It was 1942. A gunshot and one of the saddest moments in animation history. However, rest assured, the mother of “Bambi” has returned in other films from the studio!
Princess Rapunzel invited to the coronation of Frozen, Scar’s skin placed on Hercules’ shoulders, Mrs Samovar and her children hidden in the camp of Tarzan’s explorers, or even a toy bearing the image of Dumbo stored in a store of Basil, private detective…
Historically, within the animated classics produced by Disney studios, it is common for a character to take a short turn in a film other than his own. Most of the time considered simple winks, these fun little cameos can also be taken much more seriously by theory enthusiasts.
Thanks to these easter eggs, some spectators readily imagine that Anna and Elsa are Tarzan’s big sisters, that all the characters in Pixar feature films evolve in a single universe, or even… that Bambi’s mother doesn’t wasn’t really killed by the hunters!
Walt Disney Animation Studios In “Merlin the Enchanter”
At the beginning of Merlin the Enchanter…
Indeed, as all fans of the enchanted studio undoubtedly know, several years after the traumatic sequence during which an irrevocable gunshot made her tragically disappear from the film, the mother of the little fawn has reappeared several times in the productions. Disney.
About twenty years after Bambi, in the first minutes of Merlin the Enchanter, we could indeed see the doe again on the edge of an English forest, while Kay (the adoptive brother of Moustique) put her in plays with his bow. This time, very fortunately, she managed to escape safely thanks to an unfortunate fall from young Arthur.
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In “The Jungle Book”
…and in three other films
Four years later, we saw her again in The Jungle Book, as the tiger Shere Kahn, lurking in the tall grass, was preparing to pounce on her. Here again, she was saved thanks to the trumpeting of Colonel Hathi.
In The Adventures of Bernard and Bianca, about ten years later, we could see her again alongside her little fawn (Bambi, so?), near Medusa’s paddle boat, during Penny’s song. Finally, in Beauty and the Beast, in 1991, she opened the film, so to speak, drinking from a stream in the very first shot of the feature film.
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In “The Adventures of Bernard and Bianca” and in “Beauty and the Beast”
Were these new, successive and repeated appearances inserted here by Disney artists in order to ward off the shocking disappearance of the character in Bambi? Could Internet theorists conclude that the hunters’ shot did not really kill the mother of the little fawn, and that she has, so to speak, survived through the studio’s other works (after all, unlike Mufasa, we’ve never seen her dead!)?
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