Location of story
Is the setting for this movie in Savannah, Georgia? If not, then where?
sharei was wondering the same thing...I was gona guess louisville, kentucky
shareHere is what the location link says on this exact board:
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Davant Plantation - U.S. Rt. 278 at S.C. Rt. 462, Ridgeland, South Carolina, USA
Jasper County, South Carolina, USA
Oak Alley Plantation - 3645 Highway 18, Vacherie, Louisiana, USA
Perry, Georgia, USA
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Not sure if the setting issupposed to be SC. I thought one of the cars had a FL license plate, and assumed it was north/panhandle of FL.
The original screenplay took place in Murfreesboro, TN, where screenwriter Callie Khouri spent some time. That story was centered around Tennessee Walkers, horses that requires strict discipline and techniques for training (hence Duvall's controlling character). The big event for that industry takes place in the summer, but because Julia Roberts wasn't avaialble until the fall, the filmmakers started looking further south for a location. They also discovered that the judging process for TN Walkers is much too subtle for film audiences to pick up on. They needed a visual cue to let us know that Robert Duvall's character loses a competition for the first time, so they switched their competition to Hunter-Jumper. If a horse knocks down a pole, it looses. Pretty simple and much more visual than trying to show that a certain gait was not up to par.
The states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia were all being considered as backdrops for this film. The filmmakers began their search in SC, making the first stop at Davant Plantation. Within an hour of touring the plantation, director Lasse Hallström made the decision to shoot his film there, as it had all the elements needed. The rest of the scouting was called off and official preparations began.
If a horse knocks down a pole, it looses. Pretty simpleactually not that simple, just easier to track. in jumpers, a knockdown is 4 faults. I won't go into the other ways a horse/rider combo can accumulate faults (falls, going off-course, run-outs, over the allotted time, which have different numbers of faults), as the knockdown was the one under consideration, but the winner of the class/show/whatever is the horse/rider combo with the FEWEST FAULTS. so you can win with one (or more) knockdowns, just as long as everyone else has more faults than you do.
When the pin is pulled, Mr Grenade is NOT our friend. USMC share
Read the post above you again. The poster was not stating that jumping/hunting is a simple sport to judge. Rather, the poster was stating that compared to the subtle judging nuances for a Tennessee Walker, judging via knocking down a bar was going to be much easier for the theater audience to understand. And since the storyline followed the equestrian successes and failures of the characters (instead of the intricacies of championship judging), the writers were going to go for a simple judging concept for the audience to avoid drawing attention away from the characters.
shareActually - the daughter rides in a hunter-jumper class (officially "14 and under over fences") and its partially judged on if someone hits a rail but moreso the turnout, the horse's form over fences, and riding form of the rider.
Robert Duvall competes in a Grand Prix show jumping class- and we only see the final round - called a jump-off; this is a tie breaker for all the horse/rider combos who went "clean" (no rails down). It's also timed - so fastest round with the least faults wins. Show jumping is an Olympic event.
Hunter classes, hunter-jumper, and show jumping classes are often held at the same show.