“Of all the movies I’ve ever made, Bambi was the happiest choice. I can’t think of a story or subject that would have resonated with people more.” said Walt Disney. To put it mildly. The fifth house classic after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo, Bambi still possesses, 82 years after its release, the same power of wonder as on day one; Eternal sign of masterpieces.
The company’s first film to represent animals in a realistic approach, cotton Also largely passed down to posterity for the 7th art pantheon sequence; One of the most tragic and moving deaths is that of Bambi’s mother, the victim of a hunter. “Mom…?” cried the now orphaned youth with a trembling voice… until the great lord of the forest and his magnificent forest appeared and said to him: “Your mother will never be with you again…”
Let a finger be raised to those who did not shed, children or adults, a flood of tears during this traumatic scene. spectators Radio City Music Hall Attending the film’s premiere in Manhattan on August 13, 1942, it was a horrifying scene. A sequence that is emotionally more difficult because, when we are very young children, we still imagine our eternal parents. Hence the misunderstanding and legitimate emotional shock at such a scene.
This is because until then, Disney only reserved witches and other evil characters or creatures to have a terrible fate. If Walt declared that he wanted to remain faithful to the work of author Felix Salten, Bambi, the story of life in the forestIt was published in 1923 Will clarify later That did not seem useful to him “Playing such stories for children.”
However, the sequence of Bambi’s mother’s death was toned down from the original idea. in the work Disney Animation, The Illusion of LifeBy Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Disney’s most famous animators during the studio’s golden age, they explain that Bambi’s mother was initially hit in the head and fell to her side…
Although we are left with this depiction of his death, it remains very relevant, even if it is strongly implied to have been committed off-camera. And just as traumatic.
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