I just saw a preview for a new movie called “Flicka” which is based on the book My Friend Flicka.
I LOVED this book as a child. I remember that much.
Unfortunately, that is all I remember. DOH! Ok, I know it’s about a horse. And I was very young. Is this going to be good, or am I just remembering something crappy that I thought was good because I was a little kid?
I don’t want to be insulting, but you do know that the book was made into a movie in 1943, right? And that there was also a sequel?
Considering that I was born in the '70s, I don’t think it is insulting. I, like most kids, wasn’t terribly into watching “really old movies” when I was a kid. I have very little interest in watching such movies now, in fact, with a few notable exceptions.
Before starting this thread I looked it up on the imdb and saw that there were some really old versions, but that doesn’t really interest me as I’m just about 100% guaranteed to not see those. This new movie, on the other hand, I’d consider taking my son to see… unless I’m just misremembering it as being a good story.
There was also a TV show back n the fifties. I used to watch it.
I read the book as a kid and I liked it, but I remember almost none of it. I saw the movie as a kid on TV and did not like it much at all.
I have a Nine year old Daughter, and of course she is horse crazy, so I will be seeing this new movie when it comes out.
Thanks for the info Opal, I do not think you missed much by not seeing the 1943 movie. Now the 1944 National Velvet was in Color and stars Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor & Angela Lansbury and might well be worth renting. A great movie with a great cast.
Flicka was also in color and starred the always annoying Roddy McDowall. It really did not appeal to me at all.
Jim {YMMV}
There was also a movie I downloaded. Oh wait, that was “My Girlfriend Flicka”. Only loosely based on the book, I understand.
Usually when someone says “I don’t mean to be insulting but…” they intend their hearer to understand that what follows “and…” is something which reveals the hearer to be quite insultable, and they mean to pretend to have been just “forced” by context to say this insulting thing.
Is this what you meant?
-Kris
I actually watched “MFF” on cable less than 2 months ago. I hope they run the sequel soon as that has a certain personal interest to me.
Young Roddy McDowall’s acting style was peculiar, to say the least, even by the standards of the era. The other actors were from the generic B-movie “Here’s your lines, read them.” school. McDowall put emotion and movement into his role that would have been better left out. Sometimes less is more.
The remake should be better.
I kind of took it that way but wasn’t going to make an issue of it. Frankly, though, I thought the whole comment odd. I still don’t see what his point was… so what if there was an ancient version of it? I am not allowed to be excited that there is a modern version forthcoming? Or to ask on the board if the book was actually good, or if my extremely vague memories of “liking it” were just because I was young…? shakes head Felt patronizing and condescending in addition to totally irrelevant.
I’ve heard a rumor that a horse was killed during the filming of this new version of Flicka. Anyone know the truth of that?
Sailboat
Very tiny print: “Only one animal was harmed during the making of this film.”
-FrL-
I haven’t read the book or seen the older movies, but I did see a trailer for the new film and noted that it stars Alison Lohman. I thought she was really great in Matchstick Men, so I might check this out.
So did I… and that other old warhorse (sorry) “Fury”
The imdb trivia section mentions that a horse died while filming, and filming was stopped while there was an investigation, but it was determined to be a freakish accident.
Probably during horseplay.
You’re forgiven. I loved Fury, too. I get a nostaglic thrill when I see Peter Graves in that Geico commercial.
Neigh?
Well, unless the movie is about a glue factory or a documentary about the horsemeat trade, aren’t they all “freakish accidents”? I mean, they don’t set out to kill animals as part of the movie’s intention. So when one does die during filming, it likely means some unsafe practice was followed. That’s what it usually means when humans die during filming. In my experience, while freak accidents do exist, each and every non-freak, someone-is-culpable accident is called a freak accident by the parties responsible.
It seems like horse lovers are their likely intended audience. You’d think an accident like that would hurt their bo office.
Sailboat
BOX office.
Huh. I though this was gonna be a Survivor spoiler.
[latella]Never mind.[/latella]