The main character is Jumbo Jr., an elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo", as in "dumb". He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using his ears as wings.
Dumbo's actual name Is Jumbo Jr. (Continuing the trend of “characters who rarely speak,” we know this is Dumbo's real name because it is the only line in the film uttered by Dumbo's mother, Mrs. Jumbo!).
They refused to call him Jumbo Jr., and instead brand him "Dumbo" because of his ears. At first the baby didn't think too much of it, but when his mother was taken away and caged after trying to protect him from bullies, the weight of the name started to sink him, making Dumbo depressed.
Dumbo is a small elephant and the son of Mrs. Jumbo (which makes him the only boy elephant out of all the elephants seen in the movie). Dumbo is most famous for his giant floppy ears. He is usually a silent character (except in comics), though he was voiced by Katie Leigh in the 1985 television series Dumbo's Circus.
Dumbo is the first and only protagonist in a Disney animated feature film to have no spoken dialogue. The first Walt Disney movie for Sterling Holloway (the Stork) and Verna Felton (the Elephant Matriarch and Mrs. Jumbo's only line). Both would become regulars in Disney animated films over the next 35 years.
Here are 5: Dumbo (1941): Contains a scene of a group of cigar-smoking crows, with their leader named Jim Crow, referring to the racist segregation laws of the South, and voiced by a white actor.
At first glance, Disney's Dumbo may not be though of as a film that portrays disability, but its protagonist Dumbo has a deformity-- extra large ears. In the film, the baby elephant is ostracized. He is not allowed to participate in the circus and is seen as an outcast amongst his peers.
"Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song and scene from the 1941 Disney animated feature film Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with champagne), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play musical instruments during a hallucination sequence.
Despite or maybe because of its dark and sad moments, the movie is a wonderful depiction of the circle of life, but the realistic danger and anguish, mean that parental guidance is recommended for young and sensitive viewers. These are the main messages from Bambi: It's important to live life to the full.
Under the service's Stories Matter section, Disney explained its decision of removing the content. 'Dumbo,' made in 1941, features a group of crows who "pay homage to racist minstrel shows, where white performers with blackened faces and tattered clothing imitated and ridiculed enslaved Africans."
In 1937, Walt Disney Animation Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, pioneering a new form of family entertainment.
Yes, Dumbo sees his mom once again. At the end of the animated movie, Dumbo stays in the circus and gets his mom bailed out of elephant jail and into a private train cart. But in the end of the newer movie, Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo are released back into the wild and free from the circus tent flaps.
When children make fun of Dumbo's big ears, his mother gets defensive. She snatches a boy and smacks his bottom with her trunk. Circus workers hit her with whips, and she throws the circus director into a water trough. She's put in chains and locked in a cage.
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.
When Bambi jumps over the chasm he was shot by a hunter, but you did not see a wound or blood, and when his father comes to help him Bambi recovered very fast.
While the character of Dumbo doesn't speak in the film because he is a baby, Dickie Jones (the voice of Pinocchio) was considered briefly for voicing the role.
The MPAA rating has been assigned for “peril/action, some thematic elements, and brief mild language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a brief kiss, several scenes with women wearing cleavage revealing circus costumes, a scene of a circus tent collapsing and killing a man, many scenes of risky tricks and ...
In "Finding Nemo", I discovered sunken treasure—a multifaceted representation of disability. The protagonist, Nemo, displays a small, or "deformed," fin that is a congenital result of a fatal attack on his mother and sibling eggs—a corporeal characteristic that the story surrounds, yet does not drown in.
“Dumbo” teaches people the power of love, family and courage while also challenging our idea of what a family is. A family is not always a mother, father and child. Instead, a family is a group of people who love each other and help one another fight through their battles.
