When the movie was conceived and launched, intermarriage between African-Americans and Caucasians was still illegal in fourteen states. Towards the end of production, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Loving v. Virginia. The Loving decision was made on June 12, 1967, two days after the death of Spencer Tracy, who had played a "phony" white liberal who grudgingly accepts his daughter's marriage to a black man. In Loving, the High Court unanimously ruled that anti-miscegenation marriage laws were unconstitutional. In his opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, "Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man', fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under the American Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State." Interestingly, Kramer kept in the line of the African-American father played by Roy Glenn, who tells his son played by Sidney Poitier, "In sixteen or seventeen states you'll be breaking the law. You'll be criminals." This was probably because Kramer realized that, despite the change in the law, the couple would still be facing a great deal of prejudice requiring a stalwart love for their marriage to survive, which was the message Tracy's character gives in an eight minute scene that is the climax of the movie. The scene summing up the theme of the movie was the last one the dying Tracy filmed for the movie, and it was the last time he would ever appear on film. It took a week to shoot the scene, and at the end, he was given a standing ovation by the crew. He died seventeen days after walking off of a soundstage for the last time.
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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This is the second time David Thewlis has acted in a movie whose star was a horse. The other was Black Beauty (1994).
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Steven Spielberg confessed in an interview that he almost drowned in the mud inside the trenches during the shooting. He was rescued by the crew.
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Steven Spielberg: [fathers] Albert's father is the initial antagonist who deprives Albert of his best friend by selling Joey into danger.
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Included among the "1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider.
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Jeremy Irvine, who played Albert Narracott, contracted trench foot when filming the war scenes of the movie.
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Production filming took place under the codename "Dartmoor." Dartmoor is the location in Devon where the film was predominantly shot.
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Tom Hiddleston (Captain Nicholls) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Major Jamie Stewart) both went on to star as major characters in the Marvel universe: Loki and Doctor Strange, respectively. As a result, they both appear in the movies Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: End Game.
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Robert Emms, who had played the lead role of Albert Narracott in the West End stage production of the play, was cast in this film in a different part, as David Lyons.
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Eddie Redmayne was rumored to be cast in the lead role of Albert Narracott that ultimately went to Jeremy Irvine.
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Finder's Key, the horse and real star of War Horse (2011), was last ridden in a race by actor and professional jockey Kevin Mangold, finishing in fifth place at 77 to 1 odds.
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This movie utilized about 5,800 extras and background artists.
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When Joey is trapped in barbed wire, the wire used was rubber prop wire when a real horse was used. Part of the filming of this sequence utilized an animatronic horse.
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Lead actor Jeremy Irvine had never ridden a horse prior to being cast in this film, and this was his very first feature film.
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Tom Hiddelson and Benidict Cumberbatch would later work together in Avengers: Infinity War.
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After this became Steven Spielberg and Michael Kahn's first film together edited digitally, the two swore off digital editing once again in favor of analog flatbed editing, stating that digital editing rushed their creative process too much.
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Tom Hiddleston recalled director Steven Spielberg giving him "the most amazing" director's note for his death scene. Spielberg told Hiddleston, "Give me your war face, and the camera's going to move across, and as you feel it come up in front of you, I want you to de-age yourself by twenty years. So you're 29, and when you see those machine guns, you're 9 years old. I want to see the child in you." Hiddleston said, "I just thought that was one of the most astonishing acting notes I'd ever been given."
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The white goose's name is Harold.
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This was Steven Spielberg's first film to be edited digitally. He has famously held onto editing traditionally; his editor, Michael Kahn, has edited nearly all of Spielberg's films on a Moviola.
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Emily Watson also starred in the similarly named The Water Horse (2007). In both films, she played the mother of the title animal's owner during a World War, the First World War in War Horse (2011) and the Second World War in "The Water Horse."
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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War Horse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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