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We don't have the new series in Germany ;_____;
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Category All / All
Species Rabbit / Hare
Size 796 x 595px
File Size 368 kB
This movie was ahead of its time even when it came out in 1978. It was the first PG-rated animated film directed to a general adult audience rather than just the kiddies (I'm not counting "Fritz the Cat" because it's X-rating and subject matter restricted the viewing audience so much). It showed that "grown-up" animation can be a draw and perhaps inspired other attempts at it like the PG-rated "Secret of NIMH" and "American Pop" (also done by the "Fritz" Ralph Bakshi). Sadly, tv and advertisers and production costs keep feature-length animation limited to kiddie eye-candy or raunchy adult fare, anime's influx has supressed American desire to make its own manga-type films, and CGI--well--is in the process of killing hand-drawn cel-animation. Cheers to the golden age.
I was lucky enough to see this movie in its too-short cinema run in 1978. The watercolor-style animation was unique and the musical score very moving. Though the house was packed, it was only there two weeks-or-so. It was the first cartoon with mature themes I ever saw (or was even rated PG) and it really had an effect on me (I was 15 at the time). I was drawing the rabbits from the movie and humming "Bright Eyes" for weeks afterwards. Then I read the book, which fleshed-out the characters and the side-stories. I've seen this film in practically every possible format (VHS, CED (analog videodisc!), HBO, Netowrk tv (broken into two parts for some inexplicable reason!), DVD, .avi...). BTW: another Richard Adams Book, "The Plague Dogs", was also made into a feature-length animated film with a kind of Ralph Bakshi rotoscope animation technique. It was great up to the ending, which basically left-off the last twenty pages of the book, which made the ending tragic instead of happy.
Here Vani if you wanna see the new Watership down series. http://www.youtube.com/user/pawinci Check out Pawinci's uploads he posted all 3 seasons and is super nice to talk to ^^
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