Watership Down • Bright Eyes • Art Garfunkel
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- Soundtrack from the 1978 Martin Rosen, animated film "Watership Down" with voices by John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Zero Mostel, Denholm Elliot, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett & Michael Hordern. Based on the classic novel by Richard Adams. --- HD Film Tributes is a channel with over three hundred movie homages currently posted. We make zero money from TH-cam as obviously none of these edits will ever be monetized by us. Any and all ad revenue from these videos goes directly to Google as well as to the various copyright owners, just as it should.
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Anyone who dismisses this song as corny is truly dead inside, it always puts a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. Beautiful song.
I was mystified and entranced by this movie as a child. What a strange, incredible masterpiece.
Agreed. Hugely missing acknowledgment today. As you say, a masterpiece of film and music.
I was traumatised as a child by this movie. I remember when my mother came back, I was in tears.
Same, as was my sister who shares your first name. As for your surname, well lets just say pozdrav iz beograda. I just had to reply to your comment :)
Amazing song! Whoever made this video however made a masterpiece! Play the video from the start with your eyes closed, facing your screen! Every time the word "Bright" or "light" is said in the song, you will see light with you eyes closed!!
I was traumatised as a child 😭... Beautiful piece of music! 🌈
I can’t help it, every time I hear Bright Eyes I‘m bawling my eyes out.
Think we all do. Us of this great generation anyway, lol
Same, always crying with this song and movie
Grew up with it, 22 now btw
I remember watching this when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I cried for about a day. I'm now 47 and this song still makes me cry.
Me too. I'm 44.
Very much the same
Same. Same age, and memory. My brother died recently and this sing hurts even more now.
I was around the same age when I first saw the film (I'm 45 now). Our family dog died around that time and as soon as I heard this song, along with the imagery in the film it had me sobbing thinking of our dog. 40 years later and I still can't hold back the tears whenever I hear this song.
Same, same and you've guessed it, same!! ❤❤
The scene where the rabbits are running away from the development sign is very telling even today.
In a subtle way Watership Down kinda prepares children for Adulthood. *Remember watching this as a kid and being completely mesmerized*
Well said
Absolutely. Kids need to experience a wide range of feelings to develop emotionally.
These were my first impressions of death and impermanence at about 5 years old
Bro I totally agree. Since ever my dreams are very intensive and as a kid it was hard to get the right feeling about my intensive dreams. When I was roundabout 7-8 years old my parents and myself were watching this movie, in Germany (where i come from) the movie was recommended for 6 years old, but they did not really verified it, so they terribly failed to get a real opinion about this story. I intensively watched it and it scared me to death, but otherwise it fascinated me aswell. But because i'm that intensive dreamer, i could not sleep anywhere else with this experience. Again and again I dreamed that I'm one of the Rabbits under the eath, who were just waiting for the attack of the efrafas, especially by my well known cousin, I had this dream over and over again..... So my parents had a lot of circumstances just in cause of my intensive dreams. To take me always back in my own bed because in my own bed It never been a real problem. And while i became an adult i learned so much more about myself and my dreams. I've learned some kind of lucid dreams and slightly and piece after piece i got the truth of my subconscious. I forget about that traumatised part of my life, and in the summer i suprisingly saw a trailer about exact the move "water chip down" I remembered all the substances who caught me when i was a kid. I decided to watch the film again with all my 27 years of live experience with an heart who had to gone through a lot. Since i was a bit shaking at the begining of the movie, i immeadietly got fascinated by the story and by the character desing. The movie who took my inner me to hell as a kid was just yet an fascinating story. After i finished the movie i immediatly watched again, after that i watched the netflix adapt, and in the end i read the book. And I fucking love everything, even that this story scared me to death when i was kid. Im feeling thankful to Richard Adams and everyone who worked on this, cause this movie, series and book teached me that much about life, love and myself and i never wanna lose this.
Also teaches them about death...the Great Frith
I'm 50 and saw this movie as a kid and was traumatised by it. Everytime I hear this song or see this video I cry like I did when I was a kid.
Jeez, for a cartoon this was bloody brutal. I’m still crying for Hazel
Cartoons can be like this, unfortunately animation has the stigma of being just for kids.
I absolutely bawled for hazel so sad
@@billybarnett9518 cartoons ain't just for kids
@@sharlinew Exactly, this cartoon is ment for adults.
Spoilers!!!
Watched this as a kid and made me cry
Same, 55 now and still has the same effect.
Watership Down still holds up as an all-time great animated film.
Art Garfunkel's voice is so perfect for this song.
This movie is a MASTERPIECE!
One of the most influential films in my life. Taught me a great lesson about life and death. The music is haunting.
And about how humans are dicks to animals
Me too.
Remember this film well but didn’t prepare me well for death though until I was 16 when a girl I was close to died of meningitis very suddenly,I’m still haunted to this day by it and it’s been nearly 30 years now 😢
@@Makeitso2023 I don't know ownership what to say really. You are alive and obviously have a touch with what is important though. God bless 😃 😊
This work of art, book or film, is absolutely on the list of ‘must see, must read’. It is a very important piece of work. I saw the movie in my childhood, I read the book as well. It has been over 40 years. I am 55 years old, and I will read it again.
I watch this video a few times a year and every time tears run down my face within a half minute. No other song has this kind of affect on me, amazing.
Great movie and book too.🙂
Can't listen to this Beautiful Song without crying a bit. ❤
Agreed! Songs like these are necessary in the universe, as bittersweet & subtly painful as they are. Therein is their true beauty.
@@pablot-r9402 Absolutely Spot on Pal,I found a lot of the sons of Anarchy soundtrack tunes were tear jerkers.
White Buffalo, Come join the murders,real bitter sweet
Me too 😢
My mum told me how brutal the film was as she had watched it when she was a child when it came out. I was adamant she was exaggerating and it couldn't be that bad. We ended up getting the VHS from the video shop and at the end, she said 'I told you so!' as I sat there bawling my eyes out. It's been over twenty years and she still reminds me whenever we hear this song.
My mum did too. To top it promised we could go & watch it. Last min before leaving to go. She cancelled it. I left with brutality & Q's of why. In my mind. Poor rabbits. 😢
Brutality and beauty in balance.
My whole middle school went to see WD at a theatre and nobody seemed to be traumatized.
At the end when hazel dies and goes with the black rabbit so peacefully makes me think how my gran went. Someone calling on her. “Cmon with us margaret your daughter and grandson will be just fine your days here are done come with us and be at peace” xxxx
This szene with the song for sure always makes me cry my eyes out.
I watched this movie soo many times growing up, I'm an 'adult' now but watching Watership Down always makes me so emotional, more than everything else..
Nope, still can't even think of this without bawling my eyes out.
Lost my best friend yesterday, this hits hard, RIP Dexter
Hope youre ok. Best of luck
Beautiful song for a great movie. This song is about death and the acceptance of it.
"...all the world will be your enemy. Prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you they will kill you! But first they must catch you! Runner. Digger. Listener. Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, full of tricks...and your people will never be destroyed."
A 1000 thumbs up to you, El-ahrairah
it left its mark on me. As a kid I knew who the bullies were and help me deal with a family member’s passing. I think every kid should watch this film. It’s a great preparation for what’s ahead in life. I showed this film to my boys when they were 6and 8 and when I played this tune they looked At what I was watching now at 23and 25 they remember it and we put it on the big screen to watch it. It’s also a lesson of life. I’m so proud of my boys today.
The Greatest Children animated film ever made. So incredibly moving
I own it.
Today my beloved rabbit Honey died. She was 12 years old. I listen to this song on repeat. My heart is broken. 😔
I'm so sorry, I hope your feeling better. I lost a bun a few years ago and just found out my 2 buns have myxomatosis and I'm going to lose them. I feel totally devastated. It's been a good 7 years. I hear this song in my head constantly and think of all the animals I've lost over the years. 😭😭😭
@merijaan2006 I'm sorry for you loss
I am sorry for your loss, another innocent animal over the rainbow bridge
Grief is the price we pay for love. And the love of a bunny is so strong and innocent.
Honey, such a perfect name for a bunny, sorry for your loss, may she rest in peace
Still shocked that my mum let me watch this so many times as a young kid. What a film and soundtrack though.
She made you hard!
...god bless her.
One of the best movies of all time!
My mother had to do something in city, so she decided to put me in cinema. Choose that movie because it's a nice rabbit cartoon 😅 I couldn't sleep for some days. As adult I watched 2 times and it's genius movie. Questions about live and death... Dictatorship or freedom... But really not for children. Greets from Germany
I’m glad my parents and older siblings had me and my fraternal twin brother watch this movie when we were kids. I also watched the Netflix series.
@@namenachname4758 Thank you! I was the same as a child. I think I was about 7. Just watching this clip now and this 45 year old man found himself with tears running down his face while watching, and both immense sadness and empathy welling up.
@@Jenny-uu8tf there was a Netflix series of this, not sure if it’s still up
Blood and guts bunny movie, extremely well done! Art Garfunkels song Bright Eyes is perfect for the death of Hazel. I read the book when I was young teenager. No adaptation is perfect, but this movie evokes all the feelings I had reading the book.
I was listening to this song while holding my 14 year old blind Yorkshire Terrier, I was really messed up by the end of the song, I will never be able to see into his soul through his eyes ever again , bless him , anyone that owns an animal will know what I mean. ps Lovely song.
What a beautiful post. As a dog lover and owner myself your post moved me so much... Wish I could meet you mate... You've made me cry x
A sad song but testament to nature and wildlife. So much so that I want this to be my funeral song when I take the stairway to heaven.
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL I LOVE THEM ALL
This film was made in 1978, I was born in 1986 and I love it. Life passes so fast. Enjoy it.
1994, yes it does mate
Try to read the book written by Richard Adams ☺️🐇
@@evamrazova8923 It is great. Read the first and the second book when I was at university.
Nothing fucks you up more than looking into dead glassy eyes. Especially someone you care for. I cpr my own mother and watched her light fade. Ill never ever get over it. But such is life and you hang in there.
Such a good film with so much sadness and darkness
Love this song came out when I was born I'm now 44 my mum n dad called me bright eyes xx
This was one of the first songs I remember from when I was very little, 40 odd years later it still brings a tear to my eye.
I was 4 years old when my mum taken me to the cinema to see this & the very first 7inch single she bought me
I now have 2 daughters of my own & cannot watch this without tears and I'm nearly 50 years old
In my opinion it's the finest piece of animation ever brought out.
Try to read the book written by Richard Adams. ☺️🐇
If you want to see some insane vintage animation, check out the Thief and the Cobbler
I remember watching it at the cinema when it came out. Seemed like the whole cinema was crying. Beautiful film and music. Imagine it was a lot of kids first experience of lifes' hardships.
I was 7 watching this in the cinema and I never cried in front of my family I will never forget the lump in my throat. I should of just cried
This song, is like a memory of a dream.
Black Mirror - Demon 79 brought me here, amazing!
Me too lol
It just brought me here. I was half asleep and heard a familiar song. While the Black Mirror episode was playing in the background. My father just passed away last month. This movie truly prepares you as a child not to fear death but to embrace the beauty in it for one day we all shall pass to the other side.
@@ninjaknightsliveI’m sorry about your dad, I send you a hug wherever you are.
If this doesn't make you cry then nothing can.
That watership down book was massive, not many read it from cover to cover, they watched this instead!
I picked up it at a local used book store a couple months ago, it's really just slightly above average for a novel and a pretty easy read overall. Worth a read if you ever have the time, great story
There's just so much more in the book. As great as the movie is, the book is so much better at describing the motivations, especially Hazel.
We get it.. You read the book 👍
The book is honestly lighter in tone than the movie.
@@cb4n409 slightly above average? I guess everyone has an opinion. I thought it was one of the best books I ever read.
I'm so glad they made this a movie
Me too my friend.. 😢
Very touching
This song never fails to bring tears to my eyes particularly for how it appears to be framed as an ode to the Black Rabbit of Inlay and how all of the rabbits walk with him in the story, and more specifically on Fiver's supernatural relationship with him in full acceptance of and in all spiritual oneness with the finality and fatalism of being equal to him in spirit in full accordance with the Lord Frith's will as a visionary who has walked with him in spirit since babyhood and will forever walk with him in spirit throughout all the remaining days of his life where Hazel gets to ally with him in Inlay and walk with him as a full spirit in death forever and ever. For even as this song asks how the light of the windows to a rabbit's soul could ever go pale and fade it could very well be the spirit of the Black Rabbit and thus death itself asking that exact same question of us while lingering on the beautiful brightness of the bodily life it lived that is gone even while the very soul is now and always and forever in its keeping while still retaining its beauty as a bright spark to have the honour of walking with him in a new cycle on the next plain of wild and free existence within the purely spiritual dimension of the lore that permeates the stunning entirety that is "Watership Down".
This and the last unicorn. Dark but beautiful
Wow you really took me back with the last unicorn I had it on VHS as a kid., back in the 80s.
This terrified me as a kid. But what a masterpiece . And soundtrack. I remember watching it as a young kid and crying at the sad bits and mum was right there to comfort me. Just hearing that song takes me right back to that moment . Miss you mum.❤️
One of the best movies of all time. Truly a masterpiece. I watched it with my girlfriend yesterday as I finally remembered it and told her how good it is. I remembered that it was tragic but I seriously couldn't remember that it was that bloody but still it is one of my favourite movies if not my favourite movie from my childhood. It didn't left me disturbed or traumatized. It teached a lot about life (and death).
The soundtrack gives me the chills from nostalgia.
This is the most beautiful movie and song in the world. Sadly whenever we lose a pet this song gets put on a free times. It's just beautiful. RIP Stella Blue
The most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. ❤.
Incredible lyrics and music. Brings me to tears every time I listen to it.. This is perfection personified ❤️
I've seen Watership Down as a film and read the book 📖. A journey to find a safer place to live.❤
Probably one of the most controversial movies of its time, for those who knew about it.
Your first encounter with PTSD before you were even 5 years old.
😂❤
I loved this movie the first time I watched it, the same with Ralph Bakshi's 70s animated Lord of the Rings. It's why the 80s animated MLP and Care Bears movie annoyed me so much, cheap and shoddily animated compared to Watership Down and LotR
My dad sang this song to me when in was little all the time. I'm 44 now and I still remember that bond between us
I remember watching this with my grandma may he RIP GOD bless you all through the years all ways truly 🙏💕
Amazing video I love the countryside and nature/wildlife so much. It's paradise and always brings tears to my eyes.
I saw this film 40 years ago and it still is one of my fave films of all time. Dark as hell yet so unique and heaet warming its a masterpiece like the song! General Woundwort gets overlooked too often in great villain countdowns and compilations!
Try to read the book written by Richard Adams. ☺️🐇
Woundwort is fantastic, Harry Andrews voice just captures the character perfectly
From the time I was 10, one of my favorite books, favorite films, and favorite songs. Thanks!
Remember when this used to come on as a series back in the day, you'd get home from school and watch the next episode of Watership Down. Man, my parents would have been shocked at what I was watching but damn, it was one of the most beautiful and devastating films I've ever watched! I'll never forget it! ❤️
I saw this as a kid and I cried when fivo was killed and hearing the song by Art Garfunkel brought it all back to me
I was desperately in love in 1979. I wanted to end it all, but this beautiful song kept me going.
I read the book as a ten year old. This was the inspiration for me to pick up one of the greatest stories I've ever read.
This is literally my "pet death" song. Since I heard it the first time as a child when I watched water ship down I resembled this song with death.
Like it is portrayed in the movie, the black rabbit is the grim reaper coming to get the souls of death pets/animals and brings them to heaven
i feel that and relate
my beautiful little kitten Rani died here in India because of landgrab corruption. I lit her a candle that night she passed and saw her spirit leave her body. It reminded me of this song. So I watched it and saw it was also about the destruction of nature. THANK YOU for this beautiful song as a gift to my healing process me and my best friend we watched it together and he allowed himself to cry it was beautiful.
Take comfort in that the actual Watership Down in England, UK is still untouched and beautiful.
My condolences 💐
RIP Max I love you so much.
I remember this from when I was a kid. Very poignant song, I remember singing it with my friends at our mutual friend’s funeral.
I´m happy Black Mirror Season 6, Demon 79, decided on using this beautiful song. I didn´t know it before but I absolutely love it now. Goes on replay for me. Seeing this video and understanding the story behind it just makes the Black Mirror episode and the song again in general better for appreciation.
Same came here thinking this was a random animated video attached to the song; now after reading the comments and the wikipedia page I have to watch Watership down
That's how I saw it, on black mirror. This flipping song and cartoon should come with a warning label. It's flipping heartbreaking
@@dalmaximusit’s just this week been reclassified by the bbfc to a PG
That brought me back here. 😊
It brought me here too but I know the song years and it still stops me in my tracks ❤
My childhood trauma of dying bunnies. Still can't listen to this song without getting teary.
Such an innocent pc of music...shared by the most innocent and softest person ive ever known
☆Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality☆
I gained a testimony of God from this movie. Very uplifting whenever I see it
So beautiful decades later ❤
Kanns mir nicht erklären aber mir kommen jedes mal die Tränen,,so eine tolle Geschichte.. einfach ein Muss
Kann ich nur unterschreiben..
Der Film ist für Kinder echt hart zu verdauen, aber der Song ist einfach unfassbar schön. Mit so viel Liebe gesungen
Great film and great song
Not even a million quid would make me watch this heartbreaking movie
I can barely watch this video much less the movie. I don't need to cry like a baby again 😭
If this isn't playing at my funeral I'm not dead
Beautiful song, currently watching the movie ❤🐇🐰
First time I was at the cinema for my communion and how did I try not cry. Still love to this day 41 years later
great song for christmas parties :)
Never saw the entire movie, only this clip. Still brings tears to my eyes.
It's lately upped to YT. Look for it. Sadly not as clear as this vid was...
@@MXB2001 Thanks, I will look for it.
I also only saw clips of the movie and it scarred me for life as a 14 year old
Me and my cousin watched it aged 8 and 7. Watch this nice cartoon about rabbits my aunt said!
Try to read the book written by Richard Adams. It is a very good book ☺️🐇
Great track so emotional 😢
One of the best movies ever created on this earth!
Remember watching this when I was like 6 absolutely broke me never watched it since 😢
I heard this song for the first time during a Black Mirror episode and wanted to see what people thought of it. I had no idea it was so much more than being some other ending song. It's beautiful. Thanks guys.
Beautiful comment ❤
This song brings a lump to my throat 😮😊😊😂awesome great/thank you.
So much emotion in just the song itself, and when you know the movie it just goes so much deeper. I don't think there will ever be a time i listen to this song and don't cry a bit, and for that i am thankful.
That's the beauty of the musical arts. The good ones make you feel a connection to them and some kind of special way just like apainter/artists rendition of a landscape.
I have no idea how Art Garfunkel made it through this without dissolving into a blubbering mess 🥺
One of my favorites growing up. Was born in 89. Myself and many friends seemed to have much pain when we were young adults, which mostly lead to drug use which typically leads to prison or death. Movies like this among others seemed to affect people born in the 80s and eSrly 90s without even realizing it. These movies seemed to harden us thru our childhood, but once young adults, most of us could no longer stay numb
Try to read the book written by Richard Adams. ☺️🐇
reminds me of my great grandmother, we’d watch this together when i was very young. I’m 25 now and this still makes me cry, rest in peace ❤️
This strikes so deeply in so many ways…. Love life death faith doubt migration home defeat and victory. Everything!
Omg! Love, love, love this film and the book!
We were shown this film as 8 year olds in school. It had to be abandoned after half an hour due to children crying. Traumatic stuff.
This song takes me back to the day I herd it just makes me cry just beautiful
How remember this beautiful number..it great to look back and smile
This song is about death, and loosing a loved one.
Such a beautiful song, it makes me teary eyed everytine
In eine Zeit der kindlichen Unschuld zurückgesetzt .magic Moment danke
When we are young, we see nature as being beautiful and kind and peaceful. When we grow up to be adults, we see what nature truly is. It is a brutal war for survival that we humans never witness. Because we are so consumed with ourselves. But out there in the forests. Animals fight wars for survival. Just what makes us different from them, I wonder. Is it our technology. Our desire for power. Or just because we can't be happy living in peace when we have all that we need. This movie should be something everybody has to watch before they reach the age of twelve. Every human must understand that we are given the gift of being able to make the choice to make peace. Animals don't have that choice. All they have is the choice of running away or fighting. Either the only chance for survival that they have. Unless a human takes on the job to be a kind god. And takes in an infant wild animal. And does all that they can do To rehabilitate them to return them to the wild where they belong. May happen with a memory Of an ancient and grand god. who healed them. In watership down, humans are considered to be the children of frith himself the sun god. walking giants with power that not even the smartest of animals can not comprehend. And yet like gods they are both callous cruel and Caring and cunning. After all according to the rabbit people. Only humans mastered the way of the hurudado If or as we know it the motor vehicle that uses a combustion engine And drives upon pavement. But they consider that to equally be a tool of the supernatural efficiency. Their innocence Towards what humans are capable of is what makes them so adorable. In the story I feel that we endure ourselves to the rabbits because We are looking at the world that we know so well through their eyes in a shockingly differently Lens. And seeing that juxtaposition It makes me smile. And makes me think. If we are the children of frith. Is it not our duty as the children of the god of the sun. Is to protect all that his light dares to shine across. To ensure that they will always be safe and happy. I think that's a noble life to live
Brilliant video
He knew at the age of 5 years he had a God given voice we certainly get this in this song and just about all the other songs he sings he has given the world a taste of pure real talent long may it continue
I'm not crying, you are...
This song had me in cries and I'm 53 Yr old