![]() ![]() It is the horses that are the film's star performers, with their gleaming flanks, flowing manes and hooves thundering through history. The film has a first-rate British cast – Emily Watson, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch and newcomer Jeremy Irvine. He had what neither book nor stage could boast: real horses. And that must be, at least partly, because Spielberg knew, right from the start, that he held a trump card. Early signs are that War Horse the movie is conquering America and is likely to vanquish British audiences as well. Now, in Steven Spielberg's hands, the story has become epic. And that might have been glory enough – except that War Horse was also, always, a film waiting to happen. The story became today's Black Beauty, a sentimental education, a must-read classic, a global hit. Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's National Theatre production – still stabled at the West End – entranced audiences with its uncanny, life-sized horse puppets. The book was short, accomplished and moving, but barely acknowledged until, in 2007, it was turned into a play. ![]() ![]() It started in 1982, with Michael Morpurgo's novel about a boy called Albert and his horse, Joey, who is sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of France in the first world war. W ar Horse has had an extraordinary career. ![]()
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