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.
@jaredleuchs78375 жыл бұрын
Sonoko Sian yes
@bezoticallyyours835 жыл бұрын
They shouldn't.
@doobiesmoke155 жыл бұрын
you are a good person
@nicoblaytherealflamingo4455 жыл бұрын
I saved a mouse at my work. 3 days later I got fired.
@supremexoverlord16754 жыл бұрын
@@nicoblaytherealflamingo445 why?
@jeniffer77993 жыл бұрын
This scene gave me nightmares back then. Many years I thought this movie was just a fever dream.
@zakatosi2 жыл бұрын
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
@willrobinson36628 жыл бұрын
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.
@treenaturtle15856 жыл бұрын
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 ;;))
@davebecker97426 жыл бұрын
Gg
@willrobinson36624 жыл бұрын
Treena Turtle What do you mean?
@TheAllSeeingEye24682 жыл бұрын
and then he dies
@willrobinson36622 жыл бұрын
@@TheAllSeeingEye2468 Yeah. It’s because of that insolent fool Jenner.
@RileyAndersen20153 жыл бұрын
The shots of the needles always gives me a heart attack
@comercole19403 жыл бұрын
yeah even more in 2021
@sophiaprate58667 ай бұрын
It makes me feel queasy.
@qwertykeyboard59017 ай бұрын
I hate needles. They freak me out.
@sophiaprate58667 ай бұрын
@@qwertykeyboard5901 Same here. I used to have panic attacks whenever I had to get one when I was a kid.
@darrylthompson74536 ай бұрын
Needles hurt. Alot 😣
@NotoriousBroadcasts3 жыл бұрын
This scene changed my whole life….
@alstjrqkr6893 жыл бұрын
How?
@NotoriousBroadcasts2 жыл бұрын
@@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. ❤️🙏
@OfLanceTheLonginus8 ай бұрын
*"They were put through the most unspeakable tortures...."*
@thomashuffman32376 ай бұрын
Really highlights how cruel testing on animals really is.
@aceshighdueceslowАй бұрын
The Plague Dogs came out a few months after The Secret of NIMH, a cool double whammy of how horrific animal testing is
@Abaser20204 күн бұрын
@@aceshighdueceslow I’m actually reading the book that this is based on in this laboratory scene is actually chilling
@alejandravelascobarboza11672 жыл бұрын
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.
@RADARTechie3 ай бұрын
NIMH is a real place. National Institute of Mental Health.
@SJHFoto2 жыл бұрын
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!
@Abaser20204 күн бұрын
I feel like testing them and changing them completely is still cruel to an extent
@sugarpea86293 жыл бұрын
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.
@RoyCyberPunk2 жыл бұрын
That's so terribly sad.😞
@patrickzalatoris32064 ай бұрын
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
@Deined2 жыл бұрын
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.
@absolutelynotLily2 жыл бұрын
As a child when I saw this scene, specifically 1:35 it scarred me realizing they were in pain and being tortured
@tylertigno54433 жыл бұрын
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
@nickthepick8043Ай бұрын
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.
@tylertigno5443Ай бұрын
These kinds of exchanges right here actually have me longing for the day of the old Internet lol
@nickthepick8043Ай бұрын
@@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.
@SevenTailedWolf722 жыл бұрын
I'm reading the books. Second one gave me the feels and I was crying a lot.
@SJHFoto2 жыл бұрын
I really like the books better than the movie
@qwertykeyboard59017 ай бұрын
@@SJHFotoJane Conley ruining a great book by making mediocre sequels to it.
@SJHFoto7 ай бұрын
@@qwertykeyboard5901 I liked the sequels personally. Yes, I did like the original better, but I liked the 2 sequels a lot
@TheSouthern1crossАй бұрын
0:10 when your half asleep and get a message so open a laptop or phone at night
@NoFirstNoLastName2 ай бұрын
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 beefcakes
@RileyAndersen20153 жыл бұрын
That’s scary scene gives me the heart attack because of those short needles to those poor rats
@RIVERTOSEAPALESTINE3 жыл бұрын
I thought this movies was a fever dream, holy guacamole on tacos with beef from a holy cow with a halo.
@raygv17 ай бұрын
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?
@teaganjeras1562 жыл бұрын
Both movies were released at the same time. The Secret of NIMH (1982) The Plague Dogs (1982)
@matthewwheeler4693 жыл бұрын
Man, I never realized how dark this movie was growing up. Why are so many older kids movies like this lol?
@jtt49562 жыл бұрын
Don Bluth movies, WAY WAY better then todays
@joebundens21972 жыл бұрын
This scene made me understand that other animals feel pain at the hands of humans.
@Lithiel4 жыл бұрын
This movie was so important for me to see as a kid. Also I notice now how much all her kids resemble their father
@sallysvision354510 күн бұрын
That small red dot blinking inside a rat, was the most nightmarish thing back then when I was a kid 🫣
@deejayrodion2 жыл бұрын
For some reason I would always rewatch when the rat was getting bigger and fatter. Idk why. I liked it LOL
@TheMatthewick2 жыл бұрын
Basicly I was born on the Year of the Rats Oh the mirical
@sophiaprate58668 ай бұрын
I hate animal testing. Do you think they created this to show how bad it was?
@thomashuffman32376 ай бұрын
Absolutely.
@normvw4053Ай бұрын
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.
@nemonomen33402 ай бұрын
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.
@hpalpha732320 сағат бұрын
I love how viscerally terrifying this is
@GigaHuxpinАй бұрын
I love it! This is back when movies still had a soul.
@jebrilАй бұрын
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.
@qwertykeyboard59016 ай бұрын
"My father was a musician during the battle of Stalingrad."
@khalil17907 күн бұрын
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.
@basildestiny2 жыл бұрын
Are those the NIAID beagles?
@secretnerdbase22262 жыл бұрын
The Secret of Wuhan
@Thor_b6 ай бұрын
Such a good film
@Systariansrule202425 күн бұрын
Better than the second one, although I never watched it.
@ryanward80395 ай бұрын
Early desensitization! Yay!
@andrewberrocal2281Ай бұрын
I wonder what would have happened if Humans were injected with the serum
@magnusdiridian2 жыл бұрын
2:55 so which one was nicodemus? jenner? justin?
@aceshighdueceslowАй бұрын
I'm pretty sure Nicodemus is the one at the back, with the yellow eyes. Jenner is probably the other grey rat near the front. Justin...could be any of the brown rats
@fayechamp41563 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@sylvan-dreams8 ай бұрын
i know nothing aboutt his but it is so strange i need to understand it
@teresiakarlsson36023 жыл бұрын
Teresia svenska film dvd
@zarachastellaris90166 ай бұрын
Definitely nightmare fuel
@jasoncoker16252 жыл бұрын
💜🤘
@etherealbladerx81532 ай бұрын
Went from pluto to Goofy
@votesus98193 жыл бұрын
No comments
@toastybread87734 жыл бұрын
Yikes! 1:16 - 1:23
@qwertykeyboard59017 ай бұрын
I'm not a big fan of the magic part tbh. I like how the original book only really pushes the suspension of disbelief for sentient rats.
@BiscuitDelivery8 жыл бұрын
I miss the good old days when people weren't so obsessed with keeping children blind to the world around them.
@TheJustin48488 жыл бұрын
There are still dark themes to be found in animation today.
@thenewguyinred7 жыл бұрын
Like what?
@TheJustin48487 жыл бұрын
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.
@ranakin90007 жыл бұрын
But all of those pale in comparison to this level of story telling.
@TheJustin48487 жыл бұрын
@ranakin, how many of those have you actually watched?
@fayechamp41563 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@originalcommenter2609 жыл бұрын
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.
@emeraldtabbycat1489 жыл бұрын
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...
@sera8438 жыл бұрын
Me too!!
@Patrick-po6vx8 жыл бұрын
+Sera Sadly many Scientist in Humans History were Sadist(like all the Nazi Doctors Dr.Mengele and Co).
@masterofthecontinuum8 жыл бұрын
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.
@androsan6667 жыл бұрын
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.
@fiorenza8311 жыл бұрын
This was a touching scene when she realises that her deceased husband was a hero
@eugenepeterson746 жыл бұрын
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.
@henryhammond73935 жыл бұрын
"We had become intelligent..." and no other line in any other movie has ever made me shiver...
@AlexDraco7 жыл бұрын
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.
@Starpentine5 жыл бұрын
AlexDraco same lol
@TheAllSeeingEye24682 жыл бұрын
yeah the 80s knew how to traumatize kids good!
@jebrilАй бұрын
It’s not supposed to be anything but crazy visuals meant to simulate tripping out on drugs lol.
@Epsonthegiraffe7 жыл бұрын
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.
@androsan6667 жыл бұрын
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.
@eugenepeterson746 жыл бұрын
THEY MADE A MOVIE THAT TELLS ALL OF THAT STUFF. WE NEED TO FIND IT
@phelixz69556 жыл бұрын
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
@richerDiLefto5 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheMovieUniverse2 жыл бұрын
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.
@djung90649 жыл бұрын
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
@user-yv3lh2ng9g8 жыл бұрын
+Mistah Young Oh, man you are right! It is definitely an indictment of the behavioral and medicalized model of the psyche.
@suggiethames98708 жыл бұрын
+abc def I am sure they did a LOT of mean stuff to animals back in the day
@androsan6667 жыл бұрын
And it's a real place.
@kristivaughn19847 жыл бұрын
yeah. they did. don't believe me? need proof? go watch plague dogs. educate yourself in the flaws of humanity.
@follc19916 жыл бұрын
Do you know who John B. Calhoun is.... look him up with nimh MIND BLOW
@physalia199210 жыл бұрын
I spent a couple nights trying to process this movie when I was 3.
@Brecconable8 жыл бұрын
0:52 the rabbits here remind me of the Watership Down rabbits
@SilverSpoon_7 жыл бұрын
maybe the same artist.
@alyssabullock64217 жыл бұрын
Brecconable Same, omg
@sabatheus7 жыл бұрын
El-ahrairah agrees with this post.
@setheheart49117 жыл бұрын
same artists
@daustin88885 жыл бұрын
Speaking of creepy kids movies...
@humblemogwai80658 жыл бұрын
dude this gave me nightmares as a kid. its so intense for a kid movie.
@martinpetersson43505 жыл бұрын
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!
@yagir77778 жыл бұрын
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
@chrisberdt67388 жыл бұрын
fascinating
@jackofshadows85386 жыл бұрын
And then they tried it out on humans. Highrise.
@phelixz69556 жыл бұрын
There's a really good down the rabbit hole documentary on it!!
@jackofshadows85386 жыл бұрын
Yeh, I've seen it. It didn't dig deep enough for me.. so I did my own digging.
@adj78910 жыл бұрын
they just don't make shit like this anymore
@TheAllSeeingEye24688 жыл бұрын
+adj789 amen
@pikppa8 жыл бұрын
This movie show the terrible, cruel and especially unnecessary reality of animal testing
@pikppa8 жыл бұрын
***** Humans are animals too. I said animal testing
@pikppa7 жыл бұрын
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
@SarahSakura7 жыл бұрын
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.
@BDNeon7 жыл бұрын
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.
@meesalikeu5 жыл бұрын
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.
@thesecretgarden3906 жыл бұрын
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.
@Werebat9 жыл бұрын
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.
@emeraldtabbycat1489 жыл бұрын
Not my level of hardcore. I've seen movies at age 5 that would make a kid piss him self for months.
@worldofartloveartwork14729 жыл бұрын
Those poor animals. I hope their alright.
@willrobinson36627 жыл бұрын
World OF Art Love Artwork Amen.
@BronzeAnathema6 жыл бұрын
The sad truth is that they're probably not.
@cherylynn20054 жыл бұрын
Hate to break it to you but those animals never existed to begin with.
@Sporkmaker51508 жыл бұрын
Somehow the scientists in the lab need printed instructions telling them how to open the cage latches?
@Seek18788 жыл бұрын
+Sporkmaker5150 Not all cages work the same. It better thank having to ask.
@preferredduck16 жыл бұрын
Sporkmaker5150 they needed it incase Thurgood Jenkins showed up at this lab high as hell somehow.
@robertnrobretual27496 жыл бұрын
Push/Pull signs nuff said
@bulldogsbob5 жыл бұрын
In the book is it implied the scientists wanted them to escape to prove their experiments successful.
@samuelprusa8175 жыл бұрын
How can people be so inhumane, people like that deserve the treatment they were giving to those defenseless animals.
@pierrotlunaire086 жыл бұрын
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.
@DAS_k1ishEe7 жыл бұрын
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.
@LJVolkov2112 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1983, a year after this was made. This movie taught me what it means to be scared shitless.
@dookieforaday11 жыл бұрын
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.
@AlexMoby12 жыл бұрын
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.
@germanomagnone8 жыл бұрын
When Nicodemus shows Mrs. Brisby the history of NIMH, he made me quite scared, see the evolution of those poor rodents.
@Wattasek8 жыл бұрын
Frisby*
@Wattasek8 жыл бұрын
Frisby*
@userfridaywiggly189438 жыл бұрын
+SirGNeon she was called Frisby in the book , in this movie she is called Brisby !
@Cannibal7137 жыл бұрын
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)
@MarcoStrange5 жыл бұрын
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.
@Bloggerboy100011 жыл бұрын
This movie is brilliant. You don't see anything like this nowadays.
@WillScarlet168 жыл бұрын
It never explains where they got that magic amulet.
@Epsonthegiraffe7 жыл бұрын
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-vi5gv29 күн бұрын
@@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.
@deadanimasher6786 жыл бұрын
As a child this part scared the shit outta me
@Kotifilosofi10 жыл бұрын
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)?
@Kotifilosofi10 жыл бұрын
***** 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 :)
@BiscuitDelivery8 жыл бұрын
+XLBrand The plow got me too. The intensity of that scene is permanently burned into my memory. Glad for it, though.
@IzludeTingel8 жыл бұрын
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?
@BFCrusader11 жыл бұрын
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.
@erinnn11357 жыл бұрын
This has to be one of the best movies ever
@LeonDeka13 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! One of the most real and adult pieces of storytelling I have ever seen in a Movie, Especially an animated kids movie!
@SevenTailedWolf722 жыл бұрын
The books were good too.
@jonathanakerele80064 жыл бұрын
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! =)
@gmork10908 жыл бұрын
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.
@GladDestronger8 жыл бұрын
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.
@yagir77778 жыл бұрын
stubborn is not a genetic trait, it is a social one. but the rest makes sense.
@Leapingriver11 жыл бұрын
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 :/
@Scotttjt13 жыл бұрын
1:03 - No matter how old I get, that scene always breaks my heart.
@lunaranger49216 жыл бұрын
I wish they made a spinoff of the origins of NIMH.
@keshiaanders64525 жыл бұрын
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.
@ShyGuy835 жыл бұрын
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.
@tommyt197112 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the hypos being jabbed into the animals was pretty damn scary, GREAT use of sound!
@RileyAndersen20156 жыл бұрын
The Shots give me a Heart Attack 1:15
@willrobinson36626 жыл бұрын
Riley Andersen Why do the shots give you a heart attack?
@mateovazquez56585 жыл бұрын
+Will Robinson He's speaking metaphorically, saying the scene frightened him.
@willrobinson36624 жыл бұрын
Mateo vazquez An understandable choice of words.
@maartensmitswork9 жыл бұрын
Arise Skaven Empire!
@Seneca_zero9 жыл бұрын
MummRaGoa Praised be the Horned Rat
@johndoe-rm7sv8 жыл бұрын
+MummRaGoa fuck yaa!
@doobiesmoke155 жыл бұрын
@@Seneca_zero Nikodemus would have nothing to do with that demon!
@Violn9512 жыл бұрын
I'm NOT worthless! And I DON'T have fleas!
@willrobinson36626 жыл бұрын
Dakln1 That’s what Aladdin said in the 1st film.
@Pow3llMorgan11 жыл бұрын
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.
@PeachWookiee11 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1980 and watched this movie a lot when I was little. It's still epic.
@donutsforlife87987 жыл бұрын
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.grata866 жыл бұрын
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.
@ajb62126 жыл бұрын
The only part that confuses me is how Mrs Brisby became intelligent. Could someone explain that to me?
@benlarsen46026 жыл бұрын
A JB I think she leaned from Johnathan.
@qfoster35296 жыл бұрын
Her husband taught how to read she said it in the movie
@jd318913 жыл бұрын
That was the scariest scene in the whole movie for me.