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Herbert's last film, "Maypops,"
was shot in two days, and presented
a contrast to the multi-imaged,
fast-jumping style of the previous
two. It pictured a boy and his horse
in a green field on a beautiful day.
A number of shots of the boy on he
horse, next to the horse, both
chasing flies away, serve to establish
the boy and horse as one, as
Herbert said afterwards. Riding
around, the boy sees a young
couple with a baby, and then meets
a girl on a horse. They ride around
together, and then the girl leaves
and the boy is alone with his horse
again.
"Maypops" is very relaxed; its
slight narrative is almost incidental.
The main strength of the film is its
main weakness: it is mostly just a
series of pretty shots, people riding
horses.
Friday evening was the final
event of the festival, a showing of
the movie "The Luck of Ginger
Coffey" with an appearance by
Brian Moore. Moore, author of
"The Lonely Passion of Judith
Hearne," "The Feast of Lupercal,"
and others, wrote the book "The
Luck of Ginger Coffey," and then
wrote the screenplay. He worked as
a partner on the film, which was
shot in Canada on "a minuscule
$450,000" budget. In his remarks,
he said that actor Richard Harris
had been originally offered the
lead, but turned it down at his
astrologer's advice. Instead, Robert
Shaw took the role, and it made
him a star.
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