War Horse by Michael Morpurgo5/13/2023 Like its previous incarnations, the War Horse film faces the hurdle of the story's episodic nature. Surrounded by chaos and death, it seems unlikely that he will survive – but somewhere in the trenches is his beloved Albert, who has come looking for him. Their ride into battle is only the beginning of Joey's journey, and as the war rages on, he passes through many different hands on all sides of the conflict. The First World War breaks out, and Joey is sold to Captain Nicholls (Tom Hiddleston), a cavalry officer. However, bigger forces are about to tear boy and horse apart. The spirited animal is completely unsuitable for farm work, but this doesn't stop Albert from bonding with him, even training him to plough in an act of defiance against the family's grabbing landlord (David Thewlis). When his drunken father (Peter Mullan) brings home a thoroughbred horse, Devonshire farm boy Albert (Jeremy Irvine) falls in love at first sight. Now Steven Spielberg has brought Joey to the screen. The stage adaptation, featuring life-sized bamboo puppet horses, has captivated audiences since its debut at the Royal National-Olivier Theatre, London, in 2007. His 1982 novel War Horse imagines the conflict through the eyes of a single innocent, unwilling participant – a horse named Joey. How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the answer was to start as small as possible.
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