Watership down full book5/30/2023 Occasional pacing and continuity glitches attest the sometimes troubled production. He can only offer a sampling of Adams’ hefty book, but he made shrewd choices in editing and rearranging material, and it’s a satisfying sampling that works well in its own right, and even better as a companion to the novel. Bakshi’s project is a gallant failure, a victim of his sprawling source material Rosen’s is a low-key success. The Disney magic was at a low ebb in 1978, a year that saw another ambitious, mature-toned animated adaptation of a perennially bestselling 20th-century British epic: Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings. Unlike Bambi, Watership Down has not been Disneyfied in the retelling. Adams’ influences included Animal Farm, Gulliver’s Travels and Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, but also The Private Life of the Rabbit by British naturalist Ronald Lockley, with its eye-opening accounts of leporine violence. Like Disney’s Bambi, Watership Down is based on a tough-minded, sometimes violent novel that is more an anthropomorphic interpretation of animal life than a tale of fully anthropomorphic animals.
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