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Watership Down ~ Lost in Adaptation

🕑 Added 2021-08-30 22:17:35 +0000 UTC

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Erica Borgers

This brought back a lot of terrible memories from childhood that I didn’t realize I had! I do Love your presentation of the story

Melevolent

I was a 5 year old 4-H rabbit breeder when I saw this movie in 1989. It was traum. at. ic. And I still have nightmares featuring General Woundwort. But I saw it several more times as a kid and enjoyed it. Read the book as an adult and loved it more than the movie even. Fantastic writing.

I checked the artist's YouTube page and didn't see it, is there anywhere to access the end credits song? My toddler was absolutely jamming to it.

Jaxus

For the accurate book to movie idea, how about Novel-as-Script? Also Bunnies and Burrows!

Chrisanne Sikora

Actually never saw the movie, but I did read the book for a class in college. Nothing like staying up past midnight reading about homicidal bunnies.

I honestly kind of like “Same Guy Different Hat” for the opposite of “In Name Only”. Could also be “Same Story, Different Font”

R.E. Jasso

In the "what they changed" section, you should have mentioned Blackavar survives in the end.

Violet Moon

I came here to make this comment about the levels as well.

Michael T. Johnson

The "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" clause.

I love it. I love this book and movie so much. I was never traumatized by it, I've seen bunnies fight before, it's not that off on the damage they can do. As a side note on pronunciation - Adams included a "Note on Pronunciation" in Tales from Watership "So many people have asked about the correct pronunciation of “El-ahrairah” that it seemed to be worth including a short note. The first two syllables are pronounced “Ella” (like the girl’s name). These are followed by the single syllable “hrair,” rhyming with “fair,” and finally “rah,” rhyming with “spa.” All the syllables are equally stressed except the “la” in “Ella,” which is almost (but not quite) elided. The two r’s should be lightly rolled."

Hamish Sewell

Or “Double Take”

Robert Calhoun

Just call the opposite of In Name Only the "Watership Down Award"

I never saw the movie, but, yeah, I read this book as a third grader and loved it. There were dark and violent scenes, but I was never scared.

shadowscribble

Awesome job, I love the dives you do into the author and their story around their works. I had no idea the director *allegely* pulled shenanigans against someone he respected so deeply.

Chris Nokai

It was awesome to see this. Found the book and movie for the first time pretty recently (love the former and really like the latter). The audiobook version is excellent, with the narrator giving a great mix of epic grandiosity and children's story enthusiasm. The Plague Dogs is also a fantastic movie, the better of the two in my opinion. It's much, much more disturbing (though less violent), however, so be warned.

Saiyasha

That is exactly what i thought when he read that wrong XDDDD

Shendude

I read it as a kid, and never really got people freaking out over the ultraviolet e for some reason. It's pretty much a Hallmark of the animal fantasy genre... probably because of this book

justjukka

I saw the subject line of the email and made a sound that might suggest I saw someone get punched in the diaphragm. I read the subject line to my husband, and he said, "Makes sense." As someone who grew up in the 90s, I'm fortunate that my parents understood how animation isn't always for children, so I didn't fall victim to being exposed to this by an unwitting adult.

Leif Bradshaw

This film came out in 1978, and not 1994, but apart from that, this was an enjoyable watch. Wonderfully comprehensive.

Love this book and movie 🙂

Beloved Sylphaen

I have to be honest, this wasn't as bad as I imagined it would be.

Matt Storrs

Regarding the "Opposite of In Name Only Clause", I have two ideas. The first would be to call it a "Carbon Film", since it's basically a carbon copy of the book. Alternatively, I would call it the "Hunger Games Effect", since that's the first thing that springs to mind when I think of a film loyal to a fault to the book's plot and choices.

One little tweek I suggest - the song at the end is so loud you reading off the "Patrons Of Honor" part can barely be heard. I always hated Watership Down. Not for the violence but because both the movie and the book seemed to be a heavy handed "Humans bad, animals good" sort of thing. Just barely shy of a "Go vegan or die" PETA type message.

Fran B

Two notes: I think you got the date of release wrong (sounds like you said 1994 which is *way* off.) Also, the audio balance on the outro is heavy on the music to where the end "thanks to" part is hard to hear.

SpectralTime

Hah! He calls out the music video specifically!

Nawf4

Glad to know that that Gull's accent is supposed to be impossible to discern. The closest I could figure was he was supposed to be some kind of Eastern European. Maybe the opposite of in-name-only should be (author name) at top. Like it deserves to have the author name with a " 's " over it.

Probably could have won a carnage award too lol 😂

Anthony (ThePkmnYPerson)

I'm sorry my long name covers up to song lyrics at the end. I didn't realize it would do that. EDIT: Never mind. The lyrics go over my name. I'll bet how long it is at least makes it a bit more attention grabbing, so I apologize for that instead.

SpectralTime

...So, low key one of my favorite books of all time. And lest you think that's childhood nostalgia talking, I first read it in *college*. I really hope Dom agreed, is what I'm getting at. The major complaint I had about the part of the film I watched (I gave out at the Bright Eyes number) was that Kehaar went from unstoppable trump card to wacky comic relief.

Perfectly done. Incidentally, Hazel dying made me cry so much when I first saw, then later read, it. 40 something years later (and not having revisited WD much in adulthood in any form) I'm struck by the tear running down my cheek when I saw a brief glimpse of the scene in your video.