Watership Down (1978)
Richard Briers: Fiver
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Quotes
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Blackberry : Men have always hated us.
Holly : No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way.
Fiver : They'll never rest until they've spoiled the earth.
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Fiver : Look. Look. That's the place for us. High, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry, and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn. That's where we ought to be. That's where we have to get to.
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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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Fiver : [long pause after Violet has been carried off by an attacking hawk, then] Violet's gone.
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Fiver : [talking about Cowslip's warren] You pay for it! The food, the warren... but no one must ever ask where anyone was or speak of the wires! The whole place is snared! Everywhere, every day!
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Fiver : Hazel, look... the field... it's covered with blood!
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Blackberry : [returning after the disasterous raid on Nuthanger Farm] Fiver, there's been some trouble. Hazel's been shot.
Fiver : No.
Blackberry : The Black Rabbit serves Lord Frith, but he does no more than his appointed task.
Fiver : Hazel's not dead.
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Fiver : [in the grip of a vision] So cold... so very cold...