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Originally posted by paigowprincess
I won't ask why you were watching Bambi.
I distinctly remember watching that movie at the age of six and I brought the subject up with my mum recently. She said, there was no way that I would have taken you to that sadistic movie. Well, somebody did.
Why would the fine folks of Disney create such a vile little flick? Is it anti-gun or something?
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To say it's anti-gun would be a post hoc justification for it. Sadistic is a good word.
I didn't watch the whole thing -- it was on ABC on Sunday night, I think, and I was channel-surfing while waiting for a craving to be lovingly delivered. I had never seen the movie before, and wouidn't you know it, I happened upon it precisely at the beginning of the dreadful scene. When the ominous music started I should have changed the channel, but I was transfixed -- and I didn't expect it to be so harrowing and eerie and scary and sad. I wasn't just a little verklempt after watching it -- I was bawling. My craving delivery man came into the room and thought that I had just gotten bad news about a loved one. Very much to his credit he comforted me rather than laughed in my face when I cried out "Bambi! It's so sad!"
We then went down the list of fucked up Disney movies with very sad events in them. Jesus, I thought Old Yeller was bad, but at least that was an act of humanity.
And Gwink, yes, the motherless child is a Disney archetype. God knows why -- a cheap ploy to render the main character sympathetic, I guess-- but usually the motherlessness is established, in a non-violent manner, before the movie begins.
