GKarsEye
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Continuing the grand Disney home video release tradition, Bambi has come out on DVD for a limited time. Because what better audience to tease with annoying marketing gimmicks than children? 
However, no matter how cynical and absurd Disney's business choices are, it doesn't detract from the genius of this film.
Yes, that's right, the mighty GKarsEye digs Bambi.
In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that Disney's first 5 feature length animate films is the greatest streak of any filmmaker or studio: Fantasia, Snow White, Pinnochio, Dumbi, and Bambi
Bambi is the most manic of these (I don't really count Fanatasia, as that isn't a story). More a series of vignettes displaying a romanticised anthropomorphic idealisation of nature than a straight tale.
Like Snow White and Pinnochio, it used what would become the cliched Disney formula: young person or child ripped away from parents tragically and forced to deal with life on its own. On a grander scale, the film is the perfect propoganda piece for nature lovers, animal rights activists and environmentalists everywhere. One wonders how many activists were born the day they watched the evil humans destroy Bambi's mother and home.
The film's setting, story and scene also seem to make the Lion King redundant.
One thing I don't get is why everyone makes such a big deal out of the death of his mother. Ok, yes, it's sad, that's the point. But surely the end, where the entire forest is being destroyed, would be as emotional or more?
My sister got this for her birthday. I will watch it at some point. Haven't seen it in a while.
Fans should get this while they can, before it goes for double or triple the price.
Today, Pixar inherets the tradition of creating a new paradigm in family entertainment that is actually enjoyable to the whole family.
However, no matter how cynical and absurd Disney's business choices are, it doesn't detract from the genius of this film.
Yes, that's right, the mighty GKarsEye digs Bambi.
In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that Disney's first 5 feature length animate films is the greatest streak of any filmmaker or studio: Fantasia, Snow White, Pinnochio, Dumbi, and Bambi
Bambi is the most manic of these (I don't really count Fanatasia, as that isn't a story). More a series of vignettes displaying a romanticised anthropomorphic idealisation of nature than a straight tale.
Like Snow White and Pinnochio, it used what would become the cliched Disney formula: young person or child ripped away from parents tragically and forced to deal with life on its own. On a grander scale, the film is the perfect propoganda piece for nature lovers, animal rights activists and environmentalists everywhere. One wonders how many activists were born the day they watched the evil humans destroy Bambi's mother and home.
The film's setting, story and scene also seem to make the Lion King redundant.
One thing I don't get is why everyone makes such a big deal out of the death of his mother. Ok, yes, it's sad, that's the point. But surely the end, where the entire forest is being destroyed, would be as emotional or more?
My sister got this for her birthday. I will watch it at some point. Haven't seen it in a while.
Fans should get this while they can, before it goes for double or triple the price.
Today, Pixar inherets the tradition of creating a new paradigm in family entertainment that is actually enjoyable to the whole family.
