I've read up on sites for and against the story being true and came up
with this. It seems that the guy read up on real events, changed the
stories some or allot, and put himself in the stories instead of the real
people who 'did the deeds'. There isn't any evidence that the 'race in
Arabia' happened but there were brutal races there at the time so maybe that's
where he got that. ........ It looks like a great movie and
Viggo Mortensen being in it doesn't hurt either. I can't really figure
out what all the uproar is about anyway. Just my
opinion.
~Tracy~
*** Well, lets look at a comparable situation.
Lets say Disney decided to do a movie about Tevis; perhaps focus on some "hard
luck" winner, or maybe even a first time winner. Then lets say they
showed all kinds of horses falling off cliffs, breaking legs in rocks, racing
in dangerous places, being ridden to death, you get the picture. Then
lets say they promote this is a "true story."
It would not be honest and would give an inaccurate
picture of Tevis and endurance riding.
The movie Hildago is promoted about being about some
brutal endurance race....again, maybe giving a false and bad impression of
endurance riding.
All Disney had to do, and the ethical thing to have done
would have been to promote the movie as
