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Disney Rewatch: Bambi
Sep. 14th, 2019 09:30 amPerhaps surprisingly, given how many Disney movies frightened me as a child, I always rather liked Bambi. Possibly the fact that Bambi’s mother died off screen made it less horrifying; or maybe the fact that Thumper was my favorite character distracted me from everything else.
I particularly liked Thumper’s line about the clover - when he tells Bambi just to eat the clover heads, and his mother admonishes him to repeat his father’s advice: “‘Eating greens is a special treat, It makes long ears and great big feet. But it sure is awful stuff to eat.’” Then Thumper confides to Bambi, “I made that last part up myself.”
What else to say about Bambi? The animation in this movie is just gorgeous. A lot of the changing seasons sequences provide showcases for virtuoso displays of animation skill: the colorful leaves swirling on the wind or the rain dripping off the leaves into the pool below. My favorite scene for purely beautiful animation is the part where Bambi and his mother go to the meadow, which is rendered in soft misty watercolors that make the meadow look vast and beautiful… and also just a little forbidding.
Next up: Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros, which my library has on a disc as a double feature… but there’s only one copy and someone else has it, so the Disney rewatch may be on hold for a while.
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And now I'm off for a wedding, and then a few days to hike and read! I was hoping to finish Part 2 of Honeytrap before I go (I'll be leaving my computer behind and taking a break from writing) but it looks like that won't happen. I do have the next bit all ready to post when I get back on Tuesday, though. We'll be getting yet more Christmas (why is there so much Christmas? I don't know), with bonus discussion of Stalin.
I particularly liked Thumper’s line about the clover - when he tells Bambi just to eat the clover heads, and his mother admonishes him to repeat his father’s advice: “‘Eating greens is a special treat, It makes long ears and great big feet. But it sure is awful stuff to eat.’” Then Thumper confides to Bambi, “I made that last part up myself.”
What else to say about Bambi? The animation in this movie is just gorgeous. A lot of the changing seasons sequences provide showcases for virtuoso displays of animation skill: the colorful leaves swirling on the wind or the rain dripping off the leaves into the pool below. My favorite scene for purely beautiful animation is the part where Bambi and his mother go to the meadow, which is rendered in soft misty watercolors that make the meadow look vast and beautiful… and also just a little forbidding.
Next up: Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros, which my library has on a disc as a double feature… but there’s only one copy and someone else has it, so the Disney rewatch may be on hold for a while.
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And now I'm off for a wedding, and then a few days to hike and read! I was hoping to finish Part 2 of Honeytrap before I go (I'll be leaving my computer behind and taking a break from writing) but it looks like that won't happen. I do have the next bit all ready to post when I get back on Tuesday, though. We'll be getting yet more Christmas (why is there so much Christmas? I don't know), with bonus discussion of Stalin.
