Now I can finally come out and say that I absolutely ADORED your review of the incredibly dark, but beautiful original story of Bambi. I couldn't have possibly agreed more when you made the suggestion that some major animation studio should make *THAT* version of Bambi! I'd ALWAYS loved the original novel ever since I was in High School. That's why I thoroughly enjoyed your review: every single name (Ronno, Karus, Gobo) and dark moment (the fox and the hunting dog, the dead human at the end) you talked about, I already knew. ^_^ My only little nitpick was that you got the original German printing's year wrong. It's 192*3*, not '22. But other than that, your review was spot-on and beautiful. In fact, and I don't often confess this sort of thing, but when you made that parallel at the end about how sometimes going it alone can feel like the better option, that hit so close to home to me that I almost cried. I too have been hurt a lot in life, having Aspergers and all, and I feel that isolating myself is the best way to avoid being hurt. :( But to avoid this ending on a sad note, I just wanna say keep up the beautiful reviews, and I look forward to the day you finally compare Robert Bloch's and Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" with each other! Take care!
Disney owns the film rights however and I heard that Salten, the same year the film was released, reluctantly sold the rights to the character’s name desperately needing money due to having been exiled in Switzerland with Nazis annexing his home of Austria. In where others can’t use rights to the brand name.
Seconded for the sentiment of this comment. I'm also an aspie and reading this after college and being alone after a long string of loss really hit home.
The death of Bambi's mother of course that was referenced in Animaniacs. "Bumbie's mom, she's (crying)." -Skippy. "Fade out already we got the joke." -Slappy.
I remember reading the book when I was in 7th grade, and I honestly don't remember a lot from it since it was nearly 6 years ago but I remember being astounded at how dark the tone was in comparison to the movie. It's a gritty, realistic take on life and death in nature and it's definitely not suitable at all for young children. Now that Bambi is in the public domain, it'll be interesting to see if there's any more faithful adaptations that come out.
If the public domain status of the novel means what I think it means, then yes I agree with you. I hope to see more accurate adaptations of the novel in the future. Good ones. Although there is the possibility of Disney's lawyers getting involved.
Disney does own the trademark to Bambi last I heard. Given what is happening with Zorro and Tarzan (two more examples of trademarked yet public domain entities), it is hard but doable. The Zorro trademark has been invalidated in Europe, for one. Disney are pretty litigious, anyway.
I actually enjoyed the Felix salten's book for its real life attitude. There was a real movie off of salten's book let's just say we don't speak of it.
@@Jaimetud honestly I have enjoyed a few of your "From Pages to Pictures" videos. I'm sure they take a lot of work to put together though but if you enjoy doing them I would love to watch them!
Only thing I wouldn't keep from the book if there was to be a faithful adaptation to the book is having Bambi and Faline cousins. Better to have them unrelated.
I am so fortunate, to have discovered your channel today. Watching your review of James and the giant peach.. subscribed and thought to myself what a great guy. Totally looking forward tomorrow if your videos
What a great review Jamie, thanks for doing a review on my favorite book and cartoon, simply timeless and indescribable. So many people do not know about the book, and the sequel Bambi's Children. I wish Disney would make a film of the sequel, it is so thought provoking and witty, definitely worth a read, I own both as hardcovers and also digital scans on my HDD, drop me aline if you'd want a read. I don't understand how so many people thought Flower was a girl, Thumper says "He's a little .... [Skunk]" right off at the beginning - so funny! Also, everyone gets so stressed about Bambi's mother getting shot, I think parents worry about it more than it affects the children lol. It was sad yes, but somehow it never bothered me extremely, things like that aren't a super big deal at that ages. I saw a funny comment under the cartoon "3 Little Pigs", in the cartoon there was a picture on the wall of some link sausage with "Father" written under it ..... someone commented "that's dark".......... lol, well in a way yes, but in another way it's just a funny joke, I mean lighten up, it's a cartoon lol! Anyway Jamie, hope you enjoyed this (long) comment, I certainly enjoyed your review, anything to do with Bambi is great with me (I'm a guy too lol). Keep up the good work Jamie - Cheers!~ Bellarmine
@@Jaimetud Be my pleasure. There was a German translation available on the web for a while, which I found intriguing to translate directly to English (gauranteed unabridged lol), but it's gone now. I have both the German AND English on my HDD, I can send you a copy for your reading pleasure. You can either reach me at my "About" page under "Business Inquires", or my email is the same as my username without the 33, followed by Rogers and Com. Look forward to talking soon and thanks for your work Jamie! Bellarmine
8 deaths? ...huh. Going from what I've heard of this story, I expected it to have as big of a body count as Countdown. Then again, most of the characters that get killed off aren't background fodder.
I'm a Huge Disney fan and I love all the movies like I love now because I change loving on the movie I love Bambi definitely, Lady and the Tramp, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Aladdin.
This is the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was a little kid. It was on re release. I knew it was from a book but have never found any evidence of the book. I'm not sure if I was in first grade yet. Probably but not sure. My birth years in my user name so you do the calculations. I loved it. the music was catchy, like especially April Showers, and the art is gorgeous.
May also the woman who, as a 15 year old, voiced Faline as an adult in the fist movie, who’s final film role was as Poole’s mother in 2001 A Space Odyssey. rest in peace ...
19:47 no thanks, it’s not that bad, I once researched a children’s book called wings of fire, without knowing that family fantasy books were messed up and got a lot of disturbing images put in to my head! OH NO BAMBI IS IN PAIN DOES NOT DO ANYTHING FOR ME!
Ngl, the death of Mr.Hares wife scared me when I first read it. Not sure which version I read, but she was shot and was laughing hysterically. I don't know why, but the idea she was laughing while she was DYING scared me
As a kid, I was never sure what the danger was until I was older. It terrified me to death, and I gotta say not knowing what the danger looks like affects the tone a ton. Still terrifying today.
There's a story about how Walt Disney originally wanted to show some dead humans after the forest fire scene, showing that the fire the hunters themselves had carelessly caused had caught them, but he was talked out of the idea by an animator who asked "How do you want them? Medium or well done?"
That would have been a great way to have the movie really end on on a dark note. Just have all the animals roast the humans on a barbecue and iris out on that :-P
Land before time may have borrowed some plot material from Bambi but land before time was better even though I doesn’t have the musical moments and the inaccuracy dinosaurs I like the land before time more then Bambi.
I had a very similar experience with the book when I first read in in tender age of 10. _Disney had lied to me!_ And that's how I started watching anime instead.
Did you know that there was a trailer of Bambi 2 where the title was initially called "Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest?" I actually like that long title more than "Bambi 2" since it makes more sense to what the story of the movie is about. I'm disappointed that it's hard to find copies of "Bambi's Children in English nowadays, unless someone had miracle powers.
I was lucky because I found a copy of Bambi's Children at a library book sale. I am grateful to have several Salten books including Perri,Fifteen Rabbits,Bambi,Bambi's Children and A Hound of Florence.
I'm also lucky to own many of Felix Salten's books - Bambi, Bambi's Children, Fifteen Rabbits, Perri, A Hound of Florence, City Jungle, Florian the Emperor's Stallion, Renni the Rescuer, A Forest World, and Djibi. I love them all. The first 3 I have in older illustrated hardcovers with DJs by Grosset and Dunlap - beautiful. The English translation of Bambi's Children is both thought-provoking and witty. It was somewhat rewritten during the translation, it was released first, before the German original, due to Felix Salten being in exile at the time. I actually found the German translation and translated it in Google Translate, and it reads a bit differently. Quite interesting doing that, getting the author's original words and sending it through a crude but direct translation - gauranteed no abridgements - intriguing! There is also a comic book adaption of Bambi's Children, it is nearly as good as the original book, with much taken word-for-word, and the pictures are very nice. I have the Bambi and Bambi's Children books, translations and comics on my HDD if you or anyone else is interested in seeing what I mean - drop me a line. Cheers!~ Bellarmine
i love this review a lot. i love hearing the differences between Disney's Bambi and the novel. It was a fascinating review and i also like Bambi 2 better than the original Bambi. Excellent review Jaimetud.
Oh i notice something with the diffrences of both book and film Bambi in the orginal book was a roe deer a deer mostly knowen in austria however in the movie hes a white tailed deer and the reason for the change is because white tailed deer are more well knowen to north american audince
Great Review! One thing you could have pointed out is the changes that come with the Disney movie being set in America. Since it is actually a big plotpoint in the book (the original german that is) that there are two different species of deer in the forest. Bambi belongs to the much smaller one and he and his kind are quite afraid of the big deers. In fact the illustrations in the book you have look just like these "big deer" (Rothirsch in the original book in your book probably "Elk") whereas the original Bambi is a Roe deer and supposed to look like this: bilder.t-online.de/b/70/43/71/10/id_70437110/610/tid_da/nur-maennliche-rehe-boecke-genannt-tragen-ein-geweih.jpg
The trickiest part of a movie company doing a movie closer to the Bambi book is that Disney owns the brand name of Bambi. Then again there are other book adaptations that had been by Disney, but other companies have also done their versions of those adaptations as well. I wonder how they managed to handle that.
Master Chief58 we'll see about that. Remember we also have another Jungle Book movie coming out later this year from Warner Brothers that's nothing like the Disney version.
Jaimetud, well I heard Disney ended up owning the rights to the Bambi name the same year the film was released with Felix Salten living in exile in Switzerland due to Nazis annexing his home in Austria and was in desperate need of money. This video explains this: ua-cam.com/video/PauK8qIjbX4/v-deo.html
Wondering if I'm going mad here but isn't this half Bambi score and half Land Before Time score? xD think I remember seeing this video upon its realease and you acually inspired me to read Bambi, I've still got it in my book collection today :)
Mr Jaimetud , I enjoy your videos very much and I would love it if you could do a book/film comparison video for 'Eragon' by Christopher Paolini and and "How to train your Dragon' by Cressida Cowell, since you haven't uploaded new videos to the channel for a long time.
Nathan Webb thank you very much for your support over the years I will definitely consider those meanwhile I have several other episodes lined up it's just that my day job is taking up a lot of my time now thank you for your patience
How “non-human” does a victim of the “Bambi Effect” perception have to be? Because I get this around a human-looking character for sure. Edit: Just a few days ago (November 3rd, 2022), I was “Bambi Effected” by a human character in a film I watched. Oddly enough, that film also had a deer in it.
The things that I heard about this book and its sequel "Bambi's Children," are very messed. Animals dying in very, gruesome ways (including fawns, edit: I was wrong), a hunter being killed by another human, an excessive body count, and cousin to cousin incest (though no one points out how wrong and messed up that is, which makes me question whether or not that's a normal thing with deer, though, given that it happens again in the sequel, that's a possibility). The sequel is apparently worse, with even gorier deaths and a mating scene.
Hey! Loved your video. I like how you went into depth with it and found some parts funny! Just wondering where you got the book that was illustrated by Michael J. Woods and that exact book cover. Could you send a link of it? Would be much appreciated. Thank you
@@Jaimetud Oh why thank you so much for your quick response and answer! I'm actually watching your Guardians of Ga'Hoole review since I remember reading the books and loving the movie.
@@Jaimetud Have you perhaps done a review about Watership Down yet? That's my favorite book and I can't stand the newer adaptation from Netflix/BBC. Please let me know if you do. I would like to find it
I hate the idea of humans being portrayed as gods, personally. Also, I loved the sequel too. Maybe not more than the original - I actually quite like when a movie set in a place as beautiful as the forest in Bambi takes its time to appreciate the scenery and whatnot - but I did like it just as much, but for different reasons; the reasons that you stated. See, I don't think the themes were quite as stand out, and I feel like some of the scenes looked a bit more interesting in the original, but not by much, which in turn was balanced out by the second movies improvement on the interactions and relationships among the characters. I don't think I would have liked the novel - generally I hate stories that are as unsatisfying as what you spoke of. Only times when I was alright with this amount of depressing stuff were Watership Down, Chase the Wind, Kaspar: Prince of Cats, and Dawn Flight. Books like The Dancing Bear, Born to Run and many other sob stories did nothing more than made me wish I'd never picked up the book. I feel like stories should have a balance, probably because when I'm down the last thing I want is to read a story that is just depression on a page.
Disney is now confirmed to do a live action remake..... they better use the 1923 plot source material from the book.. I love the movie.. but the book is very strong and dark
There had been cases though of English translations toning down the books for children and Felix Salten expressed annoyance over this. Who knows what he thought about the film.
The book is mouldy trash, and there is good reason it's hard to find it. The Disney movie is both a masterpiece and a glorious insult to the book and its writer. And the sequel is cute and pointless. I didn't think I would like Bambi 2 but the artwork keeps up with the original and I liked the father and son moments. The original is still...historic. It's pure art and perfection from start to finish.
@@Jaimetud You know how people say Bambi doesn't have a plot and it's a bunch of fluff, but that's not really the case and only true on a surface level? Wellllllllll Bambi's children... really is a plotless book of fluff, without depth under the surface. Felix had something meaningful to say in each chapter of Bambi, but in Bambi's Children the things just happen with no apparent meaning. Oh, and Bambi turns into a Gary Stu, spouting moralizing speeches that sound like it came from the author's mouth and not the character we know, and he turns back on the theme of ending up alone by having Bambi and Faline living happily with their kids until they grow up. And humans are no longer "Him" and we get scenes from their perspective, and there's a game warden, and some snotty 13 year old on his first hunting trip that gets rammed by Bambi (probably even killed?!??!?!) and the forest animals chant about how great he is for steamrolling a human kid. And Bambi's daughter gets stuck on a farm like Gobo and there's this tied up owl character, but they get her out... somehow... and there's some side plot with a wolf getting let loose in the woods, but so much of the book is forgettable that I don't remember how that got resolved. And the "third hand" is called the "thunderstick," removing another element of mystery from the original. And... they have a feud with some other deer family... or something. It's much ado about nothing.
@@Jaimetud It's the literary equivalent of a troll in central park. Bambi's children and Harry Potter and the cursed child are the worst books (oops, I mean 1 book and one script for a play) for the same reason: they attempt to extend a story that was finished and shit on their predecessor while doing it.
I disagree. I own and read both Bambi and Bambi's Children, and both are great books in their own right. The English translation of Bambi's Children is both thought-provoking and witty. It was somewhat rewritten during the translation, it was released first, before the German original, due to Felix Salten being in exile at the time. I actually found the German translation and translated it in Google Translate, and it reads a bit differently. Quite interesting doing that, getting the author's original words and sending it through a crude but direct translation - gauranteed no abridgements - intriguing! As for the comic book adaption, it is nearly as good as the original book, with much taken word-for-word, and the pictures are very nice. I have all these books and translations on my HDD if anyone is interested in seeing what I mean. Cheers!~ Bellarmine
Now I can finally come out and say that I absolutely ADORED your review of the incredibly dark, but beautiful original story of Bambi. I couldn't have possibly agreed more when you made the suggestion that some major animation studio should make *THAT* version of Bambi!
I'd ALWAYS loved the original novel ever since I was in High School. That's why I thoroughly enjoyed your review: every single name (Ronno, Karus, Gobo) and dark moment (the fox and the hunting dog, the dead human at the end) you talked about, I already knew. ^_^
My only little nitpick was that you got the original German printing's year wrong. It's 192*3*, not '22. But other than that, your review was spot-on and beautiful.
In fact, and I don't often confess this sort of thing, but when you made that parallel at the end about how sometimes going it alone can feel like the better option, that hit so close to home to me that I almost cried. I too have been hurt a lot in life, having Aspergers and all, and I feel that isolating myself is the best way to avoid being hurt. :(
But to avoid this ending on a sad note, I just wanna say keep up the beautiful reviews, and I look forward to the day you finally compare Robert Bloch's and Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" with each other! Take care!
Disney owns the film rights however and I heard that Salten, the same year the film was released, reluctantly sold the rights to the character’s name desperately needing money due to having been exiled in Switzerland with Nazis annexing his home of Austria. In where others can’t use rights to the brand name.
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Seconded for the sentiment of this comment. I'm also an aspie and reading this after college and being alone after a long string of loss really hit home.
Bambi is now officially in the public domain in the US, let's freaking go
I'm loving all this land before time music.
little foots mom scene gets me too.......😥
If they do try to adapt Bambi more loyally, I think it should be by the company that did Watership Down.
You including those two titles in the same comment gave me a truly special writing idea
Estaba viendo cosas de esa peli de las lechuzas, (que tiene libros) y podrían darle el mismo tratamiento que Watership Down.
This is the most indepth Review of a beloved classic I've ever seen
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Picture this: Bambi, The Animated Novel.
The death of Bambi's mother of course that was referenced in Animaniacs. "Bumbie's mom, she's (crying)." -Skippy. "Fade out already we got the joke." -Slappy.
The death of Bambi's mother was nothing to joke about, especially in the so-called "Animaniacs"!! Seriously . . . what's wrong with you?!
Disney sucks shit!
I remember reading the book when I was in 7th grade, and I honestly don't remember a lot from it since it was nearly 6 years ago but I remember being astounded at how dark the tone was in comparison to the movie. It's a gritty, realistic take on life and death in nature and it's definitely not suitable at all for young children. Now that Bambi is in the public domain, it'll be interesting to see if there's any more faithful adaptations that come out.
If the public domain status of the novel means what I think it means, then yes I agree with you. I hope to see more accurate adaptations of the novel in the future. Good ones. Although there is the possibility of Disney's lawyers getting involved.
That's what I'm hoping as well, but you never know with Disney's lawyers. They might try to keep an iron fist on the movie rights.
Disney does own the trademark to Bambi last I heard. Given what is happening with Zorro and Tarzan (two more examples of trademarked yet public domain entities), it is hard but doable. The Zorro trademark has been invalidated in Europe, for one. Disney are pretty litigious, anyway.
I read "Two hours later" like the French narrator from SpongeBob.
"This story blew me away!" - Bambi
@Two Tone He never said that.
@@acspectator8636 sorry, it was a shot in the dark.
I actually enjoyed the Felix salten's book for its real life attitude. There was a real movie off of salten's book let's just say we don't speak of it.
Bambi is a rarity for me:A Disney movie that I liked as well as the book.
I really enjoy your videos and how you go over multiple takes of the material and really explore it.
Thank you. Would you like to see me continue doing this?
@@Jaimetud honestly I have enjoyed a few of your "From Pages to Pictures" videos. I'm sure they take a lot of work to put together though but if you enjoy doing them I would love to watch them!
Only thing I wouldn't keep from the book if there was to be a faithful adaptation to the book is having Bambi and Faline cousins. Better to have them unrelated.
No Noobs of course
Agreed.
I agree. I wouldn't keep them as cousins.
His reactions to the cuddly characters getting killed in the book are hilarious.
PS: I like the second film more than the first too.
I am so fortunate, to have discovered your channel today. Watching your review of James and the giant peach.. subscribed and thought to myself what a great guy. Totally looking forward tomorrow if your videos
New favorite UA-cam intro
I read the book when much younger and i loved it!
17:57 no! Why is someone treating someone else like a pet.
Edit: I thought him meant a deer.
What a great review Jamie, thanks for doing a review on my favorite book and cartoon, simply timeless and indescribable. So many people do not know about the book, and the sequel Bambi's Children. I wish Disney would make a film of the sequel, it is so thought provoking and witty, definitely worth a read, I own both as hardcovers and also digital scans on my HDD, drop me aline if you'd want a read. I don't understand how so many people thought Flower was a girl, Thumper says "He's a little .... [Skunk]" right off at the beginning - so funny! Also, everyone gets so stressed about Bambi's mother getting shot, I think parents worry about it more than it affects the children lol. It was sad yes, but somehow it never bothered me extremely, things like that aren't a super big deal at that ages. I saw a funny comment under the cartoon "3 Little Pigs", in the cartoon there was a picture on the wall of some link sausage with "Father" written under it ..... someone commented "that's dark".......... lol, well in a way yes, but in another way it's just a funny joke, I mean lighten up, it's a cartoon lol! Anyway Jamie, hope you enjoyed this (long) comment, I certainly enjoyed your review, anything to do with Bambi is great with me (I'm a guy too lol). Keep up the good work Jamie - Cheers!~ Bellarmine
I never got to read Bambi's children. If you could link me up to some sort of digital download I'd love to read it
@@Jaimetud Be my pleasure. There was a German translation available on the web for a while, which I found intriguing to translate directly to English (gauranteed unabridged lol), but it's gone now. I have both the German AND English on my HDD, I can send you a copy for your reading pleasure. You can either reach me at my "About" page under "Business Inquires", or my email is the same as my username without the 33, followed by Rogers and Com. Look forward to talking soon and thanks for your work Jamie! Bellarmine
8 deaths? ...huh. Going from what I've heard of this story, I expected it to have as big of a body count as Countdown. Then again, most of the characters that get killed off aren't background fodder.
I'm a Huge Disney fan and I love all the movies like I love now because I change loving on the movie I love Bambi definitely, Lady and the Tramp, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Aladdin.
This is the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was a little kid. It was on re release. I knew it was from a book but have never found any evidence of the book. I'm not sure if I was in first grade yet. Probably but not sure. My birth years in my user name so you do the calculations. I loved it. the music was catchy, like especially April Showers, and the art is gorgeous.
I’m planning on getting the book for my birthday cause I’m interested in this story
May the woman who, as a girl, voiced Faline as a fawn in the first movie, also known as Bonnie Blue in _Gone with the Wind_, rest in peace.
May also the woman who, as a 15 year old, voiced Faline as an adult in the fist movie, who’s final film role was as Poole’s mother in 2001 A Space Odyssey. rest in peace ...
19:47 no thanks, it’s not that bad, I once researched a children’s book called wings of fire, without knowing that family fantasy books were messed up and got a lot of disturbing images put in to my head! OH NO BAMBI IS IN PAIN DOES NOT DO ANYTHING FOR ME!
Ngl, the death of Mr.Hares wife scared me when I first read it. Not sure which version I read, but she was shot and was laughing hysterically. I don't know why, but the idea she was laughing while she was DYING scared me
As a kid, I was never sure what the danger was until I was older. It terrified me to death, and I gotta say not knowing what the danger looks like affects the tone a ton. Still terrifying today.
There's a story about how Walt Disney originally wanted to show some dead humans after the forest fire scene, showing that the fire the hunters themselves had carelessly caused had caught them, but he was talked out of the idea by an animator who asked "How do you want them? Medium or well done?"
That would have been a great way to have the movie really end on on a dark note. Just have all the animals roast the humans on a barbecue and iris out on that :-P
What I appreciate about the book version of Bambi is how it is more accurate to deer life in the real world.
I will admit, I know about the novel`s existence but I was hesitant to look for it. This video should be interesting to see.
At least when Chirin from "Ringing Bell," ended up alone, it was punishment for everything he did, WHAT DID BAMBI DO TO DESERVE THIS!?
notice how The Land Before Time is the soundtrack for BAMBI!!!!!!
+lilah philips Holy Crap.
Land before time may have borrowed some plot material from Bambi but land before time was better even though I doesn’t have the musical moments and the inaccuracy dinosaurs I like the land before time more then Bambi.
I had a very similar experience with the book when I first read in in tender age of 10. _Disney had lied to me!_
And that's how I started watching anime instead.
I have an idea about the movie's theme. What about loss of innocence? Bambi's mother dying is his first exposure to death
Sonusing the land before time score throughout the recap and review eh? Nice
Did you know that there was a trailer of Bambi 2 where the title was initially called "Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest?" I actually like that long title more than "Bambi 2" since it makes more sense to what the story of the movie is about. I'm disappointed that it's hard to find copies of "Bambi's Children in English nowadays, unless someone had miracle powers.
I was lucky because I found a copy of Bambi's Children at a library book sale. I am grateful to have several Salten books including Perri,Fifteen Rabbits,Bambi,Bambi's Children and A Hound of Florence.
I'm also lucky to own many of Felix Salten's books - Bambi, Bambi's Children, Fifteen Rabbits, Perri, A Hound of Florence, City Jungle, Florian the Emperor's Stallion, Renni the Rescuer, A Forest World, and Djibi. I love them all. The first 3 I have in older illustrated hardcovers with DJs by Grosset and Dunlap - beautiful. The English translation of Bambi's Children is both thought-provoking and witty. It was somewhat rewritten during the translation, it was released first, before the German original, due to Felix Salten being in exile at the time. I actually found the German translation and translated it in Google Translate, and it reads a bit differently. Quite interesting doing that, getting the author's original words and sending it through a crude but direct translation - gauranteed no abridgements - intriguing! There is also a comic book adaption of Bambi's Children, it is nearly as good as the original book, with much taken word-for-word, and the pictures are very nice. I have the Bambi and Bambi's Children books, translations and comics on my HDD if you or anyone else is interested in seeing what I mean - drop me a line. Cheers!~ Bellarmine
I really love your video. Great job!
Can you do Watership down? It's also a book that later on got a movie version.
I've actually thought about that one. Also feel free to visit my patreon page
I love Bambi for its story and music question can you do page to picture review on the hunchback of Notre dame
The most illogical and irrelevant comment ever.
i love this review a lot. i love hearing the differences between Disney's Bambi and the novel. It was a fascinating review and i also like Bambi 2 better than the original Bambi. Excellent review Jaimetud.
I just finished reading the book today and...THERES A SEQUEL?
Eyyup. Also existing in the same universe by the same author: Perri, the Youth of a Squirrel.
@@Jaimetud Perri was also adapted by Disney as a "True-Life Adventure" film.
@@gamestation2690 I did see that. That was an interesting experiment
@@Jaimetud Bambi even has a cameo in it!
@@gamestation2690 Yup, good ole stock footage Bambi had a cameo. I remember that :-P
Do the Fox and the Hound. That one is juicy.
Bambi, animal Game of Thrones
Oh i notice something with the diffrences of both book and film
Bambi in the orginal book was a roe deer a deer mostly knowen in austria however in the movie hes a white tailed deer and the reason for the change is because white tailed deer are more well knowen to north american audince
Never saw Bambi 2
Great Review! One thing you could have pointed out is the changes that come with the Disney movie being set in America. Since it is actually a big plotpoint in the book (the original german that is) that there are two different species of deer in the forest. Bambi belongs to the much smaller one and he and his kind are quite afraid of the big deers. In fact the illustrations in the book you have look just like these "big deer" (Rothirsch in the original book in your book probably "Elk") whereas the original Bambi is a Roe deer and supposed to look like this: bilder.t-online.de/b/70/43/71/10/id_70437110/610/tid_da/nur-maennliche-rehe-boecke-genannt-tragen-ein-geweih.jpg
Is the original a kids book and if so, why are family fantasy novels as blood filled as jojo’s bizarre adventure
The trickiest part of a movie company doing a movie closer to the Bambi book is that Disney owns the brand name of Bambi. Then again there are other book adaptations that had been by Disney, but other companies have also done their versions of those adaptations as well. I wonder how they managed to handle that.
Master Chief58 we'll see about that. Remember we also have another Jungle Book movie coming out later this year from Warner Brothers that's nothing like the Disney version.
Jaimetud, well I heard Disney ended up owning the rights to the Bambi name the same year the film was released with Felix Salten living in exile in Switzerland due to Nazis annexing his home in Austria and was in desperate need of money. This video explains this: ua-cam.com/video/PauK8qIjbX4/v-deo.html
For years I thought Flower was a girl....
Wondering if I'm going mad here but isn't this half Bambi score and half Land Before Time score? xD think I remember seeing this video upon its realease and you acually inspired me to read Bambi, I've still got it in my book collection today :)
Yes I did use the Land Before Time score here. It just sounded good 😊
Mr Jaimetud , I enjoy your videos very much and I would love it if you could do a book/film comparison video for 'Eragon' by Christopher Paolini and and "How to train your Dragon' by Cressida Cowell, since you haven't uploaded new videos to the channel for a long time.
Nathan Webb thank you very much for your support over the years I will definitely consider those meanwhile I have several other episodes lined up it's just that my day job is taking up a lot of my time now thank you for your patience
There was also a Soviet Russian version of Winnie the Pooh.
It is a cartoon where the characters supposedly sprout collectivist propaganda.
thank to you i have read the both and it great
maybe the old stag is bambi's grandfather
How “non-human” does a victim of the “Bambi Effect” perception have to be? Because I get this around a human-looking character for sure.
Edit: Just a few days ago (November 3rd, 2022), I was “Bambi Effected” by a human character in a film I watched. Oddly enough, that film also had a deer in it.
The things that I heard about this book and its sequel "Bambi's Children," are very messed. Animals dying in very, gruesome ways (including fawns, edit: I was wrong), a hunter being killed by another human, an excessive body count, and cousin to cousin incest (though no one points out how wrong and messed up that is, which makes me question whether or not that's a normal thing with deer, though, given that it happens again in the sequel, that's a possibility). The sequel is apparently worse, with even gorier deaths and a mating scene.
*ArE yOu SuRe YoUr ReAdY tO mAtE???* also I only have the 1st book because of that.
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Land before time was more interesting then Bambi
Hey! Loved your video. I like how you went into depth with it and found some parts funny!
Just wondering where you got the book that was illustrated by Michael J. Woods and that exact book cover. Could you send a link of it? Would be much appreciated. Thank you
I got it from my local library. Both of them.
@@Jaimetud Oh why thank you so much for your quick response and answer! I'm actually watching your Guardians of Ga'Hoole review since I remember reading the books and loving the movie.
@@Jaimetud Have you perhaps done a review about Watership Down yet? That's my favorite book and I can't stand the newer adaptation from Netflix/BBC. Please let me know if you do. I would like to find it
@@kittycatwild9283 fifty bucks on my patreon and I will gladly do that. It's a classic.
@@Jaimetud I would if I could! Can't though, I'm broke atm. Hope you come around to it eventually!
Do you have a link for the book
Try your local library
Please do vampires assistant and eragon
Faline had little screen time in the first film even as a fawn.
I hate the idea of humans being portrayed as gods, personally.
Also, I loved the sequel too. Maybe not more than the original - I actually quite like when a movie set in a place as beautiful as the forest in Bambi takes its time to appreciate the scenery and whatnot - but I did like it just as much, but for different reasons; the reasons that you stated. See, I don't think the themes were quite as stand out, and I feel like some of the scenes looked a bit more interesting in the original, but not by much, which in turn was balanced out by the second movies improvement on the interactions and relationships among the characters.
I don't think I would have liked the novel - generally I hate stories that are as unsatisfying as what you spoke of. Only times when I was alright with this amount of depressing stuff were Watership Down, Chase the Wind, Kaspar: Prince of Cats, and Dawn Flight. Books like The Dancing Bear, Born to Run and many other sob stories did nothing more than made me wish I'd never picked up the book. I feel like stories should have a balance, probably because when I'm down the last thing I want is to read a story that is just depression on a page.
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Why do you remind me of Matt Damon with a Custer goatee?
What's the musical piece at the end that was a teaser for war of the worlds?
That's the opening to Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds
@@Jaimetud thank you! Have a wonderful day!
Disney is now confirmed to do a live action remake..... they better use the 1923 plot source material from the book..
I love the movie.. but the book is very strong and dark
Also, the original book was for adults.
There had been cases though of English translations toning down the books for children and Felix Salten expressed annoyance over this. Who knows what he thought about the film.
28:40 I Fully Agree !
Lotta folks seem to agree with me on this over the years. Maybe I should do it ;-)
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What's a "metro character" anyone?
Metrosexual: a person who behaves stereotypically gay or lesbian but is actually straight.
Oh. Thank you
The more I know. XD
24:40-24:50 >D Just so funny.
8:58 i guess you could have called him sexually curious. a romantic on all sides till his "scale" was set in place.
You can't be serious... Even Bambi isn't an original Disney story?!
I know this comment is old as fuck but...
Disney's first "original" story was The Lion King. If that.
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Lady and the Tramp was a composite of two stories, at least.
Thumper dies in the book
Hahaha this was great
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The book is mouldy trash, and there is good reason it's hard to find it. The Disney movie is both a masterpiece and a glorious insult to the book and its writer. And the sequel is cute and pointless. I didn't think I would like Bambi 2 but the artwork keeps up with the original and I liked the father and son moments. The original is still...historic. It's pure art and perfection from start to finish.
I read Bambi's children. It's a pile of crap.
How bad are we talking?
@@Jaimetud You know how people say Bambi doesn't have a plot and it's a bunch of fluff, but that's not really the case and only true on a surface level? Wellllllllll Bambi's children... really is a plotless book of fluff, without depth under the surface. Felix had something meaningful to say in each chapter of Bambi, but in Bambi's Children the things just happen with no apparent meaning. Oh, and Bambi turns into a Gary Stu, spouting moralizing speeches that sound like it came from the author's mouth and not the character we know, and he turns back on the theme of ending up alone by having Bambi and Faline living happily with their kids until they grow up. And humans are no longer "Him" and we get scenes from their perspective, and there's a game warden, and some snotty 13 year old on his first hunting trip that gets rammed by Bambi (probably even killed?!??!?!) and the forest animals chant about how great he is for steamrolling a human kid. And Bambi's daughter gets stuck on a farm like Gobo and there's this tied up owl character, but they get her out... somehow... and there's some side plot with a wolf getting let loose in the woods, but so much of the book is forgettable that I don't remember how that got resolved. And the "third hand" is called the "thunderstick," removing another element of mystery from the original. And... they have a feud with some other deer family... or something. It's much ado about nothing.
@@VikingBoyBilly Sounds like the Disney comic adaptation of "Bambi's Children" wins over that....
@@Jaimetud It's the literary equivalent of a troll in central park. Bambi's children and Harry Potter and the cursed child are the worst books (oops, I mean 1 book and one script for a play) for the same reason: they attempt to extend a story that was finished and shit on their predecessor while doing it.
I disagree. I own and read both Bambi and Bambi's Children, and both are great books in their own right. The English translation of Bambi's Children is both thought-provoking and witty. It was somewhat rewritten during the translation, it was released first, before the German original, due to Felix Salten being in exile at the time. I actually found the German translation and translated it in Google Translate, and it reads a bit differently. Quite interesting doing that, getting the author's original words and sending it through a crude but direct translation - gauranteed no abridgements - intriguing! As for the comic book adaption, it is nearly as good as the original book, with much taken word-for-word, and the pictures are very nice. I have all these books and translations on my HDD if anyone is interested in seeing what I mean. Cheers!~ Bellarmine