Bambi himself encounters Faline as a beautiful doe. However, Thumper and Flower soon encounter their beautiful romantic counterparts and abandon their former thoughts on love. They are warned of 'twitterpation' by Friend Owl and that they will eventually fall in love, although the trio views the concept of romance with scorn.

Next year, Bambi has matured into a young stag, and his childhood friends have also entered young adulthood. Taking pity on his abandoned son, the Great Prince leads Bambi home as he reveals to him that he is his father. As they escape, his mother is shot and killed by the hunter, leaving the little fawn mournful and alone. One day his mother takes him along to find food when Man shows up again.

Bambi is briefly separated from his mother during that time but is escorted to her by the Great Prince as the three of them make it back in the forest just as Man fires his gun.ĭuring Bambi's first winter, he and Thumper play in the snow while Flower hibernates. As the Great Prince wanders uphill, he discovers the human hunter, named 'Man' by all the animals, is coming and rushes down to the meadow to get everyone to safety. One day out in a meadow, Bambi briefly sees The Great Prince but does not realize that he is his father. Curious and inquisitive, Bambi frequently asks about the world around him and is cautioned about the dangers of life as a forest creature by his loving mother. He soon makes other friends, including a young skunk he mistakenly calls 'Flower' (who is so flattered, he keeps the name) and a female fawn named Faline. Bambi grows up very attached to his mother, with whom he spends most of his time. The fawn is quickly befriended by an eager, energetic rabbit named Thumper, who helps to teach him to walk and speak. Ī doe gives birth to a fawn named Bambi, who will one day take over the position of Great Prince of the Forest, a title currently held by Bambi's father, who guards the woodland creatures against the dangers of hunters. In January 2020, it was announced that a photorealistic computer-animated remake was in development, just months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2011, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically and aesthetically significant'. In June 2008, the American Film Institute presented a list of its '10 Top 10'-the best ten films in each of ten classic American film genres-after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. The film received three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound ( Sam Slyfield), Best Song (for 'Love Is a Song' sung by Donald Novis) and Original Music Score. Illustrator Maurice 'Jake' Day convinced Disney that the mule deer had large 'mule-like' ears and were more common to western North America but that the white-tail deer was more recognized throughout America.

In the original book, Bambi was a roe deer, a species native to Europe but Disney decided to base the character on a mule deer from Arrowhead, California. The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother) his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit) and Flower (a skunk) and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942, and is the fifth Disney animated feature film. Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1923 book Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author and hunter Felix Salten.

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