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''Hidalgo'' tells the story of Frank Hopkins (ViggoMortensen), an American cowboy who was reduced to touring in Buffalo Bill Cody's ''Wild Wild West'' travelling show. He is the owner of a paint Mustang, Hidalgo, with whom he has an extraordinary bond.

Hopkins is then invited to compete in a famous Arabian race, the Ocean of Fire, three thousand miles across some of the hottest, most forbidding desert in the world. While there he meets Sheikh Riyadh (Omar Sharif), owner of Al-Hattal, the most perfect Arabian horse in the world at that time, who loves tales of the American West; the sheikh's daughter, Jazira (Zuleikha Robinson), who rides like the wind and is not at all the meek Bedouin woman she pretends to be, and who is promised to the Prince riding Al-Hattal; Lady Anne Davenport (Louise Lombard), owner of a gray Arabian mare whom she wishes to breed with Al-Hattal; and Prince Bin Al Reeh (Said Taghmaoui), who wants Al-Hattal - and Jazira - for his own.

''Hidalgo'' has chases, shootouts, rescues, and triumphs over unbelievable odds. It is anything but a true story, but, to quote RogerEbert, "... if you do not have some secret place in your soul that still responds even a little to brave cowboys, beautiful princesses and noble horses, then you are way too grown up and need to cut back on cable news. And please ignore any tiresome scolds who complain that the movie is not really based on fact. Duh."
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!!Contains Examples Of:
* AntiHero: Frank is a type II.
* ArtisticLicense / BasedOnAGreatBigLie / VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Take your pick.
* {{Badass}}: Frank. 
* BarBrawl
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Frank carries the message that results in the Wounded Knee Massacre, becomes the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and culminates by basically making the government to declare the Mustang horse a protected species.
* BerserkButton: "[[PreMortemOneLiner Nobody hurts my horse.]]" ''*yank*''
* TheBigRace
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Numerous mooks, Native-Indians, and extras actually die first, but the Nubian servant is the first significant (named) character to kick the bucket.
* ChekhovsGun: Jazira telling Frank that grasshoppers are a gift from heaven. 
* CoolHorse: Duh.
* DrowningMySorrows: Frank. 
* EpicRace
* EvilBrit: No British character in this film is honest.
* FakeMixedRace: The leading character is played by Viggo Mortensen.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Lady Anne Davenport (Louise Lombard) wears some simply stunning [[VictorianBritain Victorian]] riding outfits.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Frank had a white father and a Native American mother. As a result, he said he didn't know where he belonged.
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Aragorn is apparently still doing the hero thing.
** It's that [[ThreeKings Iraqi torturer]], being a jackass again.
** The princess is also Ilana from ''{{Lost}}''
* HighClassGlass
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Chief Eagle Horn in Buffalo Bill's show (played by Floyd Red Crow) could qualify.
* MightyWhitey: Two counts: First, Hopkins comes to be seen as a champion of the Native Americans (perhaps forgivable, as he is indeed half-Indian, and on an Indian horse). Second, the entire premise is that he beats the Arabians and the Bedouins at their own race, on their own land, against their champion riders and horses. And also has to bat off the Sheik's daughter, to boot.
* MixedAncestry: Frank as portrayed in the film is half Native American and half white.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Frank remembers he is this just when his fighting skills are needed.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Averted with Frank, who sings his death song, as traditional Lakotah do. Mortensen learned the Lakotah language for this picture.
* SaveThePrincess: The [[FauxActionGirl horse riding, headstrong princess]] still ends up playing this trope straight.
* SceneryPorn: The views of the Arabian landscape and especially the extremely colorful sunsets over the desert definitely count as this.
* SecondPersonAttack: As seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnjRUVYRY8 this trailer]] at around 2:08.
* ShooTheDog: Played straight at the end of the movie and surprisingly without angst. Yes folks, sometimes horses do just walk away.
* SpikesOfDoom: A spiked trap shows up at one point.
* ThirstyDesert: So much.
* [[VictorianBritain The Victorian Era]]: The movie is set in 1891.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Of the equine variety. Hidalgo's pinto coat and feral mustang bloodline invites derision from competitors, who assume only pure-bred Arabian horses can possibly survive the endurance race. Having been "bred" for hardiness by the unforgiving conditions of America's own arid wilderness, the wild-born Hidalgo beats both the desert and his rivals.
* TheWildWest

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11th Dec '12 5:47:01 AM SeptimusHeap

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* DidNotDoTheResearch: One scene features a conflict with some British soldier over a well in the desert... decades before there was any British colony in the area.
** The Bedouin princess pines after the way in which Western women don't have to wear veils. Berber and Tuareg women of North Africa don't usually wear them either; in fact it is tradition for the ''men'' to wear veils.
*** She actually says "the women of the western tribes no longer wear the veil". It sounds like she means people living west of where the Sheikh has his domain, rather than Europeans or Americans. 
** Also, the princess refers to Hopkins as a "white man", ignoring the fact that she is paler still, and that most Arabs consider themselves to be white.
** In Bedouin (and the middle east as a whole) cultures, mares are not only far more valued than stallions (to a point where a prize mare will sleep in the family's tent), they are preferred over stallions in almost everything. 
-->''The fountainhead of wealth: a mare that foals a mare.''
** The real Davenports were not British. Mr. Davenport was an American artist. A great movie could be made [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Davenport#Arabian_horse_breeder about his involvement with Arabian horses.]]
* DidTheResearch: They got one thing bang-on: the al-Khamsa bloodlines. These beautiful horses have been bred with extreme care for many centuries.
** John Fusco, who had brought in Lakotah Ghost Dancers, elders, historians and holy people to supervise the production of ''{{Thunderheart}}'', did it again for this film. Everything pertaining to the Indians and the Wounded Knee massacre was authentic. Fusco has been adopted by the Oglala Lakotah.

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