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The animated feature film "Bambi" is (c) Walt Disney Pictures / Buena Vista Productions. Please feel free to correct me if something is wrong or missing.
My Disney Drabble number 11: Bambi
WUATT? My last drabble is already more than a year old? Uh-oh, crap, my dojinshi takes more of my time than I thought. Well, then time to change the current situation!
Sorry Mr Salten, it's a loving parody! It costed me actually an effort to make fun of Bambi, because imho the movie is an IMMENSE BEAUTY IN THE HISTORY OF ANIMATION. Until today. It is said that Bambi was Walt Disney's personal favourite from all the Disney movies he still got to know - I'm not surprised!
As a child I didn't notice it that much, but now as a adult - the art is absolutely superb. From the atmospheric detailed backgrounds (my background in this fanart is only a wispy imitation) to the characters. The anatomy of the animals, especially the one of the deers!, is fantastically well done.
The criticsm you might hear the most about Bambi is, that as pretty as the art is the story appears unfortunately a little dull and you don't get really close to the characters (also because compared to other Disney movies they don't speak sooo much). Personally, after rewatching it just a little while ago ... I disagree. The classic German author Thomas Mann stated correspondingly that a writer is especially gifted when he/she's able to make us reader be enthralled even by the description of the simple, common things in life. I read about this Mann-statement in an afterword for a book by Jane Austen, but I dare say those words fit also for the filmmakers of Bambi. Bambis life may be compaaaaratively normal for a deer, not as thrilling as the lives of Aladdin or Peter Pan or Simba - but the movie crew turned the simpleness into something spectacular and grand. Disney magic at its best, I say!
Gosh, the comment is getting so long again, and I could write so much more...don't look to closely on Bambi's father, especially his antlers are totally screwed up by me, they are far bigger and protruding in the original. He he, and his "real" name? In the English version of Mel Brook's "Robin Hood - Men in thights", they reveal that the Christian name of the Sheriff of No...Rottingham is "Mervin", and everyone is highly amused about it. It seems like the Germans thought that name is still not funny enough (Sorry to all Mervins, I don't mind the name), and so in the German dubbing he is not called Mervin but ... "Miffi"! That's no special German name either, it was probably simply invented for the funny sound/effect.
I guess I'm not the only one who wondered what's the real name of Bambi's father, hu? Oh, and while we're at it, why are *both* "princes", why isn't the father "King of the forrest"?
... ... Ah, enough pettifoggery and patter now, this won't come to an end otherwise.
My Disney Drabble number 11: Bambi
WUATT? My last drabble is already more than a year old? Uh-oh, crap, my dojinshi takes more of my time than I thought. Well, then time to change the current situation!
Sorry Mr Salten, it's a loving parody! It costed me actually an effort to make fun of Bambi, because imho the movie is an IMMENSE BEAUTY IN THE HISTORY OF ANIMATION. Until today. It is said that Bambi was Walt Disney's personal favourite from all the Disney movies he still got to know - I'm not surprised!
As a child I didn't notice it that much, but now as a adult - the art is absolutely superb. From the atmospheric detailed backgrounds (my background in this fanart is only a wispy imitation) to the characters. The anatomy of the animals, especially the one of the deers!, is fantastically well done.
The criticsm you might hear the most about Bambi is, that as pretty as the art is the story appears unfortunately a little dull and you don't get really close to the characters (also because compared to other Disney movies they don't speak sooo much). Personally, after rewatching it just a little while ago ... I disagree. The classic German author Thomas Mann stated correspondingly that a writer is especially gifted when he/she's able to make us reader be enthralled even by the description of the simple, common things in life. I read about this Mann-statement in an afterword for a book by Jane Austen, but I dare say those words fit also for the filmmakers of Bambi. Bambis life may be compaaaaratively normal for a deer, not as thrilling as the lives of Aladdin or Peter Pan or Simba - but the movie crew turned the simpleness into something spectacular and grand. Disney magic at its best, I say!
Gosh, the comment is getting so long again, and I could write so much more...don't look to closely on Bambi's father, especially his antlers are totally screwed up by me, they are far bigger and protruding in the original. He he, and his "real" name? In the English version of Mel Brook's "Robin Hood - Men in thights", they reveal that the Christian name of the Sheriff of No...Rottingham is "Mervin", and everyone is highly amused about it. It seems like the Germans thought that name is still not funny enough (Sorry to all Mervins, I don't mind the name), and so in the German dubbing he is not called Mervin but ... "Miffi"! That's no special German name either, it was probably simply invented for the funny sound/effect.
I guess I'm not the only one who wondered what's the real name of Bambi's father, hu? Oh, and while we're at it, why are *both* "princes", why isn't the father "King of the forrest"?
... ... Ah, enough pettifoggery and patter now, this won't come to an end otherwise.
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For the "king" and "prince" thing: that's because in the book, Bambi (and his father, of course) are roe deers, and all male roe deers are called "princes" because of their antlers, resembling a crown. The deers are the "kings", because they and their crowns are bigger. The Disney film changed Bambi's species, but he remained a prince, instead of a king.