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''The Hill Farm'' is an animated short film (18 minutes) from 1989 directed by Mark Baker.
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''The Hill Farm'' is an animated short film (18 minutes) from 1989 directed by Mark Baker.
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* CluckingFunny: A lot of gags about how the chickens swarm around like they're a hive mind, instantly sucking up any feed that the husband throws out and continually bouncing around his legs clucking for more.
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* NeckSnap: A little BlackComedy when the chickens' CluckingFunny antics are occasionally interrupted by the wife picking a chicken up and snapping its neck.
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* NeckSnap: A little BlackComedy when the chickens' CluckingFunny antics are occasionally interrupted by the wife picking a chicken up and snapping its neck.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The bear is ''gigantic''. It's bigger than the barn that all the humans and livestock hide in.
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* SquareCubeLaw: The bear is ''gigantic''. It's bigger than the barn that all the humans and livestock hide in.
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''The Hill Farm'' is an animated short film (18 minutes) from 1989 directed by Mark Baker.
The setting is, well, a farm on a hill. The household consists of husband-and-wife farmers and their large, lazy farmhand. Roosters hump hens, pigs devour huge piles of food in a single bite, and occasionally the wife snaps a chicken's neck before having it for dinner. There's a bear nearby that is big enough to kill Godzilla, but it seems to pose little threat to the farm.
Two groups of interlopers disturb the peace of the farm. First there's a group of four tourists, who seem to be hippies (one strums a guitar). They intrude on the farm and bother the farmers before going into the wrong cave and disturbing the bear. Worse are the hunters in red coats, who come riding in on horseback on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_hunting fox hunt]]. After the poor fox is torn apart by dogs, the hunters wind up antagonizing the bear, threatening to bring its wrath down on the whole farm.
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!!Tropes:
* BearsAreBadNews: A bear the size of a battleship is certainly bad news. Interestingly the farmhand/shepherd is able to keep the monster bear from eating a sheep by swatting it on the nose with his shepherd's crook. But when one of the hunters wanders into the bear's cave and takes a shot at it, the bear comes out of the cave and menaces the farm.
* BlackComedy: The wife casually snaps the neck of a chicken right after one of the tourists takes her picture. The tourist faints.
* CluckingFunny: A lot of gags about how the chickens swarm around like they're a hive mind, instantly sucking up any feed that the husband throws out and continually bouncing around his legs clucking for more.
* CockADoodleDawn: It is a farm, after all...the rooster comes out of the barn attic and crows at the rising sun. Then it hops down to the ground and casually has sex with one of the hens.
* DontGoIntoTheWoods: Both the tourists and the hunters go wandering into the woods and eventually stumble into the giant bear's cave. The tourists irritate the bear by taking pictures but manage to make their escape. One of the hunters, on the other hand, fires his gun at the mega-bear and provokes it into attacking.
* DownOnTheFarm: Husband-and-wife farmers and their sleepy field hand tending to a flock of animals, while having to deal with tourists, group hunts, and a gigantic bear.
* TheGrandHunt: A bunch of aristocrats come galloping into the farm, chasing a fox with hounds. After the dogs tear the fox to bits, the two servants release some birds into a cage for the aristocrats to shoot at. After the aristocrats apparently miss all the birds, one servant throws the other servant into the air and all the aristocrats shoot at him.
* LimitedAnimation: The drawings are all deliberately crude and abstracted, resembling a child's sketches.
* NeckSnap: A little BlackComedy when the chickens' CluckingFunny antics are occasionally interrupted by the wife picking a chicken up and snapping its neck.
* SilenceIsGolden: Not a word of dialogue in the film. No musical score either.
* SquareCubeLaw: The bear is ''gigantic''. It's bigger than the barn that all the humans and livestock hide in.
* AStormIsComing: Literally, as the farmer couple watches black clouds gather up on the horizon. Also metaphorically, as the first sounds of thunder coincide with the bear charging into the farm after it was antagonized by one of the hunters.
* ThunderEqualsDownpour: There's a little bit of a delay between the first claps of thunder and the rain, but when the rain comes it's a torrential downpour that appears instantly. The downpour saves the people and animals from the giant bear, but it also threatens to blow away the barn ''Wizard of Oz''-style, until the storm ends just as instantly as it began.
The setting is, well, a farm on a hill. The household consists of husband-and-wife farmers and their large, lazy farmhand. Roosters hump hens, pigs devour huge piles of food in a single bite, and occasionally the wife snaps a chicken's neck before having it for dinner. There's a bear nearby that is big enough to kill Godzilla, but it seems to pose little threat to the farm.
Two groups of interlopers disturb the peace of the farm. First there's a group of four tourists, who seem to be hippies (one strums a guitar). They intrude on the farm and bother the farmers before going into the wrong cave and disturbing the bear. Worse are the hunters in red coats, who come riding in on horseback on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_hunting fox hunt]]. After the poor fox is torn apart by dogs, the hunters wind up antagonizing the bear, threatening to bring its wrath down on the whole farm.
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!!Tropes:
* BearsAreBadNews: A bear the size of a battleship is certainly bad news. Interestingly the farmhand/shepherd is able to keep the monster bear from eating a sheep by swatting it on the nose with his shepherd's crook. But when one of the hunters wanders into the bear's cave and takes a shot at it, the bear comes out of the cave and menaces the farm.
* BlackComedy: The wife casually snaps the neck of a chicken right after one of the tourists takes her picture. The tourist faints.
* CluckingFunny: A lot of gags about how the chickens swarm around like they're a hive mind, instantly sucking up any feed that the husband throws out and continually bouncing around his legs clucking for more.
* CockADoodleDawn: It is a farm, after all...the rooster comes out of the barn attic and crows at the rising sun. Then it hops down to the ground and casually has sex with one of the hens.
* DontGoIntoTheWoods: Both the tourists and the hunters go wandering into the woods and eventually stumble into the giant bear's cave. The tourists irritate the bear by taking pictures but manage to make their escape. One of the hunters, on the other hand, fires his gun at the mega-bear and provokes it into attacking.
* DownOnTheFarm: Husband-and-wife farmers and their sleepy field hand tending to a flock of animals, while having to deal with tourists, group hunts, and a gigantic bear.
* TheGrandHunt: A bunch of aristocrats come galloping into the farm, chasing a fox with hounds. After the dogs tear the fox to bits, the two servants release some birds into a cage for the aristocrats to shoot at. After the aristocrats apparently miss all the birds, one servant throws the other servant into the air and all the aristocrats shoot at him.
* LimitedAnimation: The drawings are all deliberately crude and abstracted, resembling a child's sketches.
* NeckSnap: A little BlackComedy when the chickens' CluckingFunny antics are occasionally interrupted by the wife picking a chicken up and snapping its neck.
* SilenceIsGolden: Not a word of dialogue in the film. No musical score either.
* SquareCubeLaw: The bear is ''gigantic''. It's bigger than the barn that all the humans and livestock hide in.
* AStormIsComing: Literally, as the farmer couple watches black clouds gather up on the horizon. Also metaphorically, as the first sounds of thunder coincide with the bear charging into the farm after it was antagonized by one of the hunters.
* ThunderEqualsDownpour: There's a little bit of a delay between the first claps of thunder and the rain, but when the rain comes it's a torrential downpour that appears instantly. The downpour saves the people and animals from the giant bear, but it also threatens to blow away the barn ''Wizard of Oz''-style, until the storm ends just as instantly as it began.
