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Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson, Louise Lombard
| Frank Hopkins (Mortensen), an express rider and long-distance horse racer, is a mixed breed, just like his trusty mustang Hidalgo. After witnessing the massacre at Wounded Knee, he joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and becomes an alcoholic. But the promise of a last big race -- a 3,000-mile trek across the Arabian deserts from Aden to Syria -- rouses him out of his stupor and he ships to Saudi Arabia to meet the "Sheikh of Sheiks," Sheikh Riyadh (charming Sharif), and race his thoroughbred Arabians. Also in the race is a wealthy British woman Lady Anne Davenport (Lombard), who will do almost anything to win. Another party with a lot riding on the outcome, so to speak, is the sheikh's daughter Jazira (Robinson), who will become a detested prince's fourth wife if his horses win. Pay no attention to Disney Studios' claims that this is a true story. Hopkins apparently made most of it up. But it's great fun anyway, and the location shooting in Morocco, Montana, South Dakota makes for some lovely sights. | ||
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Plot Time/Era of Movie: Sports story? - horse racing Actual chase scenes or violence - 30 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 % Sports story? Yes Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Hair color? - blonde Hair style - short/standard straight (man) Body type - very skinny (man) Unclothed? - Chest Events of movie makes character more... - tougher Ethnicity/Nationality - American Indian How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Physique - very athletic Secondary Main Character Identity: - Male Hair color - brunette (Black) Hair style Body type - fat (man) How much in movie? - 60% Ethnicity/Nationality - Arabic Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 20's-30's Profession/status: How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 40% Hair color - brunette (Black) Hair type Body type - average (man) Ethnicity/Nationality - Arab Intelligence - Average intelligence Physique - very athletic Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor How sensitive is this character? Setting United States Yes The US: - West Africa Yes Part of Africa: - Arabic Africa Desert? Yes Desert: - dying of thirst, sunburn - hostile arabs Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately messy visuals of dead Movie makes you feel... - excited How many deaths in film? - 8 or more Kind of violence: - mission to rescue - hand to hand - guns - knives - swords Unusual forms of death - impaled - decapitated - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical Is this movie based on a - book |
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