And for one last reason, it's the Disney sequel with the largest gap between itself and it's predecessor. In fact, “Bambi” and “Bambi II” currently hold the record for the longest gap between a movie and it's sequel – nearly sixty-five years.
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.
What's the longest gap between a movie and its sequel?
'Bambi' & 'Bambi II' (64 years)
Setting a world record for the longest gap between sequels, a total of 64 years, was Bambi and Bambi II (Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest). In the Bambi (1942), the white-tailed deer named Bambi (voiced by Hardie Albright) was recently born.
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.
Taking pity on his abandoned son, the Great Prince leads Bambi home as he reveals to him that he is his father. Next year, Bambi has matured into a young stag, and his childhood friends have also entered young adulthood.
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.
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.”
Ronno is the secondary antagonist of Disney's 5th full-length animated feature film Bambi (which is based on the 1923 Austrian novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods by the late Felix Salten), and the main antagonist of its 2006 midquel Bambi II. He is another close enemy of Bambi, alongside Man.
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He's also a would-be bully. 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.
It explains what happens between after Bambi's mother's death and before he grows up, and focuses on Bambi and his father, The Great Prince Of The Forest. I found it entertaining, not wandering off the original's storyline too much, and overall really good. It's better than you expect it to be.
Bambi (1942) was released in 1942, Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest (2006) in 2006, sixty-four years later and the Fantasias were 59 years apart. Even though the title is "Bambi II", this movie is not an actual follow-up to the first movie.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Belle, also known as Princess Belle is the fraternal twin sister of Bambi, the daughter of the Great Prince of the Forest and their mother and one of the princesses of the forest and one of the title characters of Belle and Bambi.
