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Watership Down: why we love it?
Topic Started: Jun 17 2008, 02:14 PM (523 Views)
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I thought in the spirit of Getting Things Back on Track, why not tackle the difficult topic of what it is that attracted you to WD in the first place. What were your first thoughts on watching the film and reading the book? Was it love at first sight?

I'll start us off. I read the book and saw the film years and years ago, but it's only recently i've come back to them. I guess that to most adults the idea of talking rabbits would seem ridiculous, but as a kid i just loved the world that Richard Adams created, a world of brutal savagery but also filled with moments of compassion.

The movie is just awesome: great voice acting, great animation...a true misunderstood classic.

As for the series...er...at least Blackavar didn't get killed!

Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew:
"You can't open up your mind, boys
To every conceivable point of view."
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
Judge says to the High Sheriff: "I want him dead or alive."
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Its been so long since I first read the book (at least 2003). I don't even know why I read the book. I think someone mentioned it on a furry forum and I said, eh, what the heck and bought a copy. Didn't think a book about rabbits could be so cool and yet, it seemed so real and in a different world than Jacques' Redwall. I didn't read Tales until at least a year after that.

During that time I also picked up the film and I remember having to watch it twice to catch everything that was said. I didn't see it as a bad adaptation of the book. I only recently (last year) managed to see the WD series and the third season was the most dramatic and looked semi-realistic and less Disney-ish. (its the eyes)

That's about it. I don't remember how I met Inle-rah (Jen) but I helped her out with this place when it was first created and have been an important member here ever since. :)
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I read it after being told it roxers by my parents. I agreed it roxered. Despite starring bunnies it really isn't a children's book.
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Watership Down trancends genres. It is a fantasy novel in that the setting is differant, fantastic in many ways but it throws out all cliches of those books. It shows insights into the working of society or it could just be seen as a simple story about finding your place in the world. It is for adults or children. This is Watership Down's strengths.
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I think kids might be more interested in Harry Potter for their fantasy fix rather than a book about rabbits. ^^ If not HP, then some might turn to Redwall because of the fighting and stuff. Kids like that stuff I guess. Boys like the action.
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Yeah, Watership Down is quite slow-paced compared to those, and i reckon it can be hard to get into. It's not really a childrens book.
Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew:
"You can't open up your mind, boys
To every conceivable point of view."
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
Judge says to the High Sheriff: "I want him dead or alive."
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Watership Down was the first movie that I ever *conciously* watched in my entire life. Sure, I sat and drooled my way through other things as a baby, but it was the first movie that I saw at an age where I could grasp simple concepts. Of course, I didn't understand a lot of the movie until I was older, but I still loved it anyhow. I remember getting in trouble at almost 3 years of age because I didn't want to let my aunt borrow the movie. I still wouldn't let anyone borrow it today!

I also remember that I LOVED eating spagehtti at a young age because I would pull it tight and then bite through the middle so that it would snap apart like the rope holding the boat does in the movie.

I didn't read the book until many years later, I'd say 13 years old. I loved it. Loved their special language, especially. Caught myself saying some of their words, too...

I read Tales at age 14, didn't like it as much, of course, but it was okay.

I think I just love it so much because it's always been a positive part of my life.
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I also remember that I LOVED eating spagehtti at a young age because I would pull it tight and then bite through the middle so that it would snap apart like the rope holding the boat does in the movie.


Hahaha...nice connection to the film. :D
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What I especially liked is that the book didn't held any pretention. Richard Addams wanted to tell a simple tale and so he did in a marvelous way, that's what I find fantastic about it. It's just a tale of a life (of a group in this case).

Anyway, I first heard about Watership Down when I saw the serie which I loved (and which I'm still searching to find). Then about a year after I heard there was a book about it and so I began searching for it (I don't usually shop by internet). Took me another year to find it in a bazaar in South Carolina and I read it and love it in a different way. And so about yet another year later I heard there was a movie which I watched 30 minutes later after downloading it (yeah that was bad :P but I bought a copy some years later) and didn't quite liked. I didn't like the graphics much (mostly because it was an old movie and I watched it around 2004 or something and I had seen a much colorful version with the serie years before). Then later during the year I managed to find tales and quite likes it even thought I concider it unfinished.

And that would be about it... I'll had if I think of something else later.

P.S. If anyone knows where I can find the WSD TV Serie, PM me. I'll be in your depts for a long time :lol:
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The series is better than people give it credit for. The movie suffered because it's impossible to fit the whole book into an hour and a half without losing some great stuff.
Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew:
"You can't open up your mind, boys
To every conceivable point of view."
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
Judge says to the High Sheriff: "I want him dead or alive."
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Check youtube for the series....all three seasons are out there, but there's no rhyme no order to it. There's about four different members that each upload a bit of the whole three seasons.
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The concept and thrilling storyline attracted me more then the rabbit's way of living and language. Now I've come to love everything the book explored.
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