There’s a trippy quality to Rosen’s animation that made the scenes of death and poisoning all the more nightmarish, and the censors were later criticised for giving it a U certificate, meaning it could be viewed by four-year-olds – exactly the age I was when the film came out. If anything, it gave us a healthy awareness not only that nature, even in anthropomorphised form, could be unsparingly bloody and cruel, but that humans’ disregard for life had horrific and painful consequences.
It managed, like the book, to be both sentimental and clear-eyed about the natural world. I loved that film as a child, even though it terrified me. Most of this criticism has come from the generation who grew up mildly traumatised by Martin Rosen’s graphic 1978 animated adaptation and swear it didn’t do them any harm. Despite its stellar cast (Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy, Gemma Arterton, John Boyega and Peter Capaldi, among others will voice the animated rabbits), the new version has drawn fire for pulling its punches when it comes to the level of brutality – among the animals themselves, but especially at the hands of humans, who callously rip up their habitat and pump them full of myxomatosis. Is it any good? I read mixed reviews.Which makes it all the more infuriating that one of the highlights of the BBC’s Christmas programming is a toned-down, fluffier remake of Richard Adams’s distinctly un-fluffy 1972 classic Watership Down.
I'm thinking about getting Tales of watership down as well. (I saw some "classics" series somewhere, so something like that. Would be nice if I could get same/similar publications for all those, if I can. I plan to read classics in english (not my native tounge) in the future, like Moby Dick. Does any of the above mentioned have it? If not, are other illustrations any good? (I prefer minimalistic pictures btw)Ĥ. Read in a similar post that the OG version came with John Lawrence's illustrations, which I googled and liked. I read without glasses, so larg(er) characters are needed. Some criteria I have in no particular order:Ģ.
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