Watership Down (1978)

Actors

• Harry Andrews (actor)
• John Bennett (actor)
• Richard Briers (actor)
• Simon Cadell (actor)
• Michael Graham Cox (actor)
• Denholm Elliott (actor)
• Derek Griffiths (actor)
• Nigel Hawthorne (actor)
• Michael Hordern (actor)
• John Hurt (actor)
• Clifton Jones (actor)
• Roy Kinnear (actor)
• Zero Mostel (actor)
• Richard O'Callaghan (actor)
• Joss Ackland (actor)

Genres

• Adventure
• Animation
• Drama

Taglines:

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.

Quotes:

Blackberry: Men have always hated us.::Holly: No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way.::Fiver: They'll never rest until they've spoiled the earth.

[last lines]::Narrator: All the world will be your enemy, Prince of 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 will never be destroyed.

Hazel: Where are you going?::Fiver: Away, to the hills.::Hazel: By yourself, alone? You'll die!::Fiver: You're closer to death than I am.

Bigwig: Hazel? It is Hazel, isn't it?::Hazel: It is.::Bigwig: What are you doing here?::Hazel: [Motioning to Fiver] We want to see the chief rabbit, Bigwig.::Bigwig: We? You mean he wants to see him too?::Hazel: Yes.::Fiver: I must.::Bigwig: What on earth for?::Fiver: Well, I...::Holly: Bigwig? What do they want?::Bigwig: They want to see the chief rabbit.::Holly: What for?::Fiver: Well, I...::Holly: Send them away.::Bigwig: I'll take care of it, Holly. [Turns back to Hazel]::Hazel: Look, Bigwig, when have I EVER asked to see the chief rabbit?::Bigwig: [Thinks over, hesitating] All right, all right. Wait here. [Goes into warren, speaks to Chief Rabbit for a moment, comes back up] Come along then. Though I'll probably get my ears chewed off for this...

Hazel: [to the cat] You look hungry! Rats getting too clever, I suppose?

Violet: [Running from a badger] It had just killed. I saw blood on it's lips.::Dandelion: Lucky for us it had, otherwise it might have been quicker!

Pipkin: [while all are digging in the rain] What's happening back home, I wonder? Think, when we lived in our own burrows? Dry, soft, warm bodies...::Dandelion: [to Hazel] Look, we can't go on like this.::Silver: It keeps getting worse and worse wherever we go. Where ARE we going?::Hazel: It won't be much longer, then we can all rest.::Silver: How MUCH longer?::Pipkin: We never should have left.::Blackberry: Suppose Fiver's all wrong?::Pipkin: We want to go back and find out.::Hazel: Go back? After all we've been through?::Bigwig: And probably get killed for wounding Captain Holly? An Owsla officer? Talk sense, for Frith's sake!

Bigwig: [Mocking Fiver's prophecies] I'm in a mist! Everything's bad! Oh, I've got a funny feeling in my toe! *Hraka*!

Dandelion: [looking at the countryside from Watership Down] O Frith on the hills! He made it all for us!::Hazel: Frith may have made it, but Fiver found it.

Hazel: Lord Frith, I know you've looked after us well, and it's wrong to ask even more of you. But my people are in terrible danger, and so I would like to make a bargain with you. My life in return for theirs.::Frith: There is not a day or night that a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla, his life for his chief. But there is no bargain: what is, is what must be.

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Keep Us In Stitches - Fiver
• They Hardly Know - Fiver
• The Compositionist - Fiver
• The Mantis - Fiver
• Lost Enterprise - Fiver
• Scared Not Scared - Fiver
• Last Song (first) - Fiver
• Let It All Fall Down - Fiver
• Dead Roads - Fiver

I thought I was able
I got lost in the fable
fields are filled with witches
curses keep us in stitches
from here on out
At night outside the window
desires unwind themselves
I thought I saw angels
I got locked in the tangles
fields are filled with crickets
curses keep us in business

Take that kiss from your lips
begin this consequence
down to where the fires grow
found in hearts and gaping holes
sound it out in lost controls
mouths and tongues on telephones
and they hardly
And I believe we're all alone
landing on the rocks below
drowning out the crowded notes
burning maps nowhere to go
and I believe in all the ghosts
laughing at our skin and bones
the dirty words we love the most
stranded in our silent throats
and they hardly know
And I believe we're torn apart
staring at these parking lots
a thousand miles of faded thoughts
wasted plans are wasted on
my belief in all the scars
practicing to leave a mark
branded in the darkest parts
back again to where it starts
and they hardly know
And I believe we'll come apart
strangled in your dying arms
days will vanish into stars
final slash and false alarms
and i believe we're all erased
taping over every face
static memories replace
saturate it all

Compositionists try
to capture the nights
on papers with pens
to see them again
Computationers try
to make up our minds
with miracle cures
but this one's for sure
some day we'll die
but not tonight
Some day we'll die

All your beautiful dreams
your new wave magazines
in your latest blue jeans
all the fated machines
All the parties we go
hypnotizingly slow
color bars and remotes
all the possible notes
Animals and science
mobile homes and climates
capitols and eyesores

No stars out tonight
no cars hit their lights
your last enterprise
no sparks left inside
no hearts left alive
you're lost in the lights
all night long
No darkness survives
no wrongs make it right
you're locked in their sights
all night long
we'll keep it up this time

When you make that sound
I can't get back out
when you scream and shout
I can't get that loud
when we spin around
I can't hit the ground
when we come back down
I can't make a sound
There are things
that make me scared
but I don't care anymore
we are balanced
and we are advanced
and we are damaged

When days were gold and nights were long
We never meant to cause you harm
"We only get one chance" you said
"I'm tired of this all"
Now days are cold and nights are gone
We never get to call you up
"I don't expect to last" you said

Scientists discovered the monoliths
that detail the origins
for all of these modern myths
Satellites are crashing into the sea
they're crashing for you and me
and everyone will see
I'm not sound-dots
polygraphs or modern math

The daylight has begun
and details are deleting
the words from microphones
are falling all around us
no one can hear the sound
our hearts are all repeating
the choruses were formed
to colorize the static
Dead roads, red lights
dead ends in sight
The morning has begun
and warning signs are singing
the words inside the songs
are crawling all around us
no one can hear the sounds
our hearts are all receiving
the choruses record
the plots on the planet
Dead roads, red lights
dead ends inside
All the sights
all the sounds
on the better part of town
all the lights in the skies
in the middle of the night
all the ghosts in the ground
and the devils in our mouths
in the dark
in the stars