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* AdaptationDistillation: While not getting ''everything'' right (and cutting the dialogue for all of the animals besides Beauty), the 1994 movie starring David Thewlis is the best of the film versions. (Not to mention that David Thewlis as [[FriendToAllLivingThings Jerry Barker]] is some of the best casting in film history.)
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* AdaptationDistillation: While not getting ''everything'' right (and cutting the dialogue for all of the animals besides Beauty), the 1994 movie starring David Thewlis is considered the best of the film versions. (Not to mention that David Thewlis as [[FriendToAllLivingThings Jerry Barker]] is some of the best casting in film history.)
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* AuthorFilibuster: At least half the book is devoted to characters spending entire chapters basically getting on soapboxes to deliver lectures that have little or nothing to do with the actual plot (such as politics).
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** It's even worse in the book or comic when you actually read the conversation Beauty and Ginger has [[spoiler:the last time he sees her alive. To paraphrase:]]
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** It's even worse in the book or comic when you actually read the conversation Beauty and Ginger has have [[spoiler:the last time he sees her alive. To paraphrase:]]
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* HorsingAround: At least twice Beauty rebels against orders. The first time he refuses to cross an unsafe bridge; the second, he pitches a fit at the bearing rein. He is meant to have the audience's sympathy (and he does) both times.
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** At least twice Beauty rebels against orders. The first time he refuses to cross an unsafe bridge; the second, he pitches a fit at the bearing rein. He is meant to have the audience's sympathy (and he does) bothtimes.times.
** The book also includes a scene in which Beauty, and John riding him, observe a boy trying to whip his pony into jumping a fence too high for it, and getting tipped out of the saddle and over the fence on his own for his trouble. As in the examples involving Beauty, the reader's sympathy, like John's, is with the pony.
** At least twice Beauty rebels against orders. The first time he refuses to cross an unsafe bridge; the second, he pitches a fit at the bearing rein. He is meant to have the audience's sympathy (and he does) both
** The book also includes a scene in which Beauty, and John riding him, observe a boy trying to whip his pony into jumping a fence too high for it, and getting tipped out of the saddle and over the fence on his own for his trouble. As in the examples involving Beauty, the reader's sympathy, like John's, is with the pony.
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* NearlyNormalAnimal: Beauty is entirely a horse, but he is capable of grasping maxims like "always do your best" and "keep up your good name." His mother tells him not to kick or bite, not for threat of punishment, but because he is of a good family and above such coarse behavior.
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--> '''Ginger''': [[spoiler:There's no use anymore. Humans are stronger. I just want to die now. I've seen dead horses, and I know they don't suffer.]]
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--> '''Ginger''': [[spoiler:There's no use anymore. Humans are stronger. I just want to die now. I've seen dead horses, and I know I'm sure they don't suffer.]]
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** Plus the soundtrack for the film was composed by none other than DannyElfman. Go to the YMMV page for a list over the best pieces.
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** Plus the soundtrack for the film was composed by none other than DannyElfman. Go to the YMMV page here for a list over the best pieces.
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* GenderFlip: In a 1995 animated adaptation, Joe was changed into a girl named Jenny.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: There are at least two animated versions for children where [[spoiler:Ginger]] survives in the end.
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** It's even worse in the book or comic when you actually read the conversation Beauty and Ginger has [[spoiler:the last time he sees her alive:]]
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--> '''Beauty''' (paraphrasing): What happened, Ginger? [[spoiler:You used to defend yourself when people abused you.]]
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** It's even worse in the book or comic when you actually read the conversation Beauty and Ginger has [[spoiler:the last time he sees her alive:]]
alive. To paraphrase:]]
-->'''Beauty''' (paraphrasing): '''Beauty''': What happened, Ginger? [[spoiler:You used to defend yourself when people abused you.]]
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--> '''Beauty''' (paraphrasing): What happened, Ginger? [[spoiler:You used to defend yourself when people abused you."]]
--> '''Ginger''': [[spoiler:There's no use anymore. Humans are stronger. I just want to die now. I've seen dead horses, and I know they don't suffer.]]
--> '''Beauty''' (paraphrasing): What happened, Ginger? [[spoiler:You used to defend yourself when people abused you."]]
--> '''Ginger''': [[spoiler:There's no use anymore. Humans are stronger. I just want to die now. I've seen dead horses, and I know they don't suffer.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Ginger. Poor, poor, beautiful Ginger.
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* DefrostingIceQueen:A rare live action example with animals: Ginger.Ginger. Unusually for this trope, she is 'defrosted' by kind and humane treatment by her humans, not by the efforts of the hero.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The attitude of some owners to their horses. Several of the horses we see under these masters have crossed the DespairEventHorizon and are waiting to die, particularly [[spoiler:Ginger]].
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* ForegoneConclusion: The 1994 movie opens with the happy home Beauty ends up at before beginning his story.
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* MeaningfulName: Ginger is called such not because she's a chestnut, but because she snaps.
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* MatureAnimalStory: While the novel does not contain any material that is inappropriate for children, much of it would probably go over their heads.
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Along the way Beauty also provides a horse's perspective on the human capacity for cruelty and kindness, and comparisons between the treatment of animals and the treatment of poor working-class humans.
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->''"There are a great many kinds of men; there are good, thoughtful men like our master, that any horse may be proud to serve; but there are bad, cruel men, who never ought to have a horse or dog to call their own. Beside, there are a great many foolish men, vain, ignorant, and careless, who never trouble themselves to think; these spoil more horses than all, just for want of sense; they don't mean it, but they do it for all that. I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us, but still I say, do your best, wherever it is, and keep up your good name."''
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Today it is considered a classic of children's literature.
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Today it is considered a classic of children's literature.
literature; however, originally it was not written for children, but was written to raise the awareness of animal cruelty.
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Only in-universe; for example, Beauty is nearly killed by a groom who gives him cold water and leaves him standing uncovered in his stall after a strenuous effort.
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Only in-universe; for example, Beauty is nearly killed by a groom who gives him cold water and leaves him standing uncovered in his stall after a strenuous effort. This is an invitation for colic, and it causes all the horse's muscles to lock up.
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Literary critics notwithstanding, Sewell is explicitly on record as to her intentions for the book. The allegory is there, but it\'s not the main point.
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''Black Beauty'' is an 1877 novel by Anna Sewell, tracing the life of the titular fictional horse from colthood to retirement. Beauty provides a horse's perspective on the human capacity for cruelty and kindness, and comparisons between the treatment of animals and the treatment of poor working-class humans.
It's [[CompletelyMissingThePoint thought by many today]] that Sewell originally intended the book to be read by people who work with horses, to encourage them to think about the way they treat their animals. Most literary critics these days, however, point out that the book was not intended to be a polemic against animal abuse; it was meant as an allegory intended to teach ''servants'' the importance of subservient, unquestioning obedience to even a bad master.
It's [[CompletelyMissingThePoint thought by many today]] that Sewell originally intended the book to be read by people who work with horses, to encourage them to think about the way they treat their animals. Most literary critics these days, however, point out that the book was not intended to be a polemic against animal abuse; it was meant as an allegory intended to teach ''servants'' the importance of subservient, unquestioning obedience to even a bad master.
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''Black Beauty'' is an 1877 polemic novel by Anna Sewell, tracing the life of the titular fictional horse from colthood to retirement. Beauty provides a horse's perspective on retirement in an effort to draw attention to the human capacity for cruelty and kindness, and comparisons between the wildly varying treatment of animals horses in Victorian England, featuring mini-lectures on everything from bits and the treatment of poor working-class humans.blinkers to broken knees.
It's [[CompletelyMissingThePoint thought by many today]] that Sewell originally intended the book to be read by people who work with horses, to encourage them to think about Along the way they treat their animals. Most literary critics these days, however, point out that Beauty also provides a horse's perspective on the book was not intended to be a polemic against animal abuse; it was meant as an allegory intended to teach ''servants'' human capacity for cruelty and kindness, and comparisons between the importance treatment of subservient, unquestioning obedience to even a bad master.
animals and the treatment of poor working-class humans.
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''Black Beauty'' is an 1877 novel by Anna Sewell, tracing the life of the titular fictional horse from colthood to retirement. Beauty provides a horse's perspective on the human capacity for cruelty and kindness, and comparisons between the treatment of animals and the treatment of poor working-class humans.
It's [[CompletelyMissingThePoint thought by many today]] that Sewell originally intended the book to be read by people who work with horses, to encourage them to think about the way they treat their animals. Most literary critics these days, however, point out that the book was not intended to be a polemic against animal abuse; it was meant as an allegory intended to teach ''servants'' the importance of subservient, unquestioning obedience to even a bad master.
Today it is considered a classic of children's literature.
Many film and television adaptations have been made, with varying degrees of faithfulness to the original work.
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'''Provides examples of:'''
* AdaptationDistillation: While not getting ''everything'' right (and cutting the dialogue for all of the animals besides Beauty), the 1994 movie starring David Thewlis is the best of the film versions. (Not to mention that David Thewlis as [[FriendToAllLivingThings Jerry Barker]] is some of the best casting in film history.)
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Many of the film versions like to throw this in there.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Mostly averted. Once you get past the fact that the horse is narrating his own life story, Beauty largely behaves like a normal horse - for instance, being too terrified to leave a burning barn until he's blindfolded and led out.
* AnimalStereotypes: Black Beauty fits the horse stereotype to a T.
* AnimalTalk
* AnimatedAdaptation: Courtesy of Goodtimes.
* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Only in-universe; for example, Beauty is nearly killed by a groom who gives him cold water and leaves him standing uncovered in his stall after a strenuous effort.
* AuthorTract: The original purpose of the novel was to get people to be a little more conscious about the way they treated animals. Boy, did it work. Giving particular weight to the moral was that if religion did not teach people to be kind to animals, it was a sham (remember, this was read by Victorian Britons).
** Anna Sewell suffered a serious injury in childhood which eventually left her unable to stand or walk unaided, and hence needing horses/ponies to get around. This constant exposure to them and their welfare was the motivation behind her book.
** There came a major outpouring of concern about animal welfare
** The bearing rein lost a lot of favor. It's still used as a piece of safety equipment (to keep the reins from getting tangled) but is never tightened as much as it once was.
** Laws were changed, including those which eased financial strains on cabdrivers, which led to better treatment of the horses.
* BitchAlert: Lady Wexmere in the 1994 film. Her first scene is her having the bearing rein tightened over the horses, stating "they're not fit to be seen". Ginger gets a bit of an introduction like this but Beauty is attracted to her immediately.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Beauty ends up in a good home with the promise of never being sold again. Ginger however continues to suffer under one cruel owner after the other, ultimately killing her. Combine with Beauty [[TearJerker seeing her dead body, hoping her pain is finally at an end, and the ending with him dreaming about the days the two were together, along with Merrylegs.]]]]
* BreakTheCutie: Ginger. Poor, poor, beautiful Ginger.
* DefrostingIceQueen: A rare live action example with animals: Ginger.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: You're damn right that horse has to earn his happy ending.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: Merrylegs the pony is specifically cited as being this. Of course, it helps that, being a ''Shetland'' pony, he's pretty much child-sized.
** Although, despite their cute appearance, Shetlands do not automatically make good pets. They were bred as working animals, and although intelligent and sociable, they can develop stubborn temperaments and become impatient and snappy, particularly if they've been spoilt or inconsistently handled. Treated with care, they make good companion animals but they're not for children who think they can get away with not treating an animal with full respect and care.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Quite a few in fact. At least four movies.
* FollowTheLeader: Inspired many similar books.
* [[HorsebackHeroism Horsey Heroism]]: Beauty (and to a lesser extent, the groom who rides him) saves his mistress's life when he brings the doctor in time.
* HorsingAround: At least twice Beauty rebels against orders. The first time he refuses to cross an unsafe bridge; the second, he pitches a fit at the bearing rein. He is meant to have the audience's sympathy (and he does) both times.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: See if you can read the words "bearing rein" without being thrown into a frothing rage.
* IWillFindYou: What Joe tells Beauty when leaving him in his new home.
* KickTheDog: Some of the more villainous characters get to do this.
* MiniSeries
* RearingHorse: Mostly played straight; downplayed with the pony Merrylegs, who would do this as a gentle way to get passengers off his back when he'd had enough of them (he is, of course, a lot closer to the ground).
* RecursiveAdaptation
* ShinyMidnightBlack
* SpiritedYoungLady: Lady Anne, based on what we see of her.
* SpoilerOpening: In the movie.
* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?]]
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It's [[CompletelyMissingThePoint thought by many today]] that Sewell originally intended the book to be read by people who work with horses, to encourage them to think about the way they treat their animals. Most literary critics these days, however, point out that the book was not intended to be a polemic against animal abuse; it was meant as an allegory intended to teach ''servants'' the importance of subservient, unquestioning obedience to even a bad master.
Today it is considered a classic of children's literature.
Many film and television adaptations have been made, with varying degrees of faithfulness to the original work.
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'''Provides examples of:'''
* AdaptationDistillation: While not getting ''everything'' right (and cutting the dialogue for all of the animals besides Beauty), the 1994 movie starring David Thewlis is the best of the film versions. (Not to mention that David Thewlis as [[FriendToAllLivingThings Jerry Barker]] is some of the best casting in film history.)
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Many of the film versions like to throw this in there.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Mostly averted. Once you get past the fact that the horse is narrating his own life story, Beauty largely behaves like a normal horse - for instance, being too terrified to leave a burning barn until he's blindfolded and led out.
* AnimalStereotypes: Black Beauty fits the horse stereotype to a T.
* AnimalTalk
* AnimatedAdaptation: Courtesy of Goodtimes.
* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Only in-universe; for example, Beauty is nearly killed by a groom who gives him cold water and leaves him standing uncovered in his stall after a strenuous effort.
* AuthorTract: The original purpose of the novel was to get people to be a little more conscious about the way they treated animals. Boy, did it work. Giving particular weight to the moral was that if religion did not teach people to be kind to animals, it was a sham (remember, this was read by Victorian Britons).
** Anna Sewell suffered a serious injury in childhood which eventually left her unable to stand or walk unaided, and hence needing horses/ponies to get around. This constant exposure to them and their welfare was the motivation behind her book.
** There came a major outpouring of concern about animal welfare
** The bearing rein lost a lot of favor. It's still used as a piece of safety equipment (to keep the reins from getting tangled) but is never tightened as much as it once was.
** Laws were changed, including those which eased financial strains on cabdrivers, which led to better treatment of the horses.
* BitchAlert: Lady Wexmere in the 1994 film. Her first scene is her having the bearing rein tightened over the horses, stating "they're not fit to be seen". Ginger gets a bit of an introduction like this but Beauty is attracted to her immediately.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Beauty ends up in a good home with the promise of never being sold again. Ginger however continues to suffer under one cruel owner after the other, ultimately killing her. Combine with Beauty [[TearJerker seeing her dead body, hoping her pain is finally at an end, and the ending with him dreaming about the days the two were together, along with Merrylegs.]]]]
* BreakTheCutie: Ginger. Poor, poor, beautiful Ginger.
* DefrostingIceQueen: A rare live action example with animals: Ginger.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: You're damn right that horse has to earn his happy ending.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: Merrylegs the pony is specifically cited as being this. Of course, it helps that, being a ''Shetland'' pony, he's pretty much child-sized.
** Although, despite their cute appearance, Shetlands do not automatically make good pets. They were bred as working animals, and although intelligent and sociable, they can develop stubborn temperaments and become impatient and snappy, particularly if they've been spoilt or inconsistently handled. Treated with care, they make good companion animals but they're not for children who think they can get away with not treating an animal with full respect and care.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: Quite a few in fact. At least four movies.
* FollowTheLeader: Inspired many similar books.
* [[HorsebackHeroism Horsey Heroism]]: Beauty (and to a lesser extent, the groom who rides him) saves his mistress's life when he brings the doctor in time.
* HorsingAround: At least twice Beauty rebels against orders. The first time he refuses to cross an unsafe bridge; the second, he pitches a fit at the bearing rein. He is meant to have the audience's sympathy (and he does) both times.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: See if you can read the words "bearing rein" without being thrown into a frothing rage.
* IWillFindYou: What Joe tells Beauty when leaving him in his new home.
* KickTheDog: Some of the more villainous characters get to do this.
* MiniSeries
* RearingHorse: Mostly played straight; downplayed with the pony Merrylegs, who would do this as a gentle way to get passengers off his back when he'd had enough of them (he is, of course, a lot closer to the ground).
* RecursiveAdaptation
* ShinyMidnightBlack
* SpiritedYoungLady: Lady Anne, based on what we see of her.
* SpoilerOpening: In the movie.
* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?]]
* {{Xenofiction}}
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