![]() But if our children understood that everyone, including them, has faults and makes mistakes, I feel it will help them grow up with realistic expectations of people around them and their interaction with others will become more positive. I am not saying that one should never be tough or that one should disguise their true feelings behind insincere flattery. ![]() ![]() It is a very important lesson in social awareness and relationship management that I would like to teach my child in order for him to realise that every day, his focus should be on the good in him and others and less on what others don't have to offer. So much pain and heartburn (and maybe even wars) can be averted if only people choose to speak nicely to each other and know what not to say. Today, when I think about it, this is such a powerful piece of advice and one that will stand anyone in good stead if followed religiously. But as for Thumper, I certainly remember the most impactful dialogue he had with his mother - As the lil mischief maker went on about Bambi being wobbly or something, his mother said "What did your father tell you this morning?", to which Thumper sheepishly replied - "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all". I don't remember much of that rabbit except from pictures that showed it had bright shiny red eyes (or was that the red-eye effect, who knows since it was pre-photoshop era). I was particularly fond of that character, possibly because I too had a pet rabbit for some time who was very unfortunately killed by a stray cat one night. But besides Bambi, there was one more character that left quite a mark on me when I was young and I still vividly remember the character, even though the last time I saw the movie must be about two decades ago. The wide eyed fawn really melted my heart every time I sat down and plugged in the VHS tape into the bulky old player. I don't know about kids today but most of my millennial friends would have surely watched the movie and have felt various emotions - a slight fear evoked on hearing the eerie music that played when Bambi's father came on the screen or the searing pain when little Bambi goes searching for his mother in the wild after she was shot by hunters. government.Anyone who has watched the adorable disney movie Bambi as a child would agree with me that it was one of the cutest feel good movie of all times. That was not an easy feat for a movie that took five years to make, thanks in part to the studio’s devoting three-quarters of its resources to making wartime shorts for the U.S. But the critic singled out Peter Behn, who had voiced Thumper, as deserving all the praise he could get - and the studio too, for managing to have the boy actor record his lines before his voice changed. The magazine didn’t quite agree with Disney that Bambi was his best picture ever - it was good, the reviewer conceded, but his earlier work, which included Fantasia and Dumbo, was better. “Come on,” he coaxes, “the water’s stiff!” His inability to keep his itching foot from vibrating while making love to the beauteous Mrs. As court jester to Bambi, who is a prince and must maintain a reasonable reserve, he is very funny. Just a normal growing bunny, he won’t eat his greens, and adds sly innuendoes to the maxims his mother makes him recite. Newcomer Thumper carries most of Bambi‘s comedy. Thumper’s chief accomplishment is a hereditary talent for thumping his long left foot against the earth, a log, or anything else, with the staccato crack of a tommy gun. Thumper goes along being all rabbit, suddenly does something purely human. He is a first-rate example of Disney’s genius for creating an illusion of reality only to turn it into a fantasy. It also burns up Disney’s delicate fantasy.īambi is the star, but a puckish, toothy, yellow-nosed rabbit named Thumper almost hops off with the picture. A pack of nightmarish hounds with luminous fangs (probably the most terrifying curs since Cerberus) attack them. The hunters, who kill her, hunt Bambi and his bride, a doe named Faline. He also loses his baby voice, his spots, his mother. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass the time of day is typical of a fawnhood full of sylvan surprises.īut Bambi grows up, and with horns he loses his cuteness. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. Bambi’s rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck.
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