Black Stallion – Wikipedia

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Black Stallion ( The Black Stallion ) is a 1979 film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film is based on the 1941 book written by Walter Farley entitled The Black Stallion [first] and inspired by the deeds of Man or War, an English thoroughbred horse, champion in the United States in the early twentieth century. The book is the first of a saga consisting of 21 volumes [2] including a dedicated biography [first] To the great champion written in 1962.

Many of the main outdoor scenes of the first part are shot in Sardinia in the months of September and October 1977: in the north on the beach of Li Cossi (Costa Paradiso) and south-west, at the Piscinas dunes, in the municipality of Arbus. [3]

Alec is a child who is traveling with his father on a ship off the coast of North Africa. There is also a black and wild Arabic stallion on the boat, held by very short strings to the caveness. Alec, fascinated by the animal, often approaches and stealthily gives him sugar zollette. He is violently warned in Arabic by the owner of the horse who does not want anyone to approach. Returning to his cabin, Alec’s father gives him a pocket knife and a small bucefal iron statuette the stallion of Alexander the Great, telling him his story. Towards night, the boat undergoes an adveria and begins to run over.

The boy is thrown from his berth and realizes that the horse is also in danger. He then decides to free him by cutting the ropes that forced him tied with the knife. The stallion throws himself into the sea and the boy follows him, thrown from the waves. Alec manages to reach the animal and with the few forces clings to the ropes that are still attached to his caveness. The next day, the boy wakes up on a deserted beach and while trying to understand where he is, he is attacked by a cobra. Before he manages to react the imbizzarrito stallion, he walks the animal by killing him and running away immediately after. With patience, Alec manages to approach the animal by bringing algae to eat and making him understand that he must not fear him.

A few weeks pass in which the two begin to ride on the beach and sleep close. One morning a group of fishermen approach the beach that by seeing the child decide to bring him rescue. Alec does not want to abandon the stallion and the fishermen drag him of strength, given that the horse becomes in seeing them. While the boat walks away, the horse throws himself into the water and follows them by convincing the men to bring it with them. Alec is returned to the mother who decides to keep the horse as well as he saved his son’s life. After a few days, the stallion attacks the men who entered the garden and runs away on the street moving away. Alec follows him and spends the whole night away from home, without finding him.

Symplessly near the port, he is approached by a man on a carriage that tells him that he has seen a horse heading outside the city and Alec follows the indications. Arriving near a barn hears black and nitrire and approaches, finding it imprisoned in a stable. As he is about to free him, Henry approaches, the owner of the stable who intimates him to leave him alone. The stallion reacts violently towards him and, seeing that the boy manages to calm him, realizes that he is not a liar and that the animal belongs to him. He therefore proposes to him that he can keep him in his team. Alec often goes to find Black and one day by mistake, he runs into a secret room in which he sees that Henry has placed several horse racing prizes. So he decides to ask him if his horse according to him would be able to compete and the man tells him that it is impossible since Black has no pedigree and it is not known where it comes from.

Out of curiosity, however, Henry decides to try it on the track one night using Alec as a jockey. The two manage to establish a time record and Henry then decides to try. To convince the commission to admit them he decides to capture the opinion of the greatest horse chestnut, Jim Neville making him witness a solo night race during a downpour. The boy and the horse amazed the reporter who the next day launches a challenge to the champion of the eastern coast Cyclon instigating the owner to make him compete against the “mysterious horse”. The owner of Cyclon accepts and Alec and Black are enrolled in the race called the duel of the century in which Black has problems with the cages and is injured in a paw from the football of another horse. Alec realizes the wound and left with considerable delay compared to the others, the two recover and win the race by distancing the others of two lengths.

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  • During the film, the character played by Mickey Rooney tells Alec the deeds of George Woolf a jockey nicknamed “The Ice Man” who between 1932 and 1945 became one of the most renowned champions in the horse racing circuits.
  • The name of the chronicler of the film Jim Neville is a reference to the true reporter Neville Dunn, sports publisher of Lexington Herald which in 1937 did the radio commentary of a horse racing in which War Admiral (son of Man or War) [4] He won a race by distancing the opponents of six lengths.
  • The horse race of the film called “The duel of the century” is a reference to a real competition that took place on 1 November 1938 at the Pimlico Race Course of Baltimore, Maryland (USA) between War Admiral and Seabiscuit, a sporting event followed by 40 million listeners radio. [5]

The stallion that plays the role of Black is an Arab race sample named Cass Ole found by the producers of the film Tom Sternberg and Fred Roos in a Texas stable. The horse had been raised as a show animal and then used to performing the stunts requested by the script. [6] The Stallone was a national morphology champion in more than 50 competitions between 1975 and 1976. Cass Ole also participated in the following of the film entitled Black Stallion’s return of 1983. For the most dangerous stunts, another Arabic stallion named Fae Jur was used. The horses were prepared for the film in a ranch in the spring of 1977 and the training lasted eleven weeks. [7]

In 2002 he was chosen for conservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Congress Library. [8]

In 1983 a sequel to the film entitled Black Stallion’s return directed by Robert Dalva and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and in 1990 a three -seasons television series was created entitled The adventures of Black Stallion who always saw Mickey Rooney protagonist in the role of Henry Dailey. In 2003 it is instead the turn of the prequel, Young Black Stallion .

  1. ^ a b ( IN ) The Black Stallion_Ispirato da Man o’ War . are Theblackstallion.com (archived by URL Original January 5, 2010) .
  2. ^ ( IN ) Books: The Series . are Theblackstallion.com , The Black Stallion Original Site. URL consulted on 14 December 2009 (archived by URL Original January 6, 2010) .
  3. ^ ( IT ) The gallops of “Black Stallion” on the Lido di Li Cossi and in Piscinas , in The new Sardinia , June 17, 2013. URL consulted on 5 October 2018 (archived by URL Original on 5 October 2018) .
  4. ^ ( IN ) War Admiral thoroughbred thoroughbred horses . are thoroughbredchampions.com (archived by URL Original September 12, 2006) .
  5. ^ ( IN ) Bryan Field, 40,000 Watch Seabiscuit Defeat War Admiral at Pimlico ( PDF ), in New York Times , November 1938, p. 29.
  6. ^ ( IN ) The Movie: The Black Stallion (1979) . are Theblackstallion.com , The Black Stallion Original Site. URL consulted on 14 December 2009 (archived by URL Original on July 2, 2008) .
  7. ^ ( IN ) Behind the Scenes Arabian-Horse-World, April 1978 . are Theblackstallion.com , The Black Stallion Original Site. URL consulted on December 16, 2009 (archived by URL Original on July 2, 2008) .
  8. ^ ( IN ) Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry . are loc.gov , Library of Congress, 17 December 2002. URL consulted on January 6, 2012 .

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