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Posted on 06/08/07 05:39:24 AM |
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TxBSGal
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Do remember what it was that made you fall in love with the Black Stallion?
Do you remember what started you on your journey with Alec and the Black? Where you given the book to read? Or maybe you went to see the movie when it first came out? Do you remember that first time and what was it that made such a big impression on you? |
Posted on 07/08/07 03:15:03 AM |
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il cavallo nero
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Re: Do remember what it was that made you fall in love with the Black Stallion?
I think that I'd have to say that it was the movie in 1979 that made me completely fall in love with The Black Stallion. I have been smitten with Arabian horses since I was 12 years old in 1959. Well, back then there was Fury, Trigger, Buttermilk and in the 60s, Lori Martin in the TV series titled National Velvet, with her horse King, that were all still wonderful to a 12 year old girl but no Arabians on screen, that I saw......... ..........Until we went to the theater to see The Black Stallion in 1979, there was Cass Ole, that gorgeous black Arabian stallion, on the screen, bigger than life. And the movie was all about him and Alec and Henry. It was just breathtaking! I loved the way that Kelly Reno portrayed Alec and the way Mickey Rooney portrayed Henry with such refreshing innocence. At the age of sixty, I think that I have seen most of the horse movies that have been made. But The Black Stallion is my favorite movie of all time. The beautiful island sequences were spectacular. It has a special place in my heart. I love everything about that movie. I absolutely love all three of the Black Stallion movies. It has been rumored on this message board that there is another Black Stallion movie to come. Well, bring it on!!!  |
Posted on 11/08/07 00:08:29 AM |
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BlackStalGal
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Re: Do remember what it was that made you fall in love with the Black Stallion?
The movie started it all for me, I was 10. Then I began to read the books. |
Posted on 15/08/07 8:55:30 PM |
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Malissa Sorum
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Re: Do remember what it was that made you fall in love with the Black Stallion?
I've thought about this quite a bit, but don't really have a definite answer. All I remember is I was a gifted reader, and given the privilege of going into the fiction section of the library to look for books. The other children in my class had to stay in their age section. Loving horses, when I eventually stumbled upon Walter Farley's books, I checked it out and read it. I appreciated how thick the book/long the story was, as I read so fast when I was younger (not quite that fast anymore at 36, smile). Smile, Malissa |
Posted on 09/09/07 00:27:06 AM |
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Little_Rain
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Re: Do remember what it was that made you fall in love with the Black Stallion?
The movie also started it for me I just have always loved animals; the movie just hooked me in. I don’t even remember when I first read my first black stallion book. I watched the tapes of the first and second movie a lot when I was a kid. Its only be in the last 4 years that i really started collecting the books. I have a few of the original book editions they belonged to my older brothers. |
Posted on 15/09/07 7:32:43 PM |
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The_Black_Stallion_lover
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Hello everyone, :-) I've thought about this for quite some time and what I've concluded is, although my interest in the Black Stallion started pre-teens, I do not remember if it was the book or the film that caused me to fall so in love with these stories. Perhaps it was both, simultaneously. But what I do know is that I've loved these stories for a long time and that interest has never decreased. Cheers, Marnie |
Posted on 18/09/07 8:20:02 PM |
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Bev
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As a young girl, I inherited my older sisters upstairs room and ofcourse their bookshelf! I don't recall what my age was, somewhere around 9 or ten. When I picked up that first copy the drawings hooked me right away and then when I started reading the book, I couldn't put it down. Ofcourse one led to another until I finished the four books on that shelf. In the early 70's I moved to SF and ran across a hard cover in very good condition. I've had it ever since-carrying it with me through all my travels. In 2006, I had good reason to dust it off and read it to a very wonderful old man. We both enjoyed it so much. Now I have all of the B.Stallion books and about anything else I can get my hands on that Walter wrote! By the way I have only 5 left to read to that old man! I guess I'll get Steven's, too! Love this site! Bev |
Posted on 25/09/07 4:49:50 PM |
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Black_Stallion101
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It had to be the movie it captured me and forever will!!!  Cass Ole was a beauty!!! |
Posted on 10/10/07 3:24:14 PM |
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beden
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I first started reading the books when I was 9 or ten...I developed a tremendous crush on Alec and wanted him to be my boyfriend. Alas, it wasn't to be. Hey--c'mon, horses are great, but seriously! He was kind of a geek, but I was willing to overlook it. |
Posted on 13/10/07 08:32:05 AM |
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Schelley
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Big. Black. Horse. Seriously. "Big Black Horse", by Walter Farley. In elementary school, 4th or 5th grade, 73-74 or 74-75. Imagine my amazed delight when I discovered in middle school that there was not ONLY an even bigger book about Alec and the Black (The Black Stallion), but a whole bunch of them! And the artwork in Big Black Horse, so beautiful, so bigger than life. I hunted that book down about 10 years ago and paid an outrageous sum of money for a used library copy, just for the artwork. So, Tim Farley, if you're reading, I'm immensely overjoyed that you've reprinted Big Black Horse for the masses that never saw it, and here's to hoping it brings some other little girl to horses and keeps her there, just like this middle-aged crazy. javascript:emoticon('  ')
Tongue There's 3 horses in my back yard right now: a Quarter Horse, a Saddlebred, and an off-track Thoroughbred that is my chestnut version of The Black. He's big, he's beautiful, he's smart and he's loyal. Sounds just like The Black to me. |
Posted on 04/11/07 8:29:59 PM |
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Jockey Wannabe
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Re: Do remember what it was that made you fall in love with the Black Stallion?
It was when I read the Black Stallion book in second grade.. It was an older version, the red cover with the Black's outline. I remember crying on the last day of school because I had to return it to the teacher and I hadn't finished it. =( But I have every book now (the newer cover arts) I'm still obsessed and it's been years. When people ask me my favorite series, I feel silly 'cause It's a children's, but I don't really care. How could you blame me? |
Posted on 07/11/07 06:57:12 AM |
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JaneEyreZombieHunter
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My mother was a garage saler in the early 80s, and the secondhand market was ripe with older kids' old copies of lots of series. We found Nancy Drew and best of all, The Black Stallion series. I knew I wanted the books the instant I saw the cover illustrations - wild horses rearing away from their handlers against gorgeous natural settings - so I begged her to buy the books for me whenever I saw them, although I was still not ready to read them in the second grade: I was still stuck on intermediate chapter books (for some reason!). We never did find a copy of The Black Stallion at garage sale, so I filled in titles in the collection whenever I could get money to spend on a book. My first purchase was The Black Stallion, which I started to read immediately. I would stare at the cover illustration for hours taking in the details, the colors, the ideas they seemed to communicate. I was nearly done with the book, which to my delight I was finding a much more entertaining read than even I had anticipated, when The Black Stallion movie was released on television for the first time. I was extremely annoyed to be placed in the situation of having to go back and forth between the competing versions of the same tale, and noted with a child's disgust the differences in the storylines (is it Alec's dad or uncle who gets lost at sea when The Drake crashes?! Two different accounts!). But I was captivated by Coppola's vision of the story, as well, and Cass Ole - while not the fire-and-brimstone rendition of The Black on the cover of my paperback - was gorgeous and an amazing actor. Still, I much preferred the books, and continued on with an obsessive fervor through the series. I saw no barrier to considering myself Alec Ramsey, so I was startled out of my suspension of disbelief by the appearance of The Black Stallion and the Girl, and it was jarring to read how gender was suddenly a delineating factor in that work. I was used to being Alec Ramsey, and suddenly as a girl I'm confronted by Pam, who plays some kind of flute and is "gentle" and so on...I still preferred being in the avatar of Alec. All of my grade school book reports were on this series, though I was encouraged by my Black Stallion experiences to read far and deeply in other series, searching for more equally delightful reading experiences. |
Posted on 09/11/07 7:51:48 PM |
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beden
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JaneEyre has brought up a good point with her response here. I suspect that a majority of the Black Stallion readers are girls...not all, but a majority. I also suspect that a large part of that reason, aside from the series simply being well written, is because a lot of the young ladies identified with Alec. Back when the books first came out young ladies were often being raised with the idea of being wives and mothers and to leave the adventuring to their brothers. I know I certainly was. I wanted to be Alec and when he was riding down the stretch or across some desert sand dune I was right there with him. I found that I preferred the later books because the character was a bit older, more mature, more independent, self-reliant and not as dependent on his parents and Henry. In fact I always thought that Henry was more of a parent (or grandparent) to Alec than the Ramsay's were, at least after he started his horse career. Mom and dad seemed to get short shrift. In fact; if my own son did half the things Alec did, I know I'd have plenty to say about it--to him, his father and probably the press as well. Unlike JaneEyre, I liked the character of Pam simply because it seemed to me that Alec was finally his own person--old enough to make his own decisions, fall in love, get married and all of that. He'd crossed a line to adulthood and I was happy to see him do so yet still be young enough to not be jaded by everything he'd been through and experienced. It seemed a natural development for him. Anyone else have any thoughts about this? |
Posted on 14/11/07 7:29:54 PM |
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Black fire
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I inherited a large chunk of the seris from my mother. Around fourth grade I begain reading them and couldent stop. Unfourchunatly at that time my reading meathod was... read chapter one, if you like it, skip to the end and see what happends. By sixth grade I figured out that my reading speed had increaced and I could read the WHOLE book without getting board. Black was my moms favorie character and he is mine now. |
Posted on 17/11/07 2:02:36 PM |
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LadyAshen
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I lived and breathed horses and was an avid reader. As a library reader since age 9 or so, I ran into the books and loved them. I am now in my 50's....  |
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