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"Watership down" 70's violent cartoon

Would you show this to your young child?


  • Total voters
    15
I was thinking about this movie and how graphic it really is.I was wondering how others view this.As a kid in the 70's I saw this, and so did many others.I never really gave it much thought until I was older.I see now how graphic it is.I am not alone.See the video please.

Warning to the squeamish
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Jumi

Well-Known Member
That was... interesting. We never had anything graphic like this in our kid's shows in the 70s that I can remember.
 
That was... interesting. We never had anything graphic like this in our kid's shows in the 70s that I can remember.

Another one I can remember is actually my all time favorite animated movie.It is called "The Secret of Nimh." It was from the 80's.It has some mild violence.

 
I saw the "Exorcist" at a very young age too.Even though I saw it,I would never show it to my kids.
 

Laika

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Voted no.

I gave up TV last year and haven't looked back. The TV broke earlier this year and I got my parents to try out living without it- they haven't missed it (aside my dad missing the football).

I've become re-sensitized to media violence and whereas I was 'indifferent' before as I thought it was 'entertainment', now I feel more uncomfortable. I start to notice the way in which violence is often incessant as a plot device based around conflict when I think about it now and how it can be trivialized for bigger special effects. Watership down is pretty mild, but yeah, still graphic in a way.

If I have kids, I probably wont have a TV so they can enjoy life, play outside and have fun like kids are supposed to.

Or there is the Clangers...

 
Voted no.

I gave up TV last year and haven't looked back. The TV broke earlier this year and I got my parents to try out living without it- they haven't missed it (aside my dad missing the football).

I've become re-sensitized to media violence and whereas I was 'indifferent' before as I thought it was 'entertainment', now I feel more uncomfortable. I start to notice the way in which violence is often incessant as a plot device based around conflict when I think about it now and how it can be trivialized for bigger special effects. Watership down is pretty mild, but yeah, still graphic in a way.

If I have kids, I probably wont have a TV so they can enjoy life, play outside and have fun like kids are supposed to.

Or there is the Clangers...


Congratulations.:thumbsup:
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
I watched this as a child; it is nothing compered to how evil this world is, and it has good morals. ;)
 
I watched this as a child, it is nothing compered to how evil this world is and it has good morals. ;)

Actually it has everything to do with the nature of this world.It shows how there is control and corruption on the part of many.This cartoon is but one example.You should scope out "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.Classic masterpiece pertaining to what I am talking about.Cartoons have a way of carrying the message across in a less threatening and offending way.

Here is the movie.




Here is the trailer.

 

suncowiam

Well-Known Member
As a child, I observed many things that my parents probably didn't want me to observe. As a parent, I want to ensure that when my kids observe borderline content that they have my supervision so I can guide them with the proper perspective.
 

robtex

Veteran Member
How old is the kid that --if it is a teenager than sure if say 14 or younger not sure..I don't have kids so my opinion may be mush. If you get a chance read the book Watership Down. There is so much in the book that really can't be presented in a movie format. The author, Richard Adams, actually wrote the book while telling short stories off the cuff to his daughters about the rabbits adventures. So at least in his mind it seems he prepared the material at least to some degree, with a youthful audience in mind.
 

dust1n

Zindīq
Jeez... you know what kids are watching now right?

That was mild to the say the least.

I feel like watching a cowboy run around and shoot Indians in the 40's or whatever is is far misleading and harmful to a young mind.

How exactly do you explain to a kid that in the Lord of the Rings movie, battles are mostly bloodless, exciting, hero-filled, but in real life battles are the mostly horribly graphic things to have happened, where blood soaks the dirt and makes a swamp of essentially human liquids, without a doubt the most traumatic thing one can do to oneself.
 

Nietzsche

The Last Prussian
Premium Member
How exactly do you explain to a kid that in the Lord of the Rings movie, battles are mostly bloodless, exciting, hero-filled, but in real life battles are the mostly horribly graphic things to have happened, where blood soaks the dirt and makes a swamp of essentially human liquids, without a doubt the most traumatic thing one can do to oneself.
Life ends in death. Or rather, life is a fleeting instance in a sea of death & entropy. Blood is something everyone has, and if they don't, there are far more serious problems to worry about than what the sight of blood will do to a child.

If anything, people are far too squeamish.
 

Jumi

Well-Known Member
Blood or tragedy never bothered me, but there are better things to put ones mind to. Seeing a real corpse at a morgue, watching a traditional butcher work or such first might be better so they can put it in perspective.
 

Smart_Guy

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Premium Member
As a direct comment to the thread's name, I don't think it is violent. Want real violence, watch Devil Man movies. Japanese anime knows how to show real violence.
 

averageJOE

zombie
I was thinking about this movie and how graphic it really is.I was wondering how others view this.As a kid in the 70's I saw this, and so did many others.I never really gave it much thought until I was older.I see now how graphic it is.I am not alone.See the video please.

Warning to the squeamish
....

Not even close to the level of violence in the video games they are playing.
 
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