[HPforGrownups] Re: Bambi/Hunting (formerly Peter Pan)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4786

Alix Petty wrote:

> Oh crikey - I finally watched this film aged 22 and worried my entire family
> by bursting into copious floods of tears on Christmas Day.  When they
> enquired what was wrong, I answered 'They've killed Bambi's mother, wah!'

Actually, I feel very emotionally manipulated by that whole scenario, because
Bambi stays the same size, with the same markings, for months and months.
They're eating new spring grass when she's shot, for Pete's sake, and Bambi was
born the previous spring, and here's this tiny fawn with spots still. Jeez. He'd
be at least eight months old, probably older, almost her size, and well along
with losing his spots (if any were left, in fact). But they left him teeny for
the emotional impact. Then boom, he grows up and has antlers. A couple months
later, it's full-blown Spring, and here's this buck where the little spotted
fawn was. In the book, there's a gap of a couple of years, but given Thumper and
Flower, and their inexperience with females and such, it has to be the next
year. Boy, those deer grow up fast. Rrrrrr.

--Amanda