The Cunning Little Vixen (HQ) - Part 6 of 6

Leoš Janáček's opera directed by Geoff Dunbar (Tropic Island Hum, Rupert & The Frog Song)

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Film & Animation

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• Animation
• Cartoon
• UK
• Furry
• Anthro
• Opera
• Fox
• Vixen
• Tod
• Avant
• Garde
• Musical
• Vulpine

[NightmareVF]

Did the Forester really say "so no one will make a cartoon about of us..." at 6:22?

[Tails41347]

I like this movie. But bad is that it's a bit slow. And opera is not my thing right. :P But i do like those foxes. It's hard to understand when they are singing so i don't know what was everthing about. But i guess that guy do like animals, right? He was missing Vixen. But why did he take a gun and trying shot everything? Poor Vixen.

I didn't like when the man and the woman was angry at Vixen. That's like a abuse. That's why i want save foxes.

[benitodes]

It`s... it's... sad and true and evocative, how the vixen decomposes and the cycle of nature is complete. It's just that, I remember seeing the dead vixen from above, a bird's view of the corpse lying on a clearing in the woods. Amazing how memories can be so deceitful. And yet, I think I like my memory of Sharp-Ears´ death better.

[AlphaSwiftKill]

what about Vixens husband he should of had a crying seen for her DX lol

[Jayman493]

Okay i gotta admit, i had no idea what was going on half the time in this movie. First the farmer goes hunting for the vixen for killing his chickens (i assume), then that big guy shows up (i dont know what his role was), and then the vixen dies - I mean, what was she sopposed to do in this whole movie, her purpose was a myth. And what, now the farmer for what ever the hell reason is sad about the vixen and over some girl we never see, did he even make it clear that he like her to begin with?

[Reunakk]

3:38 ... Beautiful x

[Borysculus]

The tales were based on the stories of an actual forester who really did adopt an orphand fox cub. The articles were written in the forester's local Southern Moravian dialect of Czech (as is the original Czech libretto) which made them sound even funnier for standard-Czech speakers. Back then the cunning little vixen was a national phenomenon of sorts. Leoš Janáček, though originally from Northern Moravia, was based in Brno (like Těsnohlídek and his paper) and was a huge fan of the series.

[Borysculus]

@NightmareVF For those interested about the origins of the libretto: "The tales of the cunning vixen Sharp-ears" was the title of an extremely popular series of humouristic columns printed in the 1920's in Lidové Noviny, a major national paper. Their author was Rudolf Těsnohlídek, then a famous poet and journalist who was noted for his light-hearted humorous works (even though he suffered ba chronic depression and later commited suicide).

[SilverZeo88]

@NightmareVF I thought so too... odd line....

[DreadArkive]

@Tails41347

the death of the vixen, and the apparent passing of his wife led to him resolving to end his life of hunting and letting the natural order take over from there

[DreadArkive]

@NightmareVF

indeed

[MrBobopoe]

@NightmareVF yes - but "write in newspapers about", it was originally from newspaper cartoons, I have the score and translation,