Bambi (1942)

Directed by

Norman Wright, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Paul Satterfield

Written by

Larry Morey, Percival C. Pearce

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, musical film, children's film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 09m

Rated

G

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 6,060 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young deer named Bambi learns to navigate life in the forest with his animal friends. He grows up facing loss and the dangers of the wild.

gentlemelancholicnostalgicslow-pacedemotionalnaturalistictenderinnocent

What happens

Bambi is a 1942 American animated coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures, loosely based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods. It was directed by David D. Hand, and a team of six sequence directors. 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 cottontail rabbit) and Flower (a skunk); and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. 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. 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 the United States. 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. 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. Bambi attained third in animation. In December 2011, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant". A follow-up, Bambi II, premiered in theaters in Argentina on January 26, 2006, before being released as a direct-to-video title in the United States on February 7, 2006. In January 2020, it was announced that a photorealistic computer-animated remake was set to be in development. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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