Director Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster movie is a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set in rural England and Europe
during the First World War. From the training perspective, Warmbloods Today learns first hand how the making of such a film creates magic for the viewers.
WAR By Patti Schofler
service and carried men, arms and supplies through the battlefields, facing things that horses by nature take to so poorly: blasting noise, skin disease, painful backs and joints, gun and cannon fire, sloshing mud elbow-high, miserable weather with no shelter, scant rations and debilitating injury.
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An Epic Adventure War Horse—a book, a play and more recently a movie—pays
tribute to those horses, reminding us of their centuries of service to humankind. War Horse is not about the life of this person and that person with horses in the background. The plot is about the horses. They are the stars. Though you will remind yourself that the production of the story is make-believe, your heart will likely ache,
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ore than eight million horses died in World War I. If you have a horse of European descent, chances are your horse’s relatives were mustered into
your eyes will tear and you will smile at this tale that began life as a children’s book written by British primary school teacher Michael Morpurgo. Set in rural England and Europe during World
War I, War Horse follows the life of English farm horse Joey starting with his birth and his friendship with young Albert. The pair are forced apart when Joey is conscripted into the British army and sent to Europe’s Western Front. We follow Joey’s journey through the war, as he changes and inspires the lives of people and horses he meets before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land. We promise we won’t give away the ending. The plot is not too complex, but the beauty and emotions of the story and the effort to produce both the play and the movie are astounding. Its unveiling in London and its opening in New York last year have earned the play five Tony Awards, including best play of the year.
Photos above by David Appleby, SMPSP. © Dreamworks II Distribution Co., LLC. All Rights Reserved. Top photo is of War Horse lead actor Jeremy Irvine and director Steven Spielberg.
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