Look what I found on youtube:
This film is based upon a 1977 novel by Richard Adams.
The ending of this film is quite depressing, but the novel ends with the dogs being rescued by Ronald Lockley (who wrote The Private Life of the Rabbit, which Adams uses as his “scientific reference” for Watership Down, his most famous novel) and Sir Peter Scott ( who was a Conservative conservationist, ornithologist, naturalist, and Loch Ness monster hunter who was the son of Robert Falcon Scott, the Antarctic explorer). The dogs are returned to Snitter’s owner.
The film isn’t quite that sunny.
My favorite character is the Tod, a wild fox who speaks Geordie. He’s quite crafty, and amazingly, he teaches Rowf and Snitter how to kill their own food.
Never read the book. The movie made me cry my eyes out.
The movie is really depressing. I read most of the book years ago, and found it kind of bleak as well.
My favorite Richard Adams book was Watership Down… I remember not liking his ‘sequel’ to that but I can’t remember why — it was so long ago.
Too many rabbit religion stories in the sequel.
I got tired of hearing about El-ahrairah.
Read the book years ago and liked it, but can’t remember it well enough to compare it to the movie, which I did enjoy. It seemed like one of those thinking movies, where there’s more philosophy than plot, or maybe it was just because it was a more low-key movie than all the shoot-em-ups put out today. Snitter was probably my favorite character…his ability to to into more abstract thought piqued my interest.