Big Red Movie Analysis

Everyone is dressed to the nines, tickets held tight in their hands, with the smell of fresh grass in the air; Welcome, to the fabulous world of horse racing! The announcement is made to get the horses in place. Next, the trumpet sounds, and the crowd goes wild as the horses exit the gates. “Secretariat”, the story of the great Triple Crown winning Colt is also a story about being the underdog, facing the odds, and never giving up; something we all can relate to in some way or another. In this movie both Secretariat “Big Red” and his owner Mrs. Helen “Penny” Tweedy-Chenery had to face some rather different, but equally trying circumstances .In comparison, they were both stubborn in their own right, but had a mutual understanding of each other; matched with a highly driven will to win. Obviously there are differences between the two, one is a human and the other is a horse. But there was more to their differences. For one you have Penny who was stern yet humble in her ways, and often shied away from the lime light although when it came to Big Red she was overly confident in
Arthur “Bull” Hancock, paired with a couple of lost races due to Secretariat having an abscess, Penny began to lose faith because everyone was telling her that the races are longer and the horse are much faster heading in to the race for the Triple Crown, and that his winning streak just may be over. After seeing Eddie Sweat and Big Red listening to “Oh Happy Day” by The Edwin Hawkins Singers; gave her the strength and peace of mind to believe that everything she was doing was not in vain. The time away from her kids, and the bullying from the other horse owners; she final understood that everything was worth it. Through it all Penny and Secretariat were the underdogs. Not only did Secretariat win the Triple Crown, but he won it in a manner that no other horse after him has yet to come close to. And Penny was able to save her father’s