100 Things No 2: It must be bunnies!
Everyone knows animation is just for kids. And so animated bunnies must be doubly for kids, right? Look at that cute dvd cover! Bunnies!
And that's how children everywhere learned to fear rabbits (seriously, I've had pet rabbits, those things can fuck you up!). And yet, it was awesome!
I was a squeamish child, so I had to watch most of this through my fingers until I learned the spots to look away. But I still watched it so many times I could learn when to look away.
There's just something about Watership Down. It's very much the opposite to Disney; many of the characters are hard to tell apart unless you're paying attention, the distinct lack of big cute eyes, the gloomy and subtle yet beautiful watercolor backgrounds, the swearing. I mean, how many movies got a blatant 'PISS OFF!' past the censors?
And yes, the bunny gore.
Starting as we mean to go on.
"Which bastard said mushroom?"
Oh God, the snare scene!
It took a few years later and reading the books to get what this scene was implying...
So have a seagull slapping a rabbit. (Seriously, a G rating?)
It sucks to be Blackavar.
Around here I'm thinking I should have been keeping a horrible death count.
Yep, still no love for Blackavar.
...Blackavar! Noooooooo!
But it's this death that always gets me. After all that, Hazel gets to die of old age. My heart! It's full of bittersweet!