Thumper also spends much of his time running away from his four sisters as he finds them annoying. In Bambi II, he helps Bambi try to impress his father. In the first movie, he helps Bambi learn new things, like "bird", "flower", and "butterfly". Thumper, voiced by Peter Behn, Tim Davis, and Brendon Baerg, is Bambi's main best friend.In the second movie he tries very hard to win the attention, support, and love he needs from his father. In the second movie, he feels sad because of the loss of his mother. In the first movie, he is often cute and innocent. Bambi, voiced by Bobby Stewart, Donnie Dunagan, Hardie Albright, and Alexander Gould, is the main character in the story.Fred Shields as Great Prince of the Forest.Cammie King as Young Faline, a female deer whom Bambi eventually falls in love with.Tim Davis as Adolescent Thumper and Adolescent Flower, a striped skunk and another friend of Bambi's.Peter Behn as Young Thumper, a rabbit friend of Bambi's.Paula Winslowe as Bambi's Mother and the Pheasant.John Sutherland as Adult Bambi (Sources differ on whether Sutherland actually voiced Adult Bambi.Bobby Stewart as Baby Bambi, the film's title character and protagonist.He drew pictures and took photographs of deer, fawns, and the wilderness areas around them. One of the earliest and best known artists for the Disney studio, Maurice "Jake" Day, spent a lot of weeks in the Vermont and Maine forests. The background of the movie was also the Eastern woodlands. The source of these fawns, from the Eastern United States, gave the company the idea to change Felix Salten's Roe Deer to a mule deer. A pair of fawns (named Bambi and Faline) were shipped from the area of present-day Baxter State Park in Maine to the studio so that the artists could see for themselves how these animals move. Walt Disney wanted to have realistic detail in this animated movie. A chorus sings the song from the beginning, Love is a Song. The Great Prince steps down from his current place as king, and Bambi is left standing proudly. The wise owl says that Bambi should be proud. The next spring, everyone goes to see Bambi and Faline's new fawns (baby deer). They both make it to an island where the animals have got together. Bambi has trouble getting up, but his father helps him. Bambi saves Faline from some angry dogs.Ī forest fire comes and nearly destroys everything. The Man comes back and makes more trouble for the animals. He tries to get Faline to go with him, but Bambi does not want to. He happily dances in the clouds until another deer gets in the way. Bambi falls in love with his old childhood friend Faline. However, they fall in love at first sight very soon. The owl tells them of the dangers of falling in love. They meet a wise old owl, called Friend Owl. The next spring, Bambi and his friends are young adults. Bambi follows his father into the woods, taking one last look behind him. He meets his father, the Great Prince, who tells him that "your mother can't be with you anymore". He walks around, and desperately calls for her. Bambi gets back to the den but finds that his mother is not there. As they run across an icy field, she screams "Faster! Faster, Bambi! Don't look back! Keep running! Keep running!". The audience hears scary music ( Man's theme). One day, Bambi's mother finds a patch of grass, and they eat. Bambi and his mother have trouble finding food. The most famous part of the movie is the death of Bambi's mother. The movie first shows Bambi's childhood, such as a walk in the woods, a day in the meadow, and his first experience seeing snow. He sees his father (the Great Prince of the Forest) for the first time. In his first days of life, he explores the forest around him. In December 2011, the movie was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.Ī little fawn called Bambi is born in the woods. In June 2008, the American Film Institute wrote a list of its "Top 10"-the best ten movies-after asking over 1,500 people. The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Sound ( Sam Slyfield), Best Song (for "Love Is a Song" sung by Donald Novis) and Original Music Score. However, roe deer do not live in the United States, and Americans know more about mule deer. The main characters are Bambi (a roe deer) his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his mother), and his friends: Thumper (a rabbit), Flower (a skunk), and Faline (who becomes his wife later).įor the movie, Disney changed Bambi to a mule deer. He learns to grow up in the wild after hunters shoot his mother. The story is about a baby deer named Bambi. It is the fifth movie in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. RKO Radio Pictures sent the movie to theatres on August 13, 1942. It is based on the book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. David Hand was the head director (he was in charge of other directors). Bambi is a 1942 American-German animated drama movie.
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