WAR HORSE .. THE MOVIE !!!

I am such a proud Mummie! My lovely 'bar maid' cob mare was the model for a lot of the actions of the War Horse. Several years ago, I could NOT understand why a choreographer who lived in our village was sitting on an artist's stool in the road, apparently sketching our horses. Then she told me she'd been studying my mare as she was so deliberate in things she did, like gnawing the inside of her fetlock, or staring into the distance and suddenly tossing her head.

When we eventually went to see War Horse I was in tears before the rest of the audience because it was just like watching my girl.

Can't wait for the movie. It should be fabulous.
 
I can't wait!! Going to be a fab few months film wise, Breaking Dawn released, then HP out on DVD, then War horse out in the Cinema :D :D Sad I know but I don't care :p :o :D
 
I have so wanted to go see it at the Theatre but haven't gotten there yet.

I got goose pimples watching the trailer and so, so want to see the film but I fear me bawling my eyes out through it will embarrass my husband yet again at the cinema ... I do have a tendency to cry, scream or jump and end up making myself feel a right t*t.
 
Just watched the trailer and it's brought a lump to my throat , i may have to wait until it comes out on dvd as i'm not sure that i'll be able to hold back the tears in a public cinema...
Just as a foot note - not that anyone's interested - but I recently framed a lovely old photo for our local museum ( it's what i do for a living ) of a large group of horses , all diferent shapes and sizes , all tethered to posts down on our local town market area - just a field in those old days - anyway the lady from the museum came to collect this old photo , and i just commented that i guessed this photo was a pic of some old country horse sale and she explained that it was the day that the goverment came to collect all the riding horses and farm ponies that were going to be sent to war - i'll never forget how shocked i was to see such beautiful and loved horses being taken without choice and wondering if any of them ever made it back?
 
Doncella said:
A big no no for me, anything by Spielberg is a load of sentimental *******s. Saving Private Ryan? I'd have given him a good kicking and told him not to get lost again.
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TBH, my heart sank somewhat when I heard the soaring incidental music redolent of *American* rural idyll & frontier spirit. I hope I won't find that offputting when I come to watch the film. Methinks Vaughan-Williams would have been a better choice given the time and place of events (his symphonies evoke both the pastoral and the horror of war).
 
I am so looking forward ot this and can feel the tears already. Was supposed to go see the theatre production but in the end couldnt. I have read the book and to rockysmum if i remember correctly it has a happy ish ending?!
 
Rose Folly said:
I am such a proud Mummie! My lovely 'bar maid' cob mare was the model for a lot of the actions of the War Horse. Several years ago, I could NOT understand why a choreographer who lived in our village was sitting on an artist's stool in the road, apparently sketching our horses. Then she told me she'd been studying my mare as she was so deliberate in things she did, like gnawing the inside of her fetlock, or staring into the distance and suddenly tossing her head.

When we eventually went to see War Horse I was in tears before the rest of the audience because it was just like watching my girl.

Can't wait for the movie. It should be fabulous.
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Wow!!

rockysmum - I read the book and it's got a lot of sad bits in it but the ending is a happy one (as long as they keep it the same in the movie!)
I can't wait to see it, know I'll be crying buckets within the first minute though, can't handle horsey films!
 
I'm going to wait for the dvd too so I can howl in private. The play was bad enough but at least it was puppets but the real thing (OK, some it going to be CGI but it will look real) . . . . hmm . . . . bit difficult to take. I just hope it is true to book story and not too "Hollywoodised" and changed like The Horse Whisperer
 
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