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Post by xkamelx on Aug 31, 2006 19:02:01 GMT -5
Has anyone ever seen this movie, or read the book? "Based upon Richard Adam's novel of the same title, this animated feature delves into the surprisingly violent world of a warren of rabbits as they seek to establish a new colony free of tyranny and human intervention. Frightening and bloody in some scenes. Not recommended for young children." "In the Sandleford warren, Fiver, a young runt rabbit who is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's immenient destruction. When he and his loving brother, Hazel, fail to convince their chief of the need to evacuate; they set out on their own with a small band of others who heeded the warning and barely manage to elude the Warren's military caste. What follows is a perilous journey in which the band faces dangers of all varieties like predators, humans and even their own kind. While they eventually find a peaceful new home at Watership Down, they have new problems that will lead to a deadly conflict with the neighbouring Warren called Efrafa, which is a police state by the powerful and insane General Woundwart." www.imdb.com/title/tt0078480/I must say, this is an excellent movie. It is violent, and dark in a lot of places. My daughter has not seen it yet, but an outstanding movie.
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Post by FantasyLover on Aug 31, 2006 21:10:53 GMT -5
I hated reading this book (and keep in mind, this is only something that can be said about three ro four books I've ever read in my lifetime). But looking back, I'm not quite sure why. I just didn't like it.
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Post by xkamelx on Aug 31, 2006 21:40:08 GMT -5
I've never read this book. I saw the movie when I was a little kid and loved it, but for some reason forgot about it completely. It wasn't until a year or two ago that Wolf brought it up in a conversation that I remembered it and tracked it down to watch.
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Post by FantasyLover on Aug 31, 2006 22:06:14 GMT -5
I've never seen it, though the voice cast is wonderful. I will say that the book really does pick up near the end.
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Post by alyeska on Oct 9, 2006 21:07:39 GMT -5
I tried reading it once, but never finished it. I was about nine-ten when I read it, and my reading level wasn't as high as it is now.
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Post by Moreta on Oct 15, 2006 9:55:44 GMT -5
The film is my childhood movie, which is a bit messed up, since as Myke says, it is an extremely dark film. However, I think a lot of it just washed right past me. I have it on DVD now, my mum saw it in the shops about a year or so ago and bought it as a surprise for me lol because she knows it was my childhood film.
I have of course also read the book many a time. I adore all the stories about El-ahrairah. Have to say thats the one sad thing about the film, that it only includes the one right at the beginning explaining how rabbits came about, and nothing else.
I also live very close to the real Watership Down where the book is based, as it is in the same county as me lol!! So Iv been there before and actually seen the real Watership Down hill and everything. (Mind you was a long time ago now, dont remember much about it) They have a bunch of trees, and each one has a small inscription of each characters name. Its so cool.
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Post by xkamelx on Oct 15, 2006 15:42:22 GMT -5
That's very cool. I knew that at least the animations were based on a real place, but never knew about the character insriptions in the trees. I'd like to see what.
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Post by alyeska on Oct 15, 2006 21:43:31 GMT -5
That's really cool!
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Post by Dillson on Mar 22, 2007 22:33:28 GMT -5
"BRIIIGHT EEYYES! BUUURNING LIKE FI-IRE! BRIIIGHT EEYYES! HOW CAN YOU CLOSE AND FAIL?"
This is a film that gripped as a child, right from the first shot to the incredible tearful (at least for me) last. When I watch this film and go through every range of emotions, every single time. This is a film, a bit like something like Animal Farm - another film I love - that has social and political connotations. The concepts of tyranny, oppression and freedom are very prevalent in particular. I may have been easily frightened and unsettled as a child (see: Jurassic Park in the Spielberg topic) but the "evil" rabbits of Sandleford and General Woundwort were very scary.
This is one of those films that stayed with me a long time after I saw it for the first time. I don't think I have seen a film that has affected me to such a degree. I've never read the novel but I suppose I should find it somewhere and give it a go.
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Post by Bones on Apr 11, 2007 15:54:08 GMT -5
I've just ordered the special edition DVD. Like many i saw the film as a kid and although dark it left a very impressionable, lasting memory on me. The beginning really struck me with the story of # El-ahrairah, most notanly this passage which has been engrained in a part of me forever: "All the world shall be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemiesand when they catch you, they will kill you... but first they must catch you you - digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroy That passage set about my love from the start and still gets my heart burning. I also have 2 copies of the book, a paperback version - my first copy, and a special 1980 hardback illustrated edition with occasional beautiful ink and watercolour pictures and a few maps, illustrated by John Lawrence.
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Post by xkamelx on Apr 12, 2007 0:34:54 GMT -5
I remember that passage very well Bones, and love it as well. I haven't seen this movie for a couple of years now, and only saw it that once time since I was a kid, so I'm long over-due to see this again, and am going to put it on my list of movies to get!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 12, 2007 3:14:21 GMT -5
Watership Down, riveting read if I don't mind my saying so. Plus I think the film is quite good too, suitably dark and whatnot. Now as for the TV series, well the first few episodes were good, but I'd avoid the ones not based on the book.
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Post by xkamelx on Apr 12, 2007 3:34:41 GMT -5
I have no interest in the TV series, much for the same reason the Neverending Story sequels. I watched them, and they were all terrible compared to the original. I cannot see a modern Watership Down series being anything like the original.
When did they do it, in the 90's? By then all animated cartoons were watered down, nothing like the some of the stuff for kids in the early 80's.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 12, 2007 3:46:20 GMT -5
I think the series was made and broadcast between 1999-2001 I think.
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Post by Bones on Apr 15, 2007 1:35:29 GMT -5
My letterbox went this morning and i hoped my Watership Down DVD had arrived, but it was just Dazed and Confused, oh well. Y'see there was a sale on at play.com, so i took advantage, I got 4 DVD's for £20, and have so far got: Hope & Glory American Werewolf in London Dazed & Confused Watership Down
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