14 DAY TRIAL // US-based Friends of Animals is no fan of Martin Scorsese's “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and neither is PETA. Both organizations are terribly upset about the fact that some scenes in the movie show a chimp named Chance roller skating through an office.
Friends of Animals decided to prove just how angry it was about Chance's being forced to perform this cheap trick by asking people to boycott the movie.
PETA, on the other hand, is urging that animal lovers sign an online petition demanding that actor Leonardo DiCaprio never work with apes again.
“Undercover investigations have documented that physical abuse of ape ‘actors’ during preproduction training is standard practice. When apes reach adolescence, at around 7 or 8 years old, they become too strong and dangerous to handle and trainers often discard them so that they can make room for new baby apes,” the organization says.
“The discarded animals, who can live into their 60s, typically end up in seedy roadside zoos or other substandard facilities. For example, years after Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes (2001) was released, PETA found Chubbs, a chimpanzee featured in the film, languishing in a nightmarish roadside zoo called the Amarillo Wildlife Refuge,” it adds.
PETA promises that, once enough people sign the petition, they will deliver it to Leonardo DiCaprio's management.