98 - War Horse
from Mixed Bag Hosted by Mixed Bag
Picture the scene: You're Steven Speilberg. Congrats! You've made a lot of great movies! You sit down to a show on the West End and you see a hella great show with some stonking great horse puppets. You think to yourself, this is one wicked tale, time to nix those horsies. That's right, it's the movie no one was calling for, it's Best Picture nominee War Horse (2011), the second entry in our MixedBerg Miniseries. Do you want two hours and 26 minutes about some horses that go to war? Have we got the picture for you! SEPARATED BY WAR. TESTED BY BATTLE. BOUND BY FRIENDSHIP. Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend. (Sourced from Letterboxd) Catch Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Emily Watson and Peter Mullan and more catch some feelings for a horse called Joey. Does this play adaptation lose its lustre with real horses? Is it a yay or a neigh? And why do our episodes about horses get so damn weird and giggly. Find out in the one, the ONLY... WAR HORSE.
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