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发帖数: 17243 | 1 本来以为是chick flick，但是里面的战争场面其实很不错
英国和法国田园生活的描写也很有意思
要表达的主题很明显（斯皮尔伯格的电影都是如此）
但是并不觉得被强行洗脑，因为表达很自然 | G*8
发帖数: 13261 | 2 不错的电影，推荐。
就是最后的摄影抄gone with the wind，比较失败。 | p********a
发帖数: 6437 | 3 awesome movie ah
it is in fact not only about the horse and the boy. | S****s
发帖数: 235 | | h******n
发帖数: 202 | 5 在IMDB看了一篇这个电影的review，把我笑翻了。转载一下：
I'm genuinely sorry I can't recommend or like this one, 26 December 2011
2/10
Author: LilyDaleLady from Anywheresville, USA
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
For the record, I'm a sappy horse lover, & I desperately wanted to like, nay
love, this film but I have to give it two stars.
Based on a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, I never heard of "War Horse
" until the Broadway production. Magnificent life-size horse puppets were so
eerily realistic and moving that THEY actually moved me to tears. This was
before I had an inkling that Spielberg had optioned the story and was making
a film of it.
Spielberg has pulled out every stop here -- the movie is shot on real film
and looks it, lush and expensive. The battle scenes are detailed and
exciting. There is a skillful cast of respected British actors. But it's
entirely without real heart and soul.
Without the exciting puppetry (that undoubtedly drew Spielberg to the
material as it did me), the only way to save this would have been some kind
of thoughtful retelling of the material. And once you get past the swelling
music, the golden sunsets and manipulated emotional level, frankly this
feels empty. "The Black Stallion" -- from 1979 -- is a much more fantastical
story, without historical precedent or realism, and yet I never watch it
without sobbing like a baby, because it touches something deep and human and
universal. "War Horse" simply does not. It feels like a calculated bid for
an Oscar nomination.
Being released along with "TinTin" at the same Christmas slot, my impression
was that the first big mistake Spielberg made was to go realistic with the
story. The play worked because it is NOT realistic. Frankly, I think he
should have used animation for the horse story -- made it more symbolic and
expressionistic -- and filmed TinTin straight up as an "Indiana Jones"- type
adventure.
I was also struck, from almost the start of the film, that Spielberg
honestly knows (and cares) NOTHING about horses and that lack of genuine
interest plagues the film. The first part of the film, set in an English
village, has the Narracott family -- apparently the dumbest and most
incompetent tenant farmers in British history -- who irrationally decide to
buy a thoroughbred for plowing. Strangely, they seem not to have owned ANY
horse prior to this. How did they plow the farm BEFORE Joey? Mr. Narracott
spends 30 quid on Joey (I believe this would be about $150 US, as it was
valued in 1914) -- that amount of money would have easily bought Joey AND
some old plowhorse.
And why is Mr. Narracott about 60-65 years old, with a 14 year old son?
People married young back then -- Albert is more the age of his grandchild.
How on earth did the father think he'd run a good-sized farm, when he's
handicapped? and has no plow horse? (Note: nobody apparently had ever heard
of mules back then -- much cheaper than a thoroughbred!) Since he spends his
life savings on Joey, Mr. Narracott now has NO RENT MONEY....why did he do
this? He doesn't even like or WANT the horse! He has no use for such a horse
! He's put his entire family in danger of going hungry and/or being evicted
for a horse he dislikes. Then he gambles what's left of his future that this
slightly built yearling can plow up a huge, rocky field.
Of course the horse does so, with considerable anguish and suffering -- in
one day, because nobody remotely considered doing it a bit at a time. The
Narracotts are so mentally challenged as a FAMILY, none of them consider
FIRST going through the field and REMOVING the giant ROCKS, but prefer to
make it as hard as possible for the horse. When they amazingly DO NOT KILL
the horse with this abusive behavior, it then rains, washing away the entire
crop (of turnips, no less). While all this happens, the village folk -- who
have no work or farms of their own to run -- stand around IN THE RAIN
watching! Literally, they have no more sense than to stand in the rain in
their good clothes. Naturally, NOT ONE OF THEM -- all presumably village
tenant farmers -- has a spare horse or mule, or even the decency to pitch in
and help a CRIPPLED MAN and his 14 year old boy. Nice town. Glad I don't
live there. Note: by 1914, if they had CARS, they had TRACTORS.
After this segment, there was nothing about the war scenes or Joey's
unlikely survival against all odds, that moved me or made me feel anything
for the characters. Jeremy Irvine, as Albert (the boy) is especially weak,
and he doesn't look 14 (he also looks identical at 18, whereas we all know
that boys change VERY rapidly in physique in those 4 years).
At the end, when Joey and Albert return from war....well, they apparently
take a wrong turn and end up in WYOMING. Because suddenly there are western-
like expanses of land, and big golden sunsets and vistas that go on forever.
Frankly, it's not Devonshire, England.
Among the many subplots -- where Joey is handed along by one unbelievably
kind and decent person to another, literally the nicest warring folks in
history -- one set in a French farmhouse, with the world's most annoying kid
with the world's lamest fake French accent, is a real low point. Later, we
hear the little girl has died -- old movie disease, since she looks healthy
as, well, a horse -- we just feel relief we don't have to hear her fake
French accent again (I was afraid she'd resurface somewhat older, as a
romantic partner for Albert).
Sorry, I can't buy one frame of this film. A big disappointment. If you do
get a chance to view some of the puppetry from the theatrical play, don't
miss it -- THAT is magnificent. But the film, just third rate. | m*******g
发帖数: 7050 | 6 这部片子很感人的，我很喜欢里面的战马。因为我个人的bias，不能对片子做出正确的
判断,lol。
【在 d*****u 的大作中提到】
: 本来以为是chick flick，但是里面的战争场面其实很不错
: 英国和法国田园生活的描写也很有意思
: 要表达的主题很明显（斯皮尔伯格的电影都是如此）
: 但是并不觉得被强行洗脑，因为表达很自然
| k****a
发帖数: 7077 | | o**o
发帖数: 3964 | 8 只看过trailer, 好像是拍给红脖子看的
【在 d*****u 的大作中提到】
: 本来以为是chick flick，但是里面的战争场面其实很不错
: 英国和法国田园生活的描写也很有意思
: 要表达的主题很明显（斯皮尔伯格的电影都是如此）
: 但是并不觉得被强行洗脑，因为表达很自然
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