Today I learned

[james_davis_nicoll]

that in the UK, the film version of Watership Down was rated a children's movie when it was first released. Interesting.

Comments

[zeborah]

I saw it only a couple of years ago and was pretty traumatised. The... I don't know that it's a mood mismatch between book and movie, because the book's pretty dark by the nature of what it's talking about, and yet. In the book it's dark in a way that you can take according to where you are in life, I think? whereas the movie just puts it out there complete with psychedelic horror (kind of like the tunnel scene from the older Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, come to think of it).

[kraig]

I'd agree with this. I re-read and re-watch every few years, and the movie gets me in a way that's different from the book. Maybe it's more a sign of the limitations of my own imagination, but yeah, you're not the only one.