2024-04-28 07:17:40
Today (April 27th)EBS1<세계의 명화>Director Joe Johnston’s ‘Hidalgo: Original Title (Hidalgo)’ will be broadcast.
It is a 2017 American film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Viggo Mortensen, Julika Robinson, Omar Sharif, and Louis Lombard. Running time: 135 minutes, suitable for ages 15 and older.
◆ summary:
Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) is reputed to be the fastest and boldest jockey in the West, and has never missed a win in a long-distance race. However, he becomes disillusioned when a bloody Indian massacre occurs at Wounded Knee due to the orders he delivered. Although he had blond hair and blue eyes, he was actually a mixed-race child born to a white father and an Indian mother, so the shock of witnessing the massacre was even greater. After leaving the cavalry, he works as a jockey in a western theater show for an unremarkable traveling troupe, and while living a drunken life, an unexpected opportunity comes his way. Sheikh Riyadh (Omar Sharif), a wealthy and powerful Bedouin, invited the race through his agent to a race called ‘The Ocean of Fire’ held in the Arabian desert. The ‘Ocean of Fire’ is a death race that involves running a total of 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) across the Arabian Desert, through the Persian Gulf and Iraq, and all the way to Damascus. Frank, who accepted Sheikh Riyadh’s invitation, boards a ship to the Middle East with his Rottweiler Hidalgo, not knowing how difficult the journey awaits him. During the voyage, Frank meets Lady Anne (Louise Lombard), a British noblewoman who is participating in the ‘Ocean of Fire’. Lady Anne, who is planning to send her pedigree Arabian mare to the race, gives Frank a strange look. Arriving in the desert where the race begins, Frank learns that half of the participants will die due to the rough race course, that most of the competitors ride purebred Arabian stallions, and that they do not see Frank and Hidalgo as competition. . Prince Bin Al Lee, who participated in the race riding the Sheikh’s famous horse, interferes with Frank at every turn, but Frank avoids this with his wit and safely arrives at the stopover. Meanwhile, Sheikh Riyadh’s daughter Jazira (Julica Robinson) helps Frank win because she hates that if Prince Bin Ali wins, she will have to become his fifth wife. Meanwhile, Lady Anne, in order to win her own horse, joins hands with her Sheikh Riyadh’s ambitious nephew, Khatib, and plots to eliminate her Frank. However, after rescuing Jazira, who was kidnapped by Khatib, Frank actually gained recognition from Sheikh Riyadh. As the race enters the second half, Lady Anne’s plot increasingly strangles Frank…
◆ subject:
This film is based on the autobiography of Frank T. Hopkins, a legend in American long-distance racing in the late 19th century. Although there are spectacular attractions set in the Arabian Desert, it is also a moving work that depicts the journey of a man who finds his identity as a half-Indian child. Frank Hopkins, once known as a living legend, is invited to the ‘Ocean of Fire’ with his wild horse ‘Hidalgo’ and participates in a death race against the world’s best Arabian horses. Frank and Hidalgo, who have become strangers even in the West, which was their own land, prove their existence to the world by participating in the ‘Ocean of Fire’, which has been held for over a thousand years in the Arabian Desert. Frank, who runs a race based solely on honor and conviction among people who believe that wealth, power, and status determine a person’s fate, is attractively portrayed through Viggo Mortensen’s performance.
◆ Impression points:
‘Hidalgo’ is a large-scale action adventure that catches the audience’s attention like a huge sandstorm in the movie. ‘The Ocean of Fire’, a death race with a thousand-year history! The ‘Ocean of Fire’, held every year in the Arabian Desert, is a race in which the best purebred Arabian racehorses bred only by royalty race across 3,000 miles of the most dangerous Arabian Desert on earth for wealth and fame. This race, which has been held every year for over a thousand years, features the world’s best horses and jockeys, but most of them burn to death in the murderous sun or disappear without anyone knowing before they even get halfway through the race due to intrigues and gunfire between competitors. It is an extreme, life-threatening adventure where even the selected players who manage to pass the first hurdle will die buried in the sand when they encounter a huge sandstorm that engulfs everything in the desert. <히달고>A total of 215 spectacular and exciting visual effects worthy of the Academy Visual Effects Award were mobilized. <주라기 공원 3>, <쥬만지> Of course, he directed films that required numerous visual effects scenes, including <레이더스: 잃어버린 성궤>Director Joe Johnston, who had already won the Academy Award for Visual Effects, refrained from overuse of CG in order not to damage the film’s realism, and naturally harmonized the spectacularly filmed live-action scenes with the world of visual effects. Under the leadership of director Joe Johnston, the best visual effects team, Tim Alexander of ILM (Industrial Light and Magic), was brought in to create powerful images that fill the screen. A sandstorm rushing in as if it would engulf the desert like a gigantic tidal wave, a swarm of locusts flying in blackening the sky as if taking away all life on earth, and the impressive movements of leopards attacking horses. <히달고>It is a famous scene that can only be seen in .
◆ director:
Joe Johnston, born in Texas in 1950, distinguished himself by working in the visual effects field before making his debut as a director. Colleagues he worked with at the time included Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Joe Johnston, who later joined ILM, <스타워즈 에피소드 4 - 새로운 희망>He worked as a special effects designer and illustrator. Due to the great success of this work, Joe Johnstone <스타워즈 에피소드 5 - 제국의 역습>, <스타워즈 에피소드 6 - 제다이의 귀환> etc., by George Lucas <스타 워즈> I also participated in the sequel. The original design of Yoda’s character and various weapons and transportation equipment were all designed by him. <히달고>After reading the script, Joe Johnston was surprised by the spectacular action and epic scale of the story, and was so moved by the material depicting a lone hero and his special friendship that he decided to direct it. Other representative works <로켓티어>, <쥬만지>, <옥보버 스카이>, <여보, 애들이 줄었어요>, <쥬라기 공원3>, <울프맨>, <퍼스트 어벤져> etc.
EBS1’s ‘Famous Paintings of the World’, a program that shows carefully selected nostalgic masterpieces, airs every Saturday at 10:35 pm.
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2024-04-28 07:17:40