Mister Ted
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Anybody else watching the film.? The horrors the poor beasts went through during the War is something I couldnt watch.
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I could not watch it - I would find it too distressing. I think I was traumatised by Black Beauty at a young age.
I cry at the Lloyds bank adverts
I cry at the Lloyds bank adverts
Also the beautiful Shires and Clydesdales were taken, what an end.I watched the film a few years ago and went to see the play at the theatre. Around the time the film came out there was a documentary called War Horse: The Real Story which I saw before Steven Spielberg's film (which I think made it even harder to watch). Basically spent the whole time crying for each of them. It was terrible what the horses went through in the wars but what really got to me was the families and farmers having their horses taken away from them by the army. There was an interview on War Horse: The Real Story from an old man who lost his horses as a young boy, knowing full well that he would never see them again, and he told of how he cried himself to sleep for days. Broke my heart.
I have avoided it in every form possible.
The book is miles better than the film and better even than the play. They made some plot changes for the play that I didn't like as much. In the book (minor spoiler alert!) Albert joins the veterinary corps to find Joey, he's not a soldier. I remember finding a copy of the book in my primary school library when I was about 9 - I had no idea what an emotional roller coaster it was going to be! It's told from the horse's perspective, like Black Beauty.
Omg the red pony 😠I can't remember much about it except for feeling sick with the sadness 😠I was given it as a child.The book, on the other hand, had me bawling my eyes out and I still haven't got over it and will never read it again (along with John Steinbeck's "The Red Pony" )
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