Watching Wyrd: "Off to the Races movie reviews of War Horse, Sea Biscuit, Hidalgo, & Casey's Shadow"
On this episode Wyrd Realities' Watching Wyrd crew as they discuss four movies about Man's 2nd best friend.
Allen Gamboa brings to the table, Viggo Mortesen in Hidalgo is a 2004 epic biographical western film based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo. It recounts Hopkins' racing his horse in Arabia in 1891 against Bedouins riding pure-blooded Arabian horses. The movie was written by John Fusco and directed by Joe Johnston.
Scott Baker's pick is the Korean Zombie flick, Alive (2020) - The film revolves around a video game live streamer 's struggle for survival as he is forced to stay alone at his apartment in Seoul during a zombie apocalypse.
Rich Restucci's selected War Horse a 2011 war film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, based on Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel of the same name and its 2007 stage adaptation. Scott Baker's film choice of the week was the true story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation. Seabiscuit is a 2003 American sports film co-produced, written and directed by Gary Ross and based on the best-selling 1999 non-fiction book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Hadley brought to the team her childhood favorite Casey's Shadow a 1978 film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Walter Matthau based on a sho rt story in "Ruidoso" (published April 29, 1974, in The New Yorker magazine) by John McPhee.[2][3] Much of the exterior shots were done in the town of Carencro, LA (20 miles north of Lafayette, LA). Be sure to sign in so we can see your comments and like, subscribe, and tell us what you think.
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