An interesting touch is that man is never seen. Man is treated as the ultimate danger, and just as in real life from a deer's perspective they rarely know where the fatal shot is coming from.
@@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms The shot was probably not even fatal 0_0 It is prohibited to shoot a deer in run, since only one single bullet is used. To increase the chance of a fatal shot, deer are supposed to be shot in standstill, to make a better aim for the head. Whoever shot the mom did not get or care for the memo and her being instantly killed is very unlikely. I fear she was rather badly injured and collected later by the hunter, which is no better -_- Even worse, she knew what was coming and not only deliberately stayed behind Bambi but didn't want him to see her getting shot. Making her last words be: 'don't look back, keep running!'
Funny behind the scenes story. When they were auditioning children to do the animal voices went baby fawn Bambi is introduced, one boy had the line "Did the little prince fall down?" and he read it with an unusual inflection. The casting people thought it sounded weird and absolutely didn't want to hire boy. However, Walt Disney was going through the audition recordings, and when he heard that boy's voice, he loved it so much that he wanted to hire him and expand his role. Thus he became the voice of Thumper the rabbit.
And now is the part where you some behind the scenes stuff from someone who once worked for the Mouse. Yes, it’s true, I worked for Disney for three years in Anaheim. They brought live animals, including deer, into the Disney studios for the animators to study and do reference drawings of. You can see it was clearly worth the effort in the finished product. And now, regarding the mother… Walt had been encouraging his elderly parents, Elias and Flora, to move to California now that he was successful following Snow White and Pinocchio and with Fantasia and Bambi in production. He went so far as to buy a house for them to live in. There was only one problem with the house - the furnace kept having problems. Walt regularly had repairmen from the studio visiting the house to try and get the furnace fixed. One afternoon, Elias came home to the house and opened the door and nearly collapsed from the gas fumes in the house. One thing he saw before falling over was his wife Flora lying on the floor. Elias recovered from the gas. Flora did not. Walt never talked about his mother after that day, not even to his kids. He’d always just gaze off with tears in his eyes. So, when working on Bambi and that scene with the mother, the animators did gently broach the subject with Walt, suggesting they might be pushing it a bit far. Walt stood firm, he absolutely insisted they needed to be that tough. Safe to assume Walt had his reasons. He also has a bit of a dark humor about it too, whenever tough scenes came up both in animation and live action and people would suggest pulling back, he’d just say “Remember, in Bambi, we SHOT THE MOTHER.”
I think the scene where all the woodland critters come out of the water and they pan to the great fire in the forest. Was just done so beautifully. The horror of their homes being lost, all of them running for their lives. It just brings a whole perspective no one really talks about.
I was in my car once and driving around a corner. A skunk was in a ditch by the side of the road, got startled by the car and sprayed it. I have another skunk story to tell some time.
@@reactswithjax I also remember a while back I watched that opening scene on my new big screen TV and thought how awesome they created the forest with depth and without any 3D technology of course. I bet in Cinemas it would have been even better. That era of Disney was its best one - going from 1936 until 1977 with "The Rescuers" which I can also suggest. "The Black Cauldron" from 1985 would be another suggestion.
I loved Bambi since i was a little girl! I thought there was something so beautiful about the end, how the father looks at his grown up son just as the music sing "love is a song that never ends". With the grandbabies below. Such a universal feeling of all is well. Plus think of the time the moive was made 1942. We were in ww2, so the themes of creatures running for their lives while the world burns refected life. As does the hope when the woods grow back.
I love this movie ❤ I used to watch Bambi all the time on our VHS 🥹💕 a lot of childhood memories! This movie is so adorable yet sad at the same time. Thank you so much for watching! I love your reactions so much
Gonna be honest with you, Jax. I haven’t seen this movie in years, not since a family trip back from New York where we encountered a dead deer. So watching it with you is somehow therapeutic and helps the healing. Another moving film that’s kind of an underrated classic in my opinion is Brother Bear. The right amount of heart, humour and the stakes are at an appropriate height. So I think you’d love it.
Depth in 2D animation was created with a multiplane camera that's like 12 feet tall. Disney's The Reluctant Dragon actually shows a bit of how that works, and lots of good behind the scenes footage about their animation department.
I'd love to see The Reluctant Dragon to see some of the behind the scenes footage! Thanks for the rec! ❤️The way they are able to create such beautiful 2D animation is so impressive.
One of those cameras can be seen up close at the wonderful Walt Disney Family Museum, on the Presidio in San Francisco. If you are a Disney fan that museum is a must-see.
I have seen many of your reactions to movies, and I absolutely love them. You are very articulate and you show your emotions for what they are. It is priceless. I cannot remember anything about "Bambi," though somehow, I remembered his mother died. Your commentary is very enjoyable, Jax, and your smile never seems to leave your face. It is truly an honor to watch.
This is one of my favorites. I used to look after my niece when she was three, and we would watch it everyday at nap time. I would fall fast asleep to the April Showers song every time lol. So relaxing
And Fan fact about Thumper and Bambi: last I checked their voice actors Peter Behn and Don Dunagan are still alive, and still recive fan mail for the movie! And Don (Bambi) went on to be a Sargent in the Army during Vietnam!
They have ALOT of similarities! I heard that apparently some artists didn't want to work on The Lion King because they also believed it was too similar to Bambi and wouldn't be as successful as it was.
By the way Bambi has a midquel! Bambi 2 focuses more on his childhood after his mother dies and his relationship with his father and also touches on the topics of dealing with loss. It's got its own emotional rollercoaster.
18:24 actually that DOES exist! There's already a trailer for a Bambi horror movie, where he seeks revenge against man. It's called Bambi: The Reckoning and comes out next year!
The Disney classic cartoon movies are classics for good reason. The artwork animation, the music scores, the story lines, all were produced with real passion. And yes, The Great Prince was Bambi's father.
I've read the book. And it's a lot darker. Just like every story Disney made a cartoon based on. I still liked it. Also there is one more Bambi movie. You should check it out. We get more Bambi and his father in that one.
Jax, it’s funny you should mention the thought about a Bambi revenge story because there’s currently one in development. The people that made the Winnie the Pooh horror movies are making a horror revenge film called Bambi: the Reckoning. In it, Bambi will become violent and savage and seek revenge on humans for the death of his mother. I will probably have to see it out of some morbid curiosity but I know it won’t ruin my happy childhood memories of this classic Disney film that I’ve been watching for 25 years. I used to watch the old VHS tape on my old tv set all the time. I’m 28 now but Disney will never get too old for me!!!
This movie is pure ART, and definitely one of my favorites from classic Disney!! If you ever want to, it'd be AWESOME if you could react to Bambi 2 as well! It's a SUPER underrated movie that has almost no reactions to it, but the story is very wholesome and full of heart, and offers a better insight into Bambi and his father's relationship 💙 It also holds the world record for longest time between a movie and its sequel (64 years) !
Why go to the meadow? Because the meadow is where the food is. Deer are grazers and the meadow is where the grass is. And why was it Bambi's mother who was shot? Because venison is delicious and does taste better than bucks. As for hunting dogs, I don't know of anyone who uses hunting dogs for deer. They're mostly used to retrieve birds or go after foxes. I believe there is a fan made trailer of a Bambi revenge film, starting Dwayne Johnson as Bambi. As a Texan, I've learned to appreciate a cold winter over a hot summer. That being said, I mean a Texas winter, not actual winter. Also winter is when Christmas is.
One of our neighbours had deer hounds. They used the hounds to flush the deer out of the trees and into the open. At night you used to be able to hear his hounds running for miles.
This movie makes me think about the old episode of Animaniacs where Slappy made the mistake of taking her young nephew to see Bambi and had to spend the rest of the episode trying to calm him down
Hey Jax! Loved this reaction. I adore that u chose a classic Disney film. When I was a kid, my elementary school would play Disney movies on rainy days. BAMBI was one of those movies.😊 When I was old enough to understand what happened to Bambi's mom which was in like 3rd grade, I balled my eyes out. I used to draw a lot when I was younger, still do, but not as much. When I was in high school, I drew my favorite scene from BAMBI. It's where Bambi gets his antlers stuck in branches & Feline gives him a little smooch. 😄 It's funny that u also mentioned SNOW WHITE. I also drew a scene from that. It's when Grumpy refuses to wash & is sitting on a barrel, & the other dwarfs surround him ready to give him a bath.😄 I used to work in a movie theater when I was 19 - 20 yrs old. On slow days, I would draw w/a pen/marker & cloth like paper towels. Looking @ the characters in some animated features that were either playing or upcoming, I'd draw them. Another Disney film u kept mentioning was THE LION KING which happened to come out while I worked there. Edwards Theaters in our district were in competition w/one another to see who decorated their theater the best. The prize was a private screening of THE LION KING for employees & their families before it opened in the theater. I guess it was a good thing we had a couple of artists working in our theater because we won.😊 We made the lobby look like a jungle & we hand painted characters from the movie on the glass doors of the entrance. I was responsible for painting little Simba & Scar. We put in a lot of extra hours to decorate, but it paid off.😊 What happens to Mufasa w/the stampede, made me cry. My favorite Disney animated film used to be ALICE IN WONDERLAND, but when BEAUTY & THE BEAST came out, it became my favorite. I have drawn a couple of scenes from BEAUTY & THE BEAST. Anyway, don't know why I'm sharing so much, but there u have it, my love of classic Disney animated features.😊
The animators that do stuff like rain, fire, snow, or inanimate objects are called Effects Animators, and they are a separate department from the character animators. Some of those old time greats include Joshua Meador, Dan MacManus, George Rowley, Jack Boyd, Edwin Aardal,
Have you read the book on which the movie was base? Bambi A Life in the Woods, by Feliz Saltzman, who was really Siegmund Saltzman, an Austrian Jew escaping Nazi persecution. All the animal characters in Bambi represent Jewish victims of the Nazis, who are the hunters. The only exceptions are the hunters' dogs, who have betrayed their ancestry, in this case, represented by the fox, not a wolf, to collaborate with the Nazis. One other oddity. Salten has a hummingbird as a character, and Salten lived in Europe. Hummingbirds live only in the American continents and Central America. The story takes place in Europe, and Bambi's kind are roe deer. What are called elk are the red deer, which are relatives of the American elk (wapiti in Native American lingo. What are called elk in Europe are related to the American moose.
For creating depth in the animations, Disney used a system of multiple planes while filming... check out the Movie "The Reluctant Dragon" (1941), not just the short, it revolves around Robert Benchley basically touring the Disney Studios and it highlights several shorts while showing the behind the scenes of making animated films... a pretty enjoyable movie :D
12:30 dear do not mate for life. A buck will impregnate several doe within his lifetime. But this is a kids movie and they're not going to explain the birds and the bees to 3-6 year olds. Especially when it's irrelevant to the story. All you need to know is that Bambi's only parent was killed in the hunt and that the buck took over raising Bambi.
I got to raise one. It was alone in the ditch on our farm, mom dead nearby likely hit by someone driving through. Baby buck probably less than a month old. Bottle fed him until he starting eating on his own what he wanted to eat. Didn't feed him ourselves again after, so he because self sufficient. He stayed around 1 day short of a year before he took off on his own. He was tagged, and I spotted him a couple times the next couple years from a distance. He got big. Should watch "Fox and the Hound" for another rollercoaster of emotion.
when i got all growd up i watched bambi with my 5 year old cousin and she asked me " whyd they call the girl deer dog" ( fe--line) kids are fun. Jaxs reaction when Thumper showed up with his brood of baby bunnies was brilliant. (alliteration folks)
If you want another disney movie to react to, their 1973 version of robin hood is a classic adaptation of the legends (all of the characters are anthropomorphic animals)
My grandma took me to see the theatrical re-release of Bambi in 1988. McDonald's happy meals had Bambi toys so afterwards she took me there and that's when I learned you could just buy the toys without the meal. Lady and the Tramp is still my favorite Disney movie because I'm a romantic but Bambi is a core memory
2:49 Fun fact: Funny enough the creators for Lion King nicknamed it the Bambi of Africa. As the theme around the Circle of Life, is similar to the theme of Bambi. In love is a song, similar to Circle of life in theme, says “love is song that never ends. On simple theme repeating;” love, loss and life goes on like a cycle. Ironically, that nickname for the Lion King made most of the animators focus on there other project Pocahontas more… Lion King won the popularity contest in the end. So in end it was a simple theme repeating.
I recommend to watch more older Disney movies such as Pinocchio (it has some disturbing elements in it but it's a great classic, it was here that Disney's official theme song When You Wish Upon A Star was born), Fantasia (which is a package movie, consisting on several animated segments set to classical music such as The Nutcracker Suite, Toccata and Fugue, The Pastrol Symphony and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, starring Mickey Mouse), Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp and so on.
Mom dying? No problem. Bambi sliding on the ice unable to stand up? I had to run and hide behind the kitchen door. I have no idea what was going on in my 5 year old head...
"Where is the movie where the deer fight back?"...Funnily enough, there is an animated film called "Open Season"... Also, the fire sections of Bambi were used in Smokey the Bear PSAs for stopping forest fires.
Bambi is one of my top three favorite Disney movies of all time. To be realistic, most of the fawns are probably sired by the Great Prince, but yeah, it's pretty safe to assume he is Bambi's father.
Disney has some pretty good classics like The Apple Dumpling Gang movies & Kurt Russell in The Computer Wore Tenmis Shoes & The Strongest Man in the World, the Herbie movies.
18:26 If you're looking for a revenge story, you should listen to Gustav Mahler's First Symphony, Third Movement. The forest animals hold a funeral march for a dead hunter (to the tune of frere Jacques played in a minor key). After the funeral the animals celebrate to some Klezmer music. It's a shame Disney never animated it, it would have worked well with their Fantasia series.
[ comment part 2 ] When they wrote and animated the "Twitterpated" section, they had way too much fun. Some of the surrealism was right on the fringe of Walt's comfort zone, and it was at a time when he started to clash creatively with some of his bolder, more ambitious employees. A year before Bambi premiered, 1/3 of the staff went on strike and in many cases the strikers left to animate at rival studios. Walt and others on the staff were also surprised by the intensity of the dogs when that scene in the climax was finished. Turns out the dogs had been assigned to Retta Scott, the first woman they'd ever hired as an animator (the job was typically a boy's club). Retta Scott was 22 when she joined, and 30 when she retired from the business because she knew (due to WW2's aftermath impacting the studio's budgets) she was one of the people about to be laid off anyway. The writers' biggest challenge was always the tone: Walt wanted realism but without scarring his audience. And it's always been a bit divisive ... even Walt's daughter Diane (8 years old at the time Bambi was released) was angry at him for some of the story choices. Being at 1 hour 10 minutes was a necessity for the studio's finances. Pinocchio and Fantasia (which are recognized as classics now) were box-office flops in 1940, draining the profits that could've allowed films to be longer. Walt cut 12 minutes of material from Bambi, and refused to make Dumbo (already 1 hour 4 minutes) any longer when business partner RKO tried to demand that. Once the attack on Pearl Harbor happened, Walt's next project of adapting Wind in the Willows was kneecapped by a deal with the U.S. Army to focus full-time on producing war propaganda. Your remarks about the duck had me LOLing.
My mom took me to see a showing if this when I was 4, and I guess when they shot bambi's mom, I said real in a loud voice, " are foinf ro eat her now mommy?".
11:09 "Winter sure is long, isn't it?" "It _seems_ long." Especially your first. "Yeah, everybody hates winter, except for the weirdos who _don't._ Uh!🙄The _snowboarders_ and the _skiers!"_ 😆Well now, Jax, personally, I'm not a skier or a snowboarder, but I've _always_ loved winter. And I find myself missing it all the more now that I've moved to a somewhat warmer, and _much_ more humid part of the world. I'm learning a unique dislike for humidity, though. I previously lived in Colorado where the humidity is relatively low. Now I live in southern Illinois where the humidity is much higher, and I dislike it very much. I mean, if it's not especially hot where I am, and I'm not really exerting myself, I have no reason to be sweating, but because of the humidity, sweating is what I do. When I first moved out here, I actually had a positive impression about the rain, because Colorado rain is fairly pleasant. But one day, walking home from buying groceries, I got caught in the rain, and it was a southern-Illinois _downpour,_ so it was _heavy_ and it _poured_ and _poured_ and _poured._ It just kept coming. The rain in Colorado tends to cool things off. The rain in southern Illinois tends to raise the humidity, and so warm things _up._ I got home with _every_ piece of clothing I was wearing absolutely _soaked_ and determined that, if I had grown up in _this_ part of the world, my impression of the rain would probably be much _less_ pleasant. Snow's awesome, though. When it's snowing, there is no such thing as bad weather; only bad clothing.
[ comment part 1 'cause I had a lot to say ] One of the big crown gems of animation, from when full color on film (via Technicolor) was barely a decade old, and Walt was still fighting to prove all the things animation was capable of. I saw this one on VHS when I was 2 or 3. The depth they show off in a lot of shots is courtesy of the multiplane camera. The background painters had to translate separate parts of their designs onto sheets of glass, run in layers through a story-and-a-half high machine with the camera perched on top. The camera room was basically a whole warehouse. The film having Lion King vibes isn't a coincidence. The team of writers who handled Lion King (Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, Chris Sanders) borrowed heavily from Bambi and in particular its life-cycle structure. 2:51 Just a mole. Didn't even notice until you pointed it out that Thumper's eyes are brown. The bigger way they differentiated him from the other rabbits was his voice. Peter Behn impressed the animators at his audition by being the one child who hadn't been coached to put on a performance. He just shouted his lines like an honest, loud child. "April Shower" was indeed designed on a music level to resemble actual rainfall, and was one of the last pieces composed for Disney by their longtime music genius Frank Churchill. (He unfortunately fell into a depression and committed suicide 3 months before Bambi premiered.) 5:16 In Disney's hand-drawn days the animators fell into two camps: character animators and effects animators. Because Dumbo and Bambi were in production at the same time, the team assigned to Bambi was a smaller group that had gained Walt's trust to pull off more technically challenging work. Each sub-group within the team would work under a supervising animator. Frank Thomas and Milt Kahl supervised Bambi himself. Ollie Johnston supervised Thumper. Eric Larson supervised Friend Owl. Josh Meador supervised the effects, which included all the water. The writers decided very early on not to show the hunters on screen. Despite Friend Owl being a bird of prey, they also decided not to show any of the animals preying on other animals, keeping Man the sole antagonist. Walt was vocal in his lifetime about having a reverence for nature, having grown up on a farm in Missouri.
I love that she mentioned that we need a Bambi revenge story…that’s literally the next horror movie in the Winnie the Pooh horror movie universe: Bambi the Reckoning
I hope you'll react to the midquel sequel "Bambi II" next. It's even better than the first and a wonderful predecessor to the original classic. I love these movies so much And yes, The Great Prince is Bambi's dad. Hence Bambi's title of 'The Young Prince'
I think you'd LOVE Bambi 2. It's actually a midquel, and it picks up right after The Great Prince takes Bambi in after his mother dies, and fills in that gap of a time jump.
As someone who studied Disney animation, Bambi is considered one of Disney's most beautifully (Aesthetically beatiful) animated films. Disney's most beautiful animated films (out of their classic films, films before the 80's) are. 1. Snow white 2. Pinocchio 3. Bambi 4. Sleeping Beauty 5. Fantasia Sleeping Beauty and Fantasia are often considered the most beautiful on the list. But because Fantasia is animation done to classical music and has no dialog, many people won't do reactions to it. Which is a pity because it's such a beautiful film. Oh, another beautiful film out of their classics is "Lady and the Tramp."
The original Lion King was the cartoon called KIMBA the White Lion which was serialized in the Manga Shonen magazine from November 1950 to April 1954. An anime based on the manga aired on Fuji Television from 1965 to 1967, shortly after it aired in north America in 1966. Jax a horror movie called Bambi: The Reckoning in coming out in 2025.
My mother took me to see it when it was re-released to theaters in 1947. I don't remember because I was only 2. She had to take me out of the theater because the forest fire scared me. I had to laugh when you mentioned wanting a revenge story because the other day I saw a meme that had a very large adult male deer with huge antlers and a mean expression on his face. The caption was "Hello. My name is Bambi. You killed my mother. Prepare to die." 😂
Kids movies used to be impactful and meant something because they took what's hard about life and made it understandable. Disney used to be magical and take pride in it's artists. How the mighty have fallen.
11:43 that made a lot of children sad the first time, Walt Disney showed this movie to his daughter first before showing it on the movie theaters. Speaking of traumatizing 😢 24:21 😂 P.S: I like your blouse
Jax, see, this is why I can't watch your reaction to Braveheart ... it killed ME to watch it, and I can't bear to see YOU go through that. However, I love this story and knew you would "get through the bad stuff" because ... again, like "the circle of life", life would renew again in this story, and they made it beautiful and with a happy ending. So, what I'm saying is, when I NEED to feel warm, funny, excited about something, I come here to watch your reactions. I watch a LOT of reactions and have limited time, but you are truly a treasure and a guilty pleasure so, I always make sure I find time to grab one of your reactions. Oops, I almost forgot to mention one of my favorite scenes (that you didn't show here) ... when Bambi first tries to walk, and Thumper says "Kind of wobbly, aint he?".
Bambi is so effective because it taps into a child's greatest fear, and perhaps an adults too, the loss of their mother.
So true! It's such a relatable story. ❤️
@@reactswithjax Feels different now after losing my father.
Scariest movie ever made.
An interesting touch is that man is never seen. Man is treated as the ultimate danger, and just as in real life from a deer's perspective they rarely know where the fatal shot is coming from.
@@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms The shot was probably not even fatal 0_0 It is prohibited to shoot a deer in run, since only one single bullet is used. To increase the chance of a fatal shot, deer are supposed to be shot in standstill, to make a better aim for the head. Whoever shot the mom did not get or care for the memo and her being instantly killed is very unlikely.
I fear she was rather badly injured and collected later by the hunter, which is no better -_-
Even worse, she knew what was coming and not only deliberately stayed behind Bambi but didn't want him to see her getting shot. Making her last words be: 'don't look back, keep running!'
Funny behind the scenes story. When they were auditioning children to do the animal voices went baby fawn Bambi is introduced, one boy had the line "Did the little prince fall down?" and he read it with an unusual inflection. The casting people thought it sounded weird and absolutely didn't want to hire boy. However, Walt Disney was going through the audition recordings, and when he heard that boy's voice, he loved it so much that he wanted to hire him and expand his role. Thus he became the voice of Thumper the rabbit.
It was also Frank and Ollie who let him continue.
Back then, that kid had to take the day off work at the factory to do the voice recording session.
6:17 Little do you know that the "hunter" was actually a professional hitman hired by the duck.
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How dare you make me chortle this much 😂😂😂😂
" Mother!!! " Most traumatic line in any movie.
It was so sad!! Such a heartbreaking moment in his life and deeply relatable.
This is such an important children's movie, showing the passing of time with all its joys and sorrows.
So true! Bambi is such a relatable story for children and adults. ❤️
If you haven't seen it yet, I HIGHLY recommend "Fox and the Hound" another Disney movie about relationships and growing up. A classic!
I was going to suggest the same thing.
Yes, only about friendships and growing up. Nothin sad or tragic in that movie, nothin at all.
I agree.
100 percent back this!
And now is the part where you some behind the scenes stuff from someone who once worked for the Mouse.
Yes, it’s true, I worked for Disney for three years in Anaheim.
They brought live animals, including deer, into the Disney studios for the animators to study and do reference drawings of. You can see it was clearly worth the effort in the finished product.
And now, regarding the mother… Walt had been encouraging his elderly parents, Elias and Flora, to move to California now that he was successful following Snow White and Pinocchio and with Fantasia and Bambi in production. He went so far as to buy a house for them to live in. There was only one problem with the house - the furnace kept having problems. Walt regularly had repairmen from the studio visiting the house to try and get the furnace fixed. One afternoon, Elias came home to the house and opened the door and nearly collapsed from the gas fumes in the house. One thing he saw before falling over was his wife Flora lying on the floor.
Elias recovered from the gas. Flora did not.
Walt never talked about his mother after that day, not even to his kids. He’d always just gaze off with tears in his eyes. So, when working on Bambi and that scene with the mother, the animators did gently broach the subject with Walt, suggesting they might be pushing it a bit far. Walt stood firm, he absolutely insisted they needed to be that tough.
Safe to assume Walt had his reasons. He also has a bit of a dark humor about it too, whenever tough scenes came up both in animation and live action and people would suggest pulling back, he’d just say “Remember, in Bambi, we SHOT THE MOTHER.”
Good for him. Stop the sissified modern kid's stories. No wonder we have so many children pretending to be adults today.
@@unclebounce1495 A lot of kids today are still enduring tough times.
@@dondragmer2412 No shyt. That's life. That's forever. it's how they're dealing with it (not) that makes them weak and pathetic.
I think the scene where all the woodland critters come out of the water and they pan to the great fire in the forest. Was just done so beautifully. The horror of their homes being lost, all of them running for their lives. It just brings a whole perspective no one really talks about.
Jax you look like an actual Disney Princess in that outfit! Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you so much!! That's so kind of you to say! ❤
You're welcome! Thank you for all the amazing content, you are by far my favorite channel on TH-cam!
13:40 - me when I found this channel!
@@reactswithjaxYes, you're pretty. Despite what you think, that doesn't make you better than everyone.
4:11 "That's good that you've made friends with a skunk. You don't want to make an enemy with a skunk."
Indeed, not.
I was in my car once and driving around a corner. A skunk was in a ditch by the side of the road, got startled by the car and sprayed it. I have another skunk story to tell some time.
This was a time the cartoon was beautiful ART Work. A classic, and a beautiful reaction.
The animation was absolutely stunning!
@@reactswithjax I also remember a while back I watched that opening scene on my new big screen TV and thought how awesome they created the forest with depth and without any 3D technology of course. I bet in Cinemas it would have been even better. That era of Disney was its best one - going from 1936 until 1977 with "The Rescuers" which I can also suggest. "The Black Cauldron" from 1985 would be another suggestion.
I loved Bambi since i was a little girl! I thought there was something so beautiful about the end, how the father looks at his grown up son just as the music sing "love is a song that never ends". With the grandbabies below. Such a universal feeling of all is well.
Plus think of the time the moive was made 1942. We were in ww2, so the themes of creatures running for their lives while the world burns refected life. As does the hope when the woods grow back.
"He must have trained under . . . The Duck!" 🤣🦆🤣
"Twitterpated" 😍 has been in my vocabulary ever since I first saw this movie as a kid.
I love this movie ❤ I used to watch Bambi all the time on our VHS 🥹💕 a lot of childhood memories! This movie is so adorable yet sad at the same time. Thank you so much for watching! I love your reactions so much
Thank you so much! I remember watching my favorite movies on VHS too! That takes me back to my childhood. ❤
Gonna be honest with you, Jax. I haven’t seen this movie in years, not since a family trip back from New York where we encountered a dead deer. So watching it with you is somehow therapeutic and helps the healing.
Another moving film that’s kind of an underrated classic in my opinion is Brother Bear. The right amount of heart, humour and the stakes are at an appropriate height. So I think you’d love it.
@5:15 - Yes, certain animators worked on certain scenes, and there are specifically FX animators, who just animated water, fire, smoke, etc.
They are so talented! Everything was beautiful.
You should watch The Land Before Time after this. That’s even more of a roller coaster of emotions!
Yes, send Jax down the emotional rabbit hole that is Don Bluth movies.
I would love to see that movie!!! There are so many old school classics that I want to check out! ❤️
@@reactswithjaxI know you seen the lion king but maybe watch that one too? :)
Three horns never play with LooOOong necks!
That movie is devastating.
I just remembered Robin Williams describing deer as "supermodels with hooves" :D
Depth in 2D animation was created with a multiplane camera that's like 12 feet tall. Disney's The Reluctant Dragon actually shows a bit of how that works, and lots of good behind the scenes footage about their animation department.
I'd love to see The Reluctant Dragon to see some of the behind the scenes footage! Thanks for the rec! ❤️The way they are able to create such beautiful 2D animation is so impressive.
One of those cameras can be seen up close at the wonderful Walt Disney Family Museum, on the Presidio in San Francisco. If you are a Disney fan that museum is a must-see.
I have seen many of your reactions to movies, and I absolutely love them. You are very articulate and you show your emotions for what they are. It is priceless. I cannot remember anything about "Bambi," though somehow, I remembered his mother died. Your commentary is very enjoyable, Jax, and your smile never seems to leave your face. It is truly an honor to watch.
"I was really not expecting to get this emotional in Bambi." Oh deer Jax, you don't know yourself at all, do you?
The lack of self awareness is apparent! 😂
There is a Bambi 2, it's more about when bambi was a fawn and began to learn how to be a protector of the forest like his father
Such a classic. The deer around where I work typically have 3 babies at a time =)
That's a lot of babies to look after!
This is one of my favorites. I used to look after my niece when she was three, and we would watch it everyday at nap time. I would fall fast asleep to the April Showers song every time lol. So relaxing
And Fan fact about Thumper and Bambi: last I checked their voice actors Peter Behn and Don Dunagan are still alive, and still recive fan mail for the movie! And Don (Bambi) went on to be a Sargent in the Army during Vietnam!
I've never thought to compare Bambi to Lion King!!! Amazing.
They called/pitched Lion King early in the part of production as "Bambi in Africa mixed with Hamlet" and sometimes called it "Bamblet".
They had so many similarities, but each story stands beautifully on it's own.
They have ALOT of similarities! I heard that apparently some artists didn't want to work on The Lion King because they also believed it was too similar to Bambi and wouldn't be as successful as it was.
Bambi had become my most favourite character of all time after having watched the film growing up and becoming obsessed with it.
By the way Bambi has a midquel! Bambi 2 focuses more on his childhood after his mother dies and his relationship with his father and also touches on the topics of dealing with loss. It's got its own emotional rollercoaster.
I love bambi but I was obsessed with Bambi 2 when I was little, I would watch it over and over
18:24 actually that DOES exist! There's already a trailer for a Bambi horror movie, where he seeks revenge against man. It's called Bambi: The Reckoning and comes out next year!
Haha! That's awesome!
I’ve never laughed harder than at 16:52 I love Jax’s villian duck sub plot 😂
The Disney classic cartoon movies are classics for good reason. The artwork animation, the music scores, the story lines, all were produced with real passion.
And yes, The Great Prince was Bambi's father.
Fun Fact the voice of young Faline was also Bonnie the daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara in the classic movie Gone With The Wind
I've read the book. And it's a lot darker. Just like every story Disney made a cartoon based on. I still liked it.
Also there is one more Bambi movie. You should check it out. We get more Bambi and his father in that one.
Jax, it’s funny you should mention the thought about a Bambi revenge story because there’s currently one in development. The people that made the Winnie the Pooh horror movies are making a horror revenge film called Bambi: the Reckoning. In it, Bambi will become violent and savage and seek revenge on humans for the death of his mother. I will probably have to see it out of some morbid curiosity but I know it won’t ruin my happy childhood memories of this classic Disney film that I’ve been watching for 25 years. I used to watch the old VHS tape on my old tv set all the time. I’m 28 now but Disney will never get too old for me!!!
In the cute scenes you get beautifully doe-eyed, which is incredibly appropriate for Bambi.
This movie is pure ART, and definitely one of my favorites from classic Disney!!
If you ever want to, it'd be AWESOME if you could react to Bambi 2 as well! It's a SUPER underrated movie that has almost no reactions to it, but the story is very wholesome and full of heart, and offers a better insight into Bambi and his father's relationship 💙
It also holds the world record for longest time between a movie and its sequel (64 years) !
Why go to the meadow? Because the meadow is where the food is. Deer are grazers and the meadow is where the grass is. And why was it Bambi's mother who was shot? Because venison is delicious and does taste better than bucks. As for hunting dogs, I don't know of anyone who uses hunting dogs for deer. They're mostly used to retrieve birds or go after foxes.
I believe there is a fan made trailer of a Bambi revenge film, starting Dwayne Johnson as Bambi.
As a Texan, I've learned to appreciate a cold winter over a hot summer. That being said, I mean a Texas winter, not actual winter. Also winter is when Christmas is.
One of our neighbours had deer hounds. They used the hounds to flush the deer out of the trees and into the open. At night you used to be able to hear his hounds running for miles.
@@ronweber1402 Good to know. Thank you.
I love seeing Jax watching Disney's classics.
I am huge fan of animated movies.
I'm so glad you enjoy it! It's been so much fun watching them. ❤
Amazing reaction as always Jax!! Hope you're doing well, I adore Disney! 🦌🐑💝 I love how the Duck is now the villain and behind everything 🤣
Thank you so much!!! We are watching the Duck's origin story. Soon, he will rise to power and get revenge!😂
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This movie makes me think about the old episode of Animaniacs where Slappy made the mistake of taking her young nephew to see Bambi and had to spend the rest of the episode trying to calm him down
Hey Jax! Loved this reaction. I adore that u chose a classic Disney film.
When I was a kid, my elementary school would play Disney movies on rainy days. BAMBI was one of those movies.😊 When I was old enough to understand what happened to Bambi's mom which was in like 3rd grade, I balled my eyes out.
I used to draw a lot when I was younger, still do, but not as much. When I was in high school, I drew my favorite scene from BAMBI. It's where Bambi gets his antlers stuck in branches & Feline gives him a little smooch. 😄 It's funny that u also mentioned SNOW WHITE. I also drew a scene from that. It's when Grumpy refuses to wash & is sitting on a barrel, & the other dwarfs surround him ready to give him a bath.😄
I used to work in a movie theater when I was 19 - 20 yrs old. On slow days, I would draw w/a pen/marker & cloth like paper towels. Looking @ the characters in some animated features that were either playing or upcoming, I'd draw them.
Another Disney film u kept mentioning was THE LION KING which happened to come out while I worked there. Edwards Theaters in our district were in competition w/one another to see who decorated their theater the best. The prize was a private screening of THE LION KING for employees & their families before it opened in the theater. I guess it was a good thing we had a couple of artists working in our theater because we won.😊 We made the lobby look like a jungle & we hand painted characters from the movie on the glass doors of the entrance. I was responsible for painting little Simba & Scar. We put in a lot of extra hours to decorate, but it paid off.😊
What happens to Mufasa w/the stampede, made me cry.
My favorite Disney animated film used to be ALICE IN WONDERLAND, but when BEAUTY & THE BEAST came out, it became my favorite. I have drawn a couple of scenes from BEAUTY & THE BEAST.
Anyway, don't know why I'm sharing so much, but there u have it, my love of classic Disney animated features.😊
The animators that do stuff like rain, fire, snow, or inanimate objects are called Effects Animators, and they are a separate department from the character animators.
Some of those old time greats include Joshua Meador, Dan MacManus, George Rowley, Jack Boyd, Edwin Aardal,
Have you read the book on which the movie was base? Bambi A Life in the Woods, by Feliz Saltzman, who was really Siegmund Saltzman, an Austrian Jew escaping Nazi persecution. All the animal characters in Bambi represent Jewish victims of the Nazis, who are the hunters. The only exceptions are the hunters' dogs, who have betrayed their ancestry, in this case, represented by the fox, not a wolf, to collaborate with the Nazis. One other oddity. Salten has a hummingbird as a character, and Salten lived in Europe. Hummingbirds live only in the American continents and Central America. The story takes place in Europe, and Bambi's kind are roe deer. What are called elk are the red deer, which are relatives of the American elk (wapiti in Native American lingo. What are called elk in Europe are related to the American moose.
For creating depth in the animations, Disney used a system of multiple planes while filming... check out the Movie "The Reluctant Dragon" (1941), not just the short, it revolves around Robert Benchley basically touring the Disney Studios and it highlights several shorts while showing the behind the scenes of making animated films... a pretty enjoyable movie :D
The art work in this is alluring
Wow I have t seen this movie in decades!!! Thanks for the flashback and for your always beautiful smile!! 😊
"Is it a mole-rat?!"
Just a mole. David Attenborough is your friend.
Jax: "I didn't expect to become emotional in Bambi..."
All of us: Hold on tight, you are gonna feel it all!
12:30 dear do not mate for life. A buck will impregnate several doe within his lifetime. But this is a kids movie and they're not going to explain the birds and the bees to 3-6 year olds. Especially when it's irrelevant to the story. All you need to know is that Bambi's only parent was killed in the hunt and that the buck took over raising Bambi.
One of the most underrated movies of all time
I got to raise one. It was alone in the ditch on our farm, mom dead nearby likely hit by someone driving through. Baby buck probably less than a month old. Bottle fed him until he starting eating on his own what he wanted to eat. Didn't feed him ourselves again after, so he because self sufficient. He stayed around 1 day short of a year before he took off on his own. He was tagged, and I spotted him a couple times the next couple years from a distance. He got big.
Should watch "Fox and the Hound" for another rollercoaster of emotion.
when i got all growd up i watched bambi with my 5 year old cousin and she asked me " whyd they call the girl deer dog" ( fe--line) kids are fun.
Jaxs reaction when Thumper showed up with his brood of baby bunnies was brilliant. (alliteration folks)
If you want another disney movie to react to, their 1973 version of robin hood is a classic adaptation of the legends (all of the characters are anthropomorphic animals)
Old Yeller is another film from Disney that will bomb you emotionally.
My grandma took me to see the theatrical re-release of Bambi in 1988. McDonald's happy meals had Bambi toys so afterwards she took me there and that's when I learned you could just buy the toys without the meal. Lady and the Tramp is still my favorite Disney movie because I'm a romantic but Bambi is a core memory
2:49 Fun fact: Funny enough the creators for Lion King nicknamed it the Bambi of Africa. As the theme around the Circle of Life, is similar to the theme of Bambi. In love is a song, similar to Circle of life in theme, says “love is song that never ends. On simple theme repeating;” love, loss and life goes on like a cycle.
Ironically, that nickname for the Lion King made most of the animators focus on there other project Pocahontas more… Lion King won the popularity contest in the end. So in end it was a simple theme repeating.
Also the musical sequence with Bambi and Feline frolicking at night after falling in love is literally like "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"
I recommend to watch more older Disney movies such as Pinocchio (it has some disturbing elements in it but it's a great classic, it was here that Disney's official theme song When You Wish Upon A Star was born), Fantasia (which is a package movie, consisting on several animated segments set to classical music such as The Nutcracker Suite, Toccata and Fugue, The Pastrol Symphony and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, starring Mickey Mouse), Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp and so on.
Mom dying? No problem. Bambi sliding on the ice unable to stand up? I had to run and hide behind the kitchen door. I have no idea what was going on in my 5 year old head...
Hahaha!
I agree that this movie influenced Lion King a ton. Lion King was a mix of Bambi and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
"Where is the movie where the deer fight back?"...Funnily enough, there is an animated film called "Open Season"...
Also, the fire sections of Bambi were used in Smokey the Bear PSAs for stopping forest fires.
Bambi is the prince of the forest. Line of succession dictates that yes, he is the son of the Great Prince (aka King) of the forest.
Bambi is one of my top three favorite Disney movies of all time. To be realistic, most of the fawns are probably sired by the Great Prince, but yeah, it's pretty safe to assume he is Bambi's father.
Disney has some pretty good classics like The Apple Dumpling Gang movies & Kurt Russell in The Computer Wore Tenmis Shoes & The Strongest Man in the World, the Herbie movies.
Bambi is getting the revenge when the horror movie is coming this year
18:26 If you're looking for a revenge story, you should listen to Gustav Mahler's First Symphony, Third Movement. The forest animals hold a funeral march for a dead hunter (to the tune of frere Jacques played in a minor key). After the funeral the animals celebrate to some Klezmer music. It's a shame Disney never animated it, it would have worked well with their Fantasia series.
The Prince of the Forest is unquestionably Bambi's dad! 😅
Haha! It took me a little longer to get that!
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When they wrote and animated the "Twitterpated" section, they had way too much fun. Some of the surrealism was right on the fringe of Walt's comfort zone, and it was at a time when he started to clash creatively with some of his bolder, more ambitious employees. A year before Bambi premiered, 1/3 of the staff went on strike and in many cases the strikers left to animate at rival studios.
Walt and others on the staff were also surprised by the intensity of the dogs when that scene in the climax was finished. Turns out the dogs had been assigned to Retta Scott, the first woman they'd ever hired as an animator (the job was typically a boy's club). Retta Scott was 22 when she joined, and 30 when she retired from the business because she knew (due to WW2's aftermath impacting the studio's budgets) she was one of the people about to be laid off anyway.
The writers' biggest challenge was always the tone: Walt wanted realism but without scarring his audience. And it's always been a bit divisive ... even Walt's daughter Diane (8 years old at the time Bambi was released) was angry at him for some of the story choices.
Being at 1 hour 10 minutes was a necessity for the studio's finances. Pinocchio and Fantasia (which are recognized as classics now) were box-office flops in 1940, draining the profits that could've allowed films to be longer. Walt cut 12 minutes of material from Bambi, and refused to make Dumbo (already 1 hour 4 minutes) any longer when business partner RKO tried to demand that. Once the attack on Pearl Harbor happened, Walt's next project of adapting Wind in the Willows was kneecapped by a deal with the U.S. Army to focus full-time on producing war propaganda.
Your remarks about the duck had me LOLing.
My mom took me to see a showing if this when I was 4, and I guess when they shot bambi's mom, I said real in a loud voice, " are foinf ro eat her now mommy?".
Two great animal movies I think you and Lamby will like are "Hoot" from 2006 about owles and "Black Sheep", a New Zealand film about sheep.
11:09 "Winter sure is long, isn't it?"
"It _seems_ long."
Especially your first.
"Yeah, everybody hates winter, except for the weirdos who _don't._ Uh!🙄The _snowboarders_ and the _skiers!"_
😆Well now, Jax, personally, I'm not a skier or a snowboarder, but I've _always_ loved winter. And I find myself missing it all the more now that I've moved to a somewhat warmer, and _much_ more humid part of the world.
I'm learning a unique dislike for humidity, though. I previously lived in Colorado where the humidity is relatively low. Now I live in southern Illinois where the humidity is much higher, and I dislike it very much. I mean, if it's not especially hot where I am, and I'm not really exerting myself, I have no reason to be sweating, but because of the humidity, sweating is what I do.
When I first moved out here, I actually had a positive impression about the rain, because Colorado rain is fairly pleasant. But one day, walking home from buying groceries, I got caught in the rain, and it was a southern-Illinois _downpour,_ so it was _heavy_ and it _poured_ and _poured_ and _poured._ It just kept coming.
The rain in Colorado tends to cool things off. The rain in southern Illinois tends to raise the humidity, and so warm things _up._
I got home with _every_ piece of clothing I was wearing absolutely _soaked_ and determined that, if I had grown up in _this_ part of the world, my impression of the rain would probably be much _less_ pleasant.
Snow's awesome, though. When it's snowing, there is no such thing as bad weather; only bad clothing.
In the book Man is only called He and Him. And there are many of Him, many hunters.
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One of the big crown gems of animation, from when full color on film (via Technicolor) was barely a decade old, and Walt was still fighting to prove all the things animation was capable of. I saw this one on VHS when I was 2 or 3.
The depth they show off in a lot of shots is courtesy of the multiplane camera. The background painters had to translate separate parts of their designs onto sheets of glass, run in layers through a story-and-a-half high machine with the camera perched on top. The camera room was basically a whole warehouse.
The film having Lion King vibes isn't a coincidence. The team of writers who handled Lion King (Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, Chris Sanders) borrowed heavily from Bambi and in particular its life-cycle structure.
2:51 Just a mole.
Didn't even notice until you pointed it out that Thumper's eyes are brown. The bigger way they differentiated him from the other rabbits was his voice. Peter Behn impressed the animators at his audition by being the one child who hadn't been coached to put on a performance. He just shouted his lines like an honest, loud child.
"April Shower" was indeed designed on a music level to resemble actual rainfall, and was one of the last pieces composed for Disney by their longtime music genius Frank Churchill. (He unfortunately fell into a depression and committed suicide 3 months before Bambi premiered.)
5:16 In Disney's hand-drawn days the animators fell into two camps: character animators and effects animators. Because Dumbo and Bambi were in production at the same time, the team assigned to Bambi was a smaller group that had gained Walt's trust to pull off more technically challenging work. Each sub-group within the team would work under a supervising animator. Frank Thomas and Milt Kahl supervised Bambi himself. Ollie Johnston supervised Thumper. Eric Larson supervised Friend Owl. Josh Meador supervised the effects, which included all the water.
The writers decided very early on not to show the hunters on screen. Despite Friend Owl being a bird of prey, they also decided not to show any of the animals preying on other animals, keeping Man the sole antagonist. Walt was vocal in his lifetime about having a reverence for nature, having grown up on a farm in Missouri.
I love that she mentioned that we need a Bambi revenge story…that’s literally the next horror movie in the Winnie the Pooh horror movie universe: Bambi the Reckoning
Oh watch "Bambi Meets Godzilla " next!
A true classic!
And then Bambi's Revenge.
I hope you'll react to the midquel sequel "Bambi II" next. It's even better than the first and a wonderful predecessor to the original classic. I love these movies so much
And yes, The Great Prince is Bambi's dad. Hence Bambi's title of 'The Young Prince'
Ducks can never be villains. Way too cute.
Unless if they can control tornadoes and hurricanes
They are pretty adorable!
@@reactswithjax I was referencing a character I had made for a fictional series I had in mind.
The Lion King was inspired by Bambi to the point that during production it was called "Bambi set in Africa" and there are many parallells to it.
I think you'd LOVE Bambi 2. It's actually a midquel, and it picks up right after The Great Prince takes Bambi in after his mother dies, and fills in that gap of a time jump.
13:47 "😄I love that Flower's terrified."
Love can be pretty scary. It makes fools of us all. 🤷♂
As someone who studied Disney animation, Bambi is considered one of Disney's most beautifully (Aesthetically beatiful) animated films. Disney's most beautiful animated films (out of their classic films, films before the 80's) are.
1. Snow white
2. Pinocchio
3. Bambi
4. Sleeping Beauty
5. Fantasia
Sleeping Beauty and Fantasia are often considered the most beautiful on the list. But because Fantasia is animation done to classical music and has no dialog, many people won't do reactions to it. Which is a pity because it's such a beautiful film.
Oh, another beautiful film out of their classics is "Lady and the Tramp."
Awww man, I haven’t saw this since I was 8! I’m now 37 😄 So fun watching this with you 😍
The original Lion King was the cartoon called KIMBA the White Lion which was serialized in the Manga Shonen magazine from November 1950 to April 1954. An anime based on the manga aired on Fuji Television from 1965 to 1967, shortly after it aired in north America in 1966. Jax a horror movie called Bambi: The Reckoning in coming out in 2025.
My mother took me to see it when it was re-released to theaters in 1947. I don't remember because I was only 2. She had to take me out of the theater because the forest fire scared me. I had to laugh when you mentioned wanting a revenge story because the other day I saw a meme that had a very large adult male deer with huge antlers and a mean expression on his face. The caption was "Hello. My name is Bambi. You killed my mother. Prepare to die." 😂
@4:25 - The music and voices are recorded before the film is animated.
The angry duck: “Oh, he’s going to pay… deerly.”
Shifting the country to America, the eastern U.S., I believe that Bambi's species are whitetail deer.
Another great reaction, Jax. P.S. You look like a princess today!!!😃
Your reaction to this was amazing Bambi is an incredible movie and getting to see you react to it was a true Delight thank you❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🙏🙏🙏
10:59 Jax, I appreciate these little tidbits of information you work into your videos.
Of course the Stag is Bambis dad, he's the main Stag
Cinderella "1950" is my all time favorite Disney cartoon. You should definitely check it out if you haven't yet.
Bambi my number six of my top favorites
Kids movies used to be impactful and meant something because they took what's hard about life and made it understandable. Disney used to be magical and take pride in it's artists. How the mighty have fallen.
18:28 You would probably love the game Deer Avenger. It's silly, but it's revenge for Bambi.
There is a second Bambi movie it’s called Bambi 2 it’s about Bambi getting to know his father the great prince.
Im pretty sure Bami was a Whitetailed deer but i could be wrong because his dad definitely had the maine of an elk 😂 never noticed that until now 😂
11:43 that made a lot of children sad the first time, Walt Disney showed this movie to his daughter first before showing it on the movie theaters. Speaking of traumatizing 😢
24:21 😂
P.S: I like your blouse
Jax, see, this is why I can't watch your reaction to Braveheart ... it killed ME to watch it, and I can't bear to see YOU go through that. However, I love this story and knew you would "get through the bad stuff" because ... again, like "the circle of life", life would renew again in this story, and they made it beautiful and with a happy ending. So, what I'm saying is, when I NEED to feel warm, funny, excited about something, I come here to watch your reactions. I watch a LOT of reactions and have limited time, but you are truly a treasure and a guilty pleasure so, I always make sure I find time to grab one of your reactions.
Oops, I almost forgot to mention one of my favorite scenes (that you didn't show here) ... when Bambi first tries to walk, and Thumper says "Kind of wobbly, aint he?".