Oceano di fuoco - Hidalgo

Titolo originale: Hidalgo
Regia: Joe Johnston |
Anno: 2004
Origine: United States of America | Morocco |
Generi: Western Avventura
Tag: epic | middle east | horse race | horse | racehorse | biography | sheik | mustang | sword fight | desert | cowboy | pony express | 19th century |
Cast: Viggo Mortensen | Zuleikha Robinson | Omar Sharif | Louise Lombard | J.K. Simmons | Adoni Maropis | Silas Carson | C. Thomas Howell | Chris Owen | Frank Collison | Victor Talmadge | Adam Alexi-Malle | Harsh Nayyar | Joshua Wolf Coleman | Saïd Taghmaoui | Peter Mensah | Franky Mwangi | Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman | Elizabeth Berridge | Kimberly Guerrero | Zac Badasci | Stevan Rimkus | Jerry Hardin | Marshall Manesh | George Gerdes | Todd Kimsey | Malcolm McDowell | Mo Brings Plenty |

I giorni di gloria di Frank T. Hopkins, famoso cowboy, sono ormai finiti. Insieme al suo cavallo mustang Hidalgo è in cerca di riscatto, così lascia gli Stati Uniti per partecipare all'estenuante 'Oceano di fuoco', una gara di 3000 miglia attraverso il deserto arabico. Cavallo e cavaliere sono i primi stranieri ammessi alla durissima gara di resistenza che ben presto si trasforma in una questione di orgoglio e di onore...

Approfondimenti

The start of the race was one of the most difficult scenes to film. Many of the horses started [...] D
When distributed in Egypt, the Arabic translation of "fifth wife" is "fourth wife" since in Isl [...] D
Lady Anne shares her name with Lady Anne Blunt, a baroness who was an avid Arabian horse breede [...] D
Viggo Mortensen was cast based on his performance in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. D
Halfway through the film's original theatrical trailer, "Going The Distance," a Bill Conti comp [...] D
Computer graphics were used to cover the crew's tracks and give the desert a pristine look. D
Sheikh Riyadh asks Hopkins if he would like to play cards. Hopkins declines, claiming he's not [...] D
Viggo Mortensen made his own hatband out of a hank of hair from a horse's tail. D
Viggo Mortensen did many of his own stunts and horse riding in the movie. D
First theatrical trailer was released with Il Signore degli Anelli - Le due torri (2002), to ca [...] D
The characters of Viggo Mortensen (Frank T. Hopkins) in Hidalgo, and of Tom Cruise (Nathan Algr [...] D
Was released in movie theaters as a Disney movie, but changed to Touchstone Pictures for the VH [...] D
Omar Sharif was cast while filming Monsieur Ibrahim e i fiori del Corano (2003). Before that, h [...] D
The design team created edible locusts out of paper, sugar, onion skin, and a pretzel-like mate [...] D
The Shiekh's daughter pronounces "Calamity" as "ka-la-Mah-ti". A popular woman's name in India [...] D
Screenwriter John Fusco did not intend the movie to be seen as any kind of political allegory. [...] D
Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse who played the title character (T.J.) after this film was c [...] D
There were real-life descendants of both the Lakota and US cavalrymen serving as extras in the [...] D
In the beginning of the film, after the massacre of Wounded Knee, we see chief Big Foot lying d [...] D
Screenwriter John Fusco got the idea for the film when doing research for Cuore di tuono (1992) [...] D
Twenty-five different animal species appear in the movie. D
While the film claims to be "based on a true story," it's more likely that it was just a story [...] D
Johnny Depp revealed in sworn testimony at his defamation trial against Amber Heard that Disney [...] D
John Fusco named one of his horses Hidalgo while he was writing the movie. D
Viggo Mortensen took photos of the Ghost Dancers on set and published them in a book called Miy [...] D
The final horse scene was filmed in Browning, Montana. 550 different horses were used in that s [...] D
In screenwriter John Fusco's Cuore di tuono (1992), the main character also has a vision of Gho [...] D
A strong cross-wind created dangerous conditions for the beginning of the race. Joe Johnston re [...] D
This was the last major released film to be available on VHS D
Viggo Mortensen gathered a bag full of earth at the real Wounded Knee and strewed it around the [...] D
The look of the locust swarm is based on a scene in La buona terra (1937). D
The horse who plays Al-Hattal is a black Arabian show champion named TC Bey Cedar. He is owned [...] D
The New York docks are actually a parking lot in Southern California. D
120 real locusts were used in the locust storm scene, along with prop locusts and computer grap [...] D
The scene when Frank realizes his knife is too short to fight the swordsman, and decides to thr [...] D
Five "American Paint Horse Association" registered Paint Horses played the role of Hidalgo. D