Black Stallion |
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| Name of Work | Black Stallion | ||||||||||||
| Production Date | 1979 | ||||||||||||
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IT Sardinia |
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| General Notes | Walter Farley is the writer of original story. | ||||||||||||
Description
A ship in the Mediterranean is destroyed in a storm. A young boy is saved by a stallion who was in transit on the ship. They are shipwrecked on an island. The entire early portion of this movie is silent (i.e, no talking). It shows the development of a bond between the wild horse and the boy. The boy learns to survive on the island and helps the horse survive too. Eventually about half way thru the movie they are rescued by local fishermen, and returns to his mother in the States. (His father was killed in the shipwreck.)
From this point on it is a different movie -- a fairly predicatable, if pleasurable story of boy and horse triumph over adversity and challenges.
Theme
Man and nature in harmony.
At least this is the theme of the first half of the movie. See "Description" and "Context" info below for more on this comment.
Emotional Sum or Sense-of-life
Everything is possible between boy and beast, between an innocent human and mother nature.
Context Information
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horse
