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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.
The culmination of their journey is beautifully depicted in the movie’s final scene—a gripping and emotional horse race. Here, the raw power and unbridled spirit of the Black Stallion come to the fore. The scene is not just about the race, but also about the boy’s attempt to rein in the stallion’s overwhelming desire for freedom and speed.
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.
The Young Black Stallion (1989), a prequel to The Black Stallion, explores the horse's early life as a colt in Arabia and marks Farley's final novel, co-authored with his...
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 ...
25 lis 2019 · Based on Walter Farley’s 1941 children’s novel, The Black Stallion is the story of a young boy named Alec Ramsay who survives a fiery shipwreck off the coast of North Africa. The accident ...
apart. In brief flashes, as the race nears its end, the film returns to the island and to those idyllic scenes of boy and horse, the meaning clear: What Alec and The Black have accomplished would be impossible without the deep, hard-won bond between the two, the result of a long negotiation that led Alec to under-
