Movies. Swooning. Tom Welling.

[naamah_darling]

Hay!

Who sent me ze bunny movie? Convess!Got a (wet, and thank God it was shrink wrapped) copy of Watership Down in the post late today. It's been one of my favorite movies since I was wee, though looking back on it I can't think why on earth my parents allowed me to watch it when it gave me recurring nightmares. I still love it, and find that

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[snakegoddess]

If it's the one sorta nearish Newbury, then it's THE Watership Down. I've been a huge fan of the book since about age seven, when I got pissed off with my mother reading it to me chapter by chapter and read the whole thing in a weekend. (How to get a child reading 'grownup' books - read it to them in utterly frustratingly small smidges.) When I visited England in my teens I tracked it down on the maps and went and visited it. Everything's there - the farm and all - just as described. I have bad disposable-camera photos to prove it. :-)

I've had a fair few pet rabbits over the years, and funnily enough they've all had names like Fiver, Pipkin (the two dwarf ones) and Littlewig (because he had a tuft of fur like Bigwig, but he could sit in the palm of my hand when I was given him by a farming friend - they accidentally ploughed through what they thought was a nest burrow and Littlewig was the only survivor. Turned out they'd actually ploughed through a form and Littlewig was a hare - you should've seen the legs on that guy! They just went on and on... He was so young I had to bottle-feed him for the first week). Then there was Blackberry and one who started out being called Violet but ended up being nicknamed General Woundwort because she was the most grumpy rabbit I've ever encountered! We reached an understanding though. :-)

I love the movie too, and have a much-treasured copy - did you know it took them five years to hand-paint all the backgrounds?