I absolutely loved Watership Down since I first saw it on HBO in the early 80s (I was in my late teens). It didn’t get much of a release in the US so I’d never heard of it. I went out and bought & read the book soon after seeing it.
Yeah, I definitely caught Gen Woundwort’s comment to Bigwig about,* “If you want a doe, you’ll have your choice…”, to mean, well, what it meant. But I didn’t find it disturbing. In fact, I felt it was a nod to the idea that the movie/novel had the rabbits being sentient and having language & some culture, but they weren’t anthropomorphic, like Mickey Mouse. They didn’t wear clothes, they didn’t use tools etc. They were still animals, and that comment fit in with that. The novel even had the bucks mention such horrific things as distressed does killing and eating their litters!* To me it’s what made Adams’ novel (and the film) a significant cut above most young adult fare.
Just like the rabbit language profanity. I thought it was absolutely awesome, after reading the book, knowing that near the end of their battle when Woundwort offers to let Bigwig surrender, and he replies to Woundwort, “Harahka! Sir!”, he was essentially saying, “EAT SHIT!”.
Just not, exactly, for very young children - more as you say young adults.
The way it was advertised, in some places, tended to emphasize the “cute movie about bunnies for kiddies” vibe; combine that with a family-friendly rating …
Historically male nudity hasn’t been considered as big a deal in the US as female nudity. Fifty years ago male nudity, at least from the read (& often underage), wasn’t uncommon in magazines like Life.
I have always said the original version of “The Italian Job” (1969) is one of the most sexual G movies. Michael Caine’s character, I’m certain, influenced Austin Powers’ creation by Mike Myers 30 years later. And while he doesn’t come right out and say, “Are you randy? Let’s shag, baby!” the implication is there. And there are a lot of women wearing skimpy clothing worthy of Pussy Galore.
And IIRC, Benny Hill’s character was in prison or the cuckoo’s nest (can’t remember which) because he was a pervert. Although they get him out to do the job, he doesn’t make it to the end due to uncontrollable attraction to the ample bottoms of senior Italian nonnas. Who doesn’t love British humor?
I love it and the movie is a hoot. Far better than the Wahlberg corruption. And it was rated G.
It used to be a notion among a sub-set of Christians that Jewish matzo for Passover contained the blood of Christian babies, or some variant of that. It’s called “blood libel” and has been used to justify violence against Jews. Not entirely limited to Christians, and also accusations of ritual murder, poisoning wells, but for purposes of this anecdote it’s the whole blood-drinking thing that was macabre.
Scroll down the link - instances of such have occurred even into the 21st Century in some places.
Thus, the irony of the gentleman in question celebrating eating flesh and drinking blood on a daily basis to someone whose ancestors have been persecuted for the same for quite a few centuries by his ancestors. Yeah, it really creeped me the F out.
Yes, I understand that. Do you not understand that a cross is also two pieces of wood? Do you not understand that I am trying to convey how it looks from outside Christianity?.
I did not say ALL priests, I did not say “Drunky Smurfs priest friends”, I said a priest. Singular. An individual I recently encountered. Not the group comprised of all Catholic priests everywhere in all of time and space.
My mother’s side of the family is Catholic. My father’s side of the family is Jewish. There, is that really so hard to understand? Mixed marriages of that sort have been legal for some considerable time in the US, you know?
And 30% of us are not - which is a non-trivial portion of the population.
Well, in my lifetime it has come up several times. In one case, it wasn’t by a Christian so it’s not like “assuming white American is a Christian” is a mistake limited to Christians.
I am quite familiar with “blood libel”; it is very similar to accusations made about Catholics by some groups in the past, specifically that the communion host or wine was made with the blood of sacrificed babies.
The only section in your link that suggests Catholics have recently accused Jews of the practice seems to refer to one study, but I can’t be certain, as two of the links are unavailable.
Depends on how you define “recent”, I guess - from a historical perspective I’d say “within the past 100 years” would qualify.
Pretty rare these days, but not outside of my parents’ memory.
And given that Catholics have also been accused of the same, you’d think the priests would be told to go easy on the symbolic cannibalism thing around outsiders but if so it didn’t take in that guy’s case.
