My Friend Flicka - Movie Review ~ Part 2

Here is part two.

Now I want to discuss the overall movie quality.

Firstly the music. Okay, it is an old movie, right, so the music is old (make that ancient). The actual tune of the music is quite cool though, just a bit tinny. Thing is, you sometimes have music when you don't really need it, and not when you could really do with it.

Then there's the filming/photography. Basically this was okay, nothing special, but the scenery was amazing, the real place!

As for the acting.....old actors tend to be ....well, maybe it's just me, but they just seem a bit weird, just a little too life-like. Which reminds me, the storyline is incredibly close to the book - almost too close; except for on thing: they removed one character, and added another. The added character, as I mentioned in part one, was Hildy, and the character they removed was Howard McLaughlin. Ken's brother Howard was the typical older brother, always teasing him about his low grades, and his day-dreaming, AND he has a colt of his own, Highboy, which annoys Ken most of all.

I like the opening credits though; the names on pages of a book that were turned.

The stunts are good too, you don't have stunties to ride the horses, which adds to the authenticty of the film; you don't have to avoid showing both horse and rider at the same time.

I would reccomend the movie for any age, and the book for 10 years and up, except it has bad language, which is not put into the movie.

Overall I would give My Friend Flicka a 6/10 for quality, and 8/10 for authenticity.

Emily

Movie Review - My Friend Flicka - Part One

                                                    
                                                      

Finally found the real thing!

 

Old as anything, but at least it's genuine!

 

Anyway, to start the review, I'll go through the characters in the film.

 

 

1. Ken McLaughlin:

 

 

 

Okay, Roddy McDowall is a good actor, but his VOICE!  His ACCENT!! He sounds like

some English girl!! Anyway, back to the character.

 

Let's just say he's a flunk at schoolwork. (aren't we all??)

Seen there with Diana Hale, who plays Hildy. More about her in a sec.

But, first, I'll go to the second most important character.

 

2. Flicka:

 

 

Only picture I could get.

Um... she's pretty...not loco..

hey, she's a horse, so she does her job!

 

3. Robert (or Rob) McLaughlin:

 

 

The only picture I could find of him. Obviously not Preston Foster's most famous movie.

He plays Rob pretty well.

 

4. Nell McLaughlin:

 

Actor Rita Johnson.

She does not look like that in the movie!

 

5. Hildy:

Hildy is a made-up character. But, hey, improvements can be good.

 

She's a real talkative, cute, little girl, who acts very grown up.

 

Probably eats too much too!

 

"Whenever I do sumpin' dumb, my momma says I sure am like the old man.

And whenever I do sumpin' smart, my pop says I sure don't take after the old lady."

 

Yes, she wears a dress sometimes.

 

Another favourite quote:

 

Ken - "Hildy, don't do that! Cigarette will kick you!"

Hildy - "He better don't, or I'll kick 'im back!"

 

She'd be on my list of the top ten cutest kids in movies!

 

Gus & Tim are farmhands. Hildy is Gus's daughter.

 

 

Next time - Part Two.