Bunce was a duck-and-goose farmer. He kept thousands of ducks and geese. He was a kind of pot-bellied dwarf. He was so short his chin would have been underwater in the shallow end of any swimming pool in the world.
"Bunce was a duck-and-goose farmer. He kept thousands of ducks and geese. He was a kind of pot-bellied dwarf. He was so short his chin would have been underwater in the shallow end of any swimming pool in the world." - Fantastic Mr Fox
Bunce is the second of the three farmers in Fantastic Mr Fox. Like his colleagues, he is rich, mean, and infuriated at Mr Fox's night-time raids on his farm. Determined to put a stop to it, he and farmers Boggis and Bean set out to trap Mr Fox and his family - to starve them out of their foxhole once and for all. Unhappily for Bunce, Mr Fox is a clever fellow who quickly finds a solution to the problem the farmers put him in...
In 2009, Wes Anderson's film adaptation of Fantastic Mr Fox was released. The animated film gives Bunce a first name - Nathaniel - and the character was voiced by Hugo Guinness.
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