Trophy is a documentary about the highly commodified and macabre ultra-luxury sport of “canned” trophy hunting, in which legally restricted big-game hunting events in various African countries are auctioned off for colossal sums to rich people, often from the United States.
These smug types want to play at being the great white hunter but have everything laid on for them, so they get an easy kill.
Just as with Safari, Ulrich Seidl’s recent documentary about the same subject, it is impossible to watch this without boiling with rage as these grotesque, pampered beta-males preen themselves over the animals’ corpses, occasionally blubbering sentimentally.
The film has a stomach-turning scene at a hunters’ convention held at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas (the site of the recent mass shooting).
There is a debate to be had – and this film conscientiously airs it – about whether touristified hunts play a role in conservation.
Prominent among the interviewees is South African rhino farmer John Hume, who makes this case, campaigning for a reverse on the ban on selling rhino horn, which he claims merely stimulates poaching and the ancillary black market (although the same could be said about legal hunts).
He periodically cuts off his animals’ horns to save them from poachers’ attentions, but, instead of burning the results the way people do with elephant tusks, Hume stockpiles them in a secure facility, amassing a staggeringly valuable haul, which puts his campaign in a very different light.
It’s a film to raise your blood pressure.
This article was first published by The Guardian on 16 Nov 2017.
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Big Hunter boy pays some guy alot of money to take him hunting on this guys property and show him to the big huge animal that he would have to be a lame brain to even miss with his big gun and shoot it as it stands out there all innocent minding its own business. Wow big man! Nothing but murder to take its head or is it tail for a trophy to show off.
KILLERS !!! RESPECT THE ANIMALS
Yes. We need these animals alive.
YES!
All hunting should be Ban
All hunting should be banned.
if you want to hunt, build a time machine and go back to the stone age!!!
YES!!!!
Watch the movie “Blood Lions”.
Hell yes!
Yes!
Hell yes
Why we didn’t develo a better sport: Hunting hunters? I am sure that could be more interesting and fun.
I AGREE CONSTANTINO, LETS TURN THE TABLES IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT LETS HUNT THE HUNTERS, I’D SURE LOVE TO SEE THEIR HEADS BLOWN OFF.
SHOULD
Hunters are the only ones provoding real money to manage the wildlife. It taks money to punp up water holes where they never exsisted, money to drill the wells, money to maintain the the wells. MOney to provide armed patrols to stop the poachers.
All the so called animal protection agencies provide money for their board of directors and head honchos, but none for wildlife!
wildlife should be left alone, not managed
You are bullshit.
YOu leaf lickers are simply stupid and ileducated on what it takes to manage widlife!
your just a gun he and you know nothing more than killing beautiful wild animals, leave them in peace before you got your brain cell wired.
Absolutely YES !
YES!
Yes, animals are becoming extinct and these low life’s are killing the few that are left, besides all that, it is cruel and inhumane, to go into their habitat while they are living the life they were meant to and kill them because it makes some fool feel like a big shot because he killed a defenseless animal, they are idiots beyond explanation.
Of course it should be banned, what a question….if you want to know more about CANNED HUNTING see the documentary movie “Blood Lions”…
BANNED FOREVER! THIS IS A RIDICULOUS “SPORT”. ITS MURDER!
And the kapo’s are selling their soul. It’s always the insider traitors that cause the downfall
YES!
yes.
Ah, yes, the old “killing wild animals in order to conserve them” argument! Should trophy hunting be banned – absolutely. This “hunting” is only for the folks with enough money to be able to brag that they killed a wild animal – they might have held the gun, after someone else found the elephant/tiger/lion OR possibly that most dangerous of wild animals a giraffe (!)that someone else tracked the animal or baited it, then stood the “hunter” in the right spot & possibly they were capable of pulling the trigger. Wow – what a fantastic feat that is. Pretty sad… Read more »
Absolutely yes
VILE.
yes
Banned !!!
Kill the two legged bastards for trophies —— not the four legged kind
Of course, YES!
Why do you continue to ask such obvious questions? Receiving money from FB? Funds from advertising? Just quit or do something to help the environment or animals you publicize dead. Shame on you.
Yes it should and anyone found guilty of committing this barbaric act should automatically receive a prison
Obviously Yes.
done
Yes absolutely..
killing for fun is immoral, disgusting, despicable
Savage, primitive, blood thirsty, entitlement for the ego-centric and arrogant, colonial horrors!
Yes their endangered
Yes
Yes