6 Film and TV Languages You Can Actually Speak

5. Watership Down: Lapine

Fifth Element
Universal Pictures

One of the sweetest, most touching, cutesy films featuring rabbits you'll ever watch, it's a shame Bambi isn't on this list. Instead, there's the horrible blood-soaked meadow massacre that is Watership Down. If you haven't hit your crying quota for the day, then just pop this 70s cartoon on and you'll be on your way in no time.

Featuring a group of rabbits fleeing their doomed warren in search of a new home, the language of the once cute and cuddly buns was created by Richard Adams for his original novel. In his words, it was an attempt to make them sound more 'wuffy-fluffy', and was based on the French 'lapin' for rabbit.

Instead, it just sends the whole thing into a surreal nightmare world populated by murderous woodland creatures. Still, if you'd like to learn the language of death, Adams created the dialect with a glossary that can be consulted to figure out what the heck is going on at any given point.

It's literally the Clockwork Orange of the animal kingdom.

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