Watership down (1978) was directed by Martin Rosen and based on the novel by Richard Adams. It was sold as a children's movie and given a U rating despite the violence and adult themes that run throughout. In 2012 the BBFC said that it had received complaints about the U rating every year since the films release. The movie touches on themes of environmentalism, companionship, freedom versus confinement and political structures. The film portrays the rabbits as they are on the search for a new home when their old warren is destroyed by humans who want to use the land to develop upon without care for the wildlife that lives on it. A group of rabbits defy their chief in order to escape their fate. Along the way the rabbits work together to help one another as their leader, Hazel, refuses to let the weakest fall behind. As the story progresses, the audience are introduced to other warrens and the way they are run. The most prominent of these warrens is one run by a ruthless and fasci...
Blog showing concepts, ideas and tasks that I've researched and made during my time studying Bachelor of Screen Arts (Animation) at SIT, Invercargill.