Post by Groundhog Phil on Apr 19, 2022 14:35:44 GMT
With the Easter weekend just gone, what a perfect timne to talk about this animated film.
Being made in 1978, I naturally saw it as a kid on TV and and loved it at the same time was intimidated it from the blood spreading over the fields to the trees, like a lot of kid's traumatized! One thing stuck with me forever though, and that was the opening monologue.
"All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And if they catch you they'll kill you, but first they have to catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks and your people will never be destroyed!"
Beautifully animated with the watercolour backdrop plates, brutal at times. As I went into my 20's I bought a couple of copies of the book as it had so enamoured me as a child. The first just a standard paperback. Then another time a lovely hardback copy with paper (proper paer not glossy) and a watercolour cover, with beautiful illustrations here and there and a map. All of which only made me fall in love with the story more. This almost military like peacking order of certain warrens of rabbits may have been lost on me as a kid, but in both the film and book provided so much more interest. From fun moments to melancholy as fellow friends are snatched by the huduru (probablly mispelt), car to me and you and the terryfying General Woundwort.
Let alone the haunting "Bright eyes" accompanying song (Especially sadder at the end) and all round general great soundtrack to the triumphant theme of reaching the top of of the hill. (I still use the "You can see the world world!" in an everyday context!) It's a film I can watch every year.
Being made in 1978, I naturally saw it as a kid on TV and and loved it at the same time was intimidated it from the blood spreading over the fields to the trees, like a lot of kid's traumatized! One thing stuck with me forever though, and that was the opening monologue.
"All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And if they catch you they'll kill you, but first they have to catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks and your people will never be destroyed!"
Beautifully animated with the watercolour backdrop plates, brutal at times. As I went into my 20's I bought a couple of copies of the book as it had so enamoured me as a child. The first just a standard paperback. Then another time a lovely hardback copy with paper (proper paer not glossy) and a watercolour cover, with beautiful illustrations here and there and a map. All of which only made me fall in love with the story more. This almost military like peacking order of certain warrens of rabbits may have been lost on me as a kid, but in both the film and book provided so much more interest. From fun moments to melancholy as fellow friends are snatched by the huduru (probablly mispelt), car to me and you and the terryfying General Woundwort.
Let alone the haunting "Bright eyes" accompanying song (Especially sadder at the end) and all round general great soundtrack to the triumphant theme of reaching the top of of the hill. (I still use the "You can see the world world!" in an everyday context!) It's a film I can watch every year.