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Somewhere, an Equestrian Is Crying
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Horses in fiction tend to be impossibly cool already. They can gallop for miles on end without any sign of fatigue. And sometimes they require minimum care, or handled in ways that are downright unsafe without any ill effects. Somewhere, an Equestrian Is Crying occurs whenever horses in fiction are mishandled, not due to ignorance on the part of a character but rather on the part of the author. Ask most real life equestrians and they'll tell you horses can be surprisingly fragile creatures that require careful management and training. Without it, bad things happen. This trope can also extend into fallacies regarding equine biology. For instance, if you ever see a horse gagging in a cartoon, it falls into this trope. Horses in real life cannot vomit, which can lead to deadly bouts of colic should they eat rotten, moldy, or even excessive quantities of food. Finally, in fiction it seems like Possession Implies Mastery. This despite riding being an athletic discipline that takes years to master. While anyone can get on a horse and ride it, it doesn't mean they can do much with it other than sit on it. Of course, this trope is fairly new. Pre-World War I, most people were at least passingly familiar with horses. Let's try to keep the examples here to fictional ones. While there are definite cases of real life abuse and neglect due to their owners' ignorance, most of these tend to have consequences. (British Napoleonic cavalry, for example, had a tendency to charge recklessly until their horses were 'blown' and unable to move at more than a walk, which made both horse and rider terribly vulnerable to any counter-charge - a tendency Wellington despised.) In fictionland, however, the ill-treatment never produces bad results. Occasionally this is explained by the horse being magical. Often it's not. Super trope of Automaton Horses and Zebras Are Just Striped Horses. See Horsing Around for when the horses do protest their treatment, Canine Confusion for the dog equivalent, and Invulnerable Horses for the tendency to avoid showing horses coming to harm. |
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One of many, many things My Inner Life is infamous for is the author's apparent conviction that you can "boot the horse in the legs to go faster." That would take serious talent to even attempt. | |
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One episode of Royal Pains focused on the horse show circuit in the Hamptons. While this is a prominent competition, some of the details of life on the circuit were fudged. One of the side characters in the episode is a trainer with a string of ten or so horses. He incorrectly identified a branded warmblood as a thoroughbred in one scene. Half of what he and his daughter said about training horses was gibberish, and neither seemed to have a clear idea on what it took to get to the Olympics. | |
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Fire Emblem: The horses never seem to get injured by attacks that seemingly hit them instead. Even worse when, due to the fact that they face the opponent head on, any attack the enemy lands hits the horse's head. Good thing the damage somehow is magically dealt to the rider, though in some games the horses seem to die when the rider dies too. | |
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Averted and lampshaded half to death in The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, in a long and detailed description of Kvothe selecting, buying, and pacing a horse through a sudden long journey. (Everything is explained in a tone of "you probably don't know this, but" which is fine for the modern reader, but in-story, Kvothe is recording his life history in a world where horses are the only option for fast travel. This would come across as "you probably don't know this, but a car needs an oil change every 3 months or so.") | |
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Mount & Blade gives you horses with infinite stamina and lets you control them perfectly in combat even if they're just 'average' horses and not highly trained warhorses. They're immortal too; if yours gets impaled on a lance by a charging knight it'll get better for the next battle. For what it's worth, if yours collapses during battle, there's a chance it'll become crippled and therefore useless for fighting. | |
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The Last of Us: During the Winter chapter, Ellie is twice seen leaving their horse fully saddled, and even uses the reins to tie it to a tree, something you're never supposed to do (you leave the horse in danger of hurting its mouth). | |
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Something to Talk About co-starred Robert Duvall, who actually knew how to ride, and so insisted on doing his own stunts. The problem here lies with the end competition. Identified as a Grand Prix event, that means the fences he'd be jumping would be approximately 5' high. They actually look about that height when some of the stunt riders are jumping. But it takes considerable training and skill to jump one fence of that height, let alone 8 to 12 of them. So all the fences were obviously lowered to about 2'6" for Duvall's turn. | |
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Dusk from Dusk's Dawn says he's turning nine and sings that he's no longer a kid. There's one issue: he doesn't look or sound like a nine year old. But, if the writers were trying to do a Furry Reminder then even that is incorrect. Horses are fully mature by three, not nine. It's possible that FIM's ponies age slower than real horses but faster than humans, but that's stretching it. | |
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The horse in Stardew Valley is geared up to be ridden anytime you want, never seems to tire no matter how much it runs (but then again, neither does the Farmer), and doesn't require food or water. If you leave it anywhere it will wait patiently without wandering off - until you go to bed, at which point it unerringly returns to its stable and waits for you to require its services again. There are mods that alter the horse's behavior (although usually just to make it more interesting and/or useful), including replacing it with a motorcycle. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, there are many instances of improbable events involving horses; one gets easily lifted briefly into the air by a single man, and some can receive certain injuries without being permanently retired | |
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The Inheritance Cycle: Paolini appears to be under the impression that horses can gallop for hundreds of leagues for days on end on nothing but a few crops of desert grass and sips of dirty water. | |
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Same with Hidalgo, especially in the sandstorm scene. The horses in that scene, except for Mortensen's, were clearly being held in. An Arabian horse running at full tilt stretches its neck out in a characteristic way that gave them the name "drinkers of the wind". There were many Truth in Television scenes in that picture too, however. | |
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War for the Planet of the Apes has the somewhat questionable sight of a horse galloping while carrying a gorilla, whose weight doubles an average human. The screenwriter did a Hand Wave saying horses are adaptable - “I guess the answer is, these horses learned the hard way how to support gorillas.� Still, veterinarians questioned another scene where a horse carries both a gorilla and a chimpanzee. (the original movies and the 2001 remake at least had the justification of the gorillas "evolving" into smaller human size) | |
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Whateley Universe: Averted or subverted In The Bear, The Bitch and Everything (Part 2) Tansy opines that "the secret to good riding is gripping with your knees" which apparently a hotly debated topic, according to Word of God, here: | |
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Hunter: The Parenting: In the Something is Wrong with Horse audiolog, Horse constantly vomits copious amounts of blood. Played for Laughs in that such a lethal symptom is treated casually, but horses cannot actually vomit at all. As it turns out, this is a hint that Horse may not be an actual horse. | |
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In the second chapter of A Kingdom Divided, Vinyl Scratch has her bloodtype tested with "human" AB0 kit. Real-life horses have over thirty different bloodtypes, which would require completely different set of antibodies. | |
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Averted in the Green Rider novels. In the third book Karigan chews out a recruit for pushing his horse too hard. | |
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An episode of McCloud took Sam to an unnamed Arab country in search of kidnapped women. He helps them escape by providing camels. A camel is notoriously much more difficult to ride than a horse, but the women just mount up and ride off. | |
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Lampshaded sidelong in Chronicles of Amber, when Corwin - who supposedly knows how to care for horses properly - regrets having pushed a mount to its death during a 'hell ride'. To be fair to Corwin, he was trying to prevent The End of the World as We Know It and was a bit desperate. | |
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While there's plenty of reasons for equestrians to cry in The Three Musketeers, it's not for inaccurate treatment of horses but just how many are killed over the course of the book. Actually caring for them, letting them rest and arranging relays and so on is often mentioned, not that it saves them taking a bullet or collapsing from exhaustion from being ridden too hard. | |
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Averted in Black Beauty, which actually was written because (at the time) Automaton Horses were widely considered Truth in Television. In Black Beauty, any abuse or misuse of horses leads to realistic consequences. Horses being delicate creatures, that's ugly consequences. | |
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The horses in Samurai Champloo seem pretty eager to run over the edge of a cliff to their deaths at their riders' command for a game of chicken. | |
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Mention should also go to Protector of the Small, which puts a decent amount of attention into the care and keeping of a knight's horses. In the third book, Kel gets a second, smaller horse Hoshi specifically so she can give her warhorse Peachblossom plenty of rest time during long treks. In the fourth she has to chase after an enemy and only has Peachblossom, so she's careful to vary her speed, even though her quarry has several days head start. | |
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The late Lakota actor/lecturer Russell Means, speaking about the way horses were treated in Dances with Wolves, pointed out that horses in that era were extremely valuable and cherished — if they were cars they'd be BMWs, and they simply would not be treated by either whites or Indians as expendable. | |
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Although not horses, the Deer King and his men in one episode of Hero: 108 grunt, neigh and whinny JUST LIKE HORSES, even though they sound more like this. | |
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Wacky Races: In "The Dopey Dakota Derby," Dick Dastardly (impersonating outlaw Deadweed Dick) rides the Mean Machine atop its dome with reins attached to the car's nose and Muttley driving. The car rears up and bucks its front tires like a horse as Dastardly calls out "Hi-yo Mean Machine! Away!" | |
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Averted again in Quigley Down Under, when Tom Selleck (an expert horseman in real life) needs to cover a long distance across southeastern Australia in a hurry. The montage shows him briefly galloping, but mostly alternating between the trot and lope to allow his mount to catch his breath. Selleck got along so well with the gelding that he bought the horse after filming wrapped and took him back to California. | |
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In one podcast that was supposed to be an interactive exploration of Middle-earth, the narrator’s horse he is supposedly riding trips in the snow and breaks a leg. The narrator casually says, “Aww, poor horse,� and then continues on, completely unheeding of the fact that this means the “poor horse� is in agony—in fact, in reality it would probably be unable to stand up again—and will probably have no choice left to it but a slow and excruciating death. (That's why they used to invariably shoot horses that broke their legs; nowadays many can be saved.) | |
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The film of War Horse is just crazy from this point of view- at one point Albert (the human) shows Joey (the horse) how to pull a plough by putting the harness over his own head. This is almost exactly unlike the way one trains a horse to harness. Also, the way the film strings together horse behaviours to make the horse more "character-like" specifically by making him behave more like some kind of weird dog, means that to anyone with the slightest knowledge of equestrian behaviour the horse appears actually insane. However the stage play, which the film was inspired by, was beautifully observed and executed. | |
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Equestrians everywhere probably yelled back at the screen "Give him his head!" during Arwen's desperate ride with Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring. When you're being chased by Ringwraiths, you let your horse stretch out his neck and run. Same with Hidalgo, especially in the sandstorm scene. The horses in that scene, except for Mortensen's, were clearly being held in. An Arabian horse running at full tilt stretches its neck out in a characteristic way that gave them the name "drinkers of the wind". There were many Truth in Television scenes in that picture too, however. |
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Red Dead Redemption, while probably not meant to be taken seriously, features Automaton Horses, and a horse-breaking mini-game that's laughably dangerous to anyone actually familiar with breaking horses for the first time. For one thing, you'd never attempt it on a newly lassoed feral horse in the middle of the freaking wilderness. The minigame could actually be considered another case of Deliberate Values Dissonance rather than inaccuracy; lassoing a wild horse (yes, in the middle of the freaking wilderness), jumping on, and then just riding it out was in fact a method of horse-breaking used in the old west. They used a lot of methods now considered impractical, cruel, and/or dangerous to man and beast. The game also likes to use a lot of breed names for its horses, not all of which make sense. While the Hungarian Half-Bred and the Dutch Warmblood are real breeds, it's unlikely they would have been running around the frontier. You also leave your horses fully-tacked up at hitching posts around the game world. Not a good thing to try in real life, as it's asking for a horse to colic, tie up, or develop some pretty bad fungus. Assuming nobody steals your saddle, which was typically one of the most valuable things the average cowboy would own. The prequel, Red Dead Redemption II, vastly improves upon the first games' shortcomings in this regard and although some elements are still retained (such as the methods of horse-breaking and the ability to leave your horse somewhere fully-tacked up), it has nevertheless been praised for being much more realistic in handling horses! For one, the prequel introduces new health and stamina attributes to all horses. Horses will also react to and respond accordingly to sudden surprises or perceived threats, and they'll even become incapaciated once they sustain enough damage and can even die, thereby averting Automaton Horses from the first game. Horses are also given the same attribute cores as the main characters, thus encouraging players to actively feed them so as to ensure they remain in top form. Although it's a downplayed example, as normally there is often many more steps that go into caring for them, players also have the option of purchasing a brush to tend to their horses whenever they become dirty. |
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Robert Jordan did at least some research for The Wheel of Time books (especially as the series went on and on and on). Characters are shown to and talk about caring for horses at least to a decent degree. Most is shown from the perspective of Perrin (a blacksmith), and Mat (the son of a horse trader). In the first book it's made very clear that the only reason the group can keep riding for so long is that Moraine is using her powers to help. It's also a plot point that she doesn't need to use them on one. Also throughout the series are references to travelers in a great hurry riding several horses to death. Even main characters have done this when their need was very dire (although never with named horses). Of particular note is a scene in Chapter 20 of Book 12. Vanin, a scout, has just let Mat know that they are about twenty days away from Caemlyn. A group of Aes Sedai wishes to strike out on their own, assuming their small group can reach the city quicker than Mat's thousands strong Band of the Red Hand. In another scene Mat and his men have to chase down someone. The need is dire, but even still the text mentions that they alternate between galloping and walking the horses. The person they're chasing doesn't do this, just running their horse flat out, and soon exhausts the poor creature, allowing Mat and company to catch up with ease. |
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Averted throughout The Immortals series by Tamora Pierce. Daine is careful to care for her horse, alternate paces, and feeds it carefully. The Tortall Universe in general averts it, too, but Daine's affinity for animals results in a lot of detail. Mention should also go to Protector of the Small, which puts a decent amount of attention into the care and keeping of a knight's horses. In the third book, Kel gets a second, smaller horse Hoshi specifically so she can give her warhorse Peachblossom plenty of rest time during long treks. In the fourth she has to chase after an enemy and only has Peachblossom, so she's careful to vary her speed, even though her quarry has several days head start. |
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In Der Schuh des Manitu, Winnetouch's horse Jacqueline has to vomit after walking too fast. This movie being a comedy, this was a play on the the German phrase: "Ich hab' auch schon Pferde kotzen gesehen." ("I've seen horses puke as well.") Since horses cannot vomit, this means: "Very likely." or "I doubt what you're telling me but I'm too polite to say that to you directly." | |
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Mulan's trusty steed, Khan, falls over cliffs and at one point is saved in midair from a fall by a rope around his middle ...all with no ill effects. In reality, it's very likely that the stunts pulled by the horse would result in broken legs or colic, which are very often fatal for the horse, or worse. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Played straight in every game that horses appear, where they are full blown Automaton Horses. They can be ridden indefinitely with no signs of fatigue, never require food or water (but then again, neither does the Player Character), can survive attacks and falls which would kill (or at least severely lame) real horses, and Skyrim can be ridden up near-sheer surfaces in gravity defying fashion. | |
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Averted in A Song of Ice and Fire: People do a lot of riding horses hard to get to their destination. Their horses do a lot of dying. Like everyone else in the series. | |
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In Jane Austen's Mafia!, there's a long, drawn-out vomiting scene. During said scene, a horse vomits. The way a horse's digestive system is built makes vomiting almost impossible, and if they somehow do vomit, it means that their stomach is ruptured and they are about to die. | |
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In The Firebringer Trilogy, the author seems to have "foal" (a young horse of either sex) and "colt" (a young male horse) mixed up. She uses "colt" as the gender-neutral term and "foal" as the masculine. | |
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The charge of the Rohirrim at Helm's Deep in The Two Towers is down a slope so steep most people would hesitate to walk down it, let alone have 2,000 horses charge down it in a tightly packed formation. Since Gandalf is there, let's just assume A Wizard Did It. | |
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In Graceling Realm, main character Katsa, on a fairly routine basis, rides horses flat out at night because its 'only' five or six more hours/leagues until they get to their destination. One of the other characters even asks her if she's "still ruining the horses." | |
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At the end of Stardust when our hero needs to rush to the rescue, he leaps on the cart horse and gallops off at top speed. We have never seen this horse do anything but pull a wagon before ( a driving horse does not automatically know how to be a riding horse ) and also he suddenly has a saddle, which he definitely didn't have in the previous shot. | |
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Epona, Link's horse in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: is invincible (as are you when riding) and while she has a stamina system, it runs on carrots... She also won't object if you shoot her in the head with arrows (she does whinny at you, though). | |
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Averted in Cinderella 3 where Prince Charming attempts to jump his horse onto a ship that's sailing away a few stories down from a building. His horse FREAKS OUT and stops dead in its tracks, knowing very well it would not survive that. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Putting aside the fact that the ponies are generally more like horse-shaped humans with the occasional Furry Reminder and magical hand-wave, the show does run into these on occasion. Their diet is certainly a lot wider than real horses, judging by how they don't poison themselves on a weekly basis with all the sugar and cakes they eat. "Applebuck Season" provides examples of ponies getting sick and throwing up, which most horses can't do. Several times, a pony is shown walking on three legs while holding something on their fourth leg like a hand. Even assuming a horse could hold something with its hooves (and it can't), a horse trying to walk on three legs would send it falling over, face-first. The "flank," depending on context, is either the horse's entire side or the side of the barrel. In the case of the in-universe slang term "blank flank," this is perhaps justified; "rump" might not have been allowed on a kid's show, "haunch" wouldn't have rhymed, and cutie marks (being based off of quarter marks) are on the side of their hindquarters. Its usage as a euphemism for "butt," however, is a stretch. |
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Averted in True Grit; when Rooster Cogburn tries to get Mattie to a doctor after she's bitten by a snake, he makes his horse gallop so hard that the horse dies of exhaustion. | |
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In Star Stable, you have your usual Automaton Horses who can gallop for as long as you ask and who merely become unhappy when you forget to feed and water them. While those could be excused as Acceptable Breaks from Reality, your horse will also rear on his hind legs if you ask him to stop quickly; any horse who routinely did this would be deemed unsafe to ride and sent for immediate retraining, not leased out to a noob for a summer of fun. | |
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron: Spirit's mother appears to be in intense pain as she gives birth, though this is probably for dramatic effect. Spirit has eyebrows despite being anatomically accurate in almost every other respect. The animators freely admit they decided to add the eyebrows because that was the least intrusive way of giving him a human-like range of expression. A lot of horse handling. Especially when Spirit first comes to the Army fort and they attempt to break him. The way they tied him down to brand him was inaccurate and hazardous. Also, even in the old West, people were wise enough to not mount a completely wild horse with full tack, in a large, rectangular arena. It's practically suicide. The way Spirit juggled them, most of the riders should have broken bones, if not necks and skulls. Not to mention the first thing an actual regiment would have done to a mount prospect: geld him. Pretty much everything about the scenes involving the army is wrong, as horses were considered a valuable resource, and a cavalry trooper or officer who failed to properly care for his mount would quickly find his life becoming seriously unpleasant. The Native American version of breaking him to ride was a lot more like methods of Western-style breaking in use today, although nothing like the way Plains Native Americans of the time actually trained horses, so the creators clearly had some idea what was correct and probably did it the other way to make the soldiers look like jerks or idiots. Stallions do not lead herds, only the lead mare does, so Spirit's mom should be the one in front. Stallions stay in the back keeping the herd together by herding stragglers forward, but Spirit running behind everyone is not nearly as romantic as leading them. Spirit possibly shouldn't even be part of his mother's herd anyway because most horses disperse after a certain age, though this one could be explained by the fact there appears to be no lead stallion in the herd to drive him off. |
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Horseland: "Oh, Baby" centers around twin foals that come to Horseland to be taken care of while their mother is sick. The chances of a horse delivering twins with both the mother and the foals surviving are extremely low. | |
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On 2 Broke Girls Max and Caroline keep Caroline's horse for months in the backyard of their rundown house in New York City. The horse does not get much exercise outside of the occasional walk and it's a wonder they can afford to feed it. They finally find a proper stable for the horse when winter comes. The incompetence of the characters can be justified but the horse should have been in much worse shape, sick or even dead. | |
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Tangled: Make no mistake, Maximus is pure distilled awesome, but the sheer amount of times he should have broken every one of his legs in massive jumps and drops defies belief. He also swordfights and does the tracking thing, which was apparently a holdover from an earlier draft in which Maximus was a bloodhound and retained because it was funny. | |
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The Lord of the Rings The charge of the Rohirrim at Helm's Deep in The Two Towers is down a slope so steep most people would hesitate to walk down it, let alone have 2,000 horses charge down it in a tightly packed formation. Since Gandalf is there, let's just assume A Wizard Did It. Equestrians everywhere probably yelled back at the screen "Give him his head!" during Arwen's desperate ride with Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring. When you're being chased by Ringwraiths, you let your horse stretch out his neck and run. Same with Hidalgo, especially in the sandstorm scene. The horses in that scene, except for Mortensen's, were clearly being held in. An Arabian horse running at full tilt stretches its neck out in a characteristic way that gave them the name "drinkers of the wind". There were many Truth in Television scenes in that picture too, however. Played for Laughs at the start of Hidalgo's race—while the riders do take off at a gallop to make a big scene, they have a perfectly good reason NOT to go full-throttle, since they slow down to a regular trot once the spectators can't see them. |
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Averted in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon where the love interest character teases a cavalry officer about all the time they spend walking and he pedantically explains that they have to do this to keep the horses healthy. Since having a horse was essentially the whole difference between being a foot soldier and a cavalryman it behooved them to keep their horses as healthy and rested as possible. | |
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In an aversion, Bite the Bullet includes several scenes showing the toll the 700 mile race has on the horses. One inexperienced rookie runs his horse to death in the desert. Another comes up lame and has to be shot by its rider. In the end, the main character dismounts and removes the saddle from his horse and along with his friend, walks across the finish line. A subtle example is at the desert water stop. The experienced riders all take the saddles off and tend to their horse before getting themselves a drink, while the inexperienced go straight to the water. |
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Averted in Ranger's Apprentice. They alternate horses, rest them after longer runs, and carefully intersperse galloping with slower paces. Moreover, the horses are not treated simply as dogs you can ride; they know certain tricks, but this is limited to realistic options like "stay", "come", "whinny" or "find that noise", and it's shown that even highly trained horses have limits—Tug is still frightened into bolting during a sandstorm. | |
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? features a scene in which Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker flee from a hitman on horseback. Here's the problem: they had no time to tack the horse up from when they spotted the hitman to when they had to make their escape. Which means the horse was standing in its stall with a saddle, breastplate, and bridle on. The saddle and breastplate being on a stalled horse is plausible, but avoided if possible; the bridle being on is a definite no. | |
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