The Rats of NIMH - Origin

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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024

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  • @SarahSakura
    @SarahSakura 7 лет назад +257

    I wouldn't say this movie scarred me as a child, but rather instilled in me a deep sense of empathy for all living creatures, in a very strong and urgent way. Scriptwriters, movie producers and directors shouldn't underestimate the mind of a child.

  • @BiscuitDelivery
    @BiscuitDelivery 8 лет назад +360

    I miss the good old days when people weren't so obsessed with keeping children blind to the world around them.

    • @TheJustin4848
      @TheJustin4848 8 лет назад +20

      There are still dark themes to be found in animation today.

    • @thenewguyinred
      @thenewguyinred 8 лет назад

      Like what?

    • @TheJustin4848
      @TheJustin4848 8 лет назад +18

      thenewguyinred Over the Garden Wall, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Little Prince, Studio Ghibli movies, Kung Fu Panda 2, etc.

    • @ranakin9000
      @ranakin9000 7 лет назад +27

      But all of those pale in comparison to this level of story telling.

    • @TheJustin4848
      @TheJustin4848 7 лет назад +3

      @ranakin, how many of those have you actually watched?

  • @jeniffer7799
    @jeniffer7799 3 года назад +83

    This scene gave me nightmares back then. Many years I thought this movie was just a fever dream.

    • @zakatosi
      @zakatosi 2 года назад +6

      I too had lived many years thinking it was just a fucked up fever dream in the early 90's; turns out rats with glowing eyes was indeed a collective audio-visual stimulus that was fed to all of us all along

  • @fiorenza83
    @fiorenza83 12 лет назад +48

    This was a touching scene when she realises that her deceased husband was a hero

    • @eugenepeterson74
      @eugenepeterson74 6 лет назад

      There is a full lentgth movie on the origin.Showing step buy step what happened to them from the street to jonathans death. I cant find itbut, i remember seeing it as a child. the origin parts of this movies are the key scenes in that movie.

  • @willrobinson3662
    @willrobinson3662 8 лет назад +114

    To be completely honest, Nicodemus is a very wise elderly and slender rat.
    And another thing, he's a very old, very kind, good-hearted, caring, protective, noble and kind of worrisome creature.

    • @treenaturtle1585
      @treenaturtle1585 6 лет назад +7

      Damn I gotta agree with you the but Ncodemus seems more impressive in the book than in the movie. In Don Bluth's version he seems more wise and elderly but in the book he's practically the same as the other rats except he's largest and is missing an eyeball lmao
      Also he doesn't die in the book which is a huge plus ;;))

    • @davebecker9742
      @davebecker9742 6 лет назад

      Gg

    • @willrobinson3662
      @willrobinson3662 5 лет назад

      Treena Turtle What do you mean?

    • @TheAllSeeingEye2468
      @TheAllSeeingEye2468 2 года назад +1

      and then he dies

    • @willrobinson3662
      @willrobinson3662 2 года назад

      @@TheAllSeeingEye2468 Yeah. It’s because of that insolent fool Jenner.

  • @originalcommenter260
    @originalcommenter260 9 лет назад +119

    This movie scarred me as a child. Definitely the injection part, it gave me nightmares for years and i still retain a fear of syringes.

    • @emeraldtabbycat148
      @emeraldtabbycat148 9 лет назад +12

      Not me. It actually got me interested in the mysteries of the limitations of biology. Although, I felt terrible for the rats. Science is meant to help people, not satisfy sadistic appetites...

    • @sera843
      @sera843 8 лет назад

      Me too!!

    • @Patrick-po6vx
      @Patrick-po6vx 8 лет назад +3

      +Sera Sadly many Scientist in Humans History were Sadist(like all the Nazi Doctors Dr.Mengele and Co).

    • @masterofthecontinuum
      @masterofthecontinuum 8 лет назад +2

      if conducted ethically, science can help everyone. including rats and mice :)
      It'll be a fine day when we are able to grow pork chops in a lab.

    • @androsan666
      @androsan666 7 лет назад +3

      Me too. I remember, I was really scared when I watched this part for the first time. My mom didn't like this movie, she said, it's not really for children. But she never forbade me to watch it, although she or my dad were always there when I wanted to watch this awesome movie. And I liked it, I like it even now. But now I understand it more than when I was a child.

  • @RileyAndersen2015
    @RileyAndersen2015 3 года назад +69

    The shots of the needles always gives me a heart attack

    • @comercole1940
      @comercole1940 3 года назад +8

      yeah even more in 2021

    • @sophiaprate5866
      @sophiaprate5866 9 месяцев назад +1

      It makes me feel queasy.

    • @qwertykeyboard5901
      @qwertykeyboard5901 8 месяцев назад

      I hate needles. They freak me out.

    • @sophiaprate5866
      @sophiaprate5866 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@qwertykeyboard5901 Same here. I used to have panic attacks whenever I had to get one when I was a kid.

    • @darrylthompson7453
      @darrylthompson7453 8 месяцев назад +1

      Needles hurt. Alot 😣

  • @AlexDraco
    @AlexDraco 7 лет назад +45

    1:39 through 1:50 had terrified me as a kid. I was six years-old at that time, and had no idea that it was supposed to be a representation of the rats' DNA undergoing a brutal mutation. It had a nightmarish, almost lovecraftian quality that was truly scary.

    • @Starpentine
      @Starpentine 5 лет назад +2

      AlexDraco same lol

    • @TheAllSeeingEye2468
      @TheAllSeeingEye2468 2 года назад +2

      yeah the 80s knew how to traumatize kids good!

    • @jebril
      @jebril 2 месяца назад +1

      It’s not supposed to be anything but crazy visuals meant to simulate tripping out on drugs lol.

  • @NotoriousBroadcasts
    @NotoriousBroadcasts 3 года назад +57

    This scene changed my whole life….

    • @alstjrqkr689
      @alstjrqkr689 3 года назад +1

      How?

    • @NotoriousBroadcasts
      @NotoriousBroadcasts 3 года назад +10

      @@alstjrqkr689
      The theme is that the animals who are supposed to be stupid were treated badly by humans and became smarter and had deeper feelings; my house had many people with mental sickness so we were very afraid of people in places like NIMH that give us drugs and lock us up like the rats. Now I am grown up and I have two pet rats and I have many good times of love with friends. ❤️🙏

  • @djung9064
    @djung9064 9 лет назад +157

    The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

    • @user-yv3lh2ng9g
      @user-yv3lh2ng9g 9 лет назад +2

      +Mistah Young Oh, man you are right! It is definitely an indictment of the behavioral and medicalized model of the psyche.

    • @suggiethames9870
      @suggiethames9870 8 лет назад +5

      +abc def I am sure they did a LOT of mean stuff to animals back in the day

    • @androsan666
      @androsan666 7 лет назад +8

      And it's a real place.

    • @kristivaughn1984
      @kristivaughn1984 7 лет назад +12

      yeah. they did. don't believe me? need proof? go watch plague dogs. educate yourself in the flaws of humanity.

    • @follc1991
      @follc1991 6 лет назад +1

      Do you know who John B. Calhoun is.... look him up with nimh MIND BLOW

  • @Epsonthegiraffe
    @Epsonthegiraffe 8 лет назад +69

    Boy, they left out a hugh part of the book, where the rats and mice actually are forced to learn reading. They didn't just 'magically' understood words, they went through a difficult and long learning process.

    • @androsan666
      @androsan666 7 лет назад +3

      I want to read the book, but it was never translated to Hungarian. I know the movie isn't like the book, that's why I'd like to read it.

    • @eugenepeterson74
      @eugenepeterson74 6 лет назад +1

      THEY MADE A MOVIE THAT TELLS ALL OF THAT STUFF. WE NEED TO FIND IT

    • @phelixz6955
      @phelixz6955 6 лет назад +3

      The book is way different than the movie from what I've seen so far. I definitely prefer the book but that might be because I grew up with it

    • @richerDiLefto
      @richerDiLefto 5 лет назад +3

      I never thought the rats and mice magically understood the words in the movie. There were many parts of what happened in the lab left out for simplicity’s sake. Nicodemus said that he looked at the words under his latch and understood them, but never said he didn’t understand other words taught to him before.

    • @TheMovieUniverse
      @TheMovieUniverse 3 года назад +1

      Thats true! They were taught to read and furthermore the scientists knew that they could read. But they underestimated their intelligence. And their escape took weeks of careful planning not just one day.

  • @OfLanceTheLonginus
    @OfLanceTheLonginus 9 месяцев назад +26

    *"They were put through the most unspeakable tortures...."*

    • @thomashuffman3237
      @thomashuffman3237 8 месяцев назад +10

      Really highlights how cruel testing on animals really is.

    • @aceshighdueceslow
      @aceshighdueceslow 2 месяца назад +1

      The Plague Dogs came out a few months after The Secret of NIMH, a cool double whammy of how horrific animal testing is

    • @Abaser2020
      @Abaser2020 Месяц назад +1

      @@aceshighdueceslow I’m actually reading the book that this is based on in this laboratory scene is actually chilling

    • @sammontanez6908
      @sammontanez6908 Месяц назад +1

      @@thomashuffman3237That was until GOTG Vol. 3 brought that to a whole other level.

  • @henryhammond7393
    @henryhammond7393 5 лет назад +16

    "We had become intelligent..." and no other line in any other movie has ever made me shiver...

  • @Deined
    @Deined 2 года назад +30

    1:13
    Um, yeah. About those needles.
    Those needles would be _way_ too big to inject a rat with without impaling a major organ and killing it. It's pretty likely that this scene was made from the rats' perspective, therefore the needles only appeared that big to them.

  • @alejandravelascobarboza1167
    @alejandravelascobarboza1167 2 года назад +20

    Dam, back then as a child and now as an adult this is stil one of my most favourite scenes in cinematography until this day.

  • @physalia1992
    @physalia1992 10 лет назад +29

    I spent a couple nights trying to process this movie when I was 3.

  • @RADARTechie
    @RADARTechie 5 месяцев назад +9

    NIMH is a real place. National Institute of Mental Health.

  • @sugarpea8629
    @sugarpea8629 3 года назад +31

    This scene intrigued as a kid. I even shared this in elementary school, but everyone in class never understood it. They were indifferent. They just thought this movie was weird and didn't appreciate the animation effort. They wanted Shrek like 3d films. They wanted to laugh rather than think.

    • @RoyCyberPunk
      @RoyCyberPunk 3 года назад +8

      That's so terribly sad.😞

    • @patrickzalatoris3206
      @patrickzalatoris3206 5 месяцев назад +3

      This movie has only Jeremy for comedic humor, but the true art in this is the dark gritty world the rats lived in and what they became by enduring it

  • @SJHFoto
    @SJHFoto 2 года назад +11

    I know so many like this book, but I really like the book better. The scientist at Nimh was NOT cruel to the rats and mice (in the book), and also there wasn't any mumbo-jumbo mystic quality. The fact that rats were made intelligent is wonderous enough!

    • @Abaser2020
      @Abaser2020 Месяц назад

      I feel like testing them and changing them completely is still cruel to an extent

  • @Brecconable
    @Brecconable 8 лет назад +39

    0:52 the rabbits here remind me of the Watership Down rabbits

  • @pikppa
    @pikppa 8 лет назад +110

    This movie show the terrible, cruel and especially unnecessary reality of animal testing

    • @pikppa
      @pikppa 8 лет назад

      ***** Humans are animals too. I said animal testing

    • @pikppa
      @pikppa 7 лет назад +2

      Lord Passion Such arrogance and god complex. What did we do exactly to trascend "animals" as you said? Is it because we can make sophisticated tools? A lot of other species can make tools impossinle f or us to reproduce? Is it because we are intelligents? That is irrelevant. No matter how evolved humans will always be part of the animal kingdom. Having bigger brains doesn't give us the right to proclaim ourselves as gods and enslaving/destroying all the other species. Animal testing is completely useless in term of research and can't help any project least of all the nazi atomic nosense you quoted

    • @SarahSakura
      @SarahSakura 7 лет назад +6

      Well, one alternative to animal testing is the use of human-derived cells, like those taken from tumors. Those can be grown and split infinite times, to be used for toxicity testing, etc. Like HeLa cells, for instance. Commonly used nowadays. There are many more. Also in use but more expensive and time-consuming (yet very valuable) are those derived from human stem cells like bone marrow, which can be differentiated into many different kinds of cells in the human body for more specific kinds of testing and experimentation. We need for these kinds of routes to become more cheaper and reproducible over time, in order to one day hopefully supersede the need for animal testing, which unfortunately is still in use.

    • @BDNeon
      @BDNeon 7 лет назад +8

      Worth noting that many advances in VETERINARY, and not just medical, science have been achieved thanks to animal testing, allowing us to better care for animals as a whole. Food for thought.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 5 лет назад +1

      hypocritically, no one would turn down health gained via testing on animals. its a necessary evil sometimes. it could probably less than what occurs, but its not unavoidable.

  • @tylertigno5443
    @tylertigno5443 3 года назад +38

    For some reason the line “ One night I looked upon the words written on the side of the cage, and understood them”
    it’s almost like the story of Muhammad being shown how to read by an angel
    and he begins his story “in the beginning”
    As well as persecuted race escaping imprisonment by a messiah character
    I’m not a religious person by nature but I do love how the histories of these religions can inspire such compelling forms of story telling

    • @nickthepick8043
      @nickthepick8043 3 месяца назад +1

      I agree. It's so simple, and yet ominous because of the choice of words being said. He's explaining it to Mrs. Brisby in a way that she could understand, yet the gravitas is still there.
      I may be a man of faith, so I may be biased, but it's comforting to know that there is still some appeal in how works of art can be derived from religion without resorting to preachiness. It makes sense too in a historical context because we as a species used to be really connected through shared religions in our earliest of histories. Even Homo Sapiens were said to have flowers decorating their caves or cavern walls of their deceased, indicating that they held some sort of spiritual belief.

    • @tylertigno5443
      @tylertigno5443 3 месяца назад +1

      These kinds of exchanges right here actually have me longing for the day of the old Internet lol

    • @nickthepick8043
      @nickthepick8043 3 месяца назад

      @@tylertigno5443 lol glad to hear it then! I love hearing people explain WHY a thing is good in great detail. I crave it every so often.

  • @adj789
    @adj789 10 лет назад +46

    they just don't make shit like this anymore

  • @samuelprusa817
    @samuelprusa817 5 лет назад +2

    How can people be so inhumane, people like that deserve the treatment they were giving to those defenseless animals.

  • @absolutelynotLily
    @absolutelynotLily 2 года назад +11

    As a child when I saw this scene, specifically 1:35 it scarred me realizing they were in pain and being tortured

  • @humblemogwai8065
    @humblemogwai8065 8 лет назад +24

    dude this gave me nightmares as a kid. its so intense for a kid movie.

    • @martinpetersson4350
      @martinpetersson4350 5 лет назад +3

      It is intense but I always loved it so much, one of my favorite movies of all time and always was, I watched it the first time extremely early in my life and many times over and it's just soo good!

  • @yagir7777
    @yagir7777 8 лет назад +45

    Dr. Calhoun spent the better part of a 40-year career working at the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, conducting various experiments and studies on mice to see what would happen when their population grew too big for their environment.
    His most famous experiment placed four pairs of mice into a mouse universe he called “Universe 25,” a 9-foot-by-9-foot metal pen with tunnels, nesting boxes, and food and water dispensers. The population doubled every couple of months, until it reached 620 mice on day 315. By day 560, there were 2,200 mice crammed into that 9x9 space-and things got pretty ugly.
    see the rest here: mentalfloss.com/article/67202/scary-real-life-inspiration-mrs-frisby-and-rats-nimh

    • @chrisberdt6738
      @chrisberdt6738 8 лет назад +3

      fascinating

    • @jackofshadows8538
      @jackofshadows8538 6 лет назад +1

      And then they tried it out on humans.
      Highrise.

    • @phelixz6955
      @phelixz6955 6 лет назад

      There's a really good down the rabbit hole documentary on it!!

    • @jackofshadows8538
      @jackofshadows8538 6 лет назад +1

      Yeh, I've seen it. It didn't dig deep enough for me.. so I did my own digging.

  • @normvw4053
    @normvw4053 3 месяца назад +2

    I loved the movie when I first saw it in my early 20's. Now, now, 40 years later, I think about the lessons it taught, comparing it with AI.

  • @thesecretgarden390
    @thesecretgarden390 7 лет назад +8

    My mom wouldn't buy us this movie when we were little because of this scene. I don't use animal tested products because it makes me sick to think that this happens to poor animals.

  • @TheSouthern1cross
    @TheSouthern1cross 3 месяца назад +4

    0:10 when your half asleep and get a message so open a laptop or phone at night

  • @SevenTailedWolf72
    @SevenTailedWolf72 2 года назад +17

    I'm reading the books. Second one gave me the feels and I was crying a lot.

    • @SJHFoto
      @SJHFoto 2 года назад +1

      I really like the books better than the movie

    • @qwertykeyboard5901
      @qwertykeyboard5901 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@SJHFotoJane Conley ruining a great book by making mediocre sequels to it.

    • @SJHFoto
      @SJHFoto 8 месяцев назад

      @@qwertykeyboard5901 I liked the sequels personally. Yes, I did like the original better, but I liked the 2 sequels a lot

  • @RileyAndersen2015
    @RileyAndersen2015 3 года назад +8

    That’s scary scene gives me the heart attack because of those short needles to those poor rats

  • @matthewwheeler469
    @matthewwheeler469 3 года назад +16

    Man, I never realized how dark this movie was growing up. Why are so many older kids movies like this lol?

    • @jtt4956
      @jtt4956 3 года назад +4

      Don Bluth movies, WAY WAY better then todays

  • @RIVERTOSEAPALESTINE
    @RIVERTOSEAPALESTINE 3 года назад +8

    I thought this movies was a fever dream, holy guacamole on tacos with beef from a holy cow with a halo.

  • @raygv1
    @raygv1 9 месяцев назад +8

    I think in the book and movie they hint at trying to get electricity through means other than stealing from the farm house. I always sort of thought if they were so intelligent they may be smarter than even people do you think they were going to build a nuclear reactor of some sort?

  • @joebundens2197
    @joebundens2197 3 года назад +13

    This scene made me understand that other animals feel pain at the hands of humans.

  • @teaganjeras156
    @teaganjeras156 2 года назад +7

    Both movies were released at the same time.
    The Secret of NIMH (1982)
    The Plague Dogs (1982)

  • @worldofartloveartwork1472
    @worldofartloveartwork1472 9 лет назад +23

    Those poor animals.
    I hope their alright.

    • @willrobinson3662
      @willrobinson3662 7 лет назад +3

      World OF Art Love Artwork Amen.

    • @BronzeAnathema
      @BronzeAnathema 7 лет назад +1

      The sad truth is that they're probably not.

    • @cherylynn2005
      @cherylynn2005 5 лет назад

      Hate to break it to you but those animals never existed to begin with.

  • @NoFirstNoLastName
    @NoFirstNoLastName 4 месяца назад +2

    I don’t think I realized, despite the dialogue, that the story was implying the rats were much stronger against the winds than mice, making our two boys, Mr. Ages and Jonathan, beefcakes.

  • @Sporkmaker5150
    @Sporkmaker5150 8 лет назад +13

    Somehow the scientists in the lab need printed instructions telling them how to open the cage latches?

    • @Seek1878
      @Seek1878 8 лет назад +3

      +Sporkmaker5150 Not all cages work the same. It better thank having to ask.

    • @preferredduck1
      @preferredduck1 6 лет назад

      Sporkmaker5150 they needed it incase Thurgood Jenkins showed up at this lab high as hell somehow.

    • @robertnrobretual2749
      @robertnrobretual2749 6 лет назад +1

      Push/Pull signs nuff said

    • @bulldogsbob
      @bulldogsbob 6 лет назад +3

      In the book is it implied the scientists wanted them to escape to prove their experiments successful.

  • @Werebat
    @Werebat 10 лет назад +3

    This movie MIGHT have scared me when I was a kid, but someone had already taken me to see Alien at the drive-in theatre with a bunch of my cousins when I was 5, so I was HARD CORE.

    • @emeraldtabbycat148
      @emeraldtabbycat148 9 лет назад

      Not my level of hardcore. I've seen movies at age 5 that would make a kid piss him self for months.

  • @dookieforaday
    @dookieforaday 11 лет назад +4

    I watched this as a kid. It was the first time I was confronted with animal testing, this scene and the fact that this is still going on breaks my heart.

  • @DAS_k1ishEe
    @DAS_k1ishEe 7 лет назад +2

    Thanks Don Bluth for making me afraid of syringes through my whole childhood and beyond. I'm still not over this nightmare and getting fuzzy feelings while donating blood.

  • @sophiaprate5866
    @sophiaprate5866 9 месяцев назад +6

    I hate animal testing. Do you think they created this to show how bad it was?

  • @deejayrodion
    @deejayrodion 3 года назад +4

    For some reason I would always rewatch when the rat was getting bigger and fatter. Idk why. I liked it LOL

  • @AlexMoby
    @AlexMoby 12 лет назад +1

    When I was a child, the movie scared me. This scene was probably the last drop that allows the movie to be my MOST traumatizing film ever of my childhood.

  • @TheMatthewick
    @TheMatthewick 2 года назад +6

    Basicly I was born on the Year of the Rats
    Oh the mirical

  • @LJVolkov21
    @LJVolkov21 12 лет назад +3

    I was born in 1983, a year after this was made.
    This movie taught me what it means to be scared shitless.

  • @Cannibal713
    @Cannibal713 7 лет назад +8

    I was feeling a bit nostalgic and found this clip. I also learned a CGI/live action reboot is in the works. (shakes head in disgust)

    • @MarcoStrange
      @MarcoStrange 5 лет назад +1

      I heard it's supposed to be a prequel and it's back in the hands of the studio that made the original. It would be interesting to see how the rats went on to create their world, and also give us more about Jonathan who's always built up as the hero of the rats.

  • @Lithiel
    @Lithiel 4 года назад +3

    This movie was so important for me to see as a kid. Also I notice now how much all her kids resemble their father

  • @pierrotlunaire08
    @pierrotlunaire08 6 лет назад +2

    Upon first watching this, I was just..caught off guard. this movie has to be one of my favorites..it's dark, it doesn't sugarcoat the world we live in, it's masterfully told.

  • @WillScarlet16
    @WillScarlet16 8 лет назад +12

    It never explains where they got that magic amulet.

    • @Epsonthegiraffe
      @Epsonthegiraffe 8 лет назад +2

      That is probably one of the weaker parts of the whole movie. In the book, if I remember correctly, there was no magic. The rats learned a lot about human technology in a library after their escape and combined with their intelligence they build their society beneath the rose bush.
      I think the magical element in the movie is just a weak way of keeping many chapters from the book shorter or leaving them out completely. Nikodemus wasn't even this old wizard guy but rather a strong leader and he didn't die at the end of the book (it is implied that Justin did though).

    • @AllyBee-vi5gv
      @AllyBee-vi5gv 2 месяца назад

      @@Epsonthegiraffe I thought that in the book Nicodemus died from the gas that the people from NIMH sprayed throughout their tunnels underneath the rose bush.

  • @9000ck
    @9000ck 12 лет назад +2

    I remember seeing this as a kid of 8 - was totally freaked out by it. I honestly didn't realise just how horrid human beings were until I saw it.

  • @Scotttjt
    @Scotttjt 13 лет назад +2

    1:03 - No matter how old I get, that scene always breaks my heart.

  • @germanomagnone
    @germanomagnone 9 лет назад +1

    When Nicodemus shows Mrs. Brisby the history of NIMH, he made me quite scared, see the evolution of those poor rodents.

    • @Wattasek
      @Wattasek 8 лет назад

      Frisby*

    • @Wattasek
      @Wattasek 8 лет назад

      Frisby*

    • @userfridaywiggly18943
      @userfridaywiggly18943 8 лет назад

      +SirGNeon she was called Frisby in the book , in this movie she is called Brisby !

  • @Kotifilosofi
    @Kotifilosofi 10 лет назад +8

    I haven't seen this movie when I was a kid, but I have seen many animation cartoons of same type: teaching children to care about animals and environment, learning to cope with disappointments, to stand against greediness and taking a side of good, even if it costed more to you ...and things like that. The question is: is it so that there just really isn't "clever" children cartoons that handle darker things of life anymore? Or am I just too old and not knowing today's children cartoons well enough (thus them looking too superficial to me)?

    • @Kotifilosofi
      @Kotifilosofi 10 лет назад +5

      ***** Thank you for answer. Yea, well in my opinion it's good that movie industry ie. are concerned about what children will watch. But at some point, it might be so that the "censorship" becomes too strong and children get used to nothing but endless mindless "marshmallow parties". Also for me, the best films from my childhood were those which were at times also a little bit frightening. Those films that made one think about life and things. Yet, I think age limits really are important they shouldn't be passed by :)

    • @BiscuitDelivery
      @BiscuitDelivery 8 лет назад +1

      +XLBrand The plow got me too. The intensity of that scene is permanently burned into my memory. Glad for it, though.

  • @deadanimasher678
    @deadanimasher678 6 лет назад +3

    As a child this part scared the shit outta me

  • @BFCrusader
    @BFCrusader 11 лет назад +2

    Given the fact there is a lot of implied back-story regarding Jonathan, even the great owl acknowledges him, he must have been some well renowned hero in the animal kingdom around the farm.
    I'm just speculating here, but maybe you're touched because you are aware of this fact (but don't really think about it, perhaps) and this scene embodies the beginning of a pure, heroic heart from something horrible as the experimentations made upon him.
    I'd like to see a prequel detailing Jonathan's life.

  • @gmork1090
    @gmork1090 8 лет назад +4

    Researchers implanted immature human brain cells in mouse pups, which then grew and replaced nearly half the mice's own cells. And thus, we have experimented by implanting human brain cells into baby mice to create animals with slightly higher reasoning and problem-solving skills. Of course the mice still aren't sapient, but it's a start. Once we start splicing our neurons... watch out. Likelihood is high of not being able to pass on any intelligence to children though (Just like Jonathans children weren't born super smart), so I suppose that's good or whatever.

    • @GladDestronger
      @GladDestronger 8 лет назад

      jonathans four kids aren't smart but its likely they've inherited his other abilities like his longevity (if he hadn't of died before the story stared). but genetics are always a gamble. some things skip whole generations but others are constant. grandfather was stubborn as a mule, though she won't admit it my mother gets it from him and i get it to a lesser extent from her.

    • @yagir7777
      @yagir7777 8 лет назад +1

      stubborn is not a genetic trait, it is a social one. but the rest makes sense.

  • @Bloggerboy1000
    @Bloggerboy1000 11 лет назад +1

    This movie is brilliant. You don't see anything like this nowadays.

  • @sallysvision3545
    @sallysvision3545 Месяц назад

    That small red dot blinking inside a rat, was the most nightmarish thing back then when I was a kid 🫣

  • @jonathanakerele8006
    @jonathanakerele8006 5 лет назад +1

    Don Bluth is a genius! Crazy how he got the jump on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by like 5 years (that TV cartoon series didn't drop until 1987) with this G.M.A.(genetically modified animals) concept applying it to rodents way before kick-ass rat Splinter (a.k.a. Yoshi Hamato) jumped on the scene to take down his Japanese rival Shredder from their Foot Clan days. LOL! =)

  • @ShyGuy83
    @ShyGuy83 5 лет назад +1

    I wasn't born yet when this was released in theaters, but I'm super bummed that I never got to see this on VHS as a kid. This would have been perfect for me at 8 and 9 years old when I had a huge fetish for animated rodents.

  • @IzludeTingel
    @IzludeTingel 8 лет назад +3

    Look at the rotating device at 0:09. I noticed these types of things in various media back in the 80s.. In 1987's Snow White, there's a magic mirror with a white face and a rotating mirror (spins to magically activate and show scenes upon request). Then there's creatures with multiple faces in NeverEnding Story 1&2 that are of the same style as the devices and other creatures. Is there a name to this type of style?

  • @hpalpha7323
    @hpalpha7323 Месяц назад +1

    I love how viscerally terrifying this is

  • @LeonDeka
    @LeonDeka 13 лет назад +1

    Beautiful! One of the most real and adult pieces of storytelling I have ever seen in a Movie, Especially an animated kids movie!

  • @erinnn1135
    @erinnn1135 7 лет назад +2

    This has to be one of the best movies ever

  • @keshiaanders6452
    @keshiaanders6452 5 лет назад +1

    Instead of that awful excuse for a sequel; I wish that we got a prequel movie that focuses on the story of the rats & N.I.M.H.
    It has enough material to be it's own movie, and it would've helped get to know Jonathan more.
    And maybe, we would've got to know what Mrs. Brisby's first name is.

  • @elsakristina2689
    @elsakristina2689 21 день назад

    Off topic but I love how much Jonathan’s children all look so much like him.

  • @qwertykeyboard5901
    @qwertykeyboard5901 8 месяцев назад +3

    "My father was a musician during the battle of Stalingrad."

  • @nemonomen3340
    @nemonomen3340 3 месяца назад +1

    Scientists don't keep rats in cages that are so easy to escape. Rats aren't stupid and when it comes to escape or infiltration, they are exceptionally clever. You don't need to be able to read to escape from those cages.

  • @jebril
    @jebril 2 месяца назад +1

    So I dont get how the other mice and rats are also smart now, like Mrs. Birsby for instance should be a dumb field mouse not wearing clothes and able to communicate with them and know how to stop a tractor or whatever.

  • @Leapingriver
    @Leapingriver 11 лет назад +1

    This movie was epic. I loved it as a kid. I read the book and the movie while it had its differences was still amazing. I wish the sequel could have been as good :/

  • @lunaranger4921
    @lunaranger4921 6 лет назад +1

    I wish they made a spinoff of the origins of NIMH.

  • @khalil1790
    @khalil1790 Месяц назад +1

    0:29 In the beginning, we were ordinary street rats... stealing our daily bread and living off the efforts of man's work. We were captured, put in cages and sent to a place called NIMH. There were many animals there... in cages. They were put through the most unspeakable tortures to satisfy some scientific curiosity. Often at night I would hear them crying out in anguish. Twenty rats and eleven mice were given injections. our world began changing... Then, one night, I looked upon the words under the cage door... and understood them. We had become intelligent. We could read. The miracle was kept secret from the scientists. And in the quiet of the night, we escaped through the ventilation system. The mice were blown away... sucked down dark air-shafts to their deaths. All, except two... Jonathan, and Mr. Ages. We were trapped by a locked door on the roof. It was Jonathan who made possible the unlocking of the door.

  • @Pow3llMorgan
    @Pow3llMorgan 11 лет назад

    I just watched this first time since I was about 5. Back then I had only seen it dubbed in danish, but even then I didn't understand it as well as this time.
    I URGE everyone who saw this as a child to rewatch it. It was a total emotional rollercoaster.

  • @tommyt1971
    @tommyt1971 12 лет назад

    Yeah, the hypos being jabbed into the animals was pretty damn scary, GREAT use of sound!

  • @GigaHuxpin
    @GigaHuxpin 3 месяца назад

    I love it! This is back when movies still had a soul.

  • @donutsforlife8798
    @donutsforlife8798 7 лет назад

    I had remembered seeing this when I was in 2nd or 1st grade. Didn't know what the movie was till now, still creeps me out to this day.

  • @Palestina.non.grata86
    @Palestina.non.grata86 6 лет назад

    The syringe part may have been proper disturbing but it was the mice being blown away in the vents that terrified me as a kid.

  • @RileyAndersen2015
    @RileyAndersen2015 6 лет назад +4

    The Shots give me a Heart Attack 1:15

    • @willrobinson3662
      @willrobinson3662 6 лет назад +1

      Riley Andersen Why do the shots give you a heart attack?

    • @mateovazquez5658
      @mateovazquez5658 6 лет назад +2

      +Will Robinson He's speaking metaphorically, saying the scene frightened him.

    • @willrobinson3662
      @willrobinson3662 5 лет назад

      Mateo vazquez An understandable choice of words.

  • @PeachWookiee
    @PeachWookiee 11 лет назад

    I was born in 1980 and watched this movie a lot when I was little. It's still epic.

  • @maartensmitswork
    @maartensmitswork 9 лет назад +8

    Arise Skaven Empire!

    • @Seneca_zero
      @Seneca_zero 9 лет назад +2

      MummRaGoa Praised be the Horned Rat

    • @johndoe-rm7sv
      @johndoe-rm7sv 8 лет назад

      +MummRaGoa fuck yaa!

    • @doobiesmoke15
      @doobiesmoke15 5 лет назад

      @@Seneca_zero Nikodemus would have nothing to do with that demon!

  • @schizophreniccynic9141
    @schizophreniccynic9141 6 лет назад +1

    The fucked up things we humans do to animals. We got plenty of pedophiles to experiment on

  • @qfoster3529
    @qfoster3529 6 лет назад

    This movie scared me as a kid ....I saw it on tv 2 days ago and realized what a great story it is

  • @jd3189
    @jd3189 13 лет назад

    That was the scariest scene in the whole movie for me.

  • @Violn95
    @Violn95 12 лет назад +1

    I'm NOT worthless! And I DON'T have fleas!

    • @willrobinson3662
      @willrobinson3662 6 лет назад

      Dakln1 That’s what Aladdin said in the 1st film.

  • @ajb6212
    @ajb6212 7 лет назад +1

    The only part that confuses me is how Mrs Brisby became intelligent. Could someone explain that to me?

    • @benlarsen4602
      @benlarsen4602 6 лет назад +1

      A JB I think she leaned from Johnathan.

    • @qfoster3529
      @qfoster3529 6 лет назад +1

      Her husband taught how to read she said it in the movie

  • @rbsadler
    @rbsadler 11 лет назад

    This movie used to scare me so much as a kid. It just freaked me out. Reading the book didn't help either. It's just as dark.

  • @secretnerdbase2226
    @secretnerdbase2226 3 года назад +4

    The Secret of Wuhan

  • @tonyweaver5953
    @tonyweaver5953 7 лет назад

    Such a DOPE slept on movie... Classic shit right here brings back memories!!!

  • @aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa
    @aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa 12 лет назад

    maybe it's because those injections really fucked up them, not only they are extremely intelligent, but they were able to obtain psi powers.
    makes sense to me.

  • @anthonycarlson3582
    @anthonycarlson3582 5 лет назад

    People saying this scared them when they were little. So I find it odd now that I was fascinated with this scene just the whole idea of them being able to by just an injection and the flashing lights and stuff it just peaked my interest

  • @Aenwyrm
    @Aenwyrm 12 лет назад

    "Then, one night, I looked upon the words under the cage door...and understood them!"

  • @andrewlevin6331
    @andrewlevin6331 10 лет назад +3

    Wait, I can buy that the drugs that the rats got gave them the ability to read. But how did they learn how to read English?

    • @MearickLee
      @MearickLee 9 лет назад +3

      In the book, it was part of the experiment. The scientists would show the letters one by one, sounding them out and putting them together with pictures (R-A-T-S, rats) and of course the language they spoke was English. Eventually the rats connected it by finding the word 'rats' on a sign in the laboratory.
      As a side, I always found the details the book went into about the experiments needed a longer explanation than just three minutes in the movie, but the kid me still liked both lol.

    • @andrewlevin6331
      @andrewlevin6331 9 лет назад +1

      Alright then, Thanks, MearickLee.

  • @Rocitboi12
    @Rocitboi12 12 лет назад

    well,the book did imply that he didn't need tamed rats to do the experiments.

  • @JackieHallam
    @JackieHallam 7 лет назад +3

    I hate getting shots!

  • @mrmosty5167
    @mrmosty5167 11 лет назад

    I watched this again yesterday for the first time since 1986 or so. As a kid this was a scary fantasy epic and I didn't understand all of it. I'm surprised today to know what NIMH really means. It's a great tie in to the story but it does take some of the medeival fantasy out of it.

  • @josephzielinski8817
    @josephzielinski8817 5 лет назад +1

    The N.I.M.H. Lab!

  • @altarush
    @altarush 6 лет назад

    I wonder how many sadist children wanted to become NIMH scientists?