Watership Down (1978)
John Hurt: Hazel
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Quotes
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Hazel : [mourning the supposedly-dead Bigwig] My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
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Black Rabbit : Hazel? You know me, don't you?
Hazel : I don't.
[the visitor reveals himself as The Black Rabbit]
Hazel : Oh, yes, my Lord... I know you.
Black Rabbit : I've come to ask if you would like to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to have you, and I know you'd like it. You've been feeling tired, haven't you? If you're ready, we might go along now.
[Hazel pauses to look back at his rabbits]
Black Rabbit : You needn't worry about them. They'll be alright, and thousands like them. If you'll come along, I'll show you what I mean.
[Hazel lies down and dies]
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Hazel : Lord Frith, I know you've looked after us well, and it's wrong to ask even more of you. But my people are in terrible danger, and so I would like to make a bargain with you. My life in return for theirs.
Frith : There is not a day or night that a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla, his life for his chief. But there is no bargain: what is, is what must be.
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Bigwig : Hazel? It is Hazel, isn't it?
Hazel : It is.
Bigwig : What are you doing here?
Hazel : [Motioning to Fiver] We want to see the chief rabbit, Bigwig.
Bigwig : We? You mean he wants to see him too?
Hazel : Yes.
Fiver : I must.
Bigwig : What on earth for?
Fiver : Well, I...
Holly : Bigwig? What do they want?
Bigwig : They want to see the chief rabbit.
Holly : What for?
Fiver : Well, I...
Holly : Send them away.
Bigwig : I'll take care of it, Holly.
[Turns back to Hazel]
Hazel : Look, Bigwig, when have I EVER asked to see the chief rabbit?
Bigwig : [Thinks over, hesitating] All right, all right. Wait here.
[Goes into warren, speaks to Chief Rabbit for a moment, comes back up]
Bigwig : Come along then. Though I'll probably get my ears chewed off for this...
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Hazel : [to the cat] You look hungry! Rats getting too clever, I suppose?
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Black Rabbit : Hazel... Hazel... you know me, don't you?
Hazel : I don't know.
[the apparition reveals himself to be the Black Rabbit, and Hazel gasps]
Hazel : Yes, my lord. I know you.
Black Rabbit : I've come to ask if you'd like to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to have you, and I know you'd like it. You've been feeling tired, haven't you? If you're ready, we might go along now.
[Hazel looks at all the younger rabbits of Watership Down]
Black Rabbit : You needn't worry about them. They'll be all right, and thousands like them. If you come along now, I'll show you what I mean.
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Hazel : [while running to the farm to save his rabbits from Woundwort] Lord Frith, I know you've looked after us well and it's wrong to ask even more of you, but my people are in terrible danger! So I would like to make a bargain with you... my life in return for theirs.
Frith : There is not a day or night that a doe offers her life for her kittens or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief, but there is no bargain. What is is what must be.
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Bigwig : [They're being chased by a dog at the stream's edge] Come on! What d'you think will happen when he picks up our scent? Those that can swim swim. The others... will have to make out the best they can.
Hazel : That's not good enough! We all got into this together, we'll all get out of it together!
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Pipkin : [while all are digging in the rain] What's happening back home, I wonder? Think, when we lived in our own burrows? Dry, soft, warm bodies...
Dandelion : [to Hazel] Look, we can't go on like this.
Silver : It keeps getting worse and worse wherever we go. Where ARE we going?
Hazel : It won't be much longer, then we can all rest.
Silver : How MUCH longer?
Pipkin : We never should have left.
Blackberry : Suppose Fiver's all wrong?
Pipkin : We want to go back and find out.
Hazel : Go back? After all we've been through?
Bigwig : And probably get killed for wounding Captain Holly? An Owsla officer? Talk sense, for Frith's sake!
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Hazel : [to Cowslip] Rabbits will always need tricks!