The songs are classic Disney and fit seamlessly with the score, achieving a cohesive musical narrative. Four songs were integrated into the film’s Soundscape including “Love is a Song”, “Little April Shower”, Let’s Sing A Gay Little Spring Song”, and “I Bring You a Song”. The tender melody perfect captures the young Bambi’s innocence and gentleness, and later as a young stag, his confidence and nobility. Bambi’s Theme offers an extended and repeating sixteen-note phrasing, which provides a musical narrative by playful woodwinds and strings felice. It offers an idyllic and tender romanticism, which warms our hearts and endears the forest inhabitants to us. In supporting his soundscape, Churchill provides two primary themes, including the Love is a Song Theme serves as the Main Theme and uses an orchestral rendering of the song’s melody. Once again Disney was insistent that the quality of the musical score match the visual splendor of his animation and that the songs be singable, have memorable lyrics, and bear melodies that would resonate with the public for years to come. Assisting Churchill would be fellow composer Edward H. Nevertheless the film earned three Academy Award nominations, including Best Sound Recording, Best Music – Original Song and Best Film Score.įrank Churchill was assigned with composing the score, while he and lyricist Larry Morey, who had gained Walt Disney’s respect and gratitude for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, were tasked with writing the songs. Critical reception was mixed with the lack of a fantasy element cited as a flaw, as well as a backlash by sportsman across the country. The film was a commercial success, earning a profit of just over $2 million. The next spring Faline gives birth to twins, much to Bambi’s joy and the Great Prince’s satisfaction as everyone lives happily ever after. The hunter’s campfire releases sparks which ignite the forest in a great fire that forces all the animals to flee to the safety of a lake island, Where Bambi and Faline are reunited. They release their vicious dogs who manage to corner Faline, who Bambi saves, although he is wounded in the process. Troubles follow when cruel human hunters kill Bambi’s mother and then enter the forest with greater numbers. Bambi makes many friends with the forest’s fellow animals and eventually courts a beautiful doe Faline, whose affection he earns besting the bully Ronno. The story follows the life of Bambi, a fawn born who is destined to one day succeed his father as the Great Prince of the Forest. Joining them would be Peter Behn as Young Thumper, Tim Davis as Adolescent Thumper and Same Edwards as Young Adult Thumper, Paula Winslowe as Bambi’s Mother, Will Wright as Friend Owl, Cammie King as Young Faline and Ann Gillis as Young Adult Faline. David Hand was tasked with direction, and the voice cast included Bobby Stewart as Baby Bambi, Donnie Dunagan as Young Bambi, Hardie Albright as Adolescent Bambi and John Sutherland as Young Adult Bambi. It would take a team of six writers led by Perce Pearce, three years, with countless revisions, to finally draft a screenplay that met Disney’s expectations.
He insisted that the voices of children be used to speak for the many forest animals instead of adults speaking as children. Disney purchased the film rights in 1937 and personally took charge of production with an $858,000 budget. The novel offered violence, sexual conquest, betrayal, and blood-and-guts action by cutthroats and murderers, yet after sifting out all its unsavory elements, it spawned an idea of a family film that centered on a young fawn named Bambi. He needed a hit to reverse the company’s sliding fortunes when he came across the 1923 novel “Bambi, A Life in The Woods” by Felix Salten. Walt Disney was in dire financial straits with his last two films, Pinocchio and Fantasia, both under-performing at the box office.
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