Yes I am aware that the rabbit in Robert Eggers' The Witch isn't a rabbit, it's a hare, but you'll never convince me that distinction matters to anyone who's not a rabbit, a hare, or an asshole. So I am including it on this list and if you're one of the three types listed above get over it! I mean, you're possibly a rabbit who is reading a blog -- you should have other things on your mind! Anyway Robert Eggers is of course one of the assholes (I call him an asshole with love in my heart) who insists upon slapping anyone in the mouth who calls the hare in The Witch a rabbit; here is his answer to a question about the "scary looking rabbit" in the movie (via), and yes you should note the overlap between what he says and the quote I shared from Night of the Lepus star Janet Leigh earlier this week on how bunnies aren't scary:
"It’s a hare: and that’s the difference. There aren’t many scary-looking rabbits. But Google ‘European brown hare’ and they all look pretty wily... witches and hares go way back in western European folklore. It’s an archetype rattling around in our unconsciousness."
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