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Sooooo…yeah. I dated someone once who was brilliant in some ways, and not in others, but I very much loved them still, though our intellectual conversations were kept to a minimum.
After watching a particularly violent Western movie where a lot of horses were injured, shot, or killed, she seemed kind of disturbed. She was dead quiet after leaving the theater, and just seemed like she was thinking through it all and processing the story.
Halfway through the drive home, out of nowhere she says “Where do all the horses go?”
The question kind of threw me, and waited a second to process what she had just asked me. I thought I misheard her, and there was a noticably uncomfortable gap in me reply.
“What? How do you mean?”
“Where do all the horses go after the movie? Like, what do they do with all the dead horses?”
In that moment, I froze, and I started to kind of chuckle as I thought she was making a joke. Then I realized the was serious. A 30-year old was asking me this question. A self-admitted movie buff, she called herself.
It was then that I knew this relationship wasn’t viable long-term.
TBF there were some movies in the past where horses died during production (I believe Ben Hur was one of them). That’s why nowadays there is a disclaimer saying no animals were harmed making the movie.
This was not an older movie, and if she’d ever watched the credits of a modern movie (as a movie buff), she would have certainly seen all the stunt coordination credits, and the tag about no animals being harmed.
When I was about 5 years old I saw a movie that was based on a true story about a blind man. The man was played by the first Paul Atreides actor, Kyle MacLachlan. So then when I saw him in an alien sci-fi some time later I was freaked out. I asked my mom how he could do everything in the movie if he’s blind. See, I thought that if a movie was based on a true story that the real person from the story was the actor portraying them in the movie. But I was 5 years old when I learned about movie magic. It’s kind of crazy that your ex-girlfriend hadn’t learned that well into adulthood.
Well, he is! I actually always think about him as the alien FBI agent from The Hidden, since that’s when I learned he is an actor and not a blind guy with a movie made about him. I didn’t even realize that he has been in more recent stuff like Portlandia and How I Met Your Mother. I guess he was in the Twin Peaks remake too? He’s a pretty cool actor.
Yeah isn’t he The Captain? (how I met your mother, how I always call him out with my girlfriend). Yes I know he did plenty but for some reason that one sticks, even if I half watched Dune with my dad in the 80s and 90s.
Sooooo…yeah. I dated someone once who was brilliant in some ways, and not in others, but I very much loved them still, though our intellectual conversations were kept to a minimum.
After watching a particularly violent Western movie where a lot of horses were injured, shot, or killed, she seemed kind of disturbed. She was dead quiet after leaving the theater, and just seemed like she was thinking through it all and processing the story.
Halfway through the drive home, out of nowhere she says “Where do all the horses go?”
The question kind of threw me, and waited a second to process what she had just asked me. I thought I misheard her, and there was a noticably uncomfortable gap in me reply.
“What? How do you mean?”
“Where do all the horses go after the movie? Like, what do they do with all the dead horses?”
In that moment, I froze, and I started to kind of chuckle as I thought she was making a joke. Then I realized the was serious. A 30-year old was asking me this question. A self-admitted movie buff, she called herself.
It was then that I knew this relationship wasn’t viable long-term.
Bullet dodged
A horse-sized bullet
I think I’d rather dodge 100 duck-sized bullets
They shoot them with actor bullets, which are only pretending to he lethal, of course.
Tell that to Alec Baldwin…
TBF there were some movies in the past where horses died during production (I believe Ben Hur was one of them). That’s why nowadays there is a disclaimer saying no animals were harmed making the movie.
This was not an older movie, and if she’d ever watched the credits of a modern movie (as a movie buff), she would have certainly seen all the stunt coordination credits, and the tag about no animals being harmed.
When I was about 5 years old I saw a movie that was based on a true story about a blind man. The man was played by the first Paul Atreides actor, Kyle MacLachlan. So then when I saw him in an alien sci-fi some time later I was freaked out. I asked my mom how he could do everything in the movie if he’s blind. See, I thought that if a movie was based on a true story that the real person from the story was the actor portraying them in the movie. But I was 5 years old when I learned about movie magic. It’s kind of crazy that your ex-girlfriend hadn’t learned that well into adulthood.
Sorry I’m still trying to get over describing Kyle Maclachlan as “the first Paul Atreides actor” lol
Well, he is! I actually always think about him as the alien FBI agent from The Hidden, since that’s when I learned he is an actor and not a blind guy with a movie made about him. I didn’t even realize that he has been in more recent stuff like Portlandia and How I Met Your Mother. I guess he was in the Twin Peaks remake too? He’s a pretty cool actor.
Yeah isn’t he The Captain? (how I met your mother, how I always call him out with my girlfriend). Yes I know he did plenty but for some reason that one sticks, even if I half watched Dune with my dad in the 80s and 90s.
tbh, that’s a fair question. I would have asked them same thing, if only to hope you’d say something like:
“What, no. The horses didn’t die. It was a movie. They pretended to kill them.”
Especially if you’re already emotionally worked up.
Don’t they bury them with the dead actors that rode them? That’s how it used to be done.
A girl my friend dated once asked why islands don’t float away. She was in Gifted classes.