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Everything depends on the outcome of the big race at the film’s end. The young boy, of course, is the jockey (the Elizabeth Taylor role, so to speak). Ballard and Deschanel are still gifted at finding a special, epic look for the movie; one especially good scene has the stallion racing against time, in the dark before dawn, in the rain.
It was basically him and Ballard, the kid and the horse alone in Sardinia. Some of the shots are totally miraculous. I’m surprised no one got hurt filming this. They shot the entire ending of the movie first and then did the magical Sardinia footage after the ending was locked.
16 maj 2015 · 1. How quiet the film is. There’s barely any dialogue. That makes sense for the first half, most of which takes place on a desert island where the two shipwrecked protagonists, the boy Alec and the Black Stallion, slowly earn each other’s trust.
25 lis 2019 · Once completed, The Black Stallion got shelved by United Artists. “I thought the film was an utter failure,” Ballard confides. “The studio guys that came to see it thought it was...
The Black Stallion is a 1979 American adventure film based on the 1941 classic children's novel of the same name by Walter Farley. The film starts in 1946, five years after the book was published. It tells the story of Alec Ramsey, a boy who is shipwrecked on a deserted island with a wild Arabian stallion that he befriends. After being rescued ...
23 lip 2015 · Here are 11 things you never knew about the making of The Black Stallion. 1. The film’s 12-year-old star, Kelly Reno, originally accepted the role of Alec in part because he wanted to learn how to swim. Reno took lessons so he could film the movie’s underwater scenes. 2. The riding scenes, however, were a piece of cake.
Musical composer Carmine Coppola did an excellent job for the music on this 1979 adventure film. Based on the book by Walter Farley and Oscar nominated for t...
