Roar: The Most Dangerous Film of All Time

Just the Gist

It's Just The Gist - "F*cking White People" Edition; The story of the 1981 film ROAR.

A tale of how a rich naive Hollywood couple spent over a decade making a movie that starred them, their kids and 150 lions, tigers, leopards, panthers, ALLL the big cats. The movie was pitched as a "family comedy", but is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous films of all time.

Roar starred Tippy Hedron (Star of Hitchcock's The Birds and others) her daughter Melanie Griffiths, and the rest of their family.

The plot is broadly "we can save the world/animal kingdom/lions and tigers etc are all big friendly besties who just are misunderstood and we can live with them in harmony". Sounds cute in theory, maybe in adorable cartoons, but filming with 150 big cats gives very different results.

Turns out, big cats gunna big cat; the films credits say no animals were harmed in the making of the movie (lies lol), but they don't say anything about how many PEOPLE were mauled, scalped, attacked, and generally not treated as one would hope to be treated at work.

We give you just the gist, but if you want more, there's this:

LINKS

• Watch ROAR! Trailer from it's 2015 re-release https://bit.ly/roarfilm-trailer .
• Read 'Looking Back at Roar, a Shocking, Lion-Filled 1981 Movie You've Never Seen (Yet)' by Matt Patches for Esquire Mag online https://bit.ly/3OyeI1i .
• Read 'Noel Marshall’s “Roar”: Humans Were Harmed in the Making of This Film' by Richard Brody for The New Yorker in 2020 https://bit.ly/3BSHuSp .
• Watch 'The Insane Story Behind The Movie Roar' from Weird History on Youtube https://bit.ly/3MoXf8z .
• Watch Roar - currently bootlegged on Youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_nOUrQNF_c&ab_channel=Hale .
• Photos of the stills from the film via IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083001/mediaindex .

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