My younger brother had no idea what Watership Down was. I recall my father taking me to a theatre showing. This is before our home town had a movie cinema. It was basically a small room in the mall where they had a projector.
Today I am watching it again with my niece as she likes Rabbits. This film comes back from 1978 but still a great Animated Movie and I must confess i enjoyed it also. Enjoyed listening to the Rabbits and decent 70s animation with their English accents.
Even enjoyed being read and reading the book. The Novel was originally written as a childrens/adventure book in 1972 by Robert Adams. Its in the same vein as Animal Farm by George Orwell. Adams died last year at the age of 96.
A Follow up Tales for Watership Down was published in 1996.
Watership Down was Adams first major work and he was an Unknown author at age 52, in 1972.
Watership Down was rejected seven times before it was accepted by Rex Collings.
The one-man London publisher Collings wrote to an associate, "I've just taken on a novel about rabbits, one of them with extra-sensory perception. Do you think I'm mad?" The associate did call it "a mad risk" in her obituary of Collings; "a book as bizarre by an unknown writer which had been turned down by the major London publishers; but it was also dazzlingly brave and intuitive."
n the Sandleford warren,[a] Fiver, a young runt rabbit who is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction. When he and his brother Hazel fail to convince their chief rabbit of the need to evacuate, they set out on their own, accompanied by nine other rabbits who choose to go with them. The first challenge in the small band's search for a new home comes immediately, as they are forced to elude the Owsla, the warren's military caste.
Once out in the world, the travelling group of rabbits finds itself following the leadership of Hazel, who, until now, has been just another unimportant member of the warren. The group travels far and through dangerous territory. Bigwig and Silver, both former Owsla and the strongest rabbits among them, do well to keep the others protected, along with Hazel's keen observations and good judgement.
Most of all this is a realistic cartoon as their are actually deaths in it. They remade a 2017 version with less violence and probably more political correctness.
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