Watership down is a British animated feature first released in 1978 and is a film I've loved ever since I first saw it. It still shocks me that this film was given a classification of a 'U' despite the spin chilling death scenes and themes involved. Written, producted and directed Martin Rosen who is also responsible for the movie 'plague dogs' (another favourite of mine). This story is utterly dark and disturbing, yet focuses on rabbits and nature. The main themes of this feature are clearly along the lines of political and rather religious in some areas...
The film is animated in traditional CEL animation with watercolour backgrounds. I love how wonderful the whole feature flows together and how the mixture of a rather 'cartoony' looking design for the rabbits blends so well with the raw natural backdrops and environments all around them.
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