The camera is held at eye level, looking inwards as Luma looks outwards. Rather, Arnold’s attention remains locked on Luma herself and, intermittently, her offspring. In spite of the brutality that Arnold relays, none less so than when Luma’s calf has her horns cauterised by a flesh-singing iron, Cow is not an animal-rights polemic against the dairy industry. Arnold’s camera lingers on the bereft figure her cries go unanswered. Each time, Luma appears to snap into a panic, pacing agitatedly and calling out beyond the metal building. Then, just days after, she finds herself forcibly estranged from them. Having given birth in a darkened cowshed amidst the company of humans, Luma licks the amniotic fluid from her newborns. In 1780, philosopher Jeremy Bentham said of animals: ‘The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?’ In Andrea Arnold’s documentary Cow (2021), a socio-realist portrait of a dairy cow called Luma on a farm in Kent, the answer seems to be an unequivocal yes. In the 2012 sequel, he came to set for just two hours for a scene alongside Bruce Willis.Filmmakers’ interest in the inhabitants of farmyards and beyond reflects a newfound longing for connection with the ‘more-than-human’ world As Schwarzenegger recalled, he first joined 2010’s The Expendables in a cameo role in between his final term as California’s governor. We're going to do something together one day.ĭuring an interview with Parade, Schwarzenegger said bluntly that he told Stallone he was out of the franchise during its production, and Stallone was totally considerate to the decision. Sly said, 'Oh, can you do Expendables 2?' and I did that for a weekend. I shot it on a Saturday for two hours quickly in a church with Bruce Willis. I said, 'You know what, we have done this and I'm out of it.' And really understood. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked about his involvement, here’s what he said: The fourth Expendables film, reportedly titled Expend4bles, will see Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Randy Couture returning to the cast.
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