I think the point was that they did an investigation and found that there was no negligence or unsafe practices, that it was just one of those bad things that happens sometimes.
What the hell are you blathering on about? People become offended by the simplest of comments on this board. I was trying to avoid that, but thank god you’re here to take up the banner.
Oh for shit’s sake. Get over yourself.
Calm down there, I’m trying to help! I’m trying to help you do what you’re trying to do. The way you tried to do it… doesn’t (and as you can see, didn’t) work.*
You were trying to make a simple comment without offending anyone.
Try this:
“There was an adaptation of it made in (year) as well, might be something you’d like to netflix!”
or
“Just a note: There was an adaptation of it made in (year) as well.”
or maybe, though I’m not sure about this one:
“For the record, there was an adaptation of it made in (year) as well.”
As you can see, I recognize the need to frame the comment, since a simple, terse, “There was an adaptation of it made in (year) as well” could be misinterpreted. You were right to do some thinking about how to say it.
But what you went with–framing with “I don’t mean to be insulting” and “you do know… don’t you” phraseology–was counterproductive to your intent.
-FrL-
*From your first post, I wasn’t sure whether you were intending to be snarky, or whether you were only accidentally appearing to be snarky. That’s why I asked.
My Friend Flicka is a great book. The sequel, Thunderhead, is also very good. I don’t remember as much about the third book, Green Grass of Wyoming.
However, considering that they’ve changed the main character from a boy to a girl, I have my doubts about the movie. If they’re going to make that kind of change, it’s quite likely to be one of those movies that steals the title of a great work and slaps it on some piece of crap that shares only the title. JMHO.
Noooooo! That’s why it was different from all the other horsey stuff out there - it wasn’t for girls in the same way (possibly why I didn’t like it so much but…). The whole father son dynamic was the pivot point no ?
Didn’t anybody else see this trailer and notice the kid is a girl? It’s been a decade at least since I read “My Friend Flicka”, but I’m quite certain it was about a boy. I was so pissed off I swore off the whole idea of the movie then and there.
It’s funny, thinking about it, how much I remember about the book. I wasn’t as hopelessly enamoured of it as I was other books when I was Really Into Horses, but that one I remember so vividly. I wonder why? Can’t remember a thing about “Misty of Chincoteague” except them swimming the horses across the water.
Sigh, I swear I read the whole thread looking for outrage on the gender switch.
Well – you know how it goes about turning books into movies. A great book (and My Friend Flicka is a classic) can end up being a really crappy movie.
While the book is set on a horse ranch and does involve a young boy and a horse his dad gives him at his mother’s urging, the book is really more about the relationship between the boy and his parents, and his parents’ relationship to each other, than the horses, really. But a kid would almost certainly be most likely to pick up on the boy-and-his-horse story and not really ‘get’ the rest.
I’m thinking if the movie makers try to concentrate more on the human drama (and it sounds from the one IMDB user comment I can see that they did), they could end up making it really sappy and simplistic. I can see that the boy in the story has morphed into a girl for the movie, and that land developers have been inserted into the story as the threat to the ranch and that quite a few other details have been changed. The director only has one other credit to his name, A Home at the End of the World, which I didn’t see (and is another book adaptation), so I’d say it’s a crapshoot.
My Friend Flicka was one of my favorite books growing up. I still re-read it occasionally. This said, I refuse to see this movie.
As has been mentioned, they have changed Ken to a girl. The original Flicka was also a chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail, and is black in this piece of crap movie. ALL wild horses have to be black, dontchaknow??? Flicka was also just a weanling filly in the book. In the movie previews, the girl now has to win some big race on Flicka to save the ranch. yawn How many times has THAT been done?
All in all… I think the ONLY thing from the book left if the horse’s name. And I bet they even changed the meaning… She was named in the book by the Swedish hired hand who said Flicka meant Little Girl in his language. :mad:
Or I could have said that–it fits just as well. Thanks for the suggestion.
Then a new title is called for! I humbly suggest The Neighing Game.
Sailboat
Oh, I was wondering about that when I saw the preview. I read so many horse stories growing up, I thought I had confused Flicka with something else. I see that I didn’t and I’ll pass on the movie. It’s too bad, because **Flicka ** and **Thunderhead ** were good stories. I hate it when they take a well-known book and all the movie ends up having in common with the book is the title. See Demi Moore’s The Scarlet Letter. Or actually, don’t bother. :shudder:
Sailboat, they used to deliberately kill horses while making movies, using such abominations as tripping, or even shooting them (with a gun, not a camera.) Other animals too, but mostly horses. Especially in older Westerns, a lot of the horses that went down during the shootouts or chases or whatever died. I believe that some movies filmed in countries without animal protection laws will occasionally use tripping and other methods for “realism” and that’s when you see the Humane Society raise a fuss about the movie. Otherwise, yes, it’s a freakish accident if an animal is harmed in filming these days, since I think they have more protections in place than humans. /hijack