Posted on 08/16/2018 5:46:00 AM PDT by simpson96
After some movies, you’ve just got to sit with friends over coffee, maybe a piece of pie, and talk excitedly about that amazing Hollywood blockbuster.
Those fantastic chase scenes. The plot twists. The amazing stunts on the Kashmiri cliffs. And what does Ving Rhames really think about Tom Cruise?
But if you’re lucky, there might be a few movies in your life that require something besides chatter and pie:
A silence, and the need to go off by yourself for a bit to think on how lucky you were to have seen something that’ll stick with you for a long time.
“The Rider,” directed by Chloe Zhao, is that kind of movie.
It’s a stunner.
And I just lucked into it at home, absently flipping through movie trailers on cable. At first, I worried it might be horrible, the way the film based on a fine book by Cormac McCarthy, “All the Pretty Horses,” was lacquered up and ruined.
But this one wasn’t ruined.
“The Rider” is the story of a young horse trainer and rodeo cowboy on a ranch on a Lakota reservation. The film begins after he’s suffered a serious head injury. A zipper of stitches runs along the side of his skull.
Zhao doesn’t play games, or use tricks, she doesn’t sop it up with Western cliches. There is the landscape and a young man, 22, just a boy really, and riding is what he loves.
Life “for a horse is to run across a prairie,” he says, “for a cowboy, it’s to ride.”
But he can’t.
Riding and training horses are the things he’s truly good at. He’s a natural champion bronc rider. And he must decide whether to walk away from his dreams or face death.
He takes a job as
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That is really neat.
Said the little toughie who was about 5’0”
That’s the one — only it wasn’t “made for TV”, it was a real theater movie.
Thanks. I like to re-watch old movies and couldn't recall the title of that one. I clearly remember seeing it on TV, though - about 1980.
I saw it first on TV, too. Then I bought the VHS to show to my HS kids on locker clean-out day. They loved it.
Better know these days as “Rorschach”.
“Breaking Away”....yep....a true gem....
Was looking down into the 10th Street Stadium, where they had assembled a crowd (such as it was).
They advertised for students to come out and be unpaid extras to form the crowd.
Didn't have enough to fill the stadium but they did cover maybe 90 degrees, compressing the people into tight areas in the stands to make convincing crowd shots.
If you look, you won't see a lot of panning the crowd for this reason.
can someone direct me to a thread about The Rider?
It’s not available on Netflix, and I’ll check Amazon Prime Video later.
/Bump for reminder
The Man from Snowy River. Tom Burlinson (a Sinatra-style vocalist as well as actor).
More mainstream, but based upon a period poem about a real cowboy (apparently) down under.
They got the best riders available for the authentic and astounding horsemanship.
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