If they want realistic horse noises, why don’t they have the foley artist insert the sound of a horse passing gas or taking a dump, or the scrape of a manure fork in the background? you are 100 times more likely to hear those than a nicker or whinny.
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Hildago? Mostly fabrication! No such person rode such a distance, no such horse ran in a made up race in Arabia. It was one of the last movies my ma saw . . .she was from Cody Wyo --much involved in her later life with the museum there --ma watched Hildago --her comment? “I don’t recall that man.” Turns out he was probably not who he said he was — Frank Hopkins had no known association with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show --wish my ma’s last movie had been more accurate.
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Now this one, I really enjoyed. Especially knowing the actual (non-actor) people played themselves in the movie. Loved the sister so much. Lovely, lovely film.
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@Foxglove Agreed!
Equine Balderdash :mad:
Not to mention the fun of counting how many different paint horses played Hidalgo :rolleyes:
And that “fatal” injury… :disgust:
Sigh… Looks like I won’t be in Topeka the 26th.
My cart comes home this week, courtesy of a friend.
My next trip will be on the 25th to pick up another friend’s cart in Nappanee.
Any chance you’re in Topeka that Thursday? 
Possibly --let me check my calendar --usually don’t have anything on it --lunch? cup of coffee? Is there an auction on Thursday?
Yep, see The Rider. Real people are in the movie playing themselves, but not a documentary. Amazing character development and a REAL horse taming scene, not the make believe Disney crap.
The Mustang trailer got my attention, and I was sorely disappointed for all the reasons already stated. An outwardly angry convict thrown into a roundpen with a “stallion”, with no prep or guidance from the program’s director, (“Just git in there!”) is utterly stupid. Convict: “Why won’t he come to me”?? I’ll give you 2 guesses…
Yes, the mess hall scene was stupid. Mustangs live OUTSIDE - why bring them inside a cafeteria for a storm! Lead them and turn 'em loose in the riding ring. Same drama - less dumb. And a rogue helicopter flies low over the riding ring on big auction day, spooking horses. Really? How often do helicopters show up in the desert southwest buzzing prisons?? Wouldn’t have taken a brainiac to make the storyline believable AND get dramatic effect for non-horse folks. I could go on…
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I’ve watched the real documentary which was very good. I’ll probably be disappointed in the movie.Saw the trailer when I went to see Mumbai Hotel - Now THAT was a movie - I was riveted and terrified the whole time and remember when the Taj hotel was attacked.
Foxtrot: What’s the name of the real documentary? I would like to see it.
I didn’t hate The Mustang. I usually go into those movies knowing it’s not going to be up to “real horse folks’” expectations, and just go with it. My DH and I had a good day out, movie and lunch at The Grilled Cheeserie". Sandwich may have been better than movie, but…not a waste of time. We had a good day. 
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Thanks for the heads up. I was looking forward to seeing it, but don’t want to experience another disappointment like ‘The Horse Whisperer’ (really, Robert Redford?? a horse ‘whisperer’ who pins a horse on the ground to ‘tame’ it??) or Secretariat, which was just a painful movie to watch all the way around. I loved Seabiscuit, though.
Lusolove - I don’t know!!! It was on tv about inmates at a Colorado prison and how they were taught to round pen and saddle and ride, etc. I felt it was authentic and once I saw that don’t need the movie version.
Might have been Nat Geo or Documentary channels.
We have a wealth of smart COTHers on here - somebody will know for you. Sorry!
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The Wild Horse Redemption?
https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Horse-Redemption-John-Zaritsky/dp/B07DVRSKXX
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Thank you!!! ^^^
I find there are few horse movies I can enjoy. I spend my time noticing that they use multiple horses to play 1 role and they don’t even have the right color or markings on each horse they use…
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Brilliant - Scarlet.
Viggo Mortensen was a rider - and he bought “Hidalgo” after the show was filmed.
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I did, and it was so good. Saw it after hearing Fresh Air interview with the star and director. Teri Gross commented that riding a young horse must be so much safer than riding Broncs and the star very politely corrected her. Really reminded me of how Cowboys talk : “Excuse me, m’am…” It was one of the best movies about horses I’ve ever seen, when he was working in the round pen and the horse head clocked his head, I called it, yep, bad. His love of horses and his struggles were so emotionally engaging. Very realistic. The only thing is the guy he visited who was impaired was in reality from an auto accident, not a horse accident, but we all know that it could well have been a horse accident that altered him.
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: yes! give them a real dose of reality!
As a lawyer who has spent a fair amount of time with prisoners and in prisons, I have to say the most ridiculous thing in this movie is that the inmates have access to a big unlocked closet full of ketamine.
The horse stuff was also pretty unrealistic, but nobody really wants to see a realistic horse movie, which would go something like this;
Opening scene
Middle aged woman trots a horse around an arena saying “does he look off to you?”
Scene two
Middle aged woman tries to get her horse to walk past a trash can.
Scene three
Middle aged woman picks hooves, gets farted on. Anonymous super villain left poop in wash stall.
Middle aged woman pays board
Middle aged woman wishes there was a closet full of ketamine at this barn.
Scene four
Just a bunch of laid back geldings standing around in fly masks, pooping.
Scene Five (training montage)
Middle aged woman applies the wrong amount of leg.
Despite his deep, mystical bond with middle aged woman, horse is just not interested in this exercise.
Middle aged woman comes to terms with the fact that she is the one who looks off today, but enters show anyway.
Scene six (dramatic climax)
Middle aged woman gets a slightly better than mediocre dressage score and drinks tiny plastic bottles of wine to celebrate the 4th place ribbon she spent thousands of dollars on. Ketamine would have been more fun than wine.
Scene seven (majestic horse is given freedom)
Middle aged woman sets horse free (in his turnout). Horse bucks once, farts, canters for 4 strides, then stands around eating and pooping.
Fin.
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Alittledownhill, you nailed it, LO.
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