Hollywood Hoofbeats by Petrine Day Mitchum & Audrey Pavia

Author:Petrine Day Mitchum & Audrey Pavia [Mitchum, Petrine Day & Pavia, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: i5 Publishing
Published: 2014-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Cinematographer Roger Deakins focuses on actress Hailee Steinfeld as she swims the river on a mechanical horse in the Coen brothers’ version of True Grit.

Cut to: Hailee Steinfeld’s stunt double Cassidy Vick-Hice coming out of the river on Ribbon, one of the two horses who played Little Blackie.

Tarantino Pays Tribute in Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino won 2013’s Academy Award for his original screenplay of Django Unchained, a rollicking, blood-soaked indictment of slavery presented as a spoof of spaghetti Westerns set in the pre-Civil War American South, circa 1858. Known for referencing classic films both verbally and visually in his movies, Tarantino worked in some wonderfully fun and sly references involving horses to delight diehard aficionados.

Dentist-turned-bounty-hunter King Shultz (Christoph Waltz) liberates a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx)—a reference to the spaghetti-Western character made famous by Franco Nero—and teaches him the trade of killing wanted men for money. Shultz first appears on screen in his rickety wagon topped by a bobbling oversized replica of a molar. The wagon is pulled by a little black horse he introduces to slave traders as “Fritz.” Fritz obligingly responds to his name with a nod and a snort, a trick he repeats in the film when, teamed up with Django, Shultz introduces both their horses as “Tony” and “Fritz.” The reference is to the two most famous horses of the early silent film era, rugged cowboy star William S. Hart’s Fritz and the flamboyant Tom Mix’s Tony.

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