Watership Down

[equationgirl]

It was the first film I ever saw at school - there was an after school film club. I cried.

It still makes me cry nearly 30 years later. It's a brilliant film.

And its true, the Black Rabbit came for our pet rabbits

 

[Wintermute]

I quite like Watership Down Bigwig rocks. And it's quite a heartwarming story, even if there's a few nasty scenes.

Never heard of Plague Dogs, but:

Rowf is the subject of a "survival endurance test" that involves placing a rock in his stomach and then forcing him to swim in a tank of water until he almost drowns. Snitter's brain was operated on to confuse the subjective with the objective in his mind.

So... one gets to do the rock-swimming thing, and the other.... gets a bit confused over grammar? Those inhuman bastards

 

[Stigmata]

All the world will be your enemy,
Prince with a Thousand Enemies,
and when they catch you, they will kill you...

But first they must catch you.

"...digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."

 

[dylanredefined]

loved the book and the film and the pie











my coat? "how kind"

 

[bluestreak]

it has been one of my favourite films ever since i was a kid.

i wish it was on terrestrial.

 

[bluestreak]

Anyone for Shardik?

not until they turn it into a cartoon.

 

[Jenerys]

All the world will be your enemy,
Prince with a Thousand Enemies,
and when they catch you, they will kill you...

But first they must catch you.

*gulps back sobs*

 

[Jenerys]

"...digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."

oh god

*sobs*

 

[Pieface]

Anyone for Shardik?

tried to read that when I was a kid and just got confused - I think I was a bit young - I picked it up off the back of seeing Watership Down.

I love books with talking animals - a bit of anthropomorphisation never did anyone any harm. Well.........apart from this little fella:

Poor dogs in outfits

 

[beeboo]

I love books with talking animals - a bit of anthropomorphisation never did anyone any harm.

You want to read Timbuktu (or the Animals of Farthing Wood )

 

[kakuma]

i used to love redwall when i was a kid, but i probably wouldn't now

 

[Pieface]

I loved that one too. Mice in a monastery, what the fuck is that all about then?

 

[beeboo]

Redwell, yes! I'd forgotten all about that! I was completely addicted to those books.

 

[Macabre]

This was the only film to scare the shit our of me as a child. I used to love all the eighties horror and violent films as a nipper but psycic bunnys having visions of blood washing over the land, rabbits ripping each other apart and then watching the ghost leave the body *shudders* Mite give it another go now Im old.

 

[Badgers]

Love Watership both as a book and film. Was probably my most re-read book as a kid and I still watch the film from time to time.

Like the Plague Dogs too but confess to not watching the film. I take it I am missing out here?

 

[DotCommunist]

Film: scary and unsettling
Book:deeply moving and thought provoking. the part where they encounter semi-tame rabbits who have submitted to being fed by man in exchange for the occaisonal rabbit caught in a trap is the most horrible thing I've read in a long time

 

[Santino]

I missed the bit where God (Michael Horden) creates rabbits. That's the best bit!

 

[Stigmata]

Film: scary and unsettling
Book:deeply moving and thought provoking. the part where they encounter semi-tame rabbits who have submitted to being fed by man in exchange for the occaisonal rabbit caught in a trap is the most horrible thing I've read in a long time

It's in the film too, although it's taken me until now to realise that's what's going on.

 

[Santino]

That Cowslip's a wrong'un.

 

[felixthecat]

The book is amazing as well, I only read that a few years ago. It's pretty funny to think that such a sensitive and inventive excursion into the natural world could have come from the same pen that wrote Maia, a 1000+page fantasy-type epic saga that is almost entirely based around endless amounts of kinky sex. I, er, reread that one a few times (it was in my school library!)

I bought Maia in a charity shop cos my daughter is also called Maia - and then I read it.

I hope my young'un doesn't turn out like the Maia in that book !

 

[beeboo]

I missed the bit where God (Michael Horden) creates rabbits. That's the best bit!

Fingers crossed the digi-box-thingy worked tonight and I've got it recorded.

*packs tissues and heads home*

 

[Santino]

*packs tissues and heads home*

PREVERT!

 

[Biddlybee]

*packs tissues and heads home*

you're till at work?

 

[beeboo]

you're till at work?

yup...just waiting for some downloads then home on the last train

 

[AnMarie]

btw just in case people hadnt noticed Watership Down and The Plague Dogs had the same Director and Writers.

For I Hate Beckham...
You asked where you could get a copy of The Plague Dogs...I bought a copy via Amazon uk a few months back and yep you can still get hold of a copy...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plague-Dogs...ref=pd_ka_1/026-9171412-5708423?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

 

[May Kasahara]

I bought Maia in a charity shop cos my daughter is also called Maia - and then I read it.

I hope my young'un doesn't turn out like the Maia in that book !

I learned quite a lot about myself, reading that

 

[Tank Girl]

I cried

my daughter was still too scared to watch it all the way through, which I thought was quite sweet

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Fascinating fact: Watership Down is a real place, near Kingsclere in Hampshire:

The animation in the film is true to the area as well, with the A34 Winchester-to-Newbury road often visible, snaking through the valley.

 

[Stigmata]

Tis true, it's a local landmark.

It's lucky he didn't call it Twyford Down.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Tis true, it's a local landmark.

It's lucky he didn't call it Twyford Down.

True dat...

^ ^ ^ What the fuckers did.