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The white rabbit meaning is obvious!

posted 18 years ago by q_authority
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Hoskins specifically asks for a white rabbit in the pet store,
Alice follows a mysterious white rabbit into "wonderland".
Hoskins wants back in the game, so he brings the white rabbit to mortwell,
to signify he want's back in the rabbit hole that mortwell controls,
and that he feels he owes him, but shows he is not really mad at mortwell,
but wants things back the way that they were before his incarceration.
Specifically bringing the rabbit shows his loyalty while in prison and present.
By saying this is the path that feels right to him, and the white rabbit
brought him back there. Which he obviously had plenty of time to think on,
what his future will be, while in prison.

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] Krustallos 13 years ago

You do know that "rabbit and pork" is rhyming slang for "talk", don't you? It has been mentioned elsewhere here...

I used to want to change the world. Now I just want to leave the room with a little dignity.

[–] Bogong 12 years ago

Reasons/ symbolism for the White Rabbit

1. George may know of Mortwell's interest in (white) rabbits and is trying to ingratiate himself back with Mortwell now that he is out of prison. He is hoping Mortwell can / will give him work. His questioning about whether Mortwell had received the rabbit seemed to support this idea.

2. The term, 'to be someone's bunny', means that a person has power over you, can influence your life/ decisions and you cannot escape this person's influence/ actions. George was Mortwell's 'bunny' as he was the driver in a crime and he went to prison, taking the gaol sentence that no-one else got. So the rabbit was a way of telling Mortwell that the 'bunny' was back, and also perhaps that George would not be his 'bunny' any more. Mortwell showing up with the rabbit at the Brighton hotel indicated that Mortwell still thought of George as his 'bunny'.

[–] Swill_Merchant 10 years ago

You folks are all reading in to this much too deeply. It's obviously meant to foreshadow Bob Hoskins's appearance in Roger Rabbit.

Or not. But there's no evidence on the screen for the theory you posited. The Caine character likes animals. George knew he would like the rabbit. Vicious sociopath has a soft spot for cute critters. Irony. Nothing more to it.