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- From: meridiem@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jill Engel)
- Subject: Re: Black Stallion (was Horsey Dinner Theatres...)
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:47:44 GMT
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- Diane writes:
- <lots of chat about the Black Stallion books>
-
- >I've often wondered if he was still alive. He was magnificent especially
- >running free on the beach! Every horse-crazy teen (of any age) would sigh
- >over that, I think!
-
- I think The Black Stallion has to be one of the most beautiful movies made.
- The director (Carroll Ballard (?), I think, my album is at home)
- used to make documentaries and TBS was his first big screen movie. He has
- since done some other really beautiful ones, such as "Never Cry Wolf" and
- "Wind" (which I'd like to see since it actually has a female engineer in
- it, hooray!)
-
- >>Sheesh... scary how much I know about those books and movie. Must have
- >>something to do with being a very very horse crazy pre-teen when the movie
- >>came out... (8
-
- >Well, Jill, you obviously are a "little" younger than I am. But let me
- >assure you that long before the movie came out, the books were feeding horsey
- >dreams to many a young girl and, I suspect though maybe more secretly,
- >many a young boy too. I think we need more of these beautiful, reasonably
- >gentle, though exciting, stories to give our children some good dreams
- >for a change, IMHO! ;-)
-
- Well, I'm 26 if that makes me young. When did the movie come out? 1980?
- 1978? I'd guess late 70s. The amusing thing is when I started reading the
- book when I was 10, my father told me he'd read them too. He's 58 now, so
- he was reading them in the mid-1940s. So, there's one "boy" reader! I
- wouldn't doubt many boys read the books in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Adventure
- stories were popular back when people used to read. Now, we have "GameBoy"
- and I see very very few boys riding in lessons. There's a question, why
- do the lower levels of competition and pleasure ownership seem to
- be female dominated, yet the Grand Prix levels are even or even male-
- dominated? What's the theory behind this?
-
- >Have you noticed that almost nobody actually picks these books apart?
- >Of course, a combination of events like this is pretty well impossible
- >but that's what dreams are made of and from dreams, sometimes a kind of
- >reality can happen. We finally got our horses, or at least are still
- >involved with an interest in horses, aren't we?!
-
- I'm still waiting to own mine. As soon as I get this Master's degree...
- Leasing this summer told me I wanted to dedicate the time and I loved
- it enough.. Now, I need to job and the money.. (8
-
- >Take care,
- >
- >Diane, Spring & Dancer
-
- Jill (& her cat, Meg)
- * Jill Engel (Anne Meridiem) * "If the world were a logical place, *
- * meridiem@lamar.colostate.edu * men would ride side-saddle." *
- * * --Rita Mae Brown *
-