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The Black Stallion

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The Black Stallion	comment	A book series by Walter Farley beloved by little girls everywhere. The first books deal with Alec and the Black, a half-wild Arabian stallion he comes across while on a cruise. When the ship crashes, Alec and the Black are stranded together on a desert island. He builds a bond with the horse, and both are eventually rescued and returned to New York. Home again, Alec meets up with an old racehorse trainer and convinces the man to train him and the Black. They then enter a match race as a wild card between a champion of the West Coast and a champion of the East. Obviously, they win.The second book details Black's real owners stepping forward to claim him, and Alec has to venture back to Arabia to stake his claim on his favorite horse. Other books follow the exploits of the Black's son Satan and his other foals. The Black himself is still the main character throughout most of the series.The first two books were adapted into movies, The Black Stallion (1979) and The Black Stallion Returns (1983), both of which were produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The twentieth and final book, a prequel, became a Disney IMAX film, The Young Black Stallion (2003).
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The Black Stallion / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Black Stallion / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Alec suffers a breakdown in The Black Stallion Revolts after learning of Pam's death. He then has a car accident and gets a concussion in the process, which only makes things worse.
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The Black Stallion / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Black Stallion / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Farley departed from his normal horse-and-his-boy story and wrote mysteries and even a horror novel to full-on sci-fi in The Island Stallion Races. To get himself and his horse to the mainland and into a race to save the island, Steve gets help from race-loving aliens. No, seriously.
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The Black Stallion / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Black Stallion / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Azul Island has a population of horses which have been inbreeding for centuries with no ill effects. Farley hand-waves this by saying that they had good genes from the start... and at any rate, we do see one throwback 'mutant' stallion who poses a threat to the entire herd when he ousts Flame.
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The Black Stallion / int_1c34e06b	type	Only the Chosen May Ride
The Black Stallion / int_1c34e06b	comment	Only the Chosen May Ride: The Black, Flame, and to a lesser extent Satan won't let most riders on their backs.
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The Black Stallion / int_1d435a4d	type	A Boy and His X
The Black Stallion / int_1d435a4d	comment	A Boy and His X: The premise of the whole series. The boy is sometimes a girl, but the X is always a horse.
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The Black Stallion / int_1ed272c1	type	Automaton Horses
The Black Stallion / int_1ed272c1	comment	Automaton Horses: Averted. Farley does a good job of describing day to day care of the animals.
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The Black Stallion / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
The Black Stallion / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: The Black and Flame are effectively equal; the Black wins their one official match by "the thinnest fraction of a nose." However, the Black had the more experienced jockey in Alec, plus the race was on dirt rather than Flame's preferred turf, so fans of the red stallion don't lose much in defeat.
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The Black Stallion / int_2edc82a0	type	Accidental Athlete
The Black Stallion / int_2edc82a0	comment	Accidental Athlete: Alec, fortuitously, stays small so he can be the Black's jockey. Later books call attention to how hard it is for him and other jockeys to stay under the maximum weight.
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The Black Stallion / int_3fa56924	type	Rearing Horse
The Black Stallion / int_3fa56924	comment	Rearing Horse: On the cover of many books, including Son of the Black Stallion.
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The Black Stallion / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Black Stallion / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: In the main series, Flame to the Black. In other books, there is usually one dominant horse to challenge the protagonist, e.g. Princess Guy to Bonfire and Wintertime to Black Minx.
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The Black Stallion / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Black Stallion / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Alec's father, an important supporting character in the books (especially Son of the Black Stallion), is inserted onto the ship at the start of the film version of The Black Stallion in order to die in the shipwreck.
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The Black Stallion / int_4a84ef8d	type	Big Game
The Black Stallion / int_4a84ef8d	comment	Big Race: The climax of nearly every book. The Black always wins, of course.
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The Black Stallion / int_4e11940e	type	Mythical Motifs
The Black Stallion / int_4e11940e	comment	Mythical Motifs: From the first movie, but not in the original novel; Alec's father tells Alec about the legend of Bucephalus, a magnificent stallion who was to be put to death by a king after the king was unable to claim the horse for himself. The horse's life was spared when a young boy claimed that he could tame and ride the wild stallion, and the king declared that if the boy could do that, he could keep the horse for himself. The boy, who would grow up to become Alexander the Great, proceeded to do just that. The similarities between Alexander and Bucephalus, and Alec and The Black, are hard to ignore.
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The Black Stallion / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
The Black Stallion / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: The Black almost never loses. Justified, since the Black is half-Arabian and Arabian horses are specifically bred for speed and endurance. Nowadays Arabians and part-Arabs are only allowed to race other Arabians.note In real life, Arabs don't have both the speed AND stamina to beat Thoroughbreds at modern racing distances. At a more moderate pace, they could outlast them, hence their popularity for sports like Endurance riding. There's also the fact that his non-Arab half is possibly mystical and/or aliens. No, seriously. The Black loses once due to a technicality, despite crossing the finish line first (he broke from Alec's control and bumped other horses, causing him to be placed lower due to interference).
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The Black Stallion / int_557dabce	type	Deserted Island
The Black Stallion / int_557dabce	comment	Deserted Island: The refuge of Alec after the shipwreck in the first book. Azul Island is also uninhabited, but Steve and an archaeologist friend find evidence that it used to be a fortress.
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The Black Stallion / int_647ce68	type	Family-Unfriendly Violence
The Black Stallion / int_647ce68	comment	Family-Unfriendly Violence: Tom Pitcher's attempts to "tame" (read: brutalize and break) Flame.
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The Black Stallion / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
The Black Stallion / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: As Alec gives The Black some sugar cubes, it becomes more tolerant of him, later saving his life from a cobra.
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The Black Stallion / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Black Stallion / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Farley first came up with the idea of Flame while under anesthesia for an ear operation.
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The Black Stallion / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
The Black Stallion / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: The book starts as a fairly realistic albeit dramatic children's adventure: boy rescues and tames a beautiful wild horse and rides it to fame and glory. It ends with the reveal that the horse is probably an alien hybrid and that extraterrestrials have been guiding both the horse and the boy.
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The Black Stallion / int_7c8a4602	type	Horsing Around
The Black Stallion / int_7c8a4602	comment	Horsing Around: The Black is decidedly feral, and the books make it plain that his erratic behavior is potentially dangerous to everyone, including Alec. Played straighter with Black Minx, who was spoiled as a filly and tends to bite — a lot of Henry's time goes into retraining her.
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The Black Stallion / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
The Black Stallion / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: the film version of The Black Stallion Returns has a brief one, provided by Hoyt Axton, who played Alec's father in the first movie.
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The Black Stallion / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
The Black Stallion / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence is Golden: The island sequence has no dialogue.
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The Black Stallion / int_89a10399	type	Alien Episode
The Black Stallion / int_89a10399	comment	Alien Episode: The Island Stallion Races has two shape-shifting aliens named Jay and Flick helping Steve enter Flame into a race. Paranormal help is needed because Flame is feral and untrained.
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The Black Stallion / int_94b81c55	type	Spin-Offspring
The Black Stallion / int_94b81c55	comment	Spin-Offspring: Several books center on the Black's sons and daughters, including Satan, Bonfire, and Black Minx.
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The Black Stallion / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Black Stallion / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Steve seems to be caught between leaving Flame where he is on Azul Island or taking him away and leaving the other horses to fend for themselves. When aliens help him take Flame into horse racing, he realizes he has a way to earn enough money to simply buy Azul Island.
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The Black Stallion / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
The Black Stallion / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: Pam, the title character of The Black Stallion and the Girl, dies offscreen in the next book. For bonus points, it actually was a bus crash.
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The Black Stallion / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
The Black Stallion / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: The Black, naturally, but also his children (Black Minx, Bonfire, Satan) and his main rival (Flame).
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The Black Stallion / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
The Black Stallion / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: Steve Duncan tells Alec he'll write a book about his discovery of Azul Island and Flame. Alec suggests he call it The Island Stallion.
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The Black Stallion / int_abe166cc	type	Bond Creatures
The Black Stallion / int_abe166cc	comment	Bond Creatures: Of a very mild sort — only Alec can handle the Black and only Steve can handle Flame.
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The Black Stallion / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
The Black Stallion / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: The first book was published in 1941. The 1979 film version moves the setting forward slightly to 1946, presumably to maintain the time period while avoiding interference from World War II. Despite featuring Mickey Rooney reprising his movie role as Henry Dailey, the TV series dropped the 1940s setting entirely in favor of the contemporary 1990s. The prequel film The Young Black Stallion restores the 1940s setting.
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The Black Stallion / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Black Stallion / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Steve knows Flame will be on Azul Island because he had a dream of seeing a red stallion on a cliff. Subverted when his friend Pitch informs him that he'd seen pictures of that cliff before and must have made it up; double-subverted when Steve really does see Flame there. (See Real Life Writes the Plot, below).
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The Black Stallion / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Black Stallion / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Alec grows from a young kid to a veteran jockey to the competent manager of a Thoroughbred farm over the course of the series.
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The Black Stallion / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Black Stallion / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: More or less every encounter between the Black and Flame. In their first meeting, a shipwreck just happens to strand the Black within swimming distance of Azul Island, and in later books Flame's racing career is explicitly the work of 'outside' forces.
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The Black Stallion / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
The Black Stallion / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Pam is a gentle soul who attracts and controls animals through her kindness.
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The Black Stallion / int_e462893a	type	Artistic License â€“ Sports
The Black Stallion / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License – Sports: A mix of this and societal change, as the world of horse racing in these books bears almost no resemblance to horse racing today. The one violation of the rules which the books acknowledge and deal with is the Black racing against Cyclone and Sun Raider in the first book — since it's just a match race (not sponsored by a racing association), the Black can enter even without a known pedigree. A local newsman helps things along by spreading rumors of a "mystery horse" who could beat them both, raising interest to the point where the Black is invited.
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The Black Stallion / int_e7b1cb24	type	Old Master
The Black Stallion / int_e7b1cb24	comment	Old Master: Henry, who is an old racehorse trainer; when Alec has a bad fall in the third book, Henry proves he still has what it takes to climb into the saddle, though his techniques aren't always friendly.
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The Black Stallion / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
The Black Stallion / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Once Flame enters the scene in The Island Stallion, it's inevitable that the two central stallions will face off. They meet twice, in The Black Stallion and Flame and The Black Stallion Challenged.
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The Black Stallion / int_efd11fe3	comment	A Dog Named "Dog": The black stallion's only name is "the Black." (Later books reveal his given name to be Shetan).
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