![]() ![]() However, along the way, Thumper and Flower both encounter their beautiful romantic counterparts and abandon their former thoughts on love to remain with their new romantic interests, and soon Bambi encounters his friend Faline as a beautiful doe. They are warned of "twitterpation" by Friend Owl and that they will eventually fall in love, although the trio view the concept of romance with scorn, and walk away. Years later, Bambi has matured into a young stag, and his childhood friends have entered adulthood as well. Taking pity on his abandoned son, the Great Prince leads Bambi home. 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.ĭuring Bambi's first winter, his mother is shot and killed by a deer hunter while trying to help her son find food, leaving the little fawn mournful and alone. He soon makes other friends, including a young skunk named Flower and a female fawn named Faline, as well as his powerful, majestic father, the Great Prince of the Forest. 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. ![]() A direct-to-video sequel, titled Bambi II, was released in 2006.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 from the dangers of hunters. After polling over 1,500 people from the creative community, Bambi placed third in animation. 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. The film was a major catalyst in what people now see as "environmental films", as well as Walt Disney's favorite of his animated films. The film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Best Song for "Love Is a Song" and Original Music Score. For the film, Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi's species into a white-tailed deer from his original species of roe deer, since roe deer do not inhabit the United States, and the white-tailed deer is more familiar to Americans. The plot centers around Bambi learning to grow up in the wild after his mother is shot by Man. 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), his childhood friend and future mate, Faline and the villain of the story Man. ![]() The story was developed George Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch and Ralph Wright. Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield and Norman Wright, all of whom are credited as sequence directors. The movie was directed by the team of James Algar, Sam Armstrong, David D. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures in the United States on August 13th, 1942, premiering in New York City, New York. ![]() The fifth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film premiered in the United Kingdom on August 8th, 1942. Bambi is an American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. ![]()
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