Watership Down - "Eat shit, you stinking facist" - General

Thread music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODq81_cDKI[/media] Watership down is a book and later film and TV show about a group of rabbits from the South Downs who seek a new home after their old one is threatened by humans. Based on stories Richard Adams told to his children, Watership Down is famous for being completely and utterly fucked up. [b]The Book:[/b] [img]http://www.loganberry.furtopia.org/bnb/collection/images/wd_penguin_1976.jpg[/img] Rejected by thirteen publishers for its violent imagery before it finally got a release, in 1972 Watership Down became a runaway success and has never been out of print since, and won the Carnegie Medal the same year. [b]The Film:[/b] [img]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watership_down.jpg[/img] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gYpLGxAetg&feature=related[/media] Released in 1978, a change of director led to two different styles of animation: the opening is an aborgine-red indian woodcut style, while the rest of the film is largely ultra-realistic. It also features the famous song "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel, as well as [i]this[/i] motherfucker; the rabbit Grim Reaper, the Black Rabbit of Inlé: [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/003/4/0/The_black_rabbit_of_Inle_by_Frith_Rah.jpg[/img] Jesus, that thing's nowhere near as scary in the book. [b]The TV show:[/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Watership_Down_title_card.png[/img] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lo4j37pRl4&feature=related[/media] This is a piece of shit. The violence has been toned down, and to allay accusations of sexism the character of Blackberry has been turned into a girl, thus removing an important plot point from the original book. Give your kid the book, show him the film, turn off the telly if this shit's on. [b]The Sequel:[/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/Cover_of_Tales_from_Watership_Down.png/140px-Cover_of_Tales_from_Watership_Down.png[/img] The 1996 sequel to the original book, widely regarded as shit. Ignore it.

Animal Farm would kick this book's ass.

I remember watching this as a kid. Shit was boss.

I remember watching an animated film as a kid about a group of animals (not just rabbits) travelling together to a nature reserve. I wish I could remember what it was called though.

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;27465787]I remember watching an animated film as a kid about a group of animals (not just rabbits) travelling together to a nature reserve. I wish I could remember what it was called though.[/QUOTE] Once upon a forest.

I actually re-brought the Watership Down movie recently on DVD :v: It was really nostalgic, and... sad. It's also set very close to where I live which took me a while to realize. I used to watch it all the time when I was younger with my Grandparents, and I remember crying a lot, and being extremely frightened of the scene where it shows the humans plugging up the rabbit-holes, and the rabbits all crowded in on each other. It's a truly heart-warming film, I really need to pick up the book sometime.

[QUOTE=Man in the Moon;27465810]Once upon a forest.[/QUOTE] No, I just looked that up and that wasn't it. It was a British film I believe. The main part I remember is that they cross a river and this big, scary piece of debris comes floating towards them threatening to kill them. There must be quite a few films about animals escaping to a nature reserve.

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;27465879]No, I just looked that up and that wasn't it. It was a British film I believe. The main part I remember is that they cross a river and this big, scary piece of debris comes floating towards them threatening to kill them. There must be quite a few films about animals escaping to a nature reserve.[/QUOTE] The Animals of Farthing Wood?

I read the book long ago. I love it so. I saw the movie and loved it so as well. Then I saw the tv show and raged my ass off.

Read the book last year for World History. I'm glad I was in gifted classes. I watched the movie after the book and that shit was bomb. [editline]16th January 2011[/editline] the bomb

I want to make a story about mentally retarded rabbits and call it watership downs.

Growing up as a child of British television, I can say that I watched the television show. Then I got the book for my tenth birthday and... and... I didn't like the television show anymore :geno: [editline]17th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=mastermaul;27466663]I want to make a story about mentally retarded rabbits and call it watership downs.[/QUOTE] Wouldn't even be the worst in the series!

This thing is comparable to watching the Exorcist, except it was shown to toddlers - shit be scary

The Black Rabbit of Inlé scared the crap out of me when I was younger, as did other parts of the movie. I love the book though. Good read. If anybody likes this type of book, I suggest Tailchaser's Song. It's in the same style as Watership down, but it's cats instead of rabbits.

I vaguely remember a scene in the film where loads of them get killed. Used to scare the shit out of me.

As posted in another thread.. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9791791/wooh.bmp[/img] I used to be a huge fan of watership down so I have the entire series on box set, the movie and both books. Great movie and the series is good to watch if you're a fan.

I've never heard of this before so I looked around for it on Youtube and this is what I got [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfAtBLgRPSE[/media]

The book is completely awesome. I've never seen the movie because let's face it, if you read the book first you don't need no stinking movie.

[QUOTE=Passerby Silver;27465913]The Animals of Farthing Wood?[/QUOTE] Ah, that was it. Looks like it was a TV show and not a film. My mistake.

Just watched the movie again. Pretty good, I don't remember it being so brutal. Why the fuck did my parents let me watch that when I was 5.

Great great book, it was my favorite book when I was younger. Really interesting and thought provoking piece.

Watching again for the first time in years thanks to this thread.

i had to read this in 7th grade. good book

It's all in the movie not the book fellas

[QUOTE=Atchell;27471724]i had to read this in 7th grade. good book[/QUOTE] I hated it when I was forced to read in 7th grade. Perhaps it was because I had already read through part of the novel, but the fact that I was forced to read it made me hate it. It was just the concept of doing work. When I read it again a year later I loved it.

[QUOTE=Uberman77883;27465098]Animal Farm would kick this book's ass.[/QUOTE] By George Orwell correct? I've never read either, are they similar?

[QUOTE=Someoneuduno;27480098]By George Orwell correct? I've never read either, are they similar?[/QUOTE] One is a metaphor for the soviet union and the other... isn't.

I read half the book but it was my dad's old old copy that pretty much fell apart while I was reading it to the point where I was worried it would just disintegrate if I progressed further. I should re-read it some time. [editline]17th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Uberman77883;27465098]Animal Farm would kick this book's ass.[/QUOTE] that's relevant.

[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;27480257]One is a metaphor for the soviet union and the other... isn't.[/QUOTE] Huh, I assumed they might be related in theme or something by the post I quoted but okay, I've seen Watership Down but it was years ago, at a time where face value was all that was conceivable. Still, I may be inclined to read Animal Farm.

[QUOTE=Someoneuduno;27480098]By George Orwell correct? I've never read either, are they similar?[/QUOTE] Only similar in that they both have animals. Both are good reads though but impossible to compare. That being said I do like Animal Farm better.