Favorite screenplays: Bambi part 4
Without ceremony or warning, Bambi must leave his mother lost in the snow and go off — somewhere — with his father. Wherever he goes off with his father, whatever he learns there, Disney withholds. The trauma of Bambi’s break with his mother lasts only a moment before it is spring.
Favorite screenplays: Bambi part 3
Summer turns to fall, and fall, for no stated reason, gets glossed over in a rush of colored leaves and turns to winter. Bambi is still tiny, still a child in this world where the rules constantly shift. Every time Bambi thinks he’s got the world figured out, no matter how cautious is his step forward, the world immediately slaps him down, changes the rules, makes him a baby again.