Bambi is one of Disney's more traumatising films of our childhood, with the scene where his mother is shot by poachers considered one of the animation studio's most tear-jerking moments.
During Bambi's first winter, he and Thumper play in the snow while Flower hibernates. One day his mother takes him to find food when Man shows up again. As they run off, his mother is shot and killed by the hunter, leaving the little fawn mournful and alone.
She was a doe who lived in the forest as the mate of the Great Prince of the Forest, and mother to their son, Bambi. She dedicates the latter half of her life to raising Bambi in preparation for life in the forest. Shortly into her son's childhood, however, she is killed by an unseen hunter known as Man.
Gaston readied his bow and arrow, but Bambi's mother heard him and she and Bambi ran for shelter as Gaston fired and missed. As the two deer continued to run, Gaston moved in closer and took out his blunderbuss. He fired several shots with his gun, killing Bambi's mom.
Man is the unseen main antagonist of the 1942 Disney animated feature film Bambi. He is the hunter who killed Bambi's mother, a doing which is widely acknowledged as one of the most infamous and upsetting acts of villainy in any Disney film.
Though he was always considered to be an unseen character, he is seen in the deleted scene after the forest fire, with an arm and his rifle. This image would be the only sight of Man and the first time when he is ever seen onscreen.
Bambi's father wasn't just there for him emotionally. When Man accidentally set the forest ablaze, the Old Stag found his wounded son just in time. He remained by his side and forced him to get up mere seconds before fire engulfed the area.
Faline – Bambi's love interest and also, in the book, his cousin – appears in both, but she and Bambi are estranged by the end of the original, not living as a happy family as Disney has it.
After his mother is shot and killed by a hunter, Bambi is greeted by his father the Great Prince, who takes him to the den. The Great Prince asks Friend Owl to find a doe to raise Bambi, but Friend Owl tells him that due to the harsh winter, the does can barely feed themselves.
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.
After Bambi's mother is murdered, so is his beloved cousin Gobo, who had been led to believe he was special and the hunters would be “kind” to him. Bambi is shot too, but survives thanks to the old prince, a majestic stag who treats him like a son (and may well be his father).
There's no happily ever after for Bambi in the original story. Instead, he must make his way through the forest alone. Ultimately, Zipes said, Salten chose to focus on the themes of solitude, loneliness, and lack of connection. He believed “that animals who don't want to be killed have no choice but to become loners.
In addition to Bambi's mother being killed, the gruesome story includes Bambi's father discovering the body of a human who was shot, in an effort to prove that humans are also mortal creatures.
The moral was that the forest needed to be taken seriously and needed to be preserved so that animals didn't get hurt and/or use their homes. This moral even brought up the idea of Smokey Bear and his long line of PSAs which lasted for a long time, even showing on TV today.
Belle is a young doe who is shorter than her older twin brother. She has a light tan eye patches, muzzle and chest as well as a tan underbelly. She has tan brown fur as well as a darker brown tail and top of the head.
Ronno gradually becomes jealous of Bambi, because of Bambi's status as the young prince of the forest, and because despite Ronno's hubris, it slowly becomes clear he will always be second-best to his younger, more timid rival.
An upcoming live-action remake of Disney's 1942 animated classic Bambi will be updated to appeal to a modern audience, but a mere suggestion that the movie might back off its famously sad scene—the death of Bambi's mother— caused right-wing critics to pounce out of fear the movie will be too “woke.”
However, unlike most Disney sequels, “Bambi II” exists for a reason, it has the necessary purposes of exploring Bambi's grief over his mother, and showing Bambi bonding with his royal father.
After he walks away, Bambi asks his mother why everyone was still when he came on the meadow, and she explains that everyone respects him, because he's the oldest living deer, and he's very brave and very wise. That's why he's known as the Great Prince of the Forest.
So, two four-month-old Maine fawns were sent by railcar to the Disney studios in Hollywood as the models for Bambi and Faline, his sweetheart. Through the wisdom and tenacity of Maurice 'Jake' Day of Damariscotta, Bambi was a white-tailed deer and the movie was made even more beautiful with scenery inspired by Maine.
Bambi's father, the great prince of the forest, is what hunters would consider a trophy buck. He is a four-pointer that could score between 150-175 points on the Boone and Crockett scale, according to official scorers from the Inland Northwest Wildlife Council.
