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Bambi (1942) https://letterboxd.com/smudgeefc1985/film/bambi/
The Big Disney Rewatch 5/56
Another one I've seen before, though not since I was a kid. I never liked it then, I still don't. I get what it's trying to do and can appreciate that more as an adult, but my word it's boring. The characters are bland (with the exception of Thumper, who is just plain irritating), the songs unmemorable, it is basically an episode of Planet Earth, minus Attenborough, a short 'year in the life of the forest' film who's ultimate lesson is how ****ty humans are.
Best Song: None
This is likely the only time I'll not have an answer to this, as none of them stand out at all. Even beofre I watched it, April Showers was the only one I even vaguely remembered and even that is boring.
Best Scene:
Again, I'm struggling a bit here. Everything is just so meh. Probably the scene in the meadow where Bambi meets Feline and all the stags pass by.
As An Adult
Why does everyone say Disney have never had a gay character when Flower is so blatantly into Bambi? Hell, he names his kid after him!
Did I Cry?
Considering this is the one that seemingly every kid cried at, it's probably the only Disney film I saw as a kid that didn't make me cry! I just don't get it. Oh yeah, Bambi's mum dies. But it's all very 1940s stuff upper lip and restrained. We don't see it, and the stag basically turns up and says he won't be seeing her any more and that's that! It's absolutely nothing to so many other sad moments in cartoons, so I really don't know why this one seems to have had such an effect on people.
The Big Disney Rewatch 5/56
Another one I've seen before, though not since I was a kid. I never liked it then, I still don't. I get what it's trying to do and can appreciate that more as an adult, but my word it's boring. The characters are bland (with the exception of Thumper, who is just plain irritating), the songs unmemorable, it is basically an episode of Planet Earth, minus Attenborough, a short 'year in the life of the forest' film who's ultimate lesson is how ****ty humans are.
Best Song: None
This is likely the only time I'll not have an answer to this, as none of them stand out at all. Even beofre I watched it, April Showers was the only one I even vaguely remembered and even that is boring.
Best Scene:
Again, I'm struggling a bit here. Everything is just so meh. Probably the scene in the meadow where Bambi meets Feline and all the stags pass by.
As An Adult
Why does everyone say Disney have never had a gay character when Flower is so blatantly into Bambi? Hell, he names his kid after him!
Did I Cry?
Considering this is the one that seemingly every kid cried at, it's probably the only Disney film I saw as a kid that didn't make me cry! I just don't get it. Oh yeah, Bambi's mum dies. But it's all very 1940s stuff upper lip and restrained. We don't see it, and the stag basically turns up and says he won't be seeing her any more and that's that! It's absolutely nothing to so many other sad moments in cartoons, so I really don't know why this one seems to have had such an effect on people.