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Post by sandy on Dec 12, 2009 17:57:35 GMT 1
Put the TV on this afternoon and 'Black Beauty' was on. I watched about half and hour and couldnt watch anymore. It is so sad. When Black Beauty has hurt his knees and his owner says hes going to sell him and Black Beauty says that being sold on is the most frightening time for a horse - I know its only a film but the message is so true that a horses' life is totally in our hands - they really have no control - if they're very lucky they'll stay in one caring, kind home all their lives but if they are sold on - well who knows!
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Post by chocolate on Dec 12, 2009 18:20:14 GMT 1
I can't watch it either. Its too sad and makes me cry It makes me wonder what happened to Fox my previous horse who I sold You just never know what happens to them .
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Post by Daz on Dec 12, 2009 18:37:28 GMT 1
It IS sad, but it's also a beautifully-made film, and Alan Cumming strangely fits the "role" of Beauty perfectly.
The one bit I cannot watch without welling up is the scene with Beauty and Ginger in the rain....
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Post by moo on Dec 12, 2009 18:51:52 GMT 1
the words 'im here, what is it' i am a wreck when that part happends and you hear a whinney in the backgorund. im welling up now :-(
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Post by jill on Dec 12, 2009 19:33:33 GMT 1
It's a real eye opening way to get people to look at things from a horses perspective though isn't it? I always think each time I watch a horse going on transport, they have no idea where they are going or what to. But yes, that film reduces me to tears every time - I only saw the end where he was at the sale and recognised Joe's voice
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Post by Dragonmaster on Dec 12, 2009 19:37:05 GMT 1
I don't cry at films. Honest I don't. No, not at all. Except for Black Beauty.
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Post by Diane D on Dec 12, 2009 19:39:58 GMT 1
This film always makes me cry.
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Post by Trouble on Dec 12, 2009 19:55:39 GMT 1
I don't cry at films. Honest I don't. No, not at all. Except for Black Beauty. I'm the same, films just do not make me cry....but right from the point Joe leaves Beauty and Ginger for the first time, I'm choking back a lump in my throat....I can hold it together until he recognises Joe at the sale, but Joe walks away...that has me blinking back the tears....then when he hears Ginger.....I'm gone. And at the end when he's reunited with joe again....well that near enough finishes me off for the whole night!
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Post by bicky on Dec 12, 2009 20:31:25 GMT 1
This is the only film I have ever cried at and I now refuse to even turn the telly over and watch it! I saw it was advertised this morning and swiftly avoided it! I'm was such a wreck last time!
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Post by boffin325 on Dec 12, 2009 21:12:32 GMT 1
I can understand why you don't want to watch it, but thats why its such a classic story......its still relevant today, anyone with any empathy for horses couldnt fail to be moved by it. It is uncomfortable viewing (and reading) but maybe this was the first attempt to see things from the horse's viewpoint, and beautifully done. Makes you think, yes, maybe it should be compulsory viewing for horse owners! It was our story book in school when I was 6....its what got me into horses
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Post by sandy on Dec 12, 2009 21:25:02 GMT 1
Thought we ought to remember the amazing lady who wrote the novel, Anna Sewell.
Sewell sold the novel to local publisher Jarrolds for £40 on 24 November 1877, when she was 57 years of age. Although now considered a children's classic, she originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said "It's a special aim being to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses."
"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham." —Black Beauty, Chapter 13, last paragraph.
Thanks Anna for such a beautiful, thoughtful and enduring piece of literature.
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Post by boffin325 on Dec 12, 2009 21:32:17 GMT 1
Well said Sandy
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Post by anastasia55555 on Dec 12, 2009 21:45:43 GMT 1
it makes me cry when i watch it :-(
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Post by lizpurlo on Dec 12, 2009 23:14:02 GMT 1
I've never managed to watch much of the film, though I have tried... but I'm afraid it just winds me up, and I've always turned it off in disgust! The book is utterly superb and was the first ever horsey book I read - and I still go back and read it now. The film just over simplifies the story imho and seems clunky and clumsy to me.
I do wonder though - was Anna Sewell an animal communicator? Read the chapter on Beauty's breaking in, and the bit where he describes being bled, and the harrowing description by Captain, the old war horse, of his master being killed in battle.... and the horses describing what it's like to have a docked tail ..... or just go and read the whole book again...! How would a lady like Anna Sewell have known all that unless she had learnt it straight from the horses themselves?
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Post by jaxnbreeze on Dec 12, 2009 23:46:26 GMT 1
I remember reading this book when I was about 10 and it had a huge effect on me and got me into horses and animal welfare generally. It makes you realize what a huge responsibility we have to all animals and that deciding to own them is a massive undertaking. We are their carers -their welfare is in our hands. Too many people just seem to pass horses around as if they were mindless commodities. I have only ever sold one horse who was dangerous but I will always feel bad about it. Jax
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