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In the play and film, psychiatrist Martin Dysart is called to investigate the case of a stableboy named Alan Strang. Alan, out of a religious and sexual fascination with horses, savagely blinded six horses with a metal spike. As he examines the boy, and his fascination, Dysart starts to have doubts about whether he can really help him, or whether turning people to a "normal" way of thinking is always the right thing to do.
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In the play and film, psychiatrist Martin Dysart is called to investigate the case of a stableboy named Alan Strang. Alan, out of a driven by his strange religious and sexual fascination with horses, obsession, savagely blinded six horses with a metal spike. As he examines the boy, and his fascination, Dysart starts to have doubts about whether he can really help him, or whether turning people to a "normal" way of thinking is always the right thing to do.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Alan's mother Dora suspects Dysart is hunting for a FreudianExcuse in Alan's past, and angrily denies that such an excuse would be relevant.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Alan's mother Dora suspects Dysart is hunting for a FreudianExcuse in Alan's past, and angrily denies that such an excuse would be relevant. In context it's pretty obvious she's just trying to deny her part in shaping Alan's unhealthy views of religion and sexuality, however.
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[[caption-width-right:310:''"At least I galloped. When did you?"'']]
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-->'''Alan''': What's your dream about, the special one?
-->'''Dysart''': Carving up children.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Dr. Dysart has his moments.
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-->'''Alan''': What's your dream about, the special one?
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-->'''Alan''': What's your dream about, the special one?
-->'''Dysart''': Carving up children.
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-->'''Alan''': What's your dream, the special one?
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-->'''Alan''': What's your dream, dream about, the special one?
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-->'''Alan''': What's your dream, the special one?
-->'''Dr. Dysart''': Carving up children.
-->'''Alan''': What's your dream, the special one?
-->'''Dr. Dysart''': Carving up children.
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Famous interpreters of Dysart on stage include Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/AnthonyPerkins, and Creator/RichardGriffiths (who played Dysart opposite Creator/DanielRadcliffe as Alan).
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-->'''Hesther:''' Underneath the polite facade they'll be disgusted [with Alan] and immovably English.
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-->'''Hesther:''' Underneath the [the polite facade facade] they'll be disgusted [with Alan] and immovably English.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The Strangs. Frank and Dora are of wildly differing personalities and perspectives -- he an atheist and a socialist, she a devout Christian with no particular political leanings -- and their strongly conflicting views of how to treat their son only contribute to his psychosis.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The Strangs.Strangs seem to be in a loveless, sexless marriage. Frank and Dora are of wildly differing personalities and perspectives -- he an atheist and a socialist, she a devout Christian with no particular political leanings -- and their strongly conflicting views of how to treat their son only contribute to his psychosis.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: Mr. Dalton, the owner of the stables, is a friendly man behind his gruff exterior. Obviously, Dalton's initial good will towards Alan comes to a quick end when he discovers what Alan did to the horses (he punches out Alan and says that he should have just killed him on the spot).
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Famous interpreters of Dysart on stage include Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/RichardGriffiths and Creator/AnthonyPerkins.
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Famous interpreters of Dysart on stage include Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/AnthonyPerkins, and Creator/RichardGriffiths and Creator/AnthonyPerkins.(who played Dysart opposite Creator/DanielRadcliffe as Alan).
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Famous interpreters of Dysart on stage include Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/AnthonyPerkins.
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Famous interpreters of Dysart on stage include Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/LeonardNimoy Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/RichardGriffiths and Creator/AnthonyPerkins.
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-->'''Hesther:''' Underneath they'll be disgusted with [Alan] and immovably English.
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-->'''Hesther:''' Underneath the polite facade they'll be disgusted with [Alan] [with Alan] and immovably English.
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--> ''Hesther:''' Underneath they'll be disgusted with [Alan] and immovably English.
-->'''Dysart:''' What am I, Polynesian?
-->'''Dysart:''' What am I, Polynesian?
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The scene when Alan cannot "[[TheLoinsSleepTonight perform]]" for his girlfriend is the most obvious example of the film being a metaphor for homosexuality, as it plays exactly like a scene of a teenage boy attempting to convince himself as well as his girlfriend that he is straight.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The scene when Alan cannot "[[TheLoinsSleepTonight perform]]" for his girlfriend is the most obvious example of the film story being a metaphor for homosexuality, as it plays exactly like a scene of a teenage boy attempting to convince himself as well as his girlfriend that he is straight.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The scene when Alan cannot "[[TheLoinsSleepTonight perform]]" for his girlfriend is the most obvious example of the film being a metaphor for homosexuality, as it plays exactly like a scene of a teenage boy attempting to convince himself as well as his girlfriend that he is straight.
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* HomoeroticSubtext: The play is a metaphor for homosexuality, with Alan's attraction to horses (which he fights to suppress and seek a "cure" for) meant to represent an attraction to the same sex. (Shaffer, the playwright, was openly gay.)
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* SeventiesHair: Alan has a curly, shaggy hairstyle which manages to date the film adaptation even in the scenes when the character is completely naked and thus has no other available "fashion" choices that could possibly do so.
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* DeadSparks: Dysart's marriage. He and his wife have almost nothing in common anymore except for a certain professional pride in their work, and Dysart is beginning to lose even that.
-->'''Dysart:''' I see us in our wedding photo: Doctor and Doctor [=MacBrisk=]. We were brisk in our wooing, brisk in our wedding, brisk in our disappointment. We turned from each other briskly into our separate surgeries; and now there's damn all. ''[...]'' Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world?
-->'''Dysart:''' I see us in our wedding photo: Doctor and Doctor [=MacBrisk=]. We were brisk in our wooing, brisk in our wedding, brisk in our disappointment. We turned from each other briskly into our separate surgeries; and now there's damn all. ''[...]'' Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world?
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* CatchPhrase: Frank has something of a VerbalTic -- ending sentences with the phrase "...if you receive my meaning." Alan picks up on it and grouses about it to Dysart, suggesting that for him it sums up his father's narrow-mindedness.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dysart "cures" Alan, but suspects that all he did was destroy the one thing in Alan's life that was worth anything. It doesn't help that he's hallucinating Equus now.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dysart "cures" Alan, but suspects that all he did was destroy the one thing in Alan's life that was worth anything.he's done is to take something vital and irreplaceable away from him. It doesn't help that he's hallucinating Equus now.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dysart "cures" Alan, but suspects that all he did was destroy the one thing in Alan's life that was worth anything. It doesn't help that he's hallucinating Equus now.]]
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Alan can't get it up when he tries to sleep with a woman, because the wires in his brain between sexual attraction and admiration of horses have become crossed. [[spoiler:This boils over and directly leads to the blinding incident.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Dr. Dysart has his moments.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The play was inspired by the story of an actual horse blinding, recounted to Peter Shaffer with few concrete details by a friend; Shaffer then devised the story of his play from the ground up.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The play was inspired by the story of an actual horse blinding, recounted to Peter Shaffer with few concrete details by a friend; Shaffer then devised claimed to have based the story of his on a true story in which a local youth blinded 26 horses in a single night. Unfortunately Shaffer only heard the story as an anecdote, and in the years since it was published, neither he nor anyone else has been able to link it to a real incident. In any case, everything in the play from except the ground up.detail of blinding the horses is completely invented.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
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* NotSoDifferent: Alan and Dysart appear separated in a multitude of ways, yet it eventually becomes clear that the staid, predictable Dysart is himself obsessed with the kind of raw passion that Alan experiences, as evidenced by his monologues and bizarre dreams about ancient Greece -- but is shown as too afraid to grasp it [[spoiler:until his final lines.]]
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-->'''Frank:''' The thing is, it's a ''swiz''. It seems to be offering you something, but actually it's taking something away. Your intelligence and your concentration, every minute you watch it. That's a true swiz, do you see? [...] Mindless violence! Mindless jokes! Every five minutes some laughing idiot selling you something you don't want, just to bolster up the economic system.
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-->'''Dysart:''' I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside [our animals] -- blinking our nights away in a nonstop drench of cathode ray over our shrivelling heads!
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* NewMediaAreEvil: Frank Strang is something of a throwback. Being a printer by trade, he's distressed that his son doesn't like to read, but he won't permit a television in the house -- especially since his socialist heart is immensely irritated by the escapist, consumerist dream television offers.
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* NewMediaAreEvil: NewMediaAreEvil:
** Frank Strang is something of a throwback. Being a printer by trade, he's distressed that his son doesn't like to read, but he won't permit a television in the house -- especially since his socialist heart is immensely irritated by the escapist, consumerist dream television offers.
** Frank Strang is something of a throwback. Being a printer by trade, he's distressed that his son doesn't like to read, but he won't permit a television in the house -- especially since his socialist heart is immensely irritated by the escapist, consumerist dream television offers.
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** Even Dr. Dysart is pessimistic about the influence of television.
-->'''Dysart:''' I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside [our animals] -- blinking our nights away in a nonstop drench of cathode ray over our shrivelling heads!
-->'''Dysart:''' I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside [our animals] -- blinking our nights away in a nonstop drench of cathode ray over our shrivelling heads!
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-->'''Dora:''' If you added up everything we ever did to him, from his first day on earth to this, you wouldn't find why he did this terrible thing -- because that's ''him'', not just all of our things added up.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Alan's mother Dora suspects Dysart is hunting for a FreudianExcuse in Alan's past, and angrily denies that such an excuse would be relevant.
-->'''Dora:''' No, doctor. Whatever's happened has happened ''because of Alan''. Alan is himself. Every soul is itself. If you added up everything we ever did to him, from his first day on earth to this, you wouldn't find why he did this terrible thing -- because that's ''him'', not just all of our things added up.
-->'''Dora:''' No, doctor. Whatever's happened has happened ''because of Alan''. Alan is himself. Every soul is itself. If you added up everything we ever did to him, from his first day on earth to this, you wouldn't find why he did this terrible thing -- because that's ''him'', not just all of our things added up.
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* NewMediaAreEvil: Frank Strang is something of a throwback. Being a printer by trade, he's distressed that his son doesn't like to read, but he won't permit a television in the house -- especially since his socialist heart is immensely irritated by the escapist, consumerist dream television offers.
-->'''Frank:''' The thing is, it's a ''swiz''. It seems to be offering you something, but actually it's taking something away. Your intelligence and your concentration, every minute you watch it. That's a true swiz, do you see? [...] Mindless violence! Mindless jokes! Every five minutes some laughing idiot selling you something you don't want, just to bolster up the economic system.
-->'''Frank:''' The thing is, it's a ''swiz''. It seems to be offering you something, but actually it's taking something away. Your intelligence and your concentration, every minute you watch it. That's a true swiz, do you see? [...] Mindless violence! Mindless jokes! Every five minutes some laughing idiot selling you something you don't want, just to bolster up the economic system.
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* AudienceMonologue: Dysart is the only character who speaks directly to the audience, and he does so at some length several times throughout.
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* PlaceboEffect: Near the climax of the play, Alan brings up the subject of truth-telling drugs. Dysart, sensing that Alan wants to tell him everything but needs an excuse to do so, gives him a "truth pill" which is really aspirin; sure enough, Alan is finally comfortable enough to recall the events of the fatal night.
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* PlaceboEffect: Near the climax of the play, Alan brings up the subject of truth-telling drugs. Dysart, sensing that Alan wants to tell him everything but needs an excuse to do so, gives him a "truth pill" which is really aspirin; sure enough, Alan is finally comfortable opens up enough to recall the events of the fatal night.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The Strangs. Frank and Dora are of wildly differing personalities and perspectives, and their strongly conflicting views of how to treat their son only contribute to his psychosis.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The Strangs. Frank and Dora are of wildly differing personalities and perspectives, perspectives -- he an atheist and a socialist, she a devout Christian with no particular political leanings -- and their strongly conflicting views of how to treat their son only contribute to his psychosis.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: The script calls for the actor playing Alan to appear naked on stage. Predictably, the production starring Creator/DanielRadcliffe spawned countless jokes about Film/HarryPotter showing his "wand." Curiously, the script only calls for the actor playing Alan to mime stripping, never actually requiring any nudity, and indeed Creator/PeterFirth, who originated the role on stage, did so there - before playing the scene naked and full-frontal - rather more impressively as well - in the film version. Radcliffe decided to follow Firth's lead.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: The script calls for the actor playing Alan to appear naked on stage. Predictably, the production starring Creator/DanielRadcliffe spawned countless jokes about Film/HarryPotter showing his "wand." Curiously, the script only calls for the actor playing Alan to mime stripping, never actually requiring any nudity, and indeed Creator/PeterFirth, who originated the role on stage, did so there - before playing the scene naked and full-frontal - -- rather more impressively as well - -- in the film version. Radcliffe decided to follow Firth's lead.
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* NotSoDifferent: Alan and Dysart appear separated in a multitude of ways, yet it eventually becomes clear that the staid, predictable Dysart is himself obsessed with the kind of raw passion that Alan experiences, as evidenced by his monologues and bizarre dreams about ancient Greece - but is shown as too afraid to grasp it [[spoiler:until his final lines.]]
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-->'''Dora:''' If you added up everything we ever did to him, from his first day on earth to this, you wouldn't find why he did this terrible thing -- because that's ''him'', not just all of our things added up.
* NotSoDifferent: Alan and Dysart appear separated in a multitude of ways, yet it eventually becomes clear that the staid, predictable Dysart is himself obsessed with the kind of raw passion that Alan experiences, as evidenced by his monologues and bizarre dreams about ancient Greece- -- but is shown as too afraid to grasp it [[spoiler:until his final lines.]]]]
* PlaceboEffect: Near the climax of the play, Alan brings up the subject of truth-telling drugs. Dysart, sensing that Alan wants to tell him everything but needs an excuse to do so, gives him a "truth pill" which is really aspirin; sure enough, Alan is finally comfortable enough to recall the events of the fatal night.
* NotSoDifferent: Alan and Dysart appear separated in a multitude of ways, yet it eventually becomes clear that the staid, predictable Dysart is himself obsessed with the kind of raw passion that Alan experiences, as evidenced by his monologues and bizarre dreams about ancient Greece
* PlaceboEffect: Near the climax of the play, Alan brings up the subject of truth-telling drugs. Dysart, sensing that Alan wants to tell him everything but needs an excuse to do so, gives him a "truth pill" which is really aspirin; sure enough, Alan is finally comfortable enough to recall the events of the fatal night.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The play was inspired by a headline of an actual horse blinding; Peter Shaffer then devised the story of his play from the ground up.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Or rather, the horses--we're not told their fate after Alan blinds them.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Or rather, the horses--we're not told their fate after Alan blinds them.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The play was inspired by a headline the story of an actual horse blinding; blinding, recounted to Peter Shaffer with few concrete details by a friend; Shaffer then devised the story of his play from the ground up.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Or rather, thehorses--we're horses -- we're not told their fate after Alan blinds them.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Or rather, the
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Radcliffe was Alan not Dysart. When was he Dysart?
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Famous interpreters of Dysart on stage include Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/AnthonyPerkins Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/DanielRadcliffe.Creator/AnthonyPerkins.