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  • #21
    Don't forget to have the "Olympic Coach" at "the Nationals" watching, and offering her a spot "on the Team".

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    • #22
      * <-- RR Certified Gold Star {) <-- RR Golden Croissant Award
      Training Tip of the Day: If you can’t beat your best competitor, buy his horse.
      NO! What was the question?

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      • #23
        In the scenes where you actually use the same horse for the whole scene, make sure you change the tack (off-camera) so every time the horse is seen, it has a different bridle, saddle, martingale, etc.

        Must have a running scene where you use a hobby-horse neck bobbing up and down for the foreground in the close-up of the rider.

        Get the local funny TV weather guy to do the announcing in the competitions.

        Any ribbons given out must be from a fair vegetable/flower/pie competition. Any trophies should have something completely inappropriate on the top, like a car or antique tractor.

        No matter where the scene takes place, there should be the same person walking through the background.
        "Uh, if you're going to try that, shouldn't you unplug it first?"

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        • #24
          oh my gosh these are PRICELESS ideas!!

          you also have to have great "training" scenes. you know, when the horse is still wild and misunderstood and our heroine waves her arms at it while it runs franticly around a round pen (whinnying and snorting all the while) and rears and bucks. and then the next day she gets on to ride it and jumps courses. because they have a majikal bond that allows her to do this with a previously dangerous and un-broke horse because he loooooooooves her.
          Proud member of the "I'm In My 20's and Hope to Be a Good Rider Someday" clique

          PONY'TUDE

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          • #25
            Originally posted by 5 View Post
            Have the alchoholic father drink 'Night Train fortified wine and show it in the background. Name the horse Night Train and make sure it is a very light horse when she refers to him as "Strong like a train and black as night".


            And somewhere the horse has to rear up and stomp to death a rattlesnake that is about to bite the girl.
            ...somewhere between the talent and the potato....

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            • #26
              Or drive off a mountain lion. Or a regular lion.
              "Uh, if you're going to try that, shouldn't you unplug it first?"

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              • #27
                If you could throw in a carousel horse or two that would be a hoot.
                Originally posted by Rienzi View Post
                Or drive off a mountain lion. Or a regular lion.
                Would a Mercury Cougar (the car) do? You could use a matchbox car for the stomping the cougar to death scene- props would cost a buck or so.

                For the injured horse scene show a breyer horse with a broken off leg, cut to the actors discussing a bowed tendon.

                Have the grizzled old trainer be a tough looking member of a biker gang ala Hells Angles (They usually own successful tire shops if you are looking for a person who looks and acts the part- come on those bikes cost 50-70K you don't think bikers are 'poor' do you?)
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                • #28
                  These are HILARIOUS.

                  When the rider has to make the horsie go she must flap her elbows and her reins and say "h'YAW, h'YAW"

                  And evil nemesis must manage to injure horsie just before the match race, the wound only to be discovered seconds before the starter pistol (yup!) goes off, but horse pushes through the pain and wins the race for his mistress because of their magikal bond.

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                  • #29
                    1) Have a heart-tugging tag line complete with *meaningful* swelling chords of music a la Seabiscuit, but have the action completely invalidate the line seconds later - ie, "Sometimes ya gotta give a horse a second chance," cut to the horse being trucked off to auction.

                    2) A long, Black Stallion-esque maximium-cinematography shot of Wild Stallion and Our Heroine drawing closer and closer and closer, almost to the point of WS trusting her... And then he stomps her.

                    3) A grumpy, grizzled old-timer agrees to train Our Heroine for the Big Event; he shouts, he is cranky, he is Mr. Grizzled for multiple scenes. Finally, though, he reveals his Big Softy side - as he makes a play for Our Heroine in the hayloft.

                    4) Heroine goes to local Barn and hangs out, looking winsome and hopeful. Barn owner completely ignores her. The end.

                    5) Heroine rescues sick, hurt and abused horse from auction/abuser/swamp/cougar/etc. Horse turns out to be unsound, dangerous and crazy.

                    6) Villain Bitch rides better than Heroine, has a wonderful relationship with her horse, is secretly dying of Prettier-As-You-Decline Disease, and is a natural blonde whose parents beat her. And she volunteers at an animal shelter.

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                    • #30
                      The heroine-rider starts out looking frumpy and sad, but becomes a knockout simply by taking down her ponytail and taking off her glasses.

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                      • #31
                        I agree that there needs to constant neighing in the background. I think the general idea here is that the storyline must be bad. I know that I will watch a horse-related movie no matter how bad the plot.

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                        • #32
                          If the horse does not sustain and overcome some type of non-life threatening injury during the final (victorious) competition, then it is imperative that there is something else they must overcome - rider injury (dislocated shoulder? broken hand?), broken tack (villain pulling bridle over ears, or sabotaging the girth), another rider pushing them (if it's a race), someone changing the route (endurance ride) etc.
                          Blugal

                          You never know what kind of obsessive compulsive crazy person you are until another person imitates your behaviour at a three-day. --Gry2Yng

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                          • #33
                            Also it would be funny to see a typical grizzled female trainer, a la bleached blonde hair, leather smoker's face.
                            Blugal

                            You never know what kind of obsessive compulsive crazy person you are until another person imitates your behaviour at a three-day. --Gry2Yng

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                            • #34
                              What's so funny is that so much of this was in Coppola's Black Stallion.... but I LOVE that movie!
                              ...somewhere between the talent and the potato....

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                              • #35
                                Originally posted by Blugal View Post
                                Also it would be funny to see a typical grizzled female trainer, a la bleached blonde hair, leather smoker's face.
                                Oh that is way better than my biker suggestion. She can own a gun store or maybe she is the town barfly/drunk.

                                You have to work in somehow the heroine stopping by the nail salon where her friend works and her asian friends first reaction is. "Why ride horse? You get D.U.I?"
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                                • #36
                                  Originally posted by vacation1 View Post
                                  6) Villain Bitch rides better than Heroine, has a wonderful relationship with her horse, is secretly dying of Prettier-As-You-Decline Disease, and is a natural blonde whose parents beat her. And she volunteers at an animal shelter.
                                  "Oh, sure, you may be able to take down one smurf, but mark my words: You bonk one smurf, you better be ready for a blue wave."---Bucky Katt

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