Watership Down

[kev67]

Watership Down was one of my favourite books as a boy. It was massive in the 70s. I read it eight times, but when I tried to read it again as an adult, I put it back down again. The language seemed very dated and the sexism was a bit embarrassing. It was as if Hazel was being acted by John Mills and Bigwig by Trevor Howard. No doubt Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews and Richard Todd would be in there too. I am not sure who would play Fiver, maybe Alec Guinness. Sylvia Sims would play one of the does.

There is an interesting entry for it in Wikipedia (http://uk.ask.com/wiki/Watership_Down?lang=en). I was amused that someone wrote a feminist review called Male Chauvinist Rabbits in The New York Times. You can actually still download the review (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E4DA1231EE37A25753C3A9609C94 6590D6CF). I am actually tempted to pay the $3.95.

[The Atheist]

I never quite got the whole Watership Downs love affair. Great song, average story.

But I was already pretty cynical by the time it came out.

[kev67]

I wasn't too keen on the song. It came out with the film and I did not like that very much either. However, I was amused when someone told me their father had brought back a DVD of Watership Down for them, thinking it was a nice animated film about rabbits. She and her sister were traumatised.