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    Movie Interview by Reece De Ville

    Q&A with Tobey Maguire and director Gary Ross at the London press conference.

    Do you think the film would have been more difficult to pitch if the original novel hadn’t been such a success?

    GARY ROSS: Yeah. Actually it was hard to greenlight the film, and the fact that there are three financing entities really speaks to that. You know, this is not typical summer fayre. It doesn’t have a high body count, there aren’t a lot of shell casings in it, we don’t blow anything up, it’s not a sequel, it was never a comic book. But there were a lot of movies like that which failed, and this was a huge success in the United States, so I think that sometimes what’s considers the safe choice is not necessarily the safe choice.

    How did you prepare physically for the role?

    TOBEY MAGUIRE: inom had to just diet and exercise. I was burning tallrik and muscle. I just needed to look as skinny as I could.

    Did you consider the risks

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    [EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2003, long before MovieManifesto.com existed, I spent my summer as a 20-year-old college kid writing as many movie reviews as I could. My goal was to compile them all into a website, possibly hosted by Tripod or Geocities, which would surely impress all of the women in my dorm. That never happened—neither the compiling nor the impressing—but the reviews still exist. So, now that I actually have a website, I’ll be publishing those reviews on the respective date of each movie’s 20th anniversary. Against my better judgment, these pieces remain unedited from their original form. I apologize for the quality of the writing; I am less remorseful about the character of my 20-year-old opinions.]

    There is an epic majesty about Seabiscuit, and I don’t just mean the horse. This is a throwback motion picture, one that is redolent of a distant era of cinema in which filmmakers suffused their creations with spirit and passion. It is by no means a flawless film – it is too

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    Spotlight on Seabiscuit



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    Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire) rides the title horse in the film adaptation of "Seabiscuit."

    MOVIE REVIEW
    Scrambling to Victory
    By A. O. SCOTT
    Gary Ross's adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's swift-moving, sweeping best seller is serious, decorous, and not as thrilling as it might be.
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    Playing the Horses (and the Horse People, Too)
    By JANE SMILEY
    At a fundraising screening of "Seabiscuit," tears, cheers and mixed reviews from the racing crowd. (Aug. 3, 2003)

    BOOK REVIEWS
    No Beauty, but They Had the Horse Right There
    By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
    In telling the Cinderella story of Seabiscuit and his devoted trainer, owner and jockey, the author, Laura Hillenbrand, has written an absorbing book that stands as the model of sportswriting at its best. (March 6, 2001)

    Can Do!
    By JIM SQUIRES
    If plans to make a film of the story work out, and if the

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