I still enjoy this movie now as an adult. The animation is absolutely stunning, especially the forest. The characters are lovable (especially Thumper) and Bambi is a simple character that you really can relate to. The score is great.
The Disney animated film has been traumatizing little children ever since. The movie tells the story of a fawn who has barely gotten to the point where he can run (and talk — this is a Disney movie, after all) when his mother is shot and killed by a hunter.
In 1936 Nazi Germany however, the government banned the original as "political allegory on the treatment of Jews in Europe." Many copies of the novel were burned, making original first editions rare and difficult to find.
This was the Nazis' interpretation too: in 1935, both of Salten's Bambi novels were banned and burned by the Nazis, who viewed them as Jewish propaganda. Because of this, few first editions of Bambi remain, despite it having been a bestseller.
The death of Bambi's mom is often cited as one of the saddest movie moments of all time, and it's easy to see why. That's a lot of blood for an animated movie marketed to kids! According to this book, even Walt Disney's daughter objected to Bambi's mother dying.
Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble will hit cinemas in 2025, but before that, we'll get Bambi: The Reckoning. That's right, everyone's favourite fawn, Bambi, is also getting the horror treatment and we now have our first look at the upcoming horror film. Take a look at the Bambi: The Reckoning trailer below.
Bambi was acknowledged as the third best film in the animation genre. It is also listed in the Top 25 Horror Movies of All Time by Time magazine. Bambi, Time states, "has a primal shock that still haunts oldsters who saw it 40, 50, 65 years ago."
I am sure that children and their grandparents would appreciate this movie, although they'll probably take the death of Bambi's mother and how it is cut away much harder than I did. For the common viewer, it's overall worth your time for its animation, music, and humor.
Cousin or not, Bambi and Faline remain the best of friends. Bambi and Faline lovingly smiling at each other, after their first kiss. But upon meeting her again, he develops romantic feelings for her, thus gaining back his shyness.
Bambi: He's clearly a newborn fawn in the very beginning of the first film, the same as a newborn baby. Then, in the next scene where Bambi and his mother are just walking and then he plays with Thumper and his sisters, he's no more than the equivalent of a 9 to 12 month old baby.
Bambi's mother dying was and still is most viewers' primary focus when watching this tragedy unfold, and rightly so. But that comes at the expense of overlooking the party responsible: Man – Bambi's unseen antagonist, who just so happens to be the greatest villain in Disney history.
Bambi II is a direct-to-video Disney animated feature that was released on February 7, 2006. The film is a midquel, and the story takes place in the middle of Bambi, between the event in which Bambi loses his mother to Man, and the event in which he grows into a buck.
A diminutive of the Italian word bambino, which means “child,” Bambi has fewer letters but a lot of character. Disney fans will love the connection this name has to the classic film Bambi, which follows the sweet deer Bambi, and his friends Thumper and Flower as they explore their forest home.
Storyboards of a deleted scene from Bambi (1942), in which the death of his mother is shown. This was deemed to dark for a children's film and was cut.
One of the original Disney tear-jerkers, Bambi follows a baby deer's journey through life as he grows up and, in the process, loses his mother to a hunter. Visceral emotion is evoked in this coming-of-age tale, with a plot that runs adjacent to nature.
Trivia. Flower is often mistaken for a female due to his name, high pitched voice, and appearance, specifically his eyelashes. Like many animals, Flower eats more to gain body fat for hibernation during the winter. In Bambi II, Flower has a fear of turtles, known as chelonaphobia.
According to all of the research I have done, Bambi's mother is unnamed. Thumper is his rabbit friend, Flower is the skunk and Faline is his childhood friend and eventual mate. Hope this helps.
That, in two sentences, is the ultimate message of “Bambi”: anything short of extreme self-reliance is shameful; interdependence is unseemly, restrictive, and dangerous. “Of all his teachings,” Salten writes, “this had been the most important: you must live alone.
Shortly into her son's childhood, however, she is killed by an unseen hunter known as Man. The death of Bambi's mother is widely regarded as one of the most shocking, yet significant moments in cinematic history, as it introduced children to the concept of parental death in a way that had never been seen prior.
