When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
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There is strong violent bloody fighting where rabbits get attacked sometimes killed by the other rabbits.
The rabbits fight and General Woundwort gets bit by a dog.
Graphic depiction of rabbits dying from poisoning when farmers block all the exits to their burrows and pump it full of poison gas. A rabbit is also killed in a wire neck snare.
There is no fight scene between the dog and Woundwort. The dog kills several Efrafan rabbits, but the furthest it goes on-screen between the dog and Woundwort is the two of them leaping at each other in slow motion and the scene ending.
Though this is animated, the many rabbit deaths still come across as extremely graphic and disturbing. Rabbits are poisoned en masse in their warren. Another rabbit is strangled by a snare. Rabbits also fight each other and there is a dog attack.
Yes, the snare catches a rabbit’s neck, damaging him internally and restricting his breath, nearly killing him. He chokes for a significant amount of time.
Woundwort kills Blackavar by tearing out his throat. Before this, he threatened to 'tear out every throat in Watership Down', but Blackavar is the only victim of this threat. This death is exclusive to the movie - Blackavar is not killed in the book.
It’s not completely clear but there is an implied case of “crowd crush.” The ultimate cause of death for most was poison gas, but when the bodies build up trying to escape, many likely die being crushed in the mob.
A warren has its entrances filled in and is pumped full of poison gas. The scene is very graphic and disturbing. Later, a rabbit is covered in a thin layer of dirt to hide him. He can move and breathe fine.
A rabbit goes to antagonize a dog in the end to save his warren. He does not die in this instance but he expects to die and has made peace with it beforehand.
There are three police forces--called owsla--in the film. The first is Sandleford, which is shown to be wholly, unquestioningly obedient to the chief rabbit--with the sole exception of Bigwig, a minor officer who abandons his post and joins the heroes on their quest. The second is General Woundwort's owslafa, which is a brute squad enforcing the laws of a tyrant. The third is Hazel's owsla, of which Bigwig is captain, and they make it their goal to simply protect the warren, and will not abuse their power or anyone under their protection.
Animated, Holly describes the Sandleford Warren's destruction. Men fill some of the warren's holes up, and use a gas to poison the air in the warren. The rabbits inside try to escape but many cannot due to the crowding of the few unblocked tunnels.
This scene is very unsettling, due to the detailed anguish and fear on the rabbits' faces; and like many graphic scenes in Watership, the animation of the animals is more detailed here. It comes right after Bigwig finds Holly, and Bigwig asks Holly what happened. It takes about 59 seconds for the scene to finish.
When the rabbits find the injured bird, the bird says "piss off" but it can be hard to tell with the way he yells it, its very obvious with subtitles though.
Sort of, in the sense that the rabbits have a creation myth and believe the sun is a god. It's more like general folklore than a 1-to-1 with any real religion.
The Black Rabbit of Inle could be seen as sort of a grim-reaper/demon equivalent, but it is truly a benevolent deity of death who guides rabbit spirits to the afterlife.
Not a specific person, but the movie has criticism for presenting the female characters solely as a means of reproduction to support the more important quest of the male main characters. In one scene, the leader of a militaristic warren lets an officer know he can choose to mate with any female he likes due to his rank.
The plot revolves around a group of rabbits being casted out of their home and going to a supposed promised Land where they cal live in peace. The Rabbits struggle a lot and are homeless throught most of the film