'War Horse' not a 'war' movie, Spielberg says

 
BY DENNIS KING dking@wimgo.com
Published: December 23, 2011

NEW YORK — Steven Spielberg never envisioned “ War Horse ” as a war movie.

Instead, the celebrated, Oscar-winning director of such classic war pictures as “ Saving Private Ryan ” and “ Schindler's List ” said he saw the World War I-era story based on Michael Morpurgo 's novel and the Tony Award-winning stage production as something much more intimate, more delicate.

“I've done othe...


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