And, and also a story of great hope and great connection that this horse makes to every character both German and British as the horse travels on an episodic journey, on almost an odyssey through his own life, through his own experiences surviving the war.

I consider it to be a love story between a horse and a young man.

It's really much more of a story about the hope that actually can exist in extremely dark circumstances because hope is always in Joey's face. It's about the connectivity that an animal can bring to human characters. It provides the necessary drama to pull these characters apart and eventually reunite them. I don't consider it to be a quintessential World War I picture. I don't consider War Horse to be a movie about war. Here are excerpts from those press conferences: On why War Horse isn’t a war movie… Recently, Spielberg sat down with the press in New York City to discuss why War Horse isn’t a war movie per se and why it was important for him to stay true to the tone of the original book by author Michael Morpurgo and make it a family-friendly film moviegoers could enjoy this Christmas. His upcoming theatrical release, War Horse, by all accounts is just another war movie added to Spielberg’s impressive directorial collection. Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg is known for his wartime movies – Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, The Pacific.

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