Bambi
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Bambi (1942)
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Production
Budget
$858 000
Revenue
$267 447 150
Director
Scenario
Felix Salten
Author
Composer
Producer
Actors
Donnie Dunagan
Young Bambi (voice, uncredited)
Peter Behn
Young Thumper (voice, uncredited)
Stan Alexander
Young Flower (voice, uncredited)
Cammie King
Young Faline (voice, uncredited)
Will Wright
Friend Owl (voice, uncredited)
Hardie Albright
Adolescent Bambi (voice, uncredited)
Ann Gillis
Adolescent Faline (voice, uncredited)
Tim Davis
Adolescent Thumper / Adolescent Flower (voice, uncredited)
Short description
Bambi follows a young deer born in a forest clearing one spring morning, the new prince of the woodland. As he grows, he learns to walk and talk and befriends a lively rabbit named Thumper and a shy skunk called Flower. He also meets Faline, a young doe who becomes important to him. The film traces how Bambi moves from one season to the next, encountering both the beauty of the forest and the dangers that lie within it, above all the threat posed by humans. After losing his mother to hunters, he must find his own way, guided by the forest's great stag and by his companions.
Walt Disney Productions released this animated feature on August 14, 1942, running 70 minutes. David Hand directed, with Walt Disney as producer. The film came after Hand's work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia and other Disney shorts. The voice cast, none of whom were credited on screen, includes Donnie Dunagan as young Bambi, Peter Behn as young Thumper, Stan Alexander as young Flower, Cammie King as young Faline, Will Wright as Friend Owl and Hardie Albright as adolescent Bambi.
The film earned 267 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.3 out of 10 from 164,000 votes, and on TMDB 7 out of 10 from 6,138 votes, while a critics' rating stands at 8.5 out of 10 from 55 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Although the Man himself is not directly seen in the cartoon, his presence is signaled by ominous music. This method of depicting approaching danger (a heavy, simple, repeating motif) was later used by Steven Spielberg in his film *Jaws* (1975).
- The reason the Great Prince appears so rarely in the cartoon and speaks so little is the difficulty of animating his antlers. Later, while working on the sequel *Bambi II* (2006), animator Frank Thomas (one of the lead animators on *Bambi*) admitted that the artists had to use a special deer statuette to draw him correctly, but even then, the animation looked unnatural in overly complex scenes.
- Bambi is the second full-length animated film by Walt Disney (the first being *Dumbo* (1941)) to take place in the present day.
- Two minor planets are named in honor of Bambi and Thumper – numbers 15845 and 16626 respectively.
- The American Film Institute (AFI) recognized Man as one of the fifty greatest villains in cinema.
- In some early drafts, Thumper was called Bobo.
- Two negative female characters in the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) were named after Bambi and Tamper.
- The film is based on the book by Austrian writer and journalist Felix Salten "Bambi".
- ‘Bambi’ was Walt Disney’s favorite cartoon.
- According to a 2006 Los Angeles Business poll, ‘Bambi’ was recognized as the best Disney cartoon, receiving 21% of the votes (compared to 20% for ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’).
- In 2011, the film was included in the National Film Registry of the United States of America.
- In 1933, the rights to create a film based on Felix Salten’s book were bought by Sidney Franklin, one of the employees of MGM studio. However, it soon became clear that such a film could not be made using traditional filmmaking techniques, and in 1935, Walt Disney was offered to create a full-length animated film.
- In the original book, in addition to Faline, Bambi has another deer friend – Gobo (Faline’s brother). Ronno also had a friend named Carus. Furthermore, after his mother’s death, Bambi was looked after by does Nettla and Morena. Faline’s mother was named Ena (in some translations, Enna).
- The phrase from the cartoon 'Man in the Forest' was used by Walt Disney's subordinates when they noticed his approach.
- None of Disney's animators, even the most experienced and skilled, could draw the antlers of Bambi's father. In the end, they found real antlers, cast them in plaster, and then filmed them from all possible angles, after which they used rotoscoping.
- Instead of hiring adult actors to voice the animals, who would simply imitate the voices of young animals, Walt Disney went against common practice and hired children to do the voice acting.
- Footage from this film was used in other projects more than footage from any other Disney cartoon. This generally applied to images of birds, leaves, and the like.
- The original script stipulated that Bambi's mother, not Bambi himself, would be shot. Walt Disney himself rejected this idea. Later in the script, Bambi is also hit by a bullet, but it doesn't kill him.
- While developing the images of Bambi, his parents, and friends, Disney animators spent a year studying deer and fawns. It is always difficult to portray a deer because their eyes are located on either side of the muzzle, they have no chins, and their mouths are not suitable for visually depicting speech. Animator Marc Davis solved all these problems by giving Bambi some human child-like features.
- According to animator and screenwriter Mel Shaw, the project was frequently delayed and fell behind schedule. This was due to the fact that Walt Disney and his subordinates constantly came up with new ideas and new characters, they developed these ideas for a while, spent time on them, and then discarded them as unnecessary, becoming convinced that a particular idea would not work. Shaw cited as an example a scene in which Bambi steps on an anthill and disturbs the ants. Disney employees began to consider exactly what damage Bambi had done to the ants, and how it affected specific ant characters. It was then decided that this entire episode was not important to the overall plot, and they decided to abandon it altogether, having spent a considerable amount of time reaching that conclusion.
- The authorities of the state of Maine sent Disney's studio two fawns, named the same as the future cartoon's heroes, so that the animators could study their movements, habits, and behavior in general. When the fawns grew up over time, they were released into a park near Los Angeles. Disney animators were also sent other animals for similar purposes (for example, skunks and squirrels).
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