Synopsis
A great love story.
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
1942 Directed by David Hand
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
Dick Kelsey Robert Cormack David Hilberman McLaren Stewart John Hubley Lloyd Harting Al Zinnen Tom Codrick
Walt Disney's Bambi, Bambi 1, 밤비
Here are some reasons why Bambi is the greatest animated film ever made:
- It shows life in all its little imperfections and grand tribulations.
- The amount of joy, humor, tears, and discovery to be found within its tight 70 minute run-time is indescribably beautiful.
- The characters are layered, fully-formed, and crafted to perfection.
-The animation is second to none, showcasing subtle details and landscapes that blow me away after every viewing.
- The classic themes are as potent and wonderful as ever.
- A scene involving death is the most emotional scene in the history of animated cinema.
- The music is breathtaking, especially in the "April Shower" sequence.
- This movie has Thumper. Enough said.
A firm favourite of my oldest daughter of seven. She has been harassing her four year old brother about watching it. Today he caved and asked if they could watch it.
There is something uniquely magical about what happens to kids' faces while watching these gorgeous hand drawn images. A smile, a frown, fear, but always eyes wide open flicking across the screen trying to take everything in and actually succeeding as the images are fluid and calm. They were transfixed for the entire seventy minutes.
Afterwards, as per usual, my daughter started a reenactment of the entire thing. When I asked my son what he thought he said just two words.
'People suck.'
Truer words have rarely been spoken
Maybe my favorite Disney movie. Just staggeringly beautiful to look at, and so much more delicate and subtle and unsentimental a “circle of life” film than The Lion King would be half a century later. Death is a part of life, kids. That was the lesson this morning.
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Bambi is, and probably always will be, my favourite Disney film. By conventional standards, even for the time, it has a weak plot. Essentially it is just about a young deer trying to survive; there is no real character arc beyond the natural progression of growing up, maturing and experiencing first love, whilst the antagonist stays off screen and is never defeated. But what makes this film work is that it puts all the little moments front-and-centre, with the exception of the mother getting shot and the climactic fire (hopefully I haven't spoiled the film for anybody), the film is all about the moments of first friendships and experiencing a world anew. These scenes are so beautiful not only in…
They're deer, rabbits, skunks, squirrels, owls.
This is rather astonishing. Barring a few notable exceptions, most animal-centered films go out of their way to humanize the animals, to show them as living in a human-like society with flourishes of animal-like behavior. Here, the film emphasizes that the world they live in is that of animals*. They do this by rooting the narrative in animal behavior (hibernation, for instance) and more importantly by contrasting them with the villain Man. Making humans the villain clearly delineates this world between animal and human.
This is important. What would be seen as a neglectful father or a sexist romance is instead just animal behavior. You can see distinctions between types of animals and their…
Bambi is the type of movie that I respect more than I necessarily enjoy. It stands as a bit of departure from its predecessors. Whereas those were meant to have more of a through line (not including Fantasia), Bambi attempts to be more of a coming-of-age/slice-of-life film, detailing the important events of this deer’s life. And in many ways, the film succeeds at this goal. For one, this has some gorgeous animation for the time. I love so many of the forest-scapes in this, and colors just make everything pop. I especially like the character designs they chose. They manage to be very cutesy and likable, and also really expressive. They really do help sell the emotions that the characters…
(Walt Disney Animated Series)
Classic Disney's most masterfully simplistic film.
“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”
I have no idea how I missed seeing this as a kid, but it is interesting to see it from a fresh perspective as an adult. Bambi is Disney's 5th animated feature and tells the story of life in the forest for a young deer. Over the course of just an hour and a few minutes, this family film does a great job of showing Bambi's growth from learning to walk and talk, to standing by his father's side as a mature young adult deer.
I was really impressed by how well the animation still holds up, especially with…
Bambi: a child's introduction to death. This film was adorable, wholesome, but traumatic if you are a child. I understand now why my mother never put this on for us to watch as kids. I have no nostalgia for this film; therefore, no connection. It was very mediocre to me when watching. I wish I had seen this during the first ten years of my life. The music was beautiful, and the animation is stunning and head of its time. I will say that the score is perhaps one of the best aspects of the film. It tells the story of Bambi more than the animation itself, in my opinion.
Some may call the simplicity of the…
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It seems maturity and wisdom has opened my eyes to Disney’s classic gem as Bambi was another film that I felt previously was a disappointing entry in their filmography. I was distant due to its lack of a narrative arc and the inability to provide memorable music; which is still a problem this time around but my feelings towards it is not as sour. The classics simply were a different breed to the beautiful and charming Disney animated films I grew up with, their stories felt more frank with its message, putting that in the forefront rather than the story. When I was younger, I didn’t care…
A classic of the animated genre Bambi still stands the test of time today as a landmark feature and one of the most genuinely affecting of all Disney’s work.
From a plotting standpoint Bambi is certainly one of Disney’s cleverest and most successful features. The various different writers involved ensure that this is a polished and clever work with the environmental themes explored in the film very interesting and powerful but never distracting or too solemn. Bambi makes some very interesting points about the joy and wonders of nature as it follows the adventures of a young deer and his animal pals. The life of freedom these characters live in their beautiful surroundings is incredibly clear with the picture going…
Dear Disney people,
My daddy says I'm allowed to swear at you, so I will.
You are a bunch of poopie pants because you made me cry a lot! That's not nice.
I did laugh a lot at the silly rabbit though. He's funny.
Hugs and kisses,
Bo
(Dirk is my dad. He made me watch this.)
this very cute animated film showcases the trivial stuff about growing up: learning how to walk, how to talk, how seasons work, how to ice-skate, how society's bureaucracy works, DEALING WITH YOUR MOTHER'S DEATH, the birds and the bees, REALISING THE HUMAN RACE IS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THIS PLANET, y'know the normal stuff...
traumatized me as a young child, but better than the majority of the other disney classics because it was about cute animals uwu
cute animals and a sweet story, but definitely enjoyed this more as a bebe. 5 stars in my young heart though
Bambi works as a beautiful hand animated coming of age movie with the life cycle of a plain forrest buck akin to the lion king but much simpler characters and a more enchanted fantasy feel with the glowing soul ballads. The way these extremely early disney movies we're really well animated and have elegantly energetic movements from all the cute critters. That's very true here from the way Bambi prances along to the shadowey lighted duel between Bambi and another buck - the movie is incredibly eye-pleasing, I saw it on Disney+ and its drop dead gorgeous. The hand painted green lush backgrounds pop perfectly against the adorable animals and seeing the seasonal switch was great. Kinda wanna say its…
This may be just me, but this film felt like watching a ballet. I mean, you could easily put this on the stage and have dancers perform this film through dance. Obviously this isn't like a traditional ballet since the film has talking, but at least for me, watching this film was similar to watching a ballet where the music plays a huge factor in what's happening on screen (and it goes without saying the music is fantastic here). I never really watched it as a kid and knew the big moment from this film going in. But overall, I still found it really enjoyable. Again, maybe it's just me, but doesn't this feel like a ballet??
69%
While this movie is made with enough skills to be able to tug on your heartstrings when it wants to, I don’t think the plot is incredibly cohesive. It feels like a bunch of mini-instances. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I don’t think that logs it up there with other 5/5 movies.
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