The last scene of the movie, especially where Georgie falls back so the Seabiscuit can get a look in the eyes of the other horse, always gets me. Makes me cry every time. Anybody else???
Last Movie Watched:Seabiscuit
Rating:Beautiful and touching emotional journey w/ a great cast! 8/10!
Most Anticipated Release: Pursuit of Happyness
"So much happened before Dorothy dropped in!"
*puts hand up*
did the same to me earlier on when it was on uk terrestrial tv
and i NEVER cry during films lol
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haha! i watched it too today!
i loved that bit, i had tears in my eyes and i was thinking that George was well nice to do that for him. lovely really.
but i was really excited to see what happened...sod the fact i had already seen it lol.
I sort of cried when the film came to an end. The last race had me in tears! I didn't think Seabiscuit would be able to make it. What a great film :)
shareif you read the book though, it's obvious the ending is fantasy...Red and George had a massive argument because of the tension involved over riding seabiscuit and apparently their friendship never recovered...i don't suppose showing them fighting each other on the back stretch would have fitted the film. But the ending is pure artistic license
Interesting! I may read the book one day!
shareI didn't cry but the last scene also made a deep impression on me. It was the genuine friendship between the two - the respect, the support, the acceptance of the truth that touched me so much. And I was jubilant that Seabiscuit was finally granted by fate the recognition that he truly deserved for his vastly superior talent. How the initially misunderstood, underestimated, disdained horse for his diminutiveness, humiliated for his ugly physique had come into his own. How he had "healed" the hidden broken part in the lives of Charles Howard, Tom Smith and Red Pollard.
But I didn't think that Georgie or Iceman fell back to give Seabiscuit the chance to psyche out his horse. In the movie, Pollard caught up with Woolf, seemed the two of them were the last of the pack - the rest were way out in front of them - Woolf just urged Pollard to "go on boy, go" because Georgie knew his horse doesn't have a chance against the Biscuit, so there and then Biscuit and Red went on to outrun all the other horses that were so far ahead of them.
Regarding this last scene, it's true that some artistic licence was resorted to but then it wasn't pure fantasy either. In the book SEABISCUIT An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, (A Ballantine Book, copyright 2001, 339 pages) there are these passages:
Page 308-309
. . . . . .After the workout, Smith entered Seabiscuit in the San Felipe Handicap, scheduled for January 30. Pollard awaited a decision on whether or not he would be in the irons. Smith announced that Pollard would ride. But Howard added an escape clause: Pollard would ride only if he was fit to do so. If he wasn't, Howard said, Woolf had the mount. He said nothing about the hundred-grander, now just a month away.
. . . . . .Woolf and Pollard fell into the first crisis of their friendship. To Pollard, the mount on Seabiscuit could not have been more important. The horse meant financial rescue, the ability to meet his responsibilities as father and husband, professional redemption, and the end of a long, public humiliation. But Woolf must have burned with the frustration of the nose loss in 1938, and the guilt for having possibly exacerbated the horse's injury in 1939. In announcing publicly that it was Woolf or Pollard, Howard inadvertently set the two against each other.
. . . . . .Somewhere along the backstretch, Woolf and Pollard had a bitter argument over Seabiscuit, nearly coming to blows. When they walked away, their friendship was broken.
Page 322-323
. . . . . .. . . Carrying 130 pounds, 22 more than Wedding Call and 16 more than Whichcee, Seabiscuit delivered a tremendous surge. He slashed into the hole, disappeared between his two larger opponents, then bursts into the lead. Pollard's leg cleared Whichcee by no more than an inch. Whichcee tried to go with Seabiscuit. Pollard let his mount dog him, mocking him, and Whichcee broke. Seabiscuit shook free and hurtled into the homestretch alone as the field fell away behind him.
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. . . . . .Twelve straining Thoroughbreds; Howard and Smith in the grandstand; Agnes in the surging crowd; Woolf behind Pollard, on Heelfly; . . . all these fell away. The world narrowed to a man and his horse, running.
. . . . . .In the center of the track, a closer broke from the pack and rolled into Seabiscuit's lead, a ghost from his past. It was Kayak, charging at him with a fury. Pollard never looked back. He knew who it was.
. . . . . .Pollard felt a pause. For the last time in his life, Seabiscuit eased up to tease an opponent. Kayak came to him and drew even. Up on Kayak, Buddy Haas had never heard such a thunder as was pouring from the grandstand and infield. He drilled everything he had, he said later, at Seabiscuit.
. . . . . .Pollard let Seabiscuit savor his last rival, then asked him again. He felt the sweet press of sudden acceleration. A moment later, Pollard and Seabiscuit were alone again, burning over the track, Kayak spinning off behind, the wire crossing overhead.
Page 324
. . . . . .He walked Seabiscuit through the masses of shouting fans to the winner's circle. The horse was strutting like a prize fighter. "Don't think," Pollard said later, "he didn't know he was hero."
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. . . . . .Pollard uncinched his saddle and walked up the track to a chorus of wild cheering, tears still flowing over his cheeks. Fans were fighting to get close to him, shake his hand. He slipped into the jockeys' room and pulled off his silks. ...
. . . . . .Woolf stood across the room. Whatever had separated him from Pollard had vanished. Both knew it. ...
. . . . . .There was no trace of bitterness in Woolf's voice when he spoke of the race. He didn't mind losing. "There was just too much Seabiscuit," he said. "Just the greatest horse I ever saw."
Page 325
. . . . . .Red, Agnes, David Alexander, and Yummy spent the evening in The Derby, a tavern Woolf had bought in preparation for his retirement. ...
I watched this for the first time last night and the last race scene was very emotional. This is the best film I've seen in a very long time. I'm going to go out and buy the book.
shareI thought it was just me, but the last scenes make me cry every time! Such a great underdog film. Does anyone know if the race at the end of the film was seabiscuits last or did he go on to win more?
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A lot of scenes in this movie makes me cry, but I'm really emotional when I watch things like that on tv or film. But this is one of the worst(or best?) in the make me cry wise of way. It's really emotional and that it's based on a true story just adds that up.
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I cried at the end as well as other parts in Seabiscuit.
I cried when he started talking to George because I knew he was going to win at that point.
It was a beautiful and heartfelt movie.
"Come Again? That's what she said."
the last scene and the war admiral scene when George pulls biscuit back and then looks at the guy riding war admiral and says, "see ya later charlie" and then biscuit breaks out and wins by like 10 lengths...awesome tear inspiring stuff
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I love this film. It's just a really good film without the need for cut-out villains. Just the story of broken people and a horse finding comfort and rebirth in the warmth of others.
It's a great story but I have to agree that there is just something in the final race that both breaks me and lifts me.
As they leave the gates the rest of the field takes off and despite their best efforts, Seabiscuit and Red just can't keep up. There is something so sad in seeing someone try valiantly but failing. Almost as if they have to accept that they are too old and too broken.
What then adds to the emotion is the way Georgie, seeing him lagging behind(and knowing that he isn't on a race winning horse) slowly drops his horse back to give Seabiscuit something to chase.
It's a lovely moment of self-sacrifice and gives the horse the 'hunger' it needs to go blasting after the rest of the field. A wonderful film and a fabulous way to end.
I might add that I do also well up a little but in a moment of pure joy, when in the match race SeaBiscuit slows up, looks War Admiral in the eye and then lights the touch paper. You just wanna punch the air.
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