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"Dangerous" snakes on movies?

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m1n054

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I like watching movies a lot and I've been seeing some snakes appear now and then but they make them look sooo dangerous and other times just stupid.

For example, these were supposed to be rattlesnakes: (A lot of profanities here)


and this:



Idk, I felt they make a great deal out of these snakes. No wonder, people grow afraid of them.

Plenty of rat snakes on Snakes on a Plane movie too, if I remember correctly.
 
I especially noticed this with movies like Snakes on a Plane, as you mentioned, and other action movies likes The Mummy. Using constrictors and colourful milk snakes (probably aimed to look like coral snakes) as venomous really bug me. I point it out all the time... I think everyone gets annoyed with me ;)

A fear of snakes and other creatures, like spiders, is sort of innate in human psychology. Back when we were becoming bipedal, snakes and spiders in Africa and other places (for a great example Australia) were quite often deadly to us - which accounts for our underlying fear of them. Although, that is becoming less and less quite apparently. :)
 
I noticed a gray band king in the first vid, and obviously a BP in the 2nd. Sinaloan milks are often used in movies and music videos also when a scary snake is needed.

I have found no evidence that a fear of snakes is innate. I have yet to have a toddler afraid to hold a snake at programs. It's always kids old enough to have had enough time to be taught to fear them. But it is very much a common cultural fear.
 
They don't always get it wrong though, sometimes they get the "right" species:

Scene starts at 1:33


Although I don't believe this is typical behaviour of Indian Cobras (or what it seems like on) xD.

I also saw the gray banded on "The Campaign" scene and was like WTF. I think he gets bit by a carpet python too, but I'm not sure.
 
Of course I notice the harmless snakes being used in place of dangerous ones, almost laughable at times really, in movies and on tv. But then again, I don't really expect untrained actors to be handling venomous reptiles.
 
I agree Chip. We bought our first snake because my 4 year old just "had to have it". We went to the pet store and she was watching them all, and asked if she could "pet one". So the guy took it out, and she held it, played with it, with no fear.

About 20 minutes later we were leaving and she says "But the snake has to go home with us!" So it did....

We get home and 2 days later he is out and about exploring his new setup and she asks to hold it. I explained to her that it may be a bit jumpy since it just relocated, and there is a possibility it may bite her.

Her reply: "She's a good girl. Snakes like me, she won't bite me" Scooped in picked it up with no hesitation before I could even attempt to stop her.
 
I couldn't help but notice how Angelina knew how to react with her hand to what seemed like a typical feeding response movement with the albino. The opening of the hand to make the snake see a larger "possible food item". She was either trained really well or has a snake/snakes as pets.
 
I agree with Chip, a fear of snakes in not innate. We learned about true innate fears and there seems to be evidence of only 2. Heights and loud noises. Many people out grow them but some do not(I'm terrified of heights).
 
steve roylance said:
I couldn't help but notice how Angelina knew how to react with her hand to what seemed like a typical feeding response movement with the albino. The opening of the hand to make the snake see a larger "possible food item". She was either trained really well or has a snake/snakes as pets.
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I read in another forum that she used to play with snakes when she was little and that in one interview when asked about a snake tattoo she has she said that she believes reptiles are watching over her family. She has some other movies with snakes/reptiles. One of the lara croft movies has snakes on it.

At 1:24 in the video you can see her flinch when trying to grab the ball python, so she's either THAT good to fake something like that (you can totally feel how authentic the fear was) or she didn't know how the snake would react.
 
steve roylance said:
I couldn't help but notice how Angelina knew how to react with her hand to what seemed like a typical feeding response movement with the albino. The opening of the hand to make the snake see a larger "possible food item". She was either trained really well or has a snake/snakes as pets.
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I'd put money on her being an Owner of a few Scale Babies.
 
That looked like a real flinch to me. Like the snake jumped, so she did, too. Like a reflex.
 
I've carried big snakes through a monkey house in a zoo, and they all go CRAZY. They have an innate fear. And so do pigeons, and bearded dragons. Why _wouldn't_ humans?
 
Well either way, from what I have learned with my university education (although only one anthropology class, but I'm minoring in psychology) at one point it was an innate fear - whether it is still ingrained in us or not.
I am very happy to hear that young children are not afraid, and I COMPLETELY agree that it is a learned behaviour - conditioned emotional responses - that children (or adults) fear animals like snakes.

Which I guess is what the creators of these types of movies is going for... that learned fear; the understanding that most people will be creeped out by what is on screen - and if not at least understand the idea behind it.
 
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