{"id":1383,"date":"2010-12-04T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2010-12-04T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T18:40:03","slug":"animal-instinct-spike-jonze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/animal-instinct-spike-jonze\/","title":{"rendered":"“Animal Instinct” – Spike Jonze"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WILD THING: Spike Jonze, with a friend from Where the Wild Things Are, wonders if anyone could make a a film like The Black Stallion anymore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carroll Ballard’s The Black Stallion is a legendary piece of visual filmmaking. Spike Jonze studied it for Where the Wild Things Are, and explains how Ballard effortlessly tells a rousing story with few words.<\/p>\n

By Rob Feld<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a rare filmmaker with such a delicate touch,\u201d says Spike Jonze, settling in to watch Carroll Ballard\u2019s The Black Stallion. \u201cHe\u2019s like Terrence Malick in a way: very patient and confident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonze has chosen to screen the film about a boy and the horse he loves because of the influence it had on his last movie, Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak, who wrote the children\u2019s book it was based on, had suggested he see it again. \u201cI remember loving this movie as a kid,\u201d says Jonze. \u201cWhen I re-watched it, I was astounded by the beauty of the relationship. The first 45 minutes, with almost no dialogue, is always what gets me. It captures the point of view of a boy observing the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ballard\u2019s treatment of Walter Farley\u2019s novel follows Alec Ramsey (Kelly Reno), who saves, and in turn is saved by, a powerful black stallion. The boy is traveling with his father (Hoyt Axton) on an ocean liner, and Ballard introduces the boat as a wonderland inhabited by strange characters. \u201cOne of the great things about the film was the casting, the specialness of the boy Ballard found, and the way he worked with him,\u201d says Jonze. \u201cThe boy had never acted before, but the movie wouldn\u2019t have worked if they didn\u2019t have this kid who\u2019s face you could hold on in silence for long scenes, and understand what he\u2019s feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carroll Ballard’s The Black Stallion is a legendary piece of visual filmmaking. Spike Jonze studied it for Where the Wild Things Are, and explains how Ballard effortlessly tells a rousing story with few words. By Rob Feld He\u2019s a rare filmmaker with such a delicate touch,\u201d says Spike Jonze, settling in to watch Carroll Ballard\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[185,184],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-stallion","category-media","tag-article","tag-spike-jonze"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}