I just watched this movie and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I was perplexed at the urinating fox. Can anyone explain this to me?
shareWell, all I can say is that it's pretty freakin' hilarious.
And also, right before it, Dem Bones has you laughing already.
So, a double laugh for the urinating fox.
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The funny thing about the fox bit is that it (among a few other scenes) is nowhere to be seen in the original VHS release of the film. I don't know why it was restored for the DVD. I found it very inconsistent with the rest of the movie.
share"I found it very inconsistent with the rest of the movie".
The rest of the movie is CONSISTENT??!
In Britain, the released film ran quite long. The American distributors insisted it be cut by twenty minutes. All these "cut" versions (from one of which the VHS was copied) edited out the few seconds of an obviously fake, stuffed fox lifting its hind leg to urinate as it's being persued in a fox hunt.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruling_Class
In Britain, the released film ran quite long. The American distributors insisted it be cut by twenty minutes.
Given the current trend for even mainstream movies to run for the better part of two hours, I have to wonder if the same'd be true if it were re-released today.
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I think the fox is symbolic of the movie's theme - that the class system is bad, and wrong. Essentitally the fox is peeing on the fox hunters and fox hounds - a symbol of British aristocracy.
shareThe oppressed fights back against the imperialists. It's a spy, pursued by MI6, leaving its tracks because it enjoys the chase.
shareSimple. The fox is supposed to be hunted down (Remember when Bertie wishes them good luck on finding a fat fox). So when the fat fox sees the hunting dogs and the hunters, it pees out of fear (just like us humans sometimes pee in our pants out of fear).
shareits actually symbolic of "jack alexander tancred gurney" peeing on their efforts to catch and committ him to an asylum .theres nothing more elusive than an obvious fact.
shareI thought it implied the fox, as a sort of Greek Chorus of 1, saying, "What a load of s hit", or in this case p iss, in response to the upper class fascism demonstrated by the 'dem bones' song and the hunt in general.
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I must admit that I feared for the fox's lot, especially after the scenes of those rats in the laboratory, so you can imagine my mirth when the sly devil cocked a hind-quarter to all and sundry. Bravo old vixen! Bravo!
shareI think he was marking his territory. If he was peeing in fear, he wouldn't have lifted his leg. It also implies the oppressed pissing on the aristocracy. Also, the smell of his pee would drive the dogs wild, and make it more difficult to follow his track.
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