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Things We Learned By Watching War Horse

posted 11 years ago by evoe
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1. Things people buy being drunk, aren't always stupid things.

2. Thin and young running horses actually CAN plow entire fields.

3. If a cavlry captain gets into a hail of machine-gun fire, the horse survives.

4. If Your brother is trying to save Your life, he probably gets You into certain death.

5. Little girls can hide 2 grown horses while being invaded by soldiers.

6. Soldiers don't see if a girl is hiding horses in front of their eyes.

7. You get 20 wire cutters from Your enemies, if You haven't one.

8. Gas does not kill! It makes temporary blind.

No offense! I actually liked that movie very much!

[–] mrmuggles 11 years ago

9. plowing a field using a horse in the early 20th century attracts enough attention to call all the neighbours from the county to see it

[–] Pogo_76 11 years ago

I learned that horse movies are boring.

[–] ziocantante 11 years ago

10. "Time spent on reconnaissance is rarely wasted."
11. Windmills work fine even without sails.
12. A plough can cut a boulder in half.
13. If your dad is wealthy, you get to wear a breastplate.

[–] sellis1 10 years ago

14. You win Somme, you lose Somme.

[–] stevechallenger150 11 years ago

"Gas does not kill! It makes temporary blind."

Although significant numbers were killed by poison gas attacks in the Great War, the majority of those exposed to gas actually survived, albeit often with very severe, long term health problems.

[–] MiCharlie124 10 years ago

Hitler was blinded by mustard gas as a soldier in WWI.

[–] joystar5879 10 years ago

Poison Gas was also responsible for Claude Rains' distinctive, husky voice...

"I do hope he won't upset Henry.."

[–] krrazzykat 10 years ago

15. elderlies shouldn't try stopping younger people doing things by saying "over my dead body"

16. nations at war is nothing personal, soldiers are allowed to take a break, make peace, talk about massage while saving a horse.

[–] ChuckFinnley 10 years ago

16. I learned this was a great heartfelt movie.

[–] systemen 10 years ago

17.
Doesn't matter if you pay way to much money for a horse. You can always sell it without losses.

Marius

[–] ceasar10-902-895508 10 years ago

Maybe there some things in this movie is nonsense, But The Message was to say Everything you do because of friendship is gonna be back to you some day, Albie made friends with joey(the horse) and because of that joey tried to go after him no matter how, till either get it or die for it!

And also Joey gone to the artillery front instead of the black horse, probably because of love, and sacrifice!

[–] Napoleonforever 9 years ago

18. Joey mourned the loss of the black horse, as they had become great friends. Great story element.

19. Joey was a great horse, period.

20. Albie and Joey reminds me of Roy Rogers and Trigger, who were also inseparable.

[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

21. Upset your landlord by outbidding him for a horse.

Its that man again!!

[–] Lucastes 9 years ago

Smart alecs get pernickety watching works of fiction.

[–] hugh1971 8 years ago

22. A hard, rocky, dry field will suddenly become moist, easily ploughed peatland after 20 seconds of rain.
23. Young German soldiers were allowed to have collar-length 1970s hairstyles.
24. When the British left a trench, they left it totally unguarded with no soldiers left behind to guard the trench.
25. If you see a horse thrashing about in barbed wire in agony, don't attempt to shoot it to put it out of its misery. Instead, risk your life in order to help it and to have a cliched encounter with a German soldier.
26. All Germans speak English viz ein Cherman accent. All French peoples speak Engleeesh weeth a vairy peculiare stage Frenssh akksonn!
27. German soldiers camp out in the open country with no sentries. The only guard posts they have are unmanned and the guns point into the camp.
28. Horses are allowed to wander around the beds in British field hospitals.
29. Army doctors have enough time to attend to wounded horses.
30. Army dressing stations are completely quiet. There is no sound of gunfire or cries of pain, and everyone is well enough to look at a wounded horse.

'Monsters? We're British!'