War Horse: Difference between revisions

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* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The end of the first act shows Joey and a fellow horse charging towards the enemy, then forced to take a leap of faith over some barbed wire quite literally into the audience.

* [[Cool Horse]]: Joey, naturally, and Topthorn as well.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Major Stewart is shown to be more than willing to fight via ambush, which irks [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|Captain Nicholls]]. Pity they were both beaten by even stronger German [[Combat Pragmatist]], who [[Never Bring a Knife To A Gun Fight|had Maxims]].

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Major Stewart is shown to be more than willing to fight via ambush, which irks [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|Captain Nicholls]]. Pity they were both beaten by even stronger German [[Combat Pragmatist]], who [[Never Bring a Knife to A Gun Fight|had Maxims]].

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Colin and Peter during the barbed wire scene which also constitutes [[Casual Danger Dialogue]], occurring (as it does) in the middle of No Man's Land during a ''very'' tentative ceasefire.

{{quote| '''Colin:''' So, how's things in yonder trench?<br />

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* [[Manly Tears]]: All over the place--it's [[War Is Hell|a war movie, after all]]. During an interview, ''[[Love Actually]]'' director Richard Curtis commented that [[Tom Hiddleston]]'s eyes [[Fetish Fuel|are so piercing]] that Jeremy Irvine started crying in the scene where Nicholls buys Joey just to "distract people from the blueness."

* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Ted Narracott's regimental pennant.

* [[Never Bring a Knife To A Gun Fight]]: The British army's first ambush charge against the Germans on with the swords and horses was quite effective... until the Germans dive behind the forest to reveal their [[Anti-Cavalry|arsenal]] of [[More Dakka|Maxims]].

* [[Never Bring a Knife to A Gun Fight]]: The British army's first ambush charge against the Germans on with the swords and horses was quite effective... until the Germans dive behind the forest to reveal their [[Anti-Cavalry|arsenal]] of [[More Dakka|Maxims]].

* [[Never Learned to Read]]: Albert is illiterate in the play, but not in the film.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Michael keeps his vow to protect his brother Gunther by pulling him out of line and deserting with him. {{spoiler|Of course, an officer promptly finds and executes them.}}

* [[Not So Different]]: Both sides are clearly shown to have leaders who keep throwing blood and metal into the war, whereas their troops and horses are decent people just trying to survive.

* [[Officer and A Gentleman]]: Captain Nicholls.

* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]: Captain Nicholls.

* [[Please Wake Up]]: A heartbreaking non-verbal example is done in the film as Joey {{spoiler|keeps nudging Topthorn to try and get him back on his feet even after he's dead.}}

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: A single goose is constantly providing stupid antics during times of great stress, such as when Joey is training to plow and right before he enlists in the army. It even [[Stealth Pun|gooses]] Albert's father after a particularly stupid blunder.

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* [[We Have Reserves]]: A German Captain pretty much treats Horses this way, having them pull guns until they die of exhaustion.

** [[Truth in Television]] in that the life expectancy of a draught horse was about 18 months on the Allied side and rather less on the German side due to poor feed and overwork.

* [[What Happened to ~~The~~ Mouse?]]: It is not really clear what happened to Major Stewart and Lt. Waverly after being captured in the first failed Ambush to German forces.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: It is not really clear what happened to Major Stewart and Lt. Waverly after being captured in the first failed Ambush to German forces.

** Emilie in the stage version.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: See [[This Is Reality]].