Daft things people do to horses in films that don't happen in RL...

When they play a sound of the horse neighing, when the horse clearly isn't neighing!
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Anyone else noticed that every horse in every film sounds IDENTICAL!?!?
Crazy...
Also, people seem to gallop around for miles, yet their horses NEVER get sweaty or tired... even breath hard... O.o

Though there is a film where a horse gets shot & killed... and then in a later scene, the same horse is alive and absolutely fine! xD

Just random things that bug me...
 
I find it hilarious when someone (usually a maiden in distress and man gallops after her and grabs the reins) is being bolted away with. All they do is lean back and throw themselves from side to side while screaming but you can see them still kicking the horse on. :-)
 
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That said, my 65 year old father can vault onto his horse, lit fag intact - a little trick he learned in Argentina...

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At racing yards the tiniest little men vault onto TBs wearing nothing but a square of sponge and a girth (the horses... not the riders
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) They exercise the horses like that; only jockeys get saddles
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Has anyone watched the Saddle Club on tv? Kids programme I know but got a bit addicted to it as a student. I found the constant horse noises so annoying though, always nickering, whinnying and the horse is just stood there quiet.
 
The fact that they always bolt because of a snake when we all know they wouldn't bat an eyelid at that because they would be too busy spooking at the killer plastic bag in the hedge!
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Also that the heroine always falls off and ends up in a coma when mostly people just get up swearing and wiping the dirt off their jods!
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As well as the incessant neighing when its obvious the horse isn't the thing that annoys me is the wrong tack - historical costume dramas with horses wearing running martingales with rubber stops and worst of all, horses that can change tack in the flash of an eye, generally when someone falls off. One minute they are going along with a snaffle bridle on, the hero/heroine falls off and suddenly the loose galloping horse is wearing a double bridle and miraculously somebody managed to run up the stirrups and tucked the reins behind them before it heads for the hills!
 
Wobblywibble, that's what I was going to say! Drives me mad when the bits etc change between scenes. Even as a kid I remember being really annoyed at an episode of Black Beauty when BB was tied to a tree by his reins, he was startled by baddies, broke the reins and galloped off. Next moment he was galloping across a field with his reins neatly knotted on his neck. Clever horse!

Another annoying thing about film/tv horses is the way they rear every time they are startled (whilst neighing at the same time). They never just buck the rider off and disappear over the horizon like they would in RL.
 
Or the way they rear and the rider just sits there going 'ha ha ha HAH!' while in actual fact, that rider would be wrapped around the horse's neck, either swearing manically or whimpering 'please, please, please get down now'
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It always annoys me that the minute someone walks into a stable yard (think Midsomer Murders when they're off to ask the stable lad about the local farmer found killed by a runaway combine harvester) there's always a whinnying horse in the background. Only a select few horses let rip with a huge whinny just by random, most wouldn't even look up from their haynets!
 
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Oh, and don't forget 'whoooooooa boy!'

(Horse looks round. Horse says 'WTF did he just say???!!!')

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Ummm...my horse understands "whoooa" and stops when I say it!! *skulks back out*
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See earlier post by me, admitting same, post was about people watching cowboys in films saying it and arriving at a pony trekking yard full of plods and saying it
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the funniest one i've seen was in a bad arnold swarzenegger (sp?) film where he nearly fell of a skyscraper but he had hold of his horse's rein and the horse pulled him back onto the roof- like the reins would be that strong?!!
i also find the historical dramas amusing. i'm a historian so its doubly offensive to me when they get the tack so obviously wrong!!
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i also find the historical dramas amusing. i'm a historian so its doubly offensive to me when they get the tack so obviously wrong!!
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I'm with you there! I get annoyed at inaccuracies in the music and the dancing, too.

I forgot about the rearing when startled/when the villain is gloating at someone. Another one (even more common in fantasy novels) is people that are supposed to be inexperienced riders getting on and galloping cross-country without falling off.

Or the wrong breed of horse for a circumstance, such as Roman soldiers mounted on 17hh TBs!
 
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At racing yards the tiniest little men vault onto TBs wearing nothing but a square of sponge and a girth (the horses... not the riders
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PMSL
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The mind boggles, now I shall always think of Argentinian work riders wearing merely a sponge and a belt!
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Good job it's warm down with you PF! can you imagine them doing that in Newmarket ?;)
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In "The Son Of Paleface" I always laugh at Roy Rogers horse Trigger in bed with Bob Hope and stealing the blankets!!!!

Do you know any horses that sleep in a BED?????????
 
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In "The Son Of Paleface" I always laugh at Roy Rogers horse Trigger in bed with Bob Hope and stealing the blankets!!!!

Do you know any horses that sleep in a BED?????????

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No, but I've known some that would quite have liked to....
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I've not read all the thread so sorry if this has already been said!

It really, Really annoys me when the horses tack changes during a scene. It will be ridden in a snaffle for the 1st part of it and then when you next look it has a pelham or something in it's mouth.

It also annoys me when they use completely different horses, in one Black beauty he is a lovely big horse and then at the end they have him as a hairy fell type PONY!
 
Some folks here need to get out more and see more horses!

LOTS of working horses are trained to "ground tie"... When I get off in the middle of a 4000acre paddock to look at sometime I want to be able to drop the reins and know when I turn back round I'm not going to be walking miles back to the house! If I'm toooo long the horse might shuffle a few feet to some green pick, but a few feet is about it.

"Leapfroging" onto the horse? Who DIDN'T do that as a kid?

Shaking the reins to walk off? Not that unusuall if you have ever driven in harness or plowwed with a horse!

"Whoa!" ours all do it from the ground and from another horse if need be... slight regional differences tho... I say "whoa", My wife and the locals here on South Australias West coast say "Worrie" for the same command..

"Haa!" to go? ...I use "Hup!" as a canter command on the ground and in the saddle all the time...
 
I used "Whoa!" "Yee-hah!" and "Hah!" on my mare. On certain canter paths even a calm, quiet "Go on then" meant canter! lol.
I'd love to train my new pony to respond to cowboy stuff (I love trying to be a cowboy!). lol.
I'd also love to vault on. I thought he was small enough but as soon as I try he seems to grow from 14.2hh to 16.3hh.
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I don't notice different tack in films but I do notice different horses and unsweaty horses. My mum is a right nitpicker. She NEVER shuts up if there's something not quite right. I quit watching films with her
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