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Poster of Pale Horse.
Pale Horse is a 1993 American historical period drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg[1] and staring Jeff Goldblum.[2] The film dramatizes the 11/2 Psychic Shockwave. The film was critically successful and won several Academy Awards.[1][2]
Plot[]
Pale Horse was the name of the band that was playing at Madison Square Garden the night the alien squid materialized in New York City. While the film itself is mainly shot in black and white, there's an iconic scene in the film in which a little girl in a red coat stumbles around Herald Square (ground zero of where the creature manifested) walking under the tentacles of the squid, and through all the dead bodies and she's scared and cries out for her mother.[1] There's also a scene where Jeff Goldblum's character explains the reason for the Squid's sudden appearance in New York City.
Trivia[]
- The context and film style of Pale Horse is based on Steven Spielberg's real-life 1993 film, Schindler's List, which was also predominantly shot in black-and-white and won several Academy Awards. In the Watchmen universe, however, the film's plot centers around Adrian Veidt's false-flag attack on Manhattan instead of the Holocaust in our reality.
- Pale Horse, as described by Renee, portrays a similar scene in Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg's film about the Holocaust, where a little Jewish girl is separated from her mother. She is the only object in the entire movie in color (red). In Pale Horse, a girl is also separated from her mother; this time after the squid invasion.