I watched again Seabiscuit. I read the book before seeing it

[rusty quoin]

I imagine someone from the right watching it for the first time would call it Socialism at best, but probably Communisn.

It is the story of four broken mammals coming together and winning horse racing to a degree that every ordinary person in the depression hoped for Seabiscuit to win.

The first mammal of course is Seabiscuit. He was a broken horse. The second is jockey Tom Pollard who had a really shit life. He was well read but had to fight for anything. Tom Smith understood horses like no one else, and knew what to do to make Seabiscuit a competitive horse again, and Howard was the guy with money who had lost too much of his family to bear.

It is mostly a movie about the 30s and how a bit of hope could overcome the bad past. The movie has lots about FDR works programs. I like that. They worked.

And so you have this underdog against the power that is. He won against War Admiral. You cannot beat that and I can Just imagine what it must have been like back then. Seabiscuit won for us over them.

I will vote for the underdog. Seabiscuit was for us regular peole

[pazzyanne]

1. Wonderful response to a great movie!

Thank you, rusty quoin!

[Bluepinky]

2. I especially loved the book.

Another excellent book about an inspirational horse is The Eighty-Dollar Champion, by Elizabeth Letts.
And of course there’s the book Secretariat, another great story.

[PDittie]

3. The book was excellent.

And the film as well, despite the poetic licenses taken.

If only Henry Wallace had not been screwed out of the vice presidency by the "smoke=filled room" in 1944 ... history would be soooo different.

[Nitram]

4. Both the book and the movie are excellent.

The book was written at great emotional and physical expense by Laura Hillenbrand, who suffered from severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

[rsdsharp]

5. Very nice post.

One quibble. Seabiscuit's jockey was John "Red" Pollard. Not Tom.

[rusty quoin]

6. Yeah... Red...big oops.