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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a
Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first
they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift
warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be
destroyed.”- Richard Adam, "Watership Down"
Below are my reviews and reflections on the great book and film, "Watership Down". When it comes to literature and movie adaptations very few of the latter measure up to the former. There is no rule to how this turns out. Just because a film remains as loyal as possible to its source material, such as the graphic novel "The Watchmen" and especially "300", which was a frame-by-frame adaptation, it doesn't mean that the end result is going to be any good. Slavishly adhering to the original material almost makes the whole point of creating a film pointless. A film is a different animal to a book or even a play. In the latter case one has only to look at many of the early "talkies" and then compare them to the way cinema developed in the 1940s to see the important distinction.
