Today, I would like to introduce a film to all of you. It is called ¡§Seabiscuit¡¨. The story background was the Great Depression in America. In 1937, America was in the seventh year of the most catastrophic decade in its history. The economy had come crashing down, and millions upon millions of people had been torn loose from their jobs, their savings, their homes. The most brash of peoples was seized by despair, fatalism, and fear. This is a story about a country whose dreams had been shattered, and how Seabiscuit became the hope, the hero of this nation. Seabiscuit was a descendent of a very famous racing horse, Man-O-War. But being beaten up again and again, the horse had grown stubborn and reckless and was on his way to being discarded. However, a horse trainer named Tom Smith, who was hired by a millionaire, Charles Howard, saw something special in this horse. In the hands of Howard, his trainer and his new jockey, Pollard, the indomitable spirit sensed in Seabiscuit took......
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