Phil gazes off into the hills near his ranch with a smile and none of his men know what he’s looking at. One of them playfully greets the awkward Peter when he first comes to the ranch in his stiff new jeans, but Phil quickly whistles for the dog to come back to him. Yes, there are three dogs on the Burbank ranch, but they are not central to the plot and nothing happens to any of them. ![]() Read on for answers to questions you might have about the dogs, horses and rabbits in the film, and what “the power of the dog” means. The movie, which is now streaming on Netflix, is tipped to be an awards favorite, with powerful performances from Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst as Rose, the shy sister-in-law he delights in tormenting, and Kodi Smit-McPhee as her studious son, Peter. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as cruel cowboy Phil Burbank in Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” an adaptation of the 1967 book of the same name by Thomas Savage, which is set in Montana of 1925. ![]()
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