By all indications, there were no laws preventing them from doing so, nor was it illegal for Coppola to film them doing it.Įven today, it seems that an indigenous tribe like the Ifugaos would be able to conduct a similar slaughter of carabao: I'm not familiar with animal welfare laws in the jungles of the Philippines in the late 1970's, but the water buffalo belonged to the tribe, and this is simply how they slaughtered their livestock. It wasn't illegal in the Philippines, where the scene was filmed: The buffalo was already marked for ritual sacrifice by the indigenous tribe cast as the disciples of Brando’s gone-native Colonel Kurtz, and the argument was that it would have been hacked to death whether or not the cameras were rolling. Coppola merely decided to film the event. The tribe in the film was a real indigenous tribe that lived in the area, and they had already decided to slaughter it. The animal (a water buffalo, or carabao) was killed - but not for the film. TL DR: Yes, the animal was really killed in Apocalypse Now, and although the slaughter wasn't illegal, it did have some repercussions for the film.
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