Bambi II
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Short description
Bambi II follows the young deer after his mother's death, as he is taken in by his father, the Great Prince of the forest. The proud stag, who has never had to raise a fawn, must now teach his son how to survive in the woods while carrying himself with the dignity expected of the Great Prince's heir. The two struggle to understand each other, and along the way the parent finds that his spirited son has lessons of his own to offer. Friends such as the rabbit Thumper, the skunk Flower and the doe Faline remain part of Bambi's life as he grows up.
The film is a midquel to Disney's 1942 classic, set between Bambi's loss of his mother and his adult life in the original story. It was directed by Brian Pimental, written by Alicia Kirk and Roger S.H. Schulman, and produced by Jim Ballantine for DisneyToon Studios, with 85 crew members credited. The voice cast includes Alexander Gould as Bambi, Patrick Stewart as the Great Prince, Brendon Baerg, Nicky Jones, Andrea Bowen and Anthony Ghannam. Running 72 minutes, it received a film critics' rating of 5.8/10 from nine reviews, below its audience scores of 6.1/10 on IMDb and 6.5/10 on TMDB.
What's left behind the scenes
- Upon slow-motion review, at the very beginning of the cartoon (the episode where Bambi and his father cross the shallows), a filling defect can be noticed: in one of the frames, the area around Bambi's eye is not light brown as usual, but white.
- The characters of Surka and Dikobraz were voiced by the director himself, Brian Pimentel.
- The title of the film changed three times – initially, the cartoon was planned to be called "Bambi and the Grand Duke," then the title changed to "Bambi and the Grand Duke of the Forest," but ultimately it was decided to settle on the simpler title "Bambi 2."
- The cartoon makes extensive use of computer graphics. For example, the Great Prince’s antlers are a separate three-dimensional computer model, animated in sync with the two-dimensional environment. The same technology was used in the cartoon “Brother Bear” (2003).
- Bambi's bleating was created using the same principle as the lions’ roar in “The Lion King” (1994) – a combination of an actor’s voice and actual bleating.
- In Felix Salten’s book, Ronno is much older than Bambi and does not show serious hostility towards him until he grows up.
- The sprouts at the beginning of the film and before the end credits obviously symbolize Bambi and his father – even their shape remotely resembles the Great Prince and his son.
- The cartoon was in development since September 2001.
- As with the first "Bambi," the artists studied the behavior of live deer in order to achieve maximum realism in the animation.
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