Talk:Bambi (character)/@comment-33407275-20180507143717

"iconic"? you guys really mean to say that the fawn version of Bambi is just "overdone" cause it's true. Seriously, even from the start Disney barely intended to do much with the adult Bambi, but at the same time they ADULT Simba(a character similar to Bambi) share the spotlight with his younger cub self along with merchandise cause Disney logic :P. I've seen the movies first, but in the book the first movie was based on, Bambi was a fawn for around one third and for two thirds he was an adult with a more major focus he even interacted with the Old Prince more often while Great Prince was kinda underused in the film. Whereas in the movie they practically stretched his childhood long to make up nearly two thirds(they even removed several detail about his childhood from the book it couldn't have turned out as long as it actually did in this movie, but they still managed to kill time by adding needless scenes like the rain and ice skating, etc combined with a bit of slow pacing) to focus on his fawn self longer than they had to and cutting his adulthood to around a third(making up around 20 minutes AKA closing period for any movie) with a slightly minor focus(oh but they at least crammed in some great, but underrated moments such as his romance with Faline, his fights, having children becoming a parent himself and taking the Great Prince's place while standing proudly on a cliff). Not that this film had to be faithful more like I have problem with this fawn Bambi schtick even for a standalone. Needless to say they weren't planning to do as much with the adult Bambi. Now we're stuck with this overdone fawn especially for over 75 years where we see way too many DVD cover, posters, merchandise, pictures, etc(seeing all that is annoying) on just fawn Bambi. To add to the pain, someone(he's even the same guy who said to me "how much stag Bambi merchandise do you see?") told me that he believes that they choose to make Bambi 2 instead an adaptation of the Bambi's Children book just to feature fawn Bambi AGAIN. We even see him as a fawn in House of Mouse and Kingdom Hearts when he should've been older cause ADULT Simba was in those two as well. This is why I tend to skip parts of the first movie just to relive those underrated moments of his adulthood. I even still think his fawn version looks like a girl because he has long eyelashes, high pitched voice and overall feminine looking appearance. Book or movie I never even pictured Bambi as just little mama's boy, I picture him more of that developing stag who manages, learns from and succeeds the Old/Great Prince, ok mostly the book aims at that aspect, but still. Disney is just milking fawn Bambi for all those bright people still wasting their money on the merchandise. I'm actually ok nowadays whenever there are Bambi haters around who mostly aim at the fawn version of Bambi to make him a memetic loser that could've been avoided(but it's because Disney wanted to play around with him with all this needless colorful stuff especially by having slip while ice skating or even put a butterfly on his tail while doing a girly pose) for all I care now they actually do have the right to do that.