This episode stays true to the original Felix Sultan book.

It contains violence and intense situations some listeners might not find suitable.

Oh, and there might be some sudden gunfire, okay?

So trigger warning. Get get it gun fire trigger warning yeah

discretion advised Christ. Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins episode 11b, Bambi part 2. I'm going to be here. In the last episode, well, you know what happened.

Few moments in American cinema stick with people from their youth through adulthood as much as the death of Bambi's mother.

It is the scene that had the single greatest effect on the public.

This murder, caused by an off-screen hunter, is handled as carefully and artfully as possible.

We didn't see anything, not even a hint of the gruesome aftermath, just the

echoing sound of a rifle. Then, the young Bambi was roughly told by his largely

absentee father, the great prince of the forest that his mother

can't be with him anymore.

In the book, I can't say that Bambi's mother getting killed comes as much of a surprise. Speaking for myself, if I had never seen the movie before reading

the book, I wouldn't have been overly shocked. I mean who's gone in that book already? There's a mouse we never

learned the name of, a squirrel, friend Hare's son and his wife are both dead,

not to mention all the pheasants that were shot out of the sky.

Bambi's cousin Gobo was gone, so you kind of see it coming in the book.

Also in the book, Bambi's mother was pushing him away, preparing him for a solitary life in the

woods, where in Disney's version, Bambi is more vulnerable and totally dependent on her. the Disney had considered showing the mother's death on screen, with Bambi later returning to find her impression in the snow where the hunters had dragged away her carcass.

He finally decided that that would have been too much for movie audiences.

It's still an emotionally compelling scene,

and even one of Disney's daughters chastised him for allowing Bambi's mother

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