As they run off, his mother is shot and killed by the hunter, leaving the little fawn mournful and alone. Taking pity on his abandoned son, the Great Prince leads Bambi home as he reveals to him that he is his father.
At one point, the film was meant to show her body after she was shot but was later removed as it would be too dark. Despite this, it is considered to be one of the most horrific and graphic deaths in all of Disney history.
Father and son share a glance, and the Great Prince is happy that he lived long enough to become a grandfather. He then retires, leaving Bambi to become the new Great Prince of the Forest.
Near the end of the novel, Bambi's father, the Great Prince, shows his son a corpse of a hunter, whom had been shot. The Great Prince uses this to show Bambi that "Him" is not omnipotent.
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 1942 Disney classic sees Bambi's mother murdered by poachers, leaving the fawn to fend for himself. However, the classic movie has a happy ending, with Bambi becoming the new Great Prince of the Forest.
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.
According to one source, the fight ended when a badly-injured Ronno surrendered to Bambi, while another source shows that the fight ended when Bambi threw Ronno off of a cliff and into a river. Bambi won the fight and became Faline's mate.
The Old Stag, better known by the title of The Great Prince of the Forest, is Bambi's father. He was featured in the 1942 film, Bambi and had a larger role in its 2006 midquel, Bambi II.
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.
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.”
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). But then, sadly, the old prince also dies, leaving Bambi utterly bereft. “Bambi does not survive well, at the end. He is alone, totally alone …
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.
Ronno is a close enemy of Bambi, alongside the hunter. Ronno is not a very kind deer. When he is older, he challenges Bambi to fight because he hates him and wants to mate with Faline, whom he had a crush on since childhood.
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.
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.
He is known and named for his habit of thumping his left hind foot. The young adult version of Thumper also appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character in Fantasyland and at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Young adult Thumper (right) with his girlfriend (referred to as "Miss Bunny") from Bambi.
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.
During their childhood, Thumper was Bambi's self-declared "bestest friend", and the friendship between the two has stood the test of time, continuing into their adulthood. Bambi and Thumper first met shortly after Bambi's birth.
