Sanan Elaborates on Collapse of Industy Initiative

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by Kasept

The thing has fiasco potential. A few on hand for the 'Secretariat' preview that unspooled in Saratoga called it beyond horrible and riddled with continuity errors to boot.

The problem is Steve, is that it's not a doucumentry. It's a Disney movie and they needed to put some "Hollywood Magic/storyline in".
Just like Seabiscuit in the end, most horse people know that he didn't come from 20 plus lengths out to finally win the Santa Anita Handicap, but him rating third the entire race wouldn't have had the same "Hollywood affect" as him looking hopeless and then finally getting up at the end.

I personally don't think that non horse people are going to pay good money to go watch a doucmentry on Secretariat (or any horse for that matter). So what you need is a little "Hollywood "fiction to make it marketable to other segments of the viewing public. Horse people who know the story will probably not like the movie, but hopefully the non horse people will really enjoy it. Maybe enough that a couple of them will be intrigued to visit/go back to a track in the near future.

[clyde]

They should have named it Cool Hand Secreteriet.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by clyde

They should have named it Cool Hand Secreteriet.

"What we have here, is a failure to thud..."

[clyde]

Originally Posted by Kasept

"What we have here, is a failure to thud..."

!!OOOOOOOOOO!!


=:>

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by clyde

They should have named it Cool Hand Secreteriet.

taking off the saddle boss.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

The problem is Steve, is that it's not a doucumentry. It's a Disney movie and they needed to put some "Hollywood Magic/storyline in".
Just like Seabiscuit in the end, most horse people know that he didn't come from 20 plus lengths out to finally win the Santa Anita Handicap, but him rating third the entire race wouldn't have had the same "Hollywood affect" as him looking hopeless and then finally getting up at the end.

I personally don't think that non horse people are going to pay good money to go watch a doucmentry on Secretariat (or any horse for that matter). So what you need is a little "Hollywood "fiction to make it marketable to other segments of the viewing public. Horse people who know the story will probably not like the movie, but hopefully the non horse people will really enjoy it. Maybe enough that a couple of them will be intrigued to visit/go back to a track in the near future.

They won't notice what a sissy they made Secretariat look like either.