

Little Creek ties Spirit and Rain together, hoping she can discipline him. Little Creek's mare, Rain, meets them along with other natives, who promptly recapture Spirit.Īfter returning to the Lakota village, Little Creek attempts to tame Spirit with kindness, but Spirit is unwilling. Humiliated, the Colonel attempts to shoot him before Little Creek (who frees himself from his bonds with a knife) saves Spirit from being shot as they escape from the post. Spirit gets a second wind and finally throws him off. Spirit is later supposedly tamed by the Colonel, who speaks his idea of how any wild horse can be tamed. Meanwhile, a Lakota Native American named Little Creek is also brought into the fort and held captive. To weaken Spirit, the Colonel orders him tied to a post for three days without food or water. In captivity, Spirit encounters "The Colonel", who orders the mustang tamed however, Spirit fends off all attempts to tame him. They awake and, seeing him as a magnificent specimen, seize him, taking him to a US cavalry fort. One night, upon following a strange light near his herd, Spirit finds horses kept in chains and their wranglers sleeping around a campfire. Spirit grows into a stallion and assumes the leadership of the herd. In the 19th-century American West, a young Kiger Mustang colt, Spirit, is born to a herd of wild horses.
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The film also launched a media franchise using computer animation, with a Netflix spin-off television series Spirit Riding Free premiering on May 5, 2017, followed by a spin-off of the original film, titled Spirit Untamed, released on June 4, 2021. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Spirited Away. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron was released in theaters on May 24, 2002, and earned $122 million on an $80 million budget. In contrast to the way animals are portrayed in an anthropomorphic style in other animated features, Spirit and his fellow horses communicate with each other through non-linguistic sounds and body language like real horses.

The film follows Spirit, a Kiger Mustang stallion (voiced by Matt Damon through inner dialogue), who is captured during the American Indian Wars by the United States Cavalry he is freed by a Native American man named Little Creek who attempts to lead him back into the Lakota village. The film is directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook (in their feature directional debuts) from a screenplay by John Fusco based on an idea by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who produced it with Mireille Soria. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (also known as Spirit) is a 2002 American animated Western film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures.
