✋ Another victim of television station deciding to screen film in a kids' schedule. 😱
Parents, please don't show this to kids! It's for teenagers and adults, it's not a kids' story!
p.s. Astonished to find that critics at the time apparently all dismissed concerns about the film version's effect on small children:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)#Effects_on_children_and_BBFC_classification
...the critics really dropped the ball on this one! 😬
Interesting to hear the classification board saying "Animation removes the realistic gory horror", as if an animation simply is not capable of being traumatising.
Maybe a generational thing where adults had only ever seen deliberately unrealistic cartoons like Tom & Jerry, and had trouble taking any animation seriously? Whereas children were taking it very seriously without the adults realising?
Made the mistake of watching the relevant scenes to compare them after all these years... oh heck. 😞
"Bambi's mother"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZPMJj-X9M
"Watership Down's deaths" (Warning: shows horrifying deaths of animals although uploader has added a comedy element to it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1dHLS7ocpw
...just cannot see where the critics are coming from. The fates of the rabbits are depicted in a far, far more disturbing manner.
Deborah Pickett
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