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Watership Down is a 1978 British animated adventure-thriller film written, produced and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams. It was financed by a consortium of British financial institutions. Originally released on 19 October 1978, the film was an immediate success and it became the sixth most popular film of 1979 at the British box office. It was the first animated feature film to be presented in Dolby surround sound.
It features the voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Simon Cadell, Nigel Hawthorne, and Roy Kinnear, among others, and was the last film work of Zero Mostel, as the voice of Kehaar the gull. The musical score was by Angela Morley and Malcolm Williamson. Art Garfunkel's hit single "Bright Eyes", which was written by songwriter Mike Batt, briefly features.
According to Adams' Lapine language, culture and mythology, the world was created by the god Frith, who represents the Sun. All animals lived harmoniously, but the rabbits eventually multiplied, and their appetite led to a food shortage. At the prayers of the desperate animals, Frith warned the rabbit prince El-ahrairah to control his people, but was scoffed at. In retaliation, Frith gave special gifts to every animal, but some animals he made predators to prey upon the rabbits. Satisfied that El-ahrairah (Now also known as "Prince with a Thousand Enemies") had learned his lesson, Frith also gave the rabbits speed and cunning; while many would seek to kill them, the rabbits could survive by their wits and quickness.
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.
Keywords: allegory, ambush, animal-attack, animal-death, based-on-novel, beast-fable, bird, bird-attack, blockbuster, blood
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.
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Briers and Ralph Richardson Watership Down (1978) Official Trailer - John Hurt Movie A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home. Subscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u43jDe Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/1QyRMsE Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Welcome to the Fandango MOVIECLIPS Trailer Vault Channel. Where trailers from the past, from recent to long ago, from a time before YouTube, can be enjoyed by all. We search near and far for original movie trailer from all decades. Feel free to send us your trailer requests and we will do our best to hunt it down.
When a young rabbit named Fiver has a prophetic vision that the end of his warren is near, he persuades seven other rabbits to flee their doomed warren and along the way, they face many dangers to find and protect their new home
The group meets resistance from the warren's police force called the Owsla, but eight manage to fight and escape: Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Blackberry, Pipkin, Dandelion, Silver and Violet. Full movie http://ffilms.org/watership-down-1978/
Moments later, however, he is caught in a snare trap. Fiver attempts to get help from their hosts, but is ignored. Bigwig is freed after nearly dying. As Fiver reveals, the warren is fed by a farmer who snares rabbits in return for his food and protection from predators. After Bigwig's narrow escape, the other rabbits willingly follow Fiver's and Hazel's advice and set out once more. Warning!!!!! To adults or teens who are watching this video with young children,tell them to cover their eyes for if they see violence. Thank you and enjoy. Full movie http://ffilms.org/watership-down-1978/
Bigwig ambushes Woundwort and they fight to exhaustion. The dog arrives and kills many of the Efrafan soldiers. Hearing the commotion, Woundwort abandons Bigwig and fearlessly confronts the dog. No trace of Woundwort is found, leaving his fate ambiguous. Warning!!!!! To adults or teens who are watching this video with young children,tell them to cover their eyes for they they see violence. Thank you and enjoy. Full movie http://ffilms.org/watership-down-1978/ This music is from Watership down 1978 - Soundtrack:15 Final Struggle and Triumph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16IfUQkDcc on 0:01
I decided to upload this here since there's not much copyright content. Anyway, now I review a more adult animated movie made in the UK all about bunny rabbits... how could a movie with cute, innocent bunnie be so violent and mature? Watch and find out! The footage used in this video was enitrely borrowed from YouTube. I do not claim any credit for it.
Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes, classic scene from Watership Down (1978).
Unofficial fan trailer for the 1978 animated film 'Watership Down" directed by Martin Rosen and an adaptation of the classic novel by Richard Adams. http://www.mgarosen.com/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078480/ http://www.seansiegfried.com/
Well i'm counting down the days. until you say
that we can talk again. and then try to reason.
please don't hang up now. i just need a moment.
i've cried my last i swear. so please hear me out.
i just can't wait for tomorrow. to feel alright
about myself. i always wait for tomorrow. tomorrow
is my whole life. if i can make it through the next
five minutes. i might be alright tonight. it's not
alright. never again will i be content. it's not
alright. it's a conflict between my head. my heart.
my hands. sinking never felt so right to me before.
because i know you would push me down. please just
tell me. maybe we can work this out. because i can't
take this anymore. you say it's alright. it's not