Hidalgo, Schmalgo...
Well I found this interesting. According to a news brief on IMDB, Disney's upcoming movie Hidalgo, the supposed amazing true story, is based on nothing more than a tall tale. The movie tells the tale of an American cowboy who goes to Arabia to participate in a 3000 mile race across the desert, nicknamed the ocean of fire. According to Dr. Awad Al-Badim, director of research at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and an authority on Western travelers to Arabia, no such race has ever taken place. He noted that the idea of the 3000 mile race was 'pure nonsense,' and that it would put the finish line 'somewhere in Romania.' If that wasn't interesting enough, apparently US historians have also done some research into it, discovering the story to have come from fabricated tales told by Frank Hopkins, the real-life cowboy that's depicted in the movie, who apparently was considered to be a pathological liar by historians.Now....why would Disney go and make such a big deal about this movie being based on a true story, and then not even bother to research into it one bit? Michael Eisner, this is duckin' firiculous....I salute you.
posted by Collin @ 9:29 AM
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