Mufasa in the 1994 movie Lion King and the 2019 remake was killed onscreen by being brutally trampled to death, and outright say he is dead. The 2022 movie Puss in Boots:The Last Wish shows Puss in Boots die more than once, the message that you only have 1 life and need to treasure it, say that Death comes for everyone, a guy has his skin stripped making a skeleton, and one of the main characters swear intensely. However no one has any problem letting kids see those movies.
Leave it alone. It’s part of life, deers, fish, etc get hunted. We can’t escape death and humans and animals are not mortal. Yes today is too sensitive and it’s like people erase, ignore and hide things that occur.
Disneysucks they are purposely destroying the magic that once was Disney. Walt is spinning in his grave. You pukes , freaks blue haired nut cases need to go. No one is watching your trash.
Death is part of life and should be shown how will kids know what death is and how final and tragic it is if there not taught and the younger they learn the better other wise that can kill you or you could die from that means absolutely nothing like the violent video games you let them play where they die and kill each other over and over teach them life ls not easy life is not fair and there is a lot of sorrow and sadness in life the younger they learn about it and how to learn from it and deal with it the better they will be equipped to deal with and handle life as adults unlike the young adults we are dealing with today who were taught nothing from there parents except how to feel sorry for themselves and cry that life’s not fair and want everyone to tke care of them because they can’t emotionally deal with life life is hard teach them how to handle it it’s not a video game
I completely agree with you. Life is REAL and you can’t hind from it or our leaders of tomorrow are going to be so overly sensitive they will need their mommy sitting next to them telling them “it’s ok baby, that’s not something you should deal with here, let Mommy do it for you”. Bunch of cry babies that who people are raising now.
I find it hard to believe today’s parents are concerned about this specific content;considering the violent games they allow their children to play. Let alone what they watch on the internet with or without parental supervision.
I agree with you. Death is a natural part of life. I’m tired of people making changes. You can’t appease everyone and if it upsets them that much they don’t have to watch it or listen to it depending on what it is.
I agree I feel like a lot of the “parent censorship” has to do with what they wish they seen, because they have no clue what’s actually in media across the board today! I know parents who don’t let their kids watch YouTube but will them play violent and horror filled video games! Or try to shield them from some cartoons or shorts but cuss violently in front of them!! You can’t have a double standard and guess what the world is filled with a way scarier storyline than any Disney film…
Most parents are not Como. Disney is pandering, you would have thought that the poor commercial results of that Pandora’s have, by now, demonstrated that it’s the wrong direction to take.
Now adays people commonly use words incorrectly. It needs to be corrected because others see it and then others misuse the terms/words too. It breads ignorance. I have seen it a lot in comment sections. She didn’t correct her in a mean way. This thread is about being overly sensitive and you are fitting the bill right now.
When I was little, I had always asked my mother if we could see my grandma. I was probably 3 at that time. My mother always told me that we couldn’t because she was in Heaven. I would then ask if we could call her on the phone and was confused when told we couldn’t. One day she got fed up with my constant confusion and asking and finally told me that grandma was dead. Coming from rural roots with lots of fish turkey and deer I liked to watch be processed, I understood death completely. It wasn’t a bad thing, it’s just reality. I will not choose to sugarcoat things like this in order to prevent confusion and lack of understanding. Bambi should not be changed. It is a good lesson to kids, and a more gentle approach to death.
Too sensitive…. death is a part of life and part of reality for every living thing. This movie help kids talk about and understand death in an indirect way. It helps teach empathy.
I very much agree with you. I was thinking “empathy” as well. Walt Disney’s art work and films should be on a list of untouchables.
When you take away emotion from childrens films you turn them into blank robots who don’t know how to feel. As one of 7 sisters, we grew up with his films…beautiful artwork.
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I’m with these people I have been reading. I saw original with my mother and sad yes, but my father was a hunter and I saw dead deer. So grow up people.
When my daughters watched Bambi, it brought up the discussion about death. I sat down with them and we discussed the subject.
I’m afraid families today are too busy to really have open discussions with their children about subjects of importance. It’s too easy to tear down our past than it is to discuss it with our children.
Leave Bambi alone! I shudder to think what will become of the world when it is populated with all of these overly sensitive humans. Stop making movies for the minority. Make them for the critical thinking majority.
Disney os becoming very racially diverse and woke and sensitive and I’m starting not to support and like Disney. It’s not the Disney that I grew up on. I am 45 years old and everything should be left alone. Disney no longer has my support
I saw the original “Bambi” as a child many years ago. It was sad for me, but I also knew IT WAS A CARTOON, for goodness sakes. Bambi’s friends then help him learn things about life and he becomes a buck who falls in love and continues the cycle. Circle of life, people.
Also, if parents don’t think kids know about death in THIS day and age, THEY are living bin a fantasy world.
Judith, Exactly this! about it Just being a CARTOON. Of course different, but 1 of my fave. cartoon shows/movies is Scooby-Doo (the old-fashioned 1969 versions) and I don’t mind some of the newer versions including the movies where there’s been some violent scenes within each episode of the show itself. I forgot the name of it, but 1 is a live-action version movie w/swinging axes that I think Fred and Daphne had to jump through.
I do know Disney movies are diff. than Scooby-Doo, but it was the best thing I could think of. Anyways, some people need to learn how to not take things so seriously, literally and personally to be honest. Despite some potential violent scenes, cartoons are literally just That A Cartoon.
Yes and when their children grow up and are old enough to understand death and a family member or friend passes away they will learn about death anyway. This thing about getting rid of the death scene in Bambi makes no sense anyway. Because eventually children will learn about death anyway. It’s part of life
I agree I saw a clip about a performance that was done at a Disney Park not sure which one. But it looked like male strippers trying to act out in a sequel manner very graphic. Is this truly what Disney is about now? If so I am boycotting all things Disney. I have grandchildren I would love to take them to experience the park as I did when I was little. But I will not subject them to this until they clean up their act. It’s a shame that the world has come to this.
Yes Sharon isn’t that the truth!
Or the death-scorts escort women into an abortion clinic to kill her baby but if a person were to come along with a dog and someone would threaten to harm the dog they would be in am up roar!
Really Sharon? Can’t you leave your politics to yourself? But, you’re right, it’s all about raising your kids in a bubble. Except, you don’t seem to have a problem with violence, but you do have a problem with a person in a costume reading to a child in a library. Anyone remember Bozo the Clown?
I watched the cartoon Bambi when I was a child. Was it disturbing? Yes, but I learned that everything dies, eventually, and I was lucky my parents considered my feelings, and gave me their full attention and explained life and death to me. Parents have their head in the clouds about things that happen today, book banning, book burning, dying and death, sex and where babies come from. Get over it and talk to your kids, explain the facts of life to them in your words, not out of a a book or iPad, or on a special program on TV!
Your solution also frightens me a bit. This advice assumes that parents are normal. Some are not the same as the others. BAMBI came out before I was of age to go. I saw it awhile later. I was so sad about his mom getting shot, that cl I nearly cried right there and then. I thought about it, and eventually realized that everything dies. I had to accept that. I still almost cry and I’m 66! It’s OK people. We learn what is disturbing. If you read “Footprints”, you might be more prepared for the inevitable. Not judging. Just remembering how hard that was. Disney of old had an underlying lesson in the story. Don’t make believe that life is all roses and candy. Allow them to really learn that things happen, good or bad. Prepare them.
Lol. First time I saw Bambi was during HUNTING season. We got home and sure as anything, Mt dad has a doe in the truck. Country kid here, we thought it was awesome Dad was “in” the movie
People are way too sensitive about the wrong things in today’s world. Remaking a classic movie or rewriting history isn’t the answer. Changing the past to suit people’s feelings isn’t going to solve their problems. The present and future is what matters. Be sensitive to the children that don’t feel loved and lash out by fighting, stealing or killing. They probably haven’t seen Bambi.Be sensitive about the children who can’t find their way in life and help them . They probably haven’t read Bambi. The people that are trying to go back and change things must be some of these children who were hurt growing up in some way. We need to stop trying to change the past because it’s already happened and will always have a record of it no matter how hard you try to erase it. And move on to something else that will help change the young children that are hurting and fighting to live from day to day.
I think it’s suppose to teach kids to not mindlessly hunt animals. Teach them compassion and love. Also, show kids that lost a parent that they aren’t alone, and bad things to happen. I mean are we supposed to shield them from everything for them to go out in the world completely naive.
If you look beyond what happened to Bambi’s mother, he meets his father and dad helps him through tragedy and he finds warmth and support through friends. It’s a feel good film.
The movie studio’s responsibility is to tell a good story not to appease the audience. Gratuitous death, violence is another matter but in the case of Bambi’s story his mother’s death marks a pivotal moment for he learns just how dangerous a deer’s life is. Movie studios should please their audiences by producing good films not a celluloid suck up.
OMG leave it alone!!! It’s not to traumatic at all. Unfortunately death is part of life. Hiding death from children is wrong. What will happen to a person when a parent passes away? LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!
It won’t be long before Disney, and other companies trying to please every “marginalized” being/group, learn that these decisions will hit them where it hurts the most… in their pocket books. I used to live Disney. The magic is gone.
Death is part of ‘The Circle of
Life ‘ . It should not be hidden. Many children have lost a family member or beloved pet to death. Seeing/feeling the loss helps us all understand what others are experiencing.
I’m so fed up with this so called new culture changing our history.
Need to get over yourselves it’s part of life.
Disney needs to stop falling for this stuff I grew up watching all the Disney movies a learned a lot.
So maybe this new culture needs to look at it as life’s lessons instead of worrying about their feelings being hurt.
This all started with ” everyone gets a trophy ” logic. Disney shouldn’t release any more with all the leftist out there who want to change movies so as not to upset their kids. GROW UP
It’s not the liberal left that’s banning books. I agree that they shouldn’t take out the scene but I’ll bet my house that it was some Moms for Liberty Minivan Taliban bullshit that forced this. The alt-right is scared of rainbows and candy cartoons. The article even states it from a minority opinion to cut the scene. Guess y’all haven’t figured out YOU ARE THE MINORITY. Cute rage post though. 😘
The left is weeding out education from schooling so books, unless picture books, will be not be understandable. Kids can’t read, kids can’t do basic money math… The left is doing more to destroy the value of books than mothers working to ban adult books in schools.
I believe you are confused. It has been members of the far right who are having books they don’t like, whether they have read them or not, banned from libraries and schools. I’ve seen their “banned books” list and I will say no one should be banning or burning books and I was shocked by what all was on their list. Many Major classics are now no longer being taught because of the authoritarian bent that the right has taken.
I believe that would be the right that does not ant their children to see or hear things that could upset their children and make them feel sympathy, empathy, compassion , concern etc., for others.
Hey Disney leave Bambi alone! There original is one of my 1st memories of a movie along with Dumbo. If a parent or guardian doesn’t want their child to see the movie then they can skip showing it to their kids. Guess it’s a good thing I got several forms of it to show future generations of my family since we aren’t weak and won’t be ruined or scared for life by a scene that makes a movie a movie. Oh ya and while you’re at it you might want to check out the video games and other media kids are watching. LEAVE BAMBI AS IS!!!!.
LOL! It’s not the left who are too sensitive. Nope! Who are doing all the book bans to “protect children”? Books that kids have read for decades without being “traumatized”. The right is banning books and other things because they are so sensitive. They are the true snowflakes. Trust me, the left can handle the heavy stuff.
The original movie came out in 1942. If there was only something going on at the time that was making children aware of the harsh reality of the world. Hmmmm
Bambi needs to be left alone. It definitely doesn’t need censored. Bambi Mum sadly died by the rifle of the evil hunter. Horrific thing to happen to someone so young. But it does happen in real life. His Dad raised him into a strong and even more brave Stag. If Parents don’t want to show Bambi to their Children. That is their choice, sad though it is.
Had to make it political didn’t ya. Why? I’m about as far out on the left wing as can be and HATE the idea of changing it. Also hate all the live action remakes. Poorly made in every sense of the word.
You have got to be kidding me??! Sensitive viewers??? When does this end? They do realize it’s a bunch of drawings right??? Like you have more on television about guys and Trans and that’s not sensitive?
What is this world coming too? You don’t like it, DONT WATCH!!! SUCK IT UP YOU WHINEY BABIES!!
Yes, I say leave it alone, everyone quit worrying about everyone else’s opinion, and what someone thinks about them, if you don’t like a movie or whatever it may be, doesn’t mean we have to change something permanently for everyone. Everyone gas different tastes and opinions. That’s how it is. We are all Americans, and you can’t change the past, just learn from ut
Exactly! LEAVE THE MOVIES ALONE! LEAVE THE STATUES that seem to be upsetting everybody. It’s part of history. These movies help children understand what seldom can be discussed around the kitchen table
This is what’s wrong with society today. Not everything can be sugar coated. Life and death happens. If you don’t want your child to see it then don’t let them watch it.
People blaming left side for this. But I’m liberal. And totally disagree with this. They should leave this movie alone. You gonna let your kid eat a hamburger of a dead animal. But won’t let them hear a gun shot, and see the baby deer get sad?? Then that’s a you prob. And then YOU shouldn’t watch it. Leave the movie alone
Yes, perrito swears, but it was censored. Yes, puss died multiple times, but did he actually 𝙙𝙞𝙚? No, he didn’t literally 𝘥𝘪𝘦, because if he did his soul would have left his body blah da blah da blah. And I don’t remember anyone being skinned.. But yeah, good point.
So, because of “woke culture, cancel culture, and whatever else culture,” a company needs to change how they operate? Here’s a fantastic question, what money are they contributing to the making of these movies? If they don’t like it, don’t watch it, and don’t allow your children to watch it. Furthermore, stop being cowards. Live and let live.
True, true, true! We’ve changed the definition of SENSITIVE. Where it once meant more about caring for others, today it means some can’t deal with the realities of life and think others should cater to them.
I’ve watched Disney movies all of my life. The Disney movie time on Sunday evenings was really something fun to watch. This was in the 1970’s. I don’t think that the movies scar children, I think the parents are responsible. Most of the parents today are kids from the late 80’s early 90’s. Disney was an intracellular part of safe entertainment for children. Even some of their other movies like Old Yeller, the Bisket Eater, Swiss Family Robinson, Pollyanna, and so many more. I believe that Disney has made difficult situations for children easier to understand. Other movies of the 80’s and early 90’s like the Journey of Natty Gan, Iron Will, Wild Hearts Can’t be Broken. These movies, in my opinion, help deal with loss, and emphasizes on sheer strength of survival and overcoming. Too many people are nit picky.
Exactly! And there is much worse on TV and streaming services these days the kids and teens are watching! Come on parents, I’m a lifelong lover of Bambi, have a collection of Bambi books, stuffed animals and figurines!.
Losing a.parent is a.tough part of life. I lost my oldest sister to Leukemia at age 3, my Mom to cancer, at age 12, and my Dad at the age of 24, murdered by two men hired by my evil stepmother – for his estate and his insurance.money. Both were the hardest, most painful experiences in my life! But I STILL LOVE BAMBI! was the worst thing to happen in my life.
Becoming a mother of a 24 yr old daughter and 18 yr old son was the best thing to happen in my life – next to marrying my husband in 1988!
Much worse things are being shown now, so people need to get a grip, a thicker skin and stop trying to change things from the past. It is all part of our collective life and history, and should be things you learn from and become better humans.
Really? Come on if Jesus Christ the son of God had to die we are all going to die to. There is no escaping it and to not teach children of death is a huge vicious circle of damage to children. They learn about death in every game they play. Fortnite, Call of duty and many others. Changing a classic is a mistake. Disney has millions of animated movies that have a death in them and your going to change a iconic classic to please whom? Disney needs to be banned for ridiculousness.
Stripping Bambi of the depiction of death not only hurts the film, but shelters children too much. Kids can deal with a lot more than today’s parents think. It’s not bad to feel uncomfortable. It’s part of life. If you never feel uncomfortable, you will never grow.
I don’t know where politics came into play with the protecting children from real life matter, but since you went there, it’s definitely not a left issue. Just look at Ron DeSantis, taking books from schools, changing curriculum, and banning everything that’s not “Christian” across Florida. You’re putting a blindfold and ear plugs into children’s ears, until they are adults, and sending them out into the world completely unprepared for reality. But, they will be allowed to buy guns and use them against any perceived threat, from things that scare them…
Stop blaming everything the “other side ” I’m sure you would call me a leftist but I am totally against deleting the death of Bambi’ s mother from the movie. I feel there are probably many people on both sides who are against this change. By the way, when I took my young children to see Bambi, I cried, they didn’t
Stop blaming everything the “other side ” I’m sure you would call me a leftist but I am totally against deleting the death of Bambi’ s mother from the movie. I feel there are probably many people on both sides who are against this change. By the way, when I took my young children to see Bambi, I cried, they didn’t
Yeah. But Bambi’s mom getting killed by an off-screen hunter is too traumatic for kids? Seriously? I saw the original movie at a drive-in movie theater a buncha years ago. It was very sad, but, unfortunately? It’s also an important part of life. Yeah. Death is an important part of life. To delete/deny her death just totally takes away one of the more important plot points of the movie. It’s been a minute since I watched Bambi the cartoon movie, but I seem to recall his mother’s death gave Bambi and his father a chance for some father-son bonding while dad explained why Bambi’s mom died. I mean considering how many people still go out deer hunting, death is usually the typical outcome of people deer hunting. Maybe I’m wrong but I feel like it’d be a really bad precedent that Disney would set if they just leave that whole scene out of the live action adaptation of the cartoon version of the movie. I mean, Bambi’s mother HAS to die. It’s not an unimportant plot point. Yunno? If they don’t want to have the scene where his mother gets shot actually shown on-screen? It should still happen offscreen. Maybe Bambi doesn’t need to witness her death, but she needs to die or the point of the movie will become muddied and unclear at best. It’s called CONFLICT, Disney, and without conflict, your live action Bambi will be a gigantic bore. I get the desire for sensitivity. I’m not arguing against that. But Bambi’s mom has to die so that Bambi can grow and learn from the experience. If for no other reason than that deer hunters should definitely be avoided. No conflict means no character development and no character development will mean a really boring snooze fest of a movie. That can’t be what anyone really wants. Can it?
It needs to be left the classic that it is! I don’t know what is worse, this new generation of the overly sensitive, or the ones that just cave to them instead of just saying no! I am so tired of it all!
Maybe have two cuts: G-Rated without the death scene and
and PG-13 with it for children with further developed emotional intelligence.
The message & context are important to understand Bambi’s devastating peril, but so is sensitivity to NOT emotionally wound our children when it can be avoided.
Not gonna lie, I was traumatized by the death of Bambi’s Mom as a kid, it triggered my fear of losing my own Mom … but I also vividly remember in Bengi (also a 1970/80s Disney movie franchise) when Tiffany was drop-kicked by a villain. I still get teary thinking about it in my 50s.
People need to just stop. Try and focus on real issues in this sad world we’re living in. Find a way to make it better. Love ,kindness and compassion for each other. So much hate all around us. It’s called history for a reason. Leave it alone ,stop trying to change it. Don’t like a movie, then don’t watch it. You have other choices to watch. History is our past, your future will become history someday. Focus on that.
Too many snowflakes passing onto their children their own fears about mortality. Death is a natural part of life, parents! By denying kids the experience of death in a simple, understandable way you also deny them the opportunity to experience empathy and compassion. Children are not shields against the personal terrors their parents haven’t learned to deal with.
Youve got to be kidding. Grow a pair disney! and say no to these dumb ass people ruining motion pictures. Whats next wizard of oz i mean a house does drop on a witch.
Just leave it alone. It didn’t affect my life or my kids life by knowing what happened to Bambi’s momma. Kids have to face death sometimes in life. I really liked Clarke Ingle comment, is Disney suppose to go back and redo or cut certain parts out of movies. The newer generations are just so sensitive. Don’t mess with classics.
Kids play violent video games and watch horror movies, but Disney is to violent. HORSE HOCKEY!!! I own much of the original Disney animated with original stories. I only watch a few of the action movies and did not like them. My children prefer the animated. I even own a copy of SONG OF THE SOUTH which generated discussions of the time period and race relation of the time.
Not only are they using an objectively worse medium to tell this story, they’re removing the plot that made Bambi grow up so young. This is a reality in ways for some people. I may be biased but I think this will be Disney’s worst and most disappointing remake.
Agree! Bambi became who he was BECAUSE of what happen to his mother and the audiance could relate because of the emotion that was put into that scene. If they take that out, I will not be watching it. My toddler will be seeing the classic.
What is next is Disney going to pull their biggest money maker “The Nightmare Before Christmas”? Or are you going to take out all the scary parts? (Eye roll)
I agree I have not been impressed with most of the remakes.They keep changing things because someone may find it offensive but at the end of the day there are things in real life that happen that can be troubling but sheltering kids from every little thing that may be difficult is not the way to go either. How are kids supposed to grow in to strong capable educated adults when they are treated like fine chia that will break. What happened to Bambi made him strong and a protector just like his father who by the way stepped in after the loss of his mother. #Not watching anymore remakes.
If you don’t like it, don’t let your kids watch. Wait until they are old enough to make they’re own decision. Don’t ruin it for others. Either you like it as it is, or you don’t like it at all and don’t watch!
Thank you, Becky. Very well said. I think it’s a polite way of saying parents need to be parents and, yunno, actually parent their kids? I don’t understand anyone’s desire to abdicate their parental responsibilities. I am a parent, and while I was still married, I never abdicated my own parental responsibilities. Too many parents these days don’t want to be their child’s or children’s parents. I’ll take your statement a step further: If anyone doesn’t want to parent their children? Maybe they shouldn’t have children. Maybe get a pet. Something moderately uncomplicated like a fish or whatever. Yunno? Nothing wrong with being sensitive to a child’s feelings. But maybe it’s not a movie to be seen by the very young with still not fully developed sensitivities. Wait until the child has a bit more maturity before they get to see it. Would also be my recommendation. Don’t mess the movie up for the rest of us.
The liberals montra is the woosification of our society. Disney has bought into it. Walt Disney Would be appalled at what they have done to his legacy.
Oh, please! I’m liberal and I think they should leave well enough alone. The film stands on its own without any changes that need to be made. Did I cry as a child when Bambi’s mother was poached? You bet I did! But it didn’t scar me for life. Plus, it helped me understand death and how good friends, and a strong parental figure can help you overcome grief.
Now, to your “woosification” comment: I know PLENTY of conservatives who have raised their children in a bubble to the point they’re scared of their own shadow and go crying to their parents when anything remotely upsetting happens. It’s not just a liberal / conservative thing, it’s a generational issue.
I totally agree with you. It also doesn’t help when children who have lost their parents at a young age, especially to diseases, they are losing that one medium of “I’m not alone”. I know it’s only a cartoon… But sometimes in that instant it seems real . Come on, who hasn’t cried as a child at certain Disney or DreamWorks movies?
When children who have lost their parents at a young age, especially to diseases, they are losing that one medium of “I’m not alone”. I know it’s only a cartoon… But sometimes in that instant it seems real . Come on, who hasn’t cried as a child at certain Disney or DreamWorks movies.
I posted this as a reply, but I honestly didn’t want it to get “lost”… Lol.
Disney, don’t change it. Parents who have seen this ought to know now what their children can “handle” . My boys weren’t scarred by it, but some children CAN be. That’s where common sense comes in.
Add the “sensitive content” in the beginning. Not much difference between “buyer beware”.
My Dad died when I was barely 10 years old… This MOVIE helped me to be able to cry for him and mourn him when I was just a child… Anytime a parent or grandparents die?? They need to cry.. They might not be sure exactly why they are crying?? This movie was so very helpful for me?? I don’t know why it can’t help others???
This censorship has gone overboard.. It is all because of STUPID POLITICIANS who want to control your mind and your actions…
This is a wonderful movie… Perhaps some of those people who are taking away our FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION, should mind the job that they were elected to do and butt out of movies like this??? Sounds like we are basically paying them to watch Disney movies…SO TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS?????
GET A LIFE AND A JOB!!
When children lose anyone from diseases or auto accidents, Bambi helps them to deal with it. I lost my þwin sister at the age of 10 and since I had seen Bambi on The Wonderful World of Disney, I understood what had happened to her and that life would go on.
Disney needs to keep Bambi the way it is.
I agree with everyone who says leave alone. Death is apart of life and so are the emotions that go along with it. Children understand more than we give them credit for. Bambi is classic and the scene with the mother was vital to the movie. Parents should explain certain aspects of life to their children so they won’t be in a whirlwind of unexpected emotions when the occur. #JustMyOpinion
Disney needs to stop catering to the whiney butts. The mother gets shot in the Fox and the hound. Then he gets left alone in the forrest !! There is evil or death in every single Disney movie. Thats life. Stop trying to make everything a perfect world. That’s why kids grow up with no clue to the real world
Disney should just stop! This is real! I lost 3 members of my family by 16 Bambi is great just the way it is! Was 3 when I first saw it and by the way, I am very empathetic! Other person was right! Disney-grow a pair before you truly destroy Walt’s dream!
We all grew up on these movies! Bambi?!?! Come on couldn’t you leave that one alone?? If they mess with Fox and the hound I’m seriously gonna be pissed 😠
Actually they’re giving in to the minority. Vocational Minority is the name given to the extreme left and for some reason businesses cave. The majority of the left roll our eyes and laugh at the business that are afraid of them
I don’t think it’s the majority. I think it’s people with money trying to cause MORE trouble. It seems like thats all everyone wants to do is argue or be offended. If I don’t like something, I don’t watch it !!!!!
The U.S. needs to stop being so sensitive and controlling. Don’t like it, don’t watch it. Parents need to focus on their actions and parenting that causes more harm to children then a classic movie.
I think Walt is rolling over in his grave right now. The magic he created and the moral to all of his stories was to teach us something positive. If your little Jack or Jill is too sensative for real life, I feel sorry for the adults you raise. If you don’t teach them, life will. Pathetic that “Disney” is allowing the cancel culture to kill Walt’s lessons.
My 10 year old has adored Mickey Mouse since he was a was a baby. The other day he said to me, “Disney may lose the right to Mickey Mouse because he is going to the public domain. Is that sad?” Maybe this was a bit harsh, but I bluntly told him, “No, because Disney Corp has already ruined Walt’s vision and dreams. Maybe they deserve to lose Mickey.”
Leave the disney movies as they were made and let the parents answer any questions thrse are the same parents who watched them as kids. Kids need to know sometimes bad things happen and how to deal with it.
Fact of life kiddies; where do you think meat comes from?
My Father went deer hunting, and if he shot one we knew we’d have a freezer full of meat for the winter.
Get over it.
Parents are the ones raising overly sensitive babies who have permanent “ear muffs” and blinders on. That’s why the world is having to change to appease them, bot them adapting to the real world and this thing called “life”. We have stopped allowing kids to be exposed to “real” life, consequences of actions, and that shit happens. Life doesn’t always goes as planned and you have to roll with the punches. F’ all of these pansie a$$ kids and their soft parents. They have created a new crappy world.
Bambi is a wonderful story full of life’s lessons, these things happen in real life, you can’t hide the world from your kids instead Disney has given us ways to understand and learn what are not so easy life lessons as as real life happenings, People these days don’t seem to want there kids to feel anything like Zombies walking the earth. Kids learn by experience and great well done movies like Disney giving kids a chance to experience sadness, empathy, heart break and Happiness through these beautiful movies!
Very well put! Thank you for pointing out parents wanting zombies for kids. Parents should embrace these stories because it gives them an advantage, a cruch, if you will, in explaining to their children about how life truly goes.
Please parents put down the A.D.D. meds, your kids don’t need them and learn to talk to your child. You’re the ones who are “sensitive” not them. This wimpy way of thinking is destroying the backbone of America!
These are life lessons that children need to learn. Life isn’t perfect and children need to know that. It’s a great opportunity for conversations about life to take place. I wasn’t traumatized as a child and neither were my childre.
I was thinking the same thing William! Have to totally agree with you. It seems as if everyone has their morals backwards these days. Instead of teaching kids about real life where all animals are here to eat. It’s a fact of life. Lets just give our kids everything they want when they want it so there are a bunch of intitled people walking around because they were handed everything & didnt have to work for it. Seriously it’s a bunch of crap! Just like everyone is a winner! NO NOT everyone is a winner, There is 1 winner always, GET OVER IT & GROW UP PEOPLE, ITS LIFE & LIFE IS NOT FAIR! SOONER KIDS LEARN THAT THE BETTER & EVERYTHING DOESNT GO THEIR WAY. Everyone has turned into a bunch of babies.
I was just talking to someone the other day about how students are so different today than they were when I was in school (yes I know every generation says this, but this is different somehow). I am a teacher and I have seen changes over the years I have worked in a school. It seems like parents want to protect their kids from everything. I understand, I am a parent too, but and this is a big but, kids need to be exposed to things. These movies we all grew up on helped expose us to some life lessons that were difficult to understand as a child. My parents were not great at talking to us about stuff, but they did let us watch these movies. If we had questions we would ask and my parents would fumble over answering them, but they at least had a platform to help them. I remember crying my eyes out as a child when I watched Bambi, but it also helped me to understand a little better when my friend lost their mom. Protecting our kids will always be top priority, but sheltering them from reality is not protecting them, it is doing them a disservice. If they don’t learn these life lessons from their parents (in a more controlled environment), they will definitely learn them elsewhere and it could impact them in a much worse way. I hope Disney changed their mind and keeps this piece of the movie. It has so many lessons beyond a child losing a parent.
Half of these kids have shot their own deer 🦌 by the age of 10 or 12!!! You really think they are going to be scarred for life after seeing this beautifully crafted film???
83% of the population live in cities. WE DON’T HUNT DEER.
Why? There ain’t any here. But our kids can figure out how to get around a city of 8 million people safely. They know how to think. Orange grifters don’t make them believe they care about them. They KNOW they are poor because of people like him and those who support him.
This “remake” of Bambi will be rubbish. The actual unabridged paperback is far more violent and emotional than what Disney dared portray in 1942. This desensitization of elevating animals into gods and making human death totally acceptable has got to stop. This pattern goes against Christianity to start with. Putting children in a fantasy bubble from the real world is non productive. If today’s children lack the fiber to read the book, they shouldn’t be exposed to a false account. I loved Gobo, and it didn’t ruin me.
The people and animals thing makes sense on their part though. Have you met people before? People suck. We really do. At least animals know what love and loyalty actually mean
Sorry you seem to be contradicting yourself. Don’t want children living in a fantasy bubble, but you think they need Christianity? How do I make the crying laughing emoji here?
First, you have to be smart enough to figure that out. So I guess we will never see you posting one. Secondly , you need to stop… touching children…then you can get the go ahead from this site to post one if you want.
I think Walt is rolling over in his grave right now. The magic he created and the moral to all of his stories was to teach us something positive. If your little Jack or Jill is too sensative for real life, I feel sorry for the adults you raise. If you don’t teach them, life will. Pathetic that “Disney” is allowing the cancel culture to kill Walt’s lessons.
People need to get over it an stop screwing up every thing just because they don’t like it..kids have to learn how the world is.. hunters do this. And are going to keep doing this they need to learn. Don’t want your kids to see it don’t let them watch it..I watched it when I was a kid an im just fine. Our kids watched it an there fine..leave the movies alone an just deal with it.
Actually its the opposite, Disney keeps caving to the ignorant MINORITY, instead of focusing on paying attention to the intelligent MAJORITY, and are doing so to the detriment of their own company! If they keep pandering to the loud mouthed, but wrong minority they will eventually collapse their own company!😑
Disney will continue to lose more and more fans, many lifelong fans, by continuing down this misguided path of rewriting the classics we all love dearly. Life is not a never ending cumbaya moment. Tragedy happens in real life and these movies allow parents to explain these things in easily understandable terms for even our younger children. If Disney wants a different movie than the original, make a new movie, don’t destroy what has been the backbone of Disney for generations of fans. Shame on Disney for abandoning all of us who have supported and helped to make Disney the powerhouse it is today, in favor of a few very loud, “overly sensitive” people who spit in the face of it’s history and actual foundation. Walt, I’m sure, is rolling over in his grave.
Disney has always watered down these stories. Have you read the little mermaids, the original story? Or snow white? They are far more violent and disturbing than what Disney had remade them to be decades ago.
Aww sensitive parents etc. Why why can’t you people just leave the classics alone and let others enjoy it. Start your own damn crap. Stop shoving your feelings down everyone else’s throats. Simple solution here. JUST DONT WATCHT IT DUH…
My thoughts exactly. I’m so sick n tired to Disney changing the classics to suit a minority. Let’s see, hows that going for them so far. Failures! If you want to cave into the minority, create NEW stories AND leave the classics alone
On the money!
You don’t like something, don’t watch/read it. Your “being offended” as a minority is offending the majority. Why should the majority have to cater to the minority?
Thank you John! Those are my sentiments exactly. I hate it when a story has to be “adapted” to accommodate those more sensitive viewers. It totally ruins the story. If you know there is something in the story that you think is too sad, then don’t take your kids to see it. I remember seeing “Old Yeller” as a child, and being so upset because they had to shoot the Yeller. I understood why, but I never watched it again. Nor did I get it for my son to watch (mostly because I just didn’t want to see it again). But there ya go…I had a choice, and I took it.
I love the way you put that! The things we grew up with don’t need to be changed or canceled because these newer generations are a bunch of oversensitive cry babies. The Woke and Cancel cultures really DO need to get their crap and leave our Classic Icons alone! And it’s not just movies but EVERYTHING. Thank you for your comment.
I was one of those wussies that cried a lot when Bambi’s mom died. It must have been bad, because she never let me see it again. She didn’t write letters to the editor claiming that movie should be censored. Simple. It’s called taking care of your own children and not controlling everyone else.
Whoever is making these changes I wish they would stop if you’d like to create a different theme park ride do it but don’t change the old ones because you think they’re politically incorrect all thank you very much
Disney has gone to nothing more than a greedy money making bunch of Fools. Poor Walt Disney is flipping around in his grave! They have put the cost of the parks out of reach for most people. They are rewriting the beloved classics to kiss up to a minority of people. Listen up people, everyone and everything dies.And some in a not so nice way. STOP catering to the people who think the world is all roses and sunshine! You’re not helping your children, you’re making them emotional zombies. They don’t learn the harsh reality of life. What do these do when a loved one dies or a family pet dies? Hide it from their children?
There’s a small group of people that want to change things for another small group of people and they don’t care about the rest of us . Disney needs a purge of arrogant stupidity . It’s what the general public wants . Not what a few whiney simpletons at Disney want . The. It’s you disrespect the artistry and lessons of the past , the more the contemporary average populous will push back .
I would watch this movie every single day as a child, it was literally my absolute favorite next to Disney’s adaptation of Heidi. Being exposed to the topic of death at such a young age made me WANT to spend time with grandparents and get extra excited when aunts and uncles and cousins would visit. I actually cherished people as a child. Disney can’t teach kids about death? We have to wait until the family dog or grandma crooks instead now? I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Age 28.
This never damaged children I loved the movie as a child it never traumatized us as children. People are making all the excuses they can to change all the great classics . Parents need to stop putting their children in bubbles its important for children to learn yes parents pass away everyone does at some point it’s called life, sad but true . These movies never damaged us as children so to parents grow up and stop trying to change great classics movies just cause of your foolish excuses nonsense.
To the contrary this was very traumatizing to kids in the fifties. It should never have been a part of the movie then and it is way past time to correct that mistake. Disney forever rah rah rah. I am old enough to remember the first day the park opened
Shelter your children until it’s too late. Don’t teach girls about periods at 8 so when they’re 9 and it happens, welp, guess your little plan to wait until they were 12 didn’t work out. Don’t wanna teach your children about death? Try explaining why their parent won’t be home anymore in a way that doesn’t make them seem like a jerk. Don’t wanna admit there’s evils in this world and that child are very much susceptible to them, and are even the main focus majority of the time? Guess they’ll be a statistic. Children need to be given the information to protect themselves, and before it’s too late. Doing so through media that can bring the stories to light in a child friendly way, such as Disney and DreamWorks, gives your child the ability to stop the story when they’re too uncomfortable and continue later, for you to tell them it was just a movie, even though it may happen irl, and it can make them learn a lesson and feel stronger for making it through. Children are not a speck of dust that’ll blow away if you just look at them. But they can be easily manipulated if you don’t teach them that the world is NOT rainbows and butterflies from a young age. They can take much more than you think.
I agree with everything you said. Video games they are playing where they are killing people, The music they listen to that promotes death, violence and sex and drugs and most parents know their children are listing and watching and playing these things…but this is all ok right? This is a twisted world we live in…where wrong is right and right is wrong 😕
Disney is becoming a total disaster! We have one more trip scheduled and after that I’m selling my DVC points and won’t darken their door. Will make sure my disney streaming subscriptions are canceled. Go woke go broke.
Disney has gone to nothing more than a greedy money making bunch of Fools. Poor Walt Disney is flipping around in his grave! They have put the cost of the parks out of reach for most people. They are rewriting the beloved classics to kiss up to a minority of people. Listen up people, everyone and everything dies.And some in a not so nice way. STOP catering to the people who think the world is all roses and sunshine! You’re not helping your children, you’re making them emotional zombies. They don’t learn the harsh reality of life. What do these do when a loved one dies or a family pet dies? Hide it from their children?
Trust me, Disney won’t shutter their doors because you like to spat the “woke” bullcrap. That being said, yes Disney should revisit their Business model.
I’m so disgusted with all this crap. These dumb people are making it very difficult for us to raise our kids with compassion and a caring heart. That’s what Bambi teaches our children. I’m sick of all the WOKE. These people have no compassion
I am sick of the vocal MINORITY ruling. Just because they shout the loudest they decide what we want to see and do. Leave Bambi alone. If you are so offended by the original plot don’t go see it.
The death of Bambi’s mother is essential to the plot. If disney wants to bring the story current then replace her being shot by the evil hunter with either run over by an illegal alien or dying from a fentenil overdose .both changes achieve the same result Bambi is forced to grow up fast and relies on the help from her forest friends the other change could elimate the forest friends and replace them with government programs food stamps and wic grant money
How many children in this country live in a household who’s father brother,grandfather hunt every year for deer. Every child and grandchild in my family has seen this movie. Yes it is sad but that is life , when you need to eat you hunt. That’s the problem with kids, some people think kids need to be sheltered from everything g now days, maybe they should sit down and explain,talk about it. Kids are smarter than people give them credit
I was more traumatized by the Wizard of Oz than I have been by any Disney film. I learned about the real world. My real life was more traumatizing than any Disney classic.
I grew up on Disney movies. Some of my best childhood memories involve watching a Disney movie. The people running Disney now have taken the magic out of Disney movies. I’m a woman and yet I hate all these “I don’t need a man” stances they are taking with Disney princesses. I haven’t even watched most of the live action remake because they don’t follow the originals and are too political in nature which destroys the whole point of a Disney movie.
Disney movies gave children a world of magic and dreams come true feelings. This world has gotten so dark and ugly and politically charged. Watching a Disney movie is supposed to give children a place to escape to. Now all this BS is happening. It’s so depressing it makes me want to avoid Disney all together. And don’t even get me started with pirates of the Caribbean. If there’s no captain jack (Johnny Depp) then let the series end. If you do this with Bambi, then congratulations to the Disney board for officially killing Disney magic. Walt is rolling over in his grave.
Children are shooting up schools, shooting teachers, beating people up and commiting vandalism, and we’re going to worry about their sensitivities? Maybe some honest emotion is what’s needed here.
Disney tries to satisfy the VOCAL MINORITY of SENSITIVITY ISSUES. DEATH is as much as a PART OF LIFE as LIVING.
Hasn’t DISNEY LOST almost a BILLION DOLLARS. trying to satisfy the few, who think they’re entitled to ONLY THEIR VIEWS????
Disney better start worrying about the MAJORITY who understand life, death and choices.
How on earth can you have Bambi without Bambi’s mom being killed? Some things can be moved or changed, this isn’t one of them. It changes the entire movie.
We Baby Boomers took the hit & survived, stop
mollycoddling the kids, life isn’t always joyous, get real, no need to adjust the Disney Classic movies !
What about Looney Tunes, and all the super hero cartoons.. no violence there? I think not. Nothing against those. But come on! Bambi, violent! It’s sad. Yes. But they barely even show that part but for a second. There is far worse scenes out there. Violent fighting games , etc. If it is going to bother you or your child just don’t watch it! Let others enjoy or learn the lessons to be learned and the magic that is still Disney!
Make two movies, Regular Bambi, and Woke Bambi…release them both at the same time and see which one makes money. Seems to me Regular Bambi teaches real life lessons, and Woke Bambi gives everyone participation trophies.
Another nail in the coffin for Disney. They never learn from their mistakes. Disney is on a path of self destruction. It’s not about the death of Bambi’s mother but the death of Disney itself.
Bambi was the first film I watched and actually paid close attention to. It was the first time I learned about death and I think that it really shaped my entire outlook on life. It made me never want to be a hunter and I never have. I suppose certain groups could call the movie “woke” because of that, but I think it’s a shame to do this. Yes parents, it can make your kid cry, but sometimes crying is creating growth.
Yet another very sad case of the tail wagging the dog, brought to us by the overly sensitive, every kid should get a trophy, minority! If these people ever take over this country will be doomed! Our founding fathers would NOT approve!
I’ve only seen BAMBI once …when I was a kid…and the thing I remember most… was Bambi’s mom getting shot! I don’t care who or how they remake it…it scarred me for life 🥹
Wow so what do you watch today ? Do you have children ? If so what kind of video games do u let them play or even TV shows or movies way worse than any Disney movie
Ain’t slogans fun. No need for thinking. So much easier.
It has nothing to do with woke. If Bambi cries he must be gay and DeSantis will ban the movie.
When a small minority that have no life get offended the majority have to change our ways to cater to them? How does that make sense? Just because they have nothing better to do than look for things to get offended by means the rest of us have to suffer? I say add the scene of his mom being field dressed and drug to the back of the pick-up and hauled to the butcher. Give them something to be offended by. Some people must have never lost a childhood Friend or parent or Brother as child or teen. If so they would understand how Bambi helped us learn to cope with such a loss in a wholesome, caring way. LEAVE THE DANG MOVIE ALONE. Your being offended all the time is offending me! I’m tired of hearing you complain about everything, all the time. Get a better hobby.
Well, I guess Disney is setting themselves up for another bomb of a remake! All my brothers and sisters grew up watching Bambi and all the other classics. It never harmed us! Great life realities and lessons learned!
How about you just come up.with an original movie Disney???? Stop messing with the classics. Being an educator for 35 years in a pre-school – primary school setting, the number of children who came in with stories about what they had seen on TV or in video games was far more violent than Bambi. Maybe you should start listening to reasonable people.
I am a major Disney fan. This breaks my heart. Listen Disney you have two choices: Either you can retain the original storyline and just rate the movie and the original on your platform to maybe PG-13 and just say in a description, “this deals with a heavy topic” and that would be the disclaimer or don’t change the rating but put a disclaimer before the movie both original and remake so that whoever is watching it’s at their own discretion. You can’t make overly sensitive parents or children influence the greater fandoms childhood that you set up. While I understand that they’re not trying to be offensive it’s a real life situation. You can’t avoid talking about such a important lesson such as losing someone in your family. This will be the single most devastating decision you would have ever made with any live action and you know it. You might want to rethink your decision.
What’s next a remake of old yeller where everyone lives happily ever after? Disney do me a favor sell all the Star Wars and marvel stuff. I hate myself for giving you money because I enjoy those .
Every blow cushioned. Every bad thing magically erased from their lives…..
No wonder so many kids grow up with mental health issues?! They don’t have to deal with the real world until they get out into it.
Go ahead and cut Bambi’s mother’s death from your latest release so the parents can feel good about that and then let their kids blow each other up on Fortnite and Call of Duty
The reason these movies are classics is because they gave kids a safe place to feel painful emotions, to think mean thoughts, and what can come of both ways of being. If you are good and nice better things come to you, if you are mean and spiteful you pay a terrible price. Leave the classics alone!
Uh oh, looks like Headuptheass, ooopppps sorry, Headnanothersass, is butthurt! Did you remove your mommy’s titty from your mouth long enough to comment? Probably! Seems HeadsHeBeSuckin is probably part of the problem with western society! Cryin, whining, waiting for his life participation trophy. There is always a way out! Drink some bleach! Or slice the wrist, but slice vertical, horizontal is just for attention! You’d probably cut horizontal so ppl felt bad for you! Hahahahahahahahaha weak ass! Go back to suckin off your mommy’s titty, let the real adults have real conversations about how ppl like you SUCK! 🖕
Don’t push to the minority, this is part of that whole black list movement thing. Don’t downgrade and ruin a good thing. Every new Disney movie that had come out has failed. I hated all the remakes and it’s hard for me to be excited when a bunch of snowflakes are taking over the industry.
The world is a dark and scary place, Disney gives a little light of hope and shows just because something is dark, doesn’t mean it will be forever and there is a light.
Don’t let the Karen’s and Dave’s ruin it for the rest of us who ACTUALLY like these movies and learned lessons from them.
Start being Dosney again. BE the lead role you were and stop being the lamb you are now. You make the choices, listen to the true fan base and not the prissy pampered poodles who can’t handle truth and real life. If they want to remain in a bubble and shield from the harsh reality of the world. Let them. Our kids are true and strong and will be the rebel Vikings who can survive the apocalypse.. and watch the true Disney along the way!
I think people are too sensitive now days, these films target reality. As much as we hate it, loss is something that happens in everyone’s lives eventually by getting rid of these scenes it creates an unrealistic expectation and creates a lack of sympathy. Yes it’s sad, but these films can teach people how to feel certain emotions.
The first time my 4yo watched Bambi I was struggling not to cry during that scene and she asked, “Are the hunters eating his mom now?” I bursted out laughing.
Right, for these people -they should make Bambi’s mom killed in a ‘peaceful protest’ Bambi has to loot other animals house why wondering if she is a buck or a doe
Having worked with kids during the 2000s, through the 2010s kids aren’t as sensitive as adults think they are and if you think your kid is too young to handle bambi’s mom’s death just wait until you think they’re old enough then sit down and explain what will happen before you start the movie. It all happens off screen anyway, I was about seven when I first watched Bambi ,I was eleven and rewatching it when I realized what happened to Bambi’s mom.
Where’s the tweet or press release or anything that says they’re taking this scene out? People are interpreting very vague comments to mean whatever they want/fear.
The entire premise of the mkvie is based on Bambi’s mother not being “able to be with him anymore”. This totally negates the entire plot and subsequent sequel. Death is inevitable. In my opinion, it is better to come from a children’s movie and have the children ask questions about it than to ignore it or experience it first-hand-which WILL happen eventually. Prepare them for the hard lessons at a young age so they are better equipped for the real world. It os jarsh, and ugly and often damaging. Allow this hard truth now so we as their parents can be the soft landing when life beats them down.
Today’s society bubble wrap their kids to the point that when/if something happens to me hem them hey will be completely unprepared to deal with love life
Good. That movie traumatized me and broke my heart as a kid. I adored the characters and grew up feeling guilty every time I ate meat sometimes bawling my eyes out because I killed someone’s mother. I developed no respect for hunters which were all over in my family. Let the sadists keep the cartoon to traumatized their children with while pretending it’s teaching them about the food chain in a healthy way. I’d appreciate a different take to show my kid, because if it didn’t traumatize her I’d be concerned she’s a psychopath. I won’t be showing that or Charlotte’s web to my kid, or any of that depressing crap parading as life lessons. There’s enough real world misery they’ll be experiencing all life long. No need to strong arm it into entertainment escapism.
If memory serves me correctly, there are lots of Disney characters with at least one dead parent and the character must endure the loss as a plot point. These namby pamby parents who are whining need to grow up and be real parents and explain things to their kids about the realities of the darker side of life.
My son was more upset with Pinocchio than Bambi! he saw them both at 5. He didn’t like the Puppet master! We talked about it after the movie on the way home! He now understands what could happen when you don’t listen to those that love and care for you! In Bambi he stated, “I thought hunters can only shot Bucks!”
Just put kids in bubble wrap with helicopter moms circling around until they’re 40. Make oooey gooey movies for them and see how fast they bomb. Actually we’re seeing them bomb before they even appear in the theater. Looking at you Woke Snow White. Disney will never come close to the innovative and well written stories of the past. Good riddance Disney.
Half of these kids have shot their own deer 🦌 by the age of 10 or 12!!! You really think they are going to be scarred for life after seeing this beautifully crafted film???
Excuse me? 83% of the country live in cities (aka urban areas) We don’t shoot deer in cities. A kid with a gun goes to jail. (Although really his/her parents should be the ones in jail.) Your world is gone. Even the Orange grifter and Lauren “I fondle my date at a children’s musical” Bobert and Matt “I abuse kids” Gaetz and Gym “I don’t report sexual assault” Jordan, can’t stop it.
This is yet another reason why I will never support Disney. This woke, politically correct company needs to go bankrupt and shut down. Did they forget about the Lion King? Tired of everything being so offensive and hurting people’s feelings, just a bunch of pansies, you all need to grow the f up and learn how to change channels or ignore what offends your weak feelings.
It’s almost like Disney hates its own product and is doing everything in their power to destroy it. They are trying to appease people who wish them gone. This never turns out very well. Ignoring the people who love your product, instead of the ones who don’t, is some very bad PR, unless you actually want lose the audience that you had, in exchange for the ones you will never have. Disney had better open it’s eyes, before it is too late.
Just like other examples, the main point is missed. It’s about conservation and mankind’s responsible (and irresponsible) to wildlife and nature. To erase the hunter’s killing of Bambi’s mother is to neutralize the impact of man’s presence. The fire that destroys the forest is also due to the hunters. Is it not important to reflect on the that? Sanitation of Walt Disney’s stories is absolutely ridiculous. There is a point. If the parent is too not capable of talking to the child about the tough points in the film, maybe the parent is the problem.
It’s not that people these days are too sensitive, it’s that they are tired of all the hate and bullying and so on… however, being someone who watched Bambi at the age of 3 with my father telling me that could be my mother, even I say it should stay the same. It helps children who have lost their mother learn they too can thrive and survive in a world so cold.
If you don’t like the movies don’t watch them. Can we just stop being so emotional and soft. These movies were made at a different time. I’m sorry you guys can’t handle the realities of life. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes people aren’t sensitive to you because everything is not alllll about you…we are all going though things. Hardships build character and make you stronger. Your feelings will get hurt in life. It’s how you handle it that matters. Disney catering to all this nonsense is totally ridiculous. If people don’t like it they can go away. You have enough to keep doing what you’ve always done.
If you don’t like the movies don’t watch them. Can we just stop being so emotional and soft. These movies were made at a different time. I’m sorry you guys can’t handle the realities of life. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes people aren’t sensitive to you because everything is not alllll about you…we are all going though things. Hardships build character and make you stronger. Your feelings will get hurt in life. It’s how you handle it that matters. Disney catering to all this nonsense is totally ridiculous. If people don’t like it they can go away. You have enough to keep doing what you’ve always done.
They’re being foolish once again changing things for the vocal minority. The Mermaid is a redheaded white bit a black person, Snow White is hence the name white not Hispanic. That is why these movies are failing, go woke and go broke. Make new stories for them, in sure they would be up in arms if Shaft was remade with a white person. If the companies would just ignore them they would eventually shutup and go away.
Quite honestly, I’m getting tired of remake after remake. During the 1990s they had a few remakes, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book which I believe was a box office bomb, and of course 101 Dalmatians starring Glenn Close as Cruella De-Vil, there was also The Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan, and we had Homeward Bound: An Amazing Adventure. Disney has for decades had death be part of their movies in one way or another, going as far back as Treasure Island which was the first live action movie ever done by Walt Disney. If this is true, they are not only doing a disservice to the story, but it is also a disservice to Walt Disney himself because the death of his mom was very influencing on him. Here’s to hoping that the company stops listening to the whiners and remains more loyal to not only Walt, but to the fans that have fond memories of the Classics. I grew up on Bambi, The Jungle Book, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 101 Dalmatians, among countless others. Without these movies I don’t think kids from my generation would be able to handle death as well as we have.
Their are more parents with PTSD, anxiety, and have dealt with trauma. I would say that might be the reason for the over sensitivity now days.
I would hope plenty of brainstorming and hope for no musical. It should be still be a great experience for when the project is complete.
I was opposed for a while to a live action but really this could be really great. So good likely as long as you keep the death in to the story. Because that is what made Bambi Bambi.
Walt Disney/Pixar go for it!
Just bubble wrap kids while their helicopter mothers circle around until they’re kids are 40. Make some movies for the nervous, triggered moms and leave the rest alone. Disney will never be innovative or write masterpieces again. Bye Disney.
This is getting out of control. I you don’t like the subject matter of Bambi don’t watch it. Disney don’t change this story that is a part of Disney history and a fan favorite for so many. Don’t succumb to the minority who clearly are offended by everything and are intent on changing history on many fronts as if it never happened!!!
let me tell these special snowflakes something. I’m sensitive but I never want movie to change. it teaches lesson, in always put the fire out after hunting.
It would appear that “new” Disney plans to have it be about young Bambi growing up with his Mom around and they have a perfect life in the forest. I feel everyone is becoming so sensitive and almost unable to have any appreciation for the hard lessons in life we all have to learn. Yes, it’s sad to lose the impact of facing uncomfortable facts of life in this world for the sake of a buck and to pander to the hyper-sensitive populace.
I don’t know what happened to Disney or the total week minded people we have today trying to keep there children in some false world but this is a classic that my whole family has seen from generation to generation and doesn’t need a remake or anything left out of the original story leave a good family movie alone like others have said if you don’t like it don’t watch it
So so tired of things being changed and/or ommited to appease a whiney soft generation. We have a generation of entitled narcissistic people who are raising helpless children who knows nothing about being uncomfortable or waiting or loosing. Children who cannot effectively feel or communicate with other humans because they are taught this fictional concept that life it fair. It’s poison to our society and makes me sick.
As sad as death is, it is a part of life and kids do need exposure to it. And I think cartoons can be a good way to expose it to them. It might be easier with a movie. And it is better story telling fit sure.
Disney is getting ridiculous and censoring a beloved classic – beloved by many generations – Bambi – is utterly idiotic.
I loved Bambi as did my children and grandchildren who are aged 5 and 8 years.
It is actually a great means to introduce kids gently to death.
Kids have pets and better to see Bambi’s mom died off screen and open a famimy discussion about what death means than wait for a child to lose say, a grandparent, pet dog, hamster, bunny, cat or whatever when it is reall and in their face.
Our society has turned a corner in the road that will shelter our children from the world and ill prepare them for the real world.
We are going to raise children who ate going to end up reliant on therapy for so many problems they were not raised prepared to face our handle.
Most people don’t even realize what the original book Bambi was really about. It wasn’t an anti hunting work and in fact the author was an avid hunter. It was infact a metaphor for the pogrom treatment of the Jews before WW2. The deer representing the Jewish people and the hunters the ruling class. I doubt Disney could even handle such a subject. The book author wrote three stories two made into films by Disney. Bambi and Pierre a little known one about a squirrel. The third Bambi’s Children was completely overlooked by Disney when they did Bambi 2. Something Walt would certainly not have done. How in depth do you think they will be to the original story their live action will be. I don’t hope for much.
I’ve always loved Disney, but now that they’ve decided to become woke to appease the few voices that complain, they truly have changed everything that made it wonderful into something fake and bought. How easily have they lost who and what they stand for….for what??? The majority voice is alot bigger and stronger than the minority one and if they allow themselves to be bullied into something that they never stood for, they’re going to lose a lot of fans!!
Nobody asked for this. Nobody is “too sensitive” for this, Disney execs are just thinking that they need to sand off every rough edge to continue endless growth. It’s a psyop that’ll only serve to make reactionaries and boomers think millennials are too sensitive to handle death.
…just admit that you have the mental and emotional depth of a puddle and move on.
Exploring the concept of needless death and the utter dispassion with which we as humans exploit animals (through needless predation and environmental negligence – i.e. the campfire that left the Forrest in ruins) is plenty and doesn’t require politics to be impactful.
Are you going to reference our healthcare system when the children in your circle lose someone close to them? No? Maybe because that’s a bit much? Okay, same for a kids movie where an animal loses it’s parent. It’s sad. It happened.
Forward with the plot.
Shame on you for forcing kids to assume the roles of adults.
Let them be kids. Potential Disney -level emotional experiences and all.
This changing everything is RIDICULOUS if they’re too sensitive DON’T TAKE YOUR CHILD TO SEE IT. It’s a reality. Where do you tell your children their hamburger or nuggets came from? Be serious! STOP CHANGING EVERYTHING!
Of all the studios to lose their Marbles Disney was the last to fall, the fact is one if the things people loved about Disney is that it stayed true to its history and family values, yes they destroyed a few families in their storylines but it wasn’t with out its life lessons. Reality is something way to many people hide away from in today’s world. The odd dose of reality even for children is much needed. My boy watched Ace Ventura when nature calls, many will recall it’s the one with the very corny adaptation from cliff hanger where a raccoon drops to its death. My boy was shattered and wanted to stop the movie. As good parents we paused for a minute explained the fact that 1 the raccoon didn’t die in real life and 2 in it was important to the story and we began watching the movie again. Afterwards we didn’t feel like the best parents for some of the questionable content that movies of that time contained and then remembered I was about the same age when I first saw it and it didn’t hurt me any.
America needs to step up and tell people from others countrys that this is america.you leave your country for a better life not to bring your country here to change america.itwont be long until Erica is bowing down to china.
How will our kids and grandchildren ever know all the enjoyment us older adults had if thay keep changing ever thing. For just a few people am heartbroken thankfully I have most of the original movie for My Great grand kids
No one is making you watch any of this… Leave it alone.
But meanwhile…. Everything I want to watch has an element of LGBTQ in it….. Maybe it’s time people turn it off and find a healthy hobby….I am.
Bambi is a wonderful Disney classic! These parents who believe that it is too violent for their child should perhaps delay viewing it another year or so. I do not agree with eliminating the scene of the mother dieing. Death is a part of life. Parents have an opportunity to watch with their children and use this as a teaching tool. These children WILL experience death in their lives, a grandparent, friend or parent. It is impossible to shield them from the inevitable. Is it not better to prepare them this way and discuss it with them?Please don’t ruin a good thing. Bambi is perfect the way it is.
Deer don’t have babies in winter. By hunting season fawns have lost their spots an once mating season starts the mother doesn’t want anything to do with them. Bucks don’t have anything to do with raising babies. There is nothing accurate in Bambi.
So what! Do you really think the children care? Are you naive enough to not realize that no made-for-entertainment movie is factual? Do you really believe that John Wick survives being beaten by hundreds of people a day and thousands of bullets miss him, or that there is a Superman and he can actually fly?
Do none of you, including the writer, understand what a “treatment” is in screenwriting terms?
Are y’all really whipping yourselves up into a frenzy of being offended at the idea that a mega-studio will commission treatments with various styles from various different writers/groups?
Bambi’s mom is still gonna die in the live-action remake, which will probably be bad for other reasons. Come on, use a little critical thinking, please.
This is yet another reason my kids do not watch any of the new Disney crap. I got all the old movies and they will continue to watch the older versions and Disney can continue to lose money hand over fist.
When is this going to stop? Everything seems to offend sensitive people, are we going to remake/rewrite every film/book? If a movie released over 40 years ago hurts your feelings then do not watch it. We cannot change to accommodate everyone’s feelings.
This is one of the reasons I gave up my annual passes and Disney+. I’m saving so much money by not going to Disney World that I’m going to be able to go to Europe next year.
I was 5 when I saw the animated Bambi in the theater (re-release, of course, in the 1970’s). I had no problem with hearing the gunshot and then hearing the Great Prince of the Forest tell Bambi simply, “Your mother can’t be with you anymore.” I made it to the end of the film. (Well, I slept through a good portion of it, as I was a sleepy little child 😉
I also didn’t have a problem with Star Wars (aka, “A New Hope”) in its original run a couple of years later, when *Han shot first*. Nor did I get traumatized seeing Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru’s burnt skeletons at the destroyed homestead.
Shielding kids from the reality of death will eventually make them fear death all the more later in life.
I can’t wait to see YouTube’s Critical Drinker rip this one!
I have always felt that Disney I had made a habit of killing animals and parents to reach their ultimate goal of making $$. People are naive to think they are trying to impart life lessons.
They can have children “discover” all the different pronouns people are calling themselves and how it’s “normal” to have two mommies but they worry about a child discovering death. Go figure.
If they want to make a new movie with a new character fine
But the majority of Americans want the live action to follow the original
Look what happened to Snow white
All these live action remakes are getting ridiculous especially since all disney wants to do is listen to half the audience instead of the whole picture! And on top of that they are getting rid of the amazing story telling!!! Disney keeps wondering why they aren’t making money on the remakes here’s why and listen closely Disney 🙄 If you’re gonna make a remake keep the orginal story just like when u was growing up with Disney my mom always made sure that is she thought it wasn’t appropriate she wouldn’t let me watch it! So take this as a word of advice who cares what the new generation like about the new love actions I am a Disney OG and i absolutely have mixed feeling about these love actions. You have had a few successful live actions but thats because it was very close or was the orginal! If you want make live actions then go ahead but please stay with the orginal story! Sincerely Disney OG
I watched Bambi with my children and maybe if more parents actually did so too they would be there to hold their hands through the tough stuff that gives appriciation for the life that continues to grow past the tragedy. You cant capture the story of Bambi without facing the loss. Stop letting a few wackos dictate as if they are the majority. That’s the only thing that’s changing. You cant beat the cycle of life but you can honor it and that is what made Disney great. I dont like this New Disney. Its lost the heart and originality.
Next a total ban on funerals. Everybody buried at midnight so no young ones see it. Or funeral processions are parades with clowns 🤡 abound for pallbearers. People never die, they just move away and forget to call.
I feel that parents are shielding their kids too much! I feel that that is one of the problems that we are facing with the new generations. Kids don’t think bad things happen but they do and when they do they are not emotionally equipped to handle it. Parents are afraid to let their kids be disappointed, feeling that they are bad parents if their child has a negative experience.
That brings huge problems as they start to grow into young adults….i.e. well working at a burger joint makes me feel less of myself so I just won’t work ..or my mom is ill and it makes me feel bad so I will ignore it and it will go away. Life is full of ups and downs and if children aren’t made aware of it they struggle when they get older people want to go back to the old days when one parent stayed home. Well parents back then didn’t shield their kids, life was life and you learned how to cope when bad things happened.
I guess not a single person here gets the irony that you are all crying and whining (just like the people you’re complaining about) over a movie made by a corporation just to make money…
I think Disney should leave the classics alone. If they want to remake it then go ahead and change and make it kid friendly. I’m tired of this world being too sensitive and can’t handle anything. Don’t erase what was great. Leave the original alone
Stop changing classic movies and history. People need to quit being so dam sensitive these days and suck it up. Learn to deal with shit and be strong thru your life, not a Bunch is sissies.
I don’t think we need to judge how audiences react. I watched Bambi once when I was a child then I never wanted to see it again. It’s just not an enjoyable experience and Disney probably has observed how popular Bambi is or isn’t and are problem solving. I don’t care, I still hate the dang story lol
Taking out mom’s death is stupid. Kids these days see worse in life and through TV and social media. I will not go see it or this train wreak of snow white. Classics are Classics for a reason. Very dissatisfied with whoever is running Disney. Are they trying to destroy the company?
We Baby Boomers took the hit & survived, stop
mollycoddling the kids, life isn’t always joyous, get real, no need to adjust the Disney Classic movies !
5 full paragraphs before the word Bambi is even mentioned. Get to the point already Zach! We all know the backstop already, don’t need a strung of run ons for you to get to the point.
Oh yea, and leave Bambi alone. Exposure to issues is healthy for growth and coping w real life issues when they happen irl.
I went to the movies last week and all the trailers were nothing but people killing other people, beating people to pulp. You are worried what Bambi is going to do to your kid, you got bigger fish to fry. Get a grip people and leave Bambi alone. BTW, the new
MICKEY MOUSE and his giant sideways smile has got to go. You had no right touching the mouse.
In all honesty as a Disnerd, I’m about to turn my back on Disney. They have literally been destroying what Walt Disney created, the movies and parks alike. If you think the original movies should be different, start your own animation studio, sue Disney for exclusive rights to destroy the stories they have told, and go that way.. far away that way. Has anyone else noticed that almost all of their remakes haven’t been doing that well? Because I have. I have been listening to my kids and their friends, and MOST of them want nothing to do with Disney remakes because they literally DESTROY the story and the iconic imagery. In their words, “Why is Disney changing the story and the characters?” If even the kids can see it, why can’t Disney?
“It’s for the children!” No it’s not, you are the ones too sensitive to face the truth. Death exists, we mustn’t shy from it. It is the endpoint of us all. We die, our pets die, the Earth itself will die long after the novel of Humanity has been written. Did I cry when Mufasa died? When Bambi became an orphan? Sure as hell did I, but that’s the point. I cannae forget it. So let the kids go free, and you just not watch the movie, alright?
I have a lot to say about these ignorant people today but it would not be appropriate to express or say what I really want to say but I will say this , my 12 year old daughter even complains about and doesn’t like how people in this world are so stupid and pathetic these days. She loves the history and wish these idiots would leave it alone and so do I. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE IT THEN DON’T SEE IT!!! STOP TRYING TO CONTROL EVERYTHING!!! Kids are definitely going to see a lot worse these days than what our history had. They just want attention! Stop giving it to them!
Shame!!! Remaking Disney Classics is not the answer. These parents are not doing there children any favors. Disney Classics have lessons for children. Anyone ever wonder how these sensitive &
protective children going to handle life.
This is why I sht away from Disney. It’s ok to take a dark women and lighten her up in the little mermaid so whites don’t feel uncomfortable. It’s another to take the main reason for Bambi having to make it on her own. As our country dissolves into another third world country due to idiots like Democrats trying anyway they can to get the vote it is saddening.
Times change! Grow with them or don’t. One can always watch the original. Throwing around the trigger “woke” needs to stop: woke = considerate of others feelings and perspective, should be part of basic human decency. Disney always strives for quality entertainment and usually succeeds AND they don’t ban books!
Not this time. They should not be rewriting the past just to suit the needs of the foolish. It’s no wonder why people have begun to hate disney so much.
1) Bambi is one of Walt Disney’s classic movies infact it’s one of his first (not say it is his first because we all know it’s not but it is in his top ten or so). I say we leave the movies that he created alone because HE’S DEAD and can’t speak for his own masterpieces anymore. How would any one of you who are wanting to change something that was created by someone else feel if something you create is changed after you pass away without your consent?
2) The movie Bambi shouldn’t be touched because like I read by a fellow comment it teaches about life just like one of Disney’s other movies (Lion King) talk about if you plan to change Bambi you might as well just recall all of the Lion King movies and destroy them too and I know that’s not going to happen. Infact even the insinuation of death in a movie has the potential to be disturbing to children. So I guess that means no more Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmatians, and several others. Also if you want to look at it there is death in a lot of children movies and we as people don’t even realize it but except it without knowing it. Like the death of a villain. Death is still death whether it is a evil character or a good character.
3) like it was stated in the past comments these are movies that we as the people buying them and viewing them. If someone is afraid of what is being shown to their children then those people shouldn’t have bought the movie for their children to watch in the first place. It’s not the rights of the minority to change the rights of the majority in what is being viewed. So if someone has a problem with what is being viewed then don’t buy what is viewed.
More of the minority Cancel Culture from overly sensitive Snowflakes and unimaginative producers and directors in the LaLa Land called Hollywood. Just don’t watch the movie and let Walt Disney’s wonderful dream die. It’s already got one foot in the grave from poor management and terrible movies over the past 20 years.
If deer have the intelligence of humans, as portrayed in the movie Bambi, then humans shouldn’t be hunting deer in the movie. Deer who saw the hunter first would beg them not too shoot. Know what I’m saying? And if they can’t speak to humans, only other animals, why is that? Deer and rabbits can communicate but not deer and humans? Mom should have been hit by a car or killed some other way. Being intentionally killed by a human shouldn’t be normalized when those deer are portrayed as having human intelligence, emotions, etc… imagine eating a hamburger if you had to kill the cow yourself and it was begging for mercy, saying it had a wife and kids.
To listen to the sensitive constantly is foolish, in my opinion. It will alienate a part of society. So what, they don’t like your movies anyway. If they don’t want their kids to learn about real life, and death is a part of life considering no one gets out alive, let them raise soon to be victims. The thing about the classic Disney movies is that they deal with real life. There’s plenty of content in them for the adults as well as the kids. What they should do is quit remaking things that are already classics and come up with something new. They’re trying to make a buck on a story that’s already been told. And they’re taking all the meat out of the story. Like it or not life is full of incidents that are less than happy and it’s enduring those things that make us capable adults. Everything isn’t always happy and the old Disney movies didn’t try to eliminate such things.
All disney movies have a very weird real horror story behind, they just changed it to be able for kids. If you really pay attention all the princesses get married at a very very young age. They all have subliminal messages. But now all this new crystal generation we can say or do anything because they easily break, it getting ridiculous.
You have got to be kidding me??! Sensitive viewers??? When does this end? They do realize it’s a bunch of drawings right??? Like you have more on television about guys and Trans and that’s not sensitive? What is this world coming too? You don’t like it, DONT WATCH!!! SUCK IT UP YOU WHINEY BABIES!!
If you don’t like it, don’t watch it plain and simple. This type of stuff happens all the time in REAL LIFE!!! stop being helicopter parents and maybe expose your kids to real life situations so they know how to react and what to do. Stop trying to change the world.
All Disney classics have a tough scene to see as part of the story. We all know that via cultural osmosis.
As I had older siblings, when I saw them for the first time, I was forewarned. I didn’t see a movie until I talked to my Mom and she “counselled” me.
If you don’t want your child exposed to things in life that you as their parent don’t want to take in hand, then your child doesn’t watch it. Let’s see how l8ng that works for you.
Meanwhile, let the filmmaker create the magic, don’t make decisions for the rest of us, and keep on keeping on sharing your concern and taking the wheel of raising you own children.
What’s. Next ? Cutting out Parts. Of another Walt Disney Classic, Like fox and the hound or old yeller. Leave the classics alone. They are a classic for a reason. They teach values. Life lessons ect. I am so glad and grateful. That I was brought up on the. Disney classics. And was able to bring my children up on wholesome traditional classic family movies. Walt shaking his head right now. Down right shame destroying a ionics legend and work.
Disney has dropped the ball with everyone of its remakes from Dumbo to all of them I mean especially Dumbo and if they do this with Bambi I hope it’s the downfall of Disney
If some parents don’t want their children exposed to it there’s an easy fix, don’t watch it. Just like television, you don’t like what’s on then change the channel. No one is forcing them to watch something they don’t want to.
Bambi scarred me for life. I can’t watch a movie unless someone who has seen it clears it for me with no Bambi liks scenes. I am 62 and still traumatised
When you start catering to a leftist group a very small minority this is what you get. This perversion that Disney is representing now is going to bring their empire down.
I’m really about to be done with Disney now. Honestly my true opinion, Disney is about to lose out on millions. True fact keep it going Disney will bankrupt itself
In the 60’s, I remember being at the drive-in and my little brother, half way through the movie asking where Bambi’s mother was, and my mother told him, he started crying really bad. Looking back, I am not sure that he needed that for the movie to be enjoyable.
Walt Disney must be rolling over in his grave daily. The company has ruined so many wonderful stories to appease sensitive people. It’s ridiculous and the legacy of Disney had been destroyed. Eventually this so called company will disappear.
Signed a disappointed mother who grew up loving what Disney represented. Now it’s garbage.
My niece was 8 when her mother died due to illness. I think Bambi should NOT get removed. This can open discussion about death or even tragedy later on. There are others (adult and/or child) that have lost parent(s) suddenly in a variety of ways. Dying is a part of life that no person can avoid. How death happens is the unknown.
As is, kids are exposed to mass shootings, violent lyrics in songs, graphic video games, etc. I feel that in many ways there is a societal norm in this but people are getting offended by what isn’t seen in a movie.
Dude, my daughter was only 4 and watching things like Bordello of Blood, Interview with the Vampire, Jeepers Creepers and even Hellraiser. She was into those movies like anyone else was into Frozen. People want things hidden from their kids, but I let the kids learn. She asked many questions, but I still answered everything honestly. Disney needs to stop changing things and just do better jobs.
Just put kids in bubble wrap with helicopter moms circling around until they’re 40. Make oooey gooey movies for them and see how fast they bomb. Actually we’re seeing them bomb before they even appear in the theater. Looking at you Woke Snow White. Disney will never come close to the innovative and well written stories of the past. Good riddance Disney.
Not a fan of all the Great classics Movie getting ruined by Changes because to many So called ” people” getting upset about the movie I say get over it it’s life things happen people just need to realize this if they don’t want to see it don’t watch when is it going to be enough the first time I noticed change was watching ET now this so like I said not a FAN of your Changes
Comments for Disney Erases Iconic Character to Satisfy Sensitive Viewers
Clark Ingle
Mufasa in the 1994 movie Lion King and the 2019 remake was killed onscreen by being brutally trampled to death, and outright say he is dead. The 2022 movie Puss in Boots:The Last Wish shows Puss in Boots die more than once, the message that you only have 1 life and need to treasure it, say that Death comes for everyone, a guy has his skin stripped making a skeleton, and one of the main characters swear intensely. However no one has any problem letting kids see those movies.
Tanya G
Leave it alone. It’s part of life, deers, fish, etc get hunted. We can’t escape death and humans and animals are not mortal. Yes today is too sensitive and it’s like people erase, ignore and hide things that occur.
Teresa H
I think you meant immortal as animals and humans are mortal.
Mary
I thought they should leave it alone. I grew up with all that stuff and death is a part of life.
J.B.
Disneysucks they are purposely destroying the magic that once was Disney. Walt is spinning in his grave. You pukes , freaks blue haired nut cases need to go. No one is watching your trash.
John
Death is part of life and should be shown how will kids know what death is and how final and tragic it is if there not taught and the younger they learn the better other wise that can kill you or you could die from that means absolutely nothing like the violent video games you let them play where they die and kill each other over and over teach them life ls not easy life is not fair and there is a lot of sorrow and sadness in life the younger they learn about it and how to learn from it and deal with it the better they will be equipped to deal with and handle life as adults unlike the young adults we are dealing with today who were taught nothing from there parents except how to feel sorry for themselves and cry that life’s not fair and want everyone to tke care of them because they can’t emotionally deal with life life is hard teach them how to handle it it’s not a video game
Heather
I completely agree with you. Life is REAL and you can’t hind from it or our leaders of tomorrow are going to be so overly sensitive they will need their mommy sitting next to them telling them “it’s ok baby, that’s not something you should deal with here, let Mommy do it for you”. Bunch of cry babies that who people are raising now.
James Ford
Punctuation and capitalization. Try using it.
Char
I find it hard to believe today’s parents are concerned about this specific content;considering the violent games they allow their children to play. Let alone what they watch on the internet with or without parental supervision.
Jennifer
I agree with you. Death is a natural part of life. I’m tired of people making changes. You can’t appease everyone and if it upsets them that much they don’t have to watch it or listen to it depending on what it is.
Rosella
I agree I feel like a lot of the “parent censorship” has to do with what they wish they seen, because they have no clue what’s actually in media across the board today! I know parents who don’t let their kids watch YouTube but will them play violent and horror filled video games! Or try to shield them from some cartoons or shorts but cuss violently in front of them!! You can’t have a double standard and guess what the world is filled with a way scarier storyline than any Disney film…
Darlene Rose
I absolutely agree 💯!!!
Mike Lloyd
Most parents are not Como. Disney is pandering, you would have thought that the poor commercial results of that Pandora’s have, by now, demonstrated that it’s the wrong direction to take.
Lisa A
Everyone knows what she meant, you didn’t have to correct her. Have you never made a mistake?
Breeze
Now adays people commonly use words incorrectly. It needs to be corrected because others see it and then others misuse the terms/words too. It breads ignorance. I have seen it a lot in comment sections. She didn’t correct her in a mean way. This thread is about being overly sensitive and you are fitting the bill right now.
Breeze
Breeds* (typo)
Puss
5 years Disney will be nothing but a groomers paradise.
Alysm
When I was little, I had always asked my mother if we could see my grandma. I was probably 3 at that time. My mother always told me that we couldn’t because she was in Heaven. I would then ask if we could call her on the phone and was confused when told we couldn’t. One day she got fed up with my constant confusion and asking and finally told me that grandma was dead. Coming from rural roots with lots of fish turkey and deer I liked to watch be processed, I understood death completely. It wasn’t a bad thing, it’s just reality. I will not choose to sugarcoat things like this in order to prevent confusion and lack of understanding. Bambi should not be changed. It is a good lesson to kids, and a more gentle approach to death.
Jojo
Too sensitive…. death is a part of life and part of reality for every living thing. This movie help kids talk about and understand death in an indirect way. It helps teach empathy.
Dianne C. McDermott
We need to keep reality in this world. We can’t turn everything to fantasy. That’s not protecting our children, it’s hurting them.
Concerned
I very much agree with you. I was thinking “empathy” as well. Walt Disney’s art work and films should be on a list of untouchables.
When you take away emotion from childrens films you turn them into blank robots who don’t know how to feel. As one of 7 sisters, we grew up with his films…beautiful artwork.
Do NOT disturb.
Thx.
Marianne
I saw Bambi when I was 4 in 1955.
It was relatable as I didn’t have a mother. I felt I would be fine with my father.
Ben
I’m with these people I have been reading. I saw original with my mother and sad yes, but my father was a hunter and I saw dead deer. So grow up people.
N Rebel 1
Yes let’s move into today Bambi’s mom wasn’t shot by a hunter she did too many drugs, ran away and was never heard from again
Toniwynn
When my daughters watched Bambi, it brought up the discussion about death. I sat down with them and we discussed the subject.
I’m afraid families today are too busy to really have open discussions with their children about subjects of importance. It’s too easy to tear down our past than it is to discuss it with our children.
A Ess
Death is part of life. No one gets out alive. People get a grip!
PK
Leave Bambi alone! I shudder to think what will become of the world when it is populated with all of these overly sensitive humans. Stop making movies for the minority. Make them for the critical thinking majority.
Sheryl
Disney os becoming very racially diverse and woke and sensitive and I’m starting not to support and like Disney. It’s not the Disney that I grew up on. I am 45 years old and everything should be left alone. Disney no longer has my support
Lady B
Bambi is a classic, leave it the way it was written; if people cannot handle this, then do not watch it!
Judith
I saw the original “Bambi” as a child many years ago. It was sad for me, but I also knew IT WAS A CARTOON, for goodness sakes. Bambi’s friends then help him learn things about life and he becomes a buck who falls in love and continues the cycle. Circle of life, people.
Also, if parents don’t think kids know about death in THIS day and age, THEY are living bin a fantasy world.
Courtney
Judith, Exactly this! about it Just being a CARTOON. Of course different, but 1 of my fave. cartoon shows/movies is Scooby-Doo (the old-fashioned 1969 versions) and I don’t mind some of the newer versions including the movies where there’s been some violent scenes within each episode of the show itself. I forgot the name of it, but 1 is a live-action version movie w/swinging axes that I think Fred and Daphne had to jump through.
I do know Disney movies are diff. than Scooby-Doo, but it was the best thing I could think of. Anyways, some people need to learn how to not take things so seriously, literally and personally to be honest. Despite some potential violent scenes, cartoons are literally just That A Cartoon.
Sheryl
Yes and when their children grow up and are old enough to understand death and a family member or friend passes away they will learn about death anyway. This thing about getting rid of the death scene in Bambi makes no sense anyway. Because eventually children will learn about death anyway. It’s part of life
Sharon
Yet the same parents that think Bambi is too harsh for their kids, will rush their kids eagerly to a drag queen reading a book to her kids.
M Ward
You are so right on!
Glenda
I agree I saw a clip about a performance that was done at a Disney Park not sure which one. But it looked like male strippers trying to act out in a sequel manner very graphic. Is this truly what Disney is about now? If so I am boycotting all things Disney. I have grandchildren I would love to take them to experience the park as I did when I was little. But I will not subject them to this until they clean up their act. It’s a shame that the world has come to this.
c.j.sands
Sharon, do they price the olives the same price the T-bone steaks at your local market?
Sherry
Yes Sharon isn’t that the truth!
Or the death-scorts escort women into an abortion clinic to kill her baby but if a person were to come along with a dog and someone would threaten to harm the dog they would be in am up roar!
Travis
Really Sharon? Can’t you leave your politics to yourself? But, you’re right, it’s all about raising your kids in a bubble. Except, you don’t seem to have a problem with violence, but you do have a problem with a person in a costume reading to a child in a library. Anyone remember Bozo the Clown?
Ty
Her argument is valid and non hypocritical and TRUTH , which is something that bothers hypocrites.
Nancy
I watched the cartoon Bambi when I was a child. Was it disturbing? Yes, but I learned that everything dies, eventually, and I was lucky my parents considered my feelings, and gave me their full attention and explained life and death to me. Parents have their head in the clouds about things that happen today, book banning, book burning, dying and death, sex and where babies come from. Get over it and talk to your kids, explain the facts of life to them in your words, not out of a a book or iPad, or on a special program on TV!
Margaret
Your solution also frightens me a bit. This advice assumes that parents are normal. Some are not the same as the others. BAMBI came out before I was of age to go. I saw it awhile later. I was so sad about his mom getting shot, that cl I nearly cried right there and then. I thought about it, and eventually realized that everything dies. I had to accept that. I still almost cry and I’m 66! It’s OK people. We learn what is disturbing. If you read “Footprints”, you might be more prepared for the inevitable. Not judging. Just remembering how hard that was. Disney of old had an underlying lesson in the story. Don’t make believe that life is all roses and candy. Allow them to really learn that things happen, good or bad. Prepare them.
Maureen
Lol. First time I saw Bambi was during HUNTING season. We got home and sure as anything, Mt dad has a doe in the truck. Country kid here, we thought it was awesome Dad was “in” the movie
Patrick Arnold
DO NOT change the movies to do so would change the storyline for one thing. My advice
To people that don’t like them is to grow up.
Sherri
People are way too sensitive about the wrong things in today’s world. Remaking a classic movie or rewriting history isn’t the answer. Changing the past to suit people’s feelings isn’t going to solve their problems. The present and future is what matters. Be sensitive to the children that don’t feel loved and lash out by fighting, stealing or killing. They probably haven’t seen Bambi.Be sensitive about the children who can’t find their way in life and help them . They probably haven’t read Bambi. The people that are trying to go back and change things must be some of these children who were hurt growing up in some way. We need to stop trying to change the past because it’s already happened and will always have a record of it no matter how hard you try to erase it. And move on to something else that will help change the young children that are hurting and fighting to live from day to day.
L
Leave this movie alone and let it be the way it is! This is unbelievable how people are so oversensitive about the wrong things.
Nataku
How right you are
DC
FYI – Humans and animals are mortal. Both die at some point. Humans and animals are not immortal because neither live forever.
George
I think you might have meant “immortal”
Becky roy
I think so leave as it is. So it’s sad. It’s a part of life. Bambi is my favorite Disney movie.
Angel
I agree
Alanna
I think it’s suppose to teach kids to not mindlessly hunt animals. Teach them compassion and love. Also, show kids that lost a parent that they aren’t alone, and bad things to happen. I mean are we supposed to shield them from everything for them to go out in the world completely naive.
Nancy
If you look beyond what happened to Bambi’s mother, he meets his father and dad helps him through tragedy and he finds warmth and support through friends. It’s a feel good film.
Liz
The movie studio’s responsibility is to tell a good story not to appease the audience. Gratuitous death, violence is another matter but in the case of Bambi’s story his mother’s death marks a pivotal moment for he learns just how dangerous a deer’s life is. Movie studios should please their audiences by producing good films not a celluloid suck up.
Karen
OMG leave it alone!!! It’s not to traumatic at all. Unfortunately death is part of life. Hiding death from children is wrong. What will happen to a person when a parent passes away? LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!
Ronella
Truth
Code Man
So tired of this Cancel Culture!!!
Sounds rude but let’s also slow down our immigration intake for so many reasons.
Larry R
It won’t be long before Disney, and other companies trying to please every “marginalized” being/group, learn that these decisions will hit them where it hurts the most… in their pocket books. I used to live Disney. The magic is gone.
Ardath
Death is part of ‘The Circle of
Life ‘ . It should not be hidden. Many children have lost a family member or beloved pet to death. Seeing/feeling the loss helps us all understand what others are experiencing.
Tee
💯 exactly
Sandra Justus
I’m so fed up with this so called new culture changing our history.
Need to get over yourselves it’s part of life.
Disney needs to stop falling for this stuff I grew up watching all the Disney movies a learned a lot.
So maybe this new culture needs to look at it as life’s lessons instead of worrying about their feelings being hurt.
William J
This all started with ” everyone gets a trophy ” logic. Disney shouldn’t release any more with all the leftist out there who want to change movies so as not to upset their kids. GROW UP
Me003
It’s not the liberal left that’s banning books. I agree that they shouldn’t take out the scene but I’ll bet my house that it was some Moms for Liberty Minivan Taliban bullshit that forced this. The alt-right is scared of rainbows and candy cartoons. The article even states it from a minority opinion to cut the scene. Guess y’all haven’t figured out YOU ARE THE MINORITY. Cute rage post though. 😘
Tiffany
The left is weeding out education from schooling so books, unless picture books, will be not be understandable. Kids can’t read, kids can’t do basic money math… The left is doing more to destroy the value of books than mothers working to ban adult books in schools.
Cy
I believe you are confused. It has been members of the far right who are having books they don’t like, whether they have read them or not, banned from libraries and schools. I’ve seen their “banned books” list and I will say no one should be banning or burning books and I was shocked by what all was on their list. Many Major classics are now no longer being taught because of the authoritarian bent that the right has taken.
Diane Ross
I believe that would be the right that does not ant their children to see or hear things that could upset their children and make them feel sympathy, empathy, compassion , concern etc., for others.
Anne-Marie
What about Old Yeller??? We gonna erase that.too?
How long do we cushion our children to grow emotionally?
Tammy
Correct!
Susan
Hey Disney leave Bambi alone! There original is one of my 1st memories of a movie along with Dumbo. If a parent or guardian doesn’t want their child to see the movie then they can skip showing it to their kids. Guess it’s a good thing I got several forms of it to show future generations of my family since we aren’t weak and won’t be ruined or scared for life by a scene that makes a movie a movie. Oh ya and while you’re at it you might want to check out the video games and other media kids are watching. LEAVE BAMBI AS IS!!!!.
Kris
You nailed it!
Michele Armstrong
Exactly! My children saw it and so did I and we are just great! Death is a part of life!
Jane
LOL! It’s not the left who are too sensitive. Nope! Who are doing all the book bans to “protect children”? Books that kids have read for decades without being “traumatized”. The right is banning books and other things because they are so sensitive. They are the true snowflakes. Trust me, the left can handle the heavy stuff.
Mark
You must be a comedian….lol
Tiff
Hey! Don’t blame us leftists! This stuff is all on the right wing stay-at-home moms!
Shan
The original movie came out in 1942. If there was only something going on at the time that was making children aware of the harsh reality of the world. Hmmmm
SPEREZ
Thank you and agree 💯
Zazzy
Bambi needs to be left alone. It definitely doesn’t need censored. Bambi Mum sadly died by the rifle of the evil hunter. Horrific thing to happen to someone so young. But it does happen in real life. His Dad raised him into a strong and even more brave Stag. If Parents don’t want to show Bambi to their Children. That is their choice, sad though it is.
Md
Had to make it political didn’t ya. Why? I’m about as far out on the left wing as can be and HATE the idea of changing it. Also hate all the live action remakes. Poorly made in every sense of the word.
Izzy
You have got to be kidding me??! Sensitive viewers??? When does this end? They do realize it’s a bunch of drawings right??? Like you have more on television about guys and Trans and that’s not sensitive?
What is this world coming too? You don’t like it, DONT WATCH!!! SUCK IT UP YOU WHINEY BABIES!!
Mgc
Yes, I say leave it alone, everyone quit worrying about everyone else’s opinion, and what someone thinks about them, if you don’t like a movie or whatever it may be, doesn’t mean we have to change something permanently for everyone. Everyone gas different tastes and opinions. That’s how it is. We are all Americans, and you can’t change the past, just learn from ut
Justin R
God, you sound like a twat.
Haley
Stop always blaming each other politically. I’m a lefty mom, and I think the movie shouldn’t be touched.
Jum
Haha, half a brain can only process half of reality. Time to wake up and look at everything, even what you’ve been instructed not to believe.
Charlene Royal
Really get over it. Death is part of life! Help your child to handle the process of death.
Teddy
Totally agree.
Darcy
EXACTLY! Let alone what music their listening to or video games they’re playing. TV shows are worse than ANY DISNEY movie EVER WAS!
TinkLady
AGREE!
Teri
Exactly! LEAVE THE MOVIES ALONE! LEAVE THE STATUES that seem to be upsetting everybody. It’s part of history. These movies help children understand what seldom can be discussed around the kitchen table
BabyaGirl
Totally 💯. I just said the same thing about TV. Which is why i dont watch it unless im watching my “Boys of Fall” Football .
Jerry
This is what’s wrong with society today. Not everything can be sugar coated. Life and death happens. If you don’t want your child to see it then don’t let them watch it.
NaTasha Patton
I agree 1000000%
LEAVE THE CLASICS ALONE
They are classic for a reason
Haley
People blaming left side for this. But I’m liberal. And totally disagree with this. They should leave this movie alone. You gonna let your kid eat a hamburger of a dead animal. But won’t let them hear a gun shot, and see the baby deer get sad?? Then that’s a you prob. And then YOU shouldn’t watch it. Leave the movie alone
Charlie D
Yes, perrito swears, but it was censored. Yes, puss died multiple times, but did he actually 𝙙𝙞𝙚? No, he didn’t literally 𝘥𝘪𝘦, because if he did his soul would have left his body blah da blah da blah. And I don’t remember anyone being skinned.. But yeah, good point.
William
Leave history as it is. If you don’t like it don’t watch it. The world is getting way to sensitive. Can’t please everyone
MsZac
You do realize these are real people right? Cartoon characters have no “soul”!
None ya
So, because of “woke culture, cancel culture, and whatever else culture,” a company needs to change how they operate? Here’s a fantastic question, what money are they contributing to the making of these movies? If they don’t like it, don’t watch it, and don’t allow your children to watch it. Furthermore, stop being cowards. Live and let live.
Lobo Sol
We are raising pussies.
Wade
That’s a true fact.
Michael
Snowflake pussies!
Carol A
True, true, true! We’ve changed the definition of SENSITIVE. Where it once meant more about caring for others, today it means some can’t deal with the realities of life and think others should cater to them.
Becca
I’ve watched Disney movies all of my life. The Disney movie time on Sunday evenings was really something fun to watch. This was in the 1970’s. I don’t think that the movies scar children, I think the parents are responsible. Most of the parents today are kids from the late 80’s early 90’s. Disney was an intracellular part of safe entertainment for children. Even some of their other movies like Old Yeller, the Bisket Eater, Swiss Family Robinson, Pollyanna, and so many more. I believe that Disney has made difficult situations for children easier to understand. Other movies of the 80’s and early 90’s like the Journey of Natty Gan, Iron Will, Wild Hearts Can’t be Broken. These movies, in my opinion, help deal with loss, and emphasizes on sheer strength of survival and overcoming. Too many people are nit picky.
Cy
I agree with you, Becca !!
BabyaGirl
Totally 💯. I just said the same thing about TV. Which is why i dont watch it unless im watching my “Boys of Fall” Football .
Art G
100% correct. People raising kids to be wimps and they’ll never survive this world like that
Austin Wager
SO MUCH AGREE!! I was gonna say the Lion King scene too and that was(is) my favorite Disney movie til this day!
Dclark
I am 65 years get over it
Mo Rodgers
I think they should make the change.
A mother’s death for a little one is traumatic.
Be it human or animal
Tammy
Unrealistic world….this you support. Parents can never believe and achieve the shielding of all that is SAD or BAD.
COPING IS THE KEY.
MsZac
If that’s the case don’t send them to school because they are in my danger of being traumatized there than from a kids movie!
Lori
Exactly! And there is much worse on TV and streaming services these days the kids and teens are watching! Come on parents, I’m a lifelong lover of Bambi, have a collection of Bambi books, stuffed animals and figurines!.
Losing a.parent is a.tough part of life. I lost my oldest sister to Leukemia at age 3, my Mom to cancer, at age 12, and my Dad at the age of 24, murdered by two men hired by my evil stepmother – for his estate and his insurance.money. Both were the hardest, most painful experiences in my life! But I STILL LOVE BAMBI! was the worst thing to happen in my life.
Becoming a mother of a 24 yr old daughter and 18 yr old son was the best thing to happen in my life – next to marrying my husband in 1988!
Much worse things are being shown now, so people need to get a grip, a thicker skin and stop trying to change things from the past. It is all part of our collective life and history, and should be things you learn from and become better humans.
Dar
Really? Come on if Jesus Christ the son of God had to die we are all going to die to. There is no escaping it and to not teach children of death is a huge vicious circle of damage to children. They learn about death in every game they play. Fortnite, Call of duty and many others. Changing a classic is a mistake. Disney has millions of animated movies that have a death in them and your going to change a iconic classic to please whom? Disney needs to be banned for ridiculousness.
Karen
Stripping Bambi of the depiction of death not only hurts the film, but shelters children too much. Kids can deal with a lot more than today’s parents think. It’s not bad to feel uncomfortable. It’s part of life. If you never feel uncomfortable, you will never grow.
Kevin
I don’t know where politics came into play with the protecting children from real life matter, but since you went there, it’s definitely not a left issue. Just look at Ron DeSantis, taking books from schools, changing curriculum, and banning everything that’s not “Christian” across Florida. You’re putting a blindfold and ear plugs into children’s ears, until they are adults, and sending them out into the world completely unprepared for reality. But, they will be allowed to buy guns and use them against any perceived threat, from things that scare them…
Pat
Yes they do …
Patsyy
Stop blaming everything the “other side ” I’m sure you would call me a leftist but I am totally against deleting the death of Bambi’ s mother from the movie. I feel there are probably many people on both sides who are against this change. By the way, when I took my young children to see Bambi, I cried, they didn’t
Patsy
Stop blaming everything the “other side ” I’m sure you would call me a leftist but I am totally against deleting the death of Bambi’ s mother from the movie. I feel there are probably many people on both sides who are against this change. By the way, when I took my young children to see Bambi, I cried, they didn’t
Todd E. Van Dell
Yeah. But Bambi’s mom getting killed by an off-screen hunter is too traumatic for kids? Seriously? I saw the original movie at a drive-in movie theater a buncha years ago. It was very sad, but, unfortunately? It’s also an important part of life. Yeah. Death is an important part of life. To delete/deny her death just totally takes away one of the more important plot points of the movie. It’s been a minute since I watched Bambi the cartoon movie, but I seem to recall his mother’s death gave Bambi and his father a chance for some father-son bonding while dad explained why Bambi’s mom died. I mean considering how many people still go out deer hunting, death is usually the typical outcome of people deer hunting. Maybe I’m wrong but I feel like it’d be a really bad precedent that Disney would set if they just leave that whole scene out of the live action adaptation of the cartoon version of the movie. I mean, Bambi’s mother HAS to die. It’s not an unimportant plot point. Yunno? If they don’t want to have the scene where his mother gets shot actually shown on-screen? It should still happen offscreen. Maybe Bambi doesn’t need to witness her death, but she needs to die or the point of the movie will become muddied and unclear at best. It’s called CONFLICT, Disney, and without conflict, your live action Bambi will be a gigantic bore. I get the desire for sensitivity. I’m not arguing against that. But Bambi’s mom has to die so that Bambi can grow and learn from the experience. If for no other reason than that deer hunters should definitely be avoided. No conflict means no character development and no character development will mean a really boring snooze fest of a movie. That can’t be what anyone really wants. Can it?
GiGi
You hit the nail on the head. 🤜🤛
Kid Ord
It’s the far-“right” getting their GD hooks in so ya better keep On sending letters, emails, faxes & making calls.
Jamie
It needs to be left the classic that it is! I don’t know what is worse, this new generation of the overly sensitive, or the ones that just cave to them instead of just saying no! I am so tired of it all!
Common Sense Mom
Maybe have two cuts: G-Rated without the death scene and
and PG-13 with it for children with further developed emotional intelligence.
The message & context are important to understand Bambi’s devastating peril, but so is sensitivity to NOT emotionally wound our children when it can be avoided.
Not gonna lie, I was traumatized by the death of Bambi’s Mom as a kid, it triggered my fear of losing my own Mom … but I also vividly remember in Bengi (also a 1970/80s Disney movie franchise) when Tiffany was drop-kicked by a villain. I still get teary thinking about it in my 50s.
Peanut
This is so stupid. Really people? Come on…omg!!
Martha
People need to just stop. Try and focus on real issues in this sad world we’re living in. Find a way to make it better. Love ,kindness and compassion for each other. So much hate all around us. It’s called history for a reason. Leave it alone ,stop trying to change it. Don’t like a movie, then don’t watch it. You have other choices to watch. History is our past, your future will become history someday. Focus on that.
David
So, they want to shield children from death and struggles..but don’t mind them seeing sex and pornographic materials. Agenda much??
Pam
Please leave these classics alone!!! Why all of a sudden are people now having issues with the classics?? It is history and clean entertainment.
M. Wells
Too many snowflakes passing onto their children their own fears about mortality. Death is a natural part of life, parents! By denying kids the experience of death in a simple, understandable way you also deny them the opportunity to experience empathy and compassion. Children are not shields against the personal terrors their parents haven’t learned to deal with.
John doe
Youve got to be kidding. Grow a pair disney! and say no to these dumb ass people ruining motion pictures. Whats next wizard of oz i mean a house does drop on a witch.
Ty
Absolutely! I love the hypocrisy of the people who cry and moan to change and remove something isn’t comfortable.
Denise Branham
Just leave it alone. It didn’t affect my life or my kids life by knowing what happened to Bambi’s momma. Kids have to face death sometimes in life. I really liked Clarke Ingle comment, is Disney suppose to go back and redo or cut certain parts out of movies. The newer generations are just so sensitive. Don’t mess with classics.
Rebecca
Kids play violent video games and watch horror movies, but Disney is to violent. HORSE HOCKEY!!! I own much of the original Disney animated with original stories. I only watch a few of the action movies and did not like them. My children prefer the animated. I even own a copy of SONG OF THE SOUTH which generated discussions of the time period and race relation of the time.
Jake
Not only are they using an objectively worse medium to tell this story, they’re removing the plot that made Bambi grow up so young. This is a reality in ways for some people. I may be biased but I think this will be Disney’s worst and most disappointing remake.
Sammi
Agree! Bambi became who he was BECAUSE of what happen to his mother and the audiance could relate because of the emotion that was put into that scene. If they take that out, I will not be watching it. My toddler will be seeing the classic.
What is next is Disney going to pull their biggest money maker “The Nightmare Before Christmas”? Or are you going to take out all the scary parts? (Eye roll)
Anna
I agree I have not been impressed with most of the remakes.They keep changing things because someone may find it offensive but at the end of the day there are things in real life that happen that can be troubling but sheltering kids from every little thing that may be difficult is not the way to go either. How are kids supposed to grow in to strong capable educated adults when they are treated like fine chia that will break. What happened to Bambi made him strong and a protector just like his father who by the way stepped in after the loss of his mother. #Not watching anymore remakes.
Tammy
Lol
Becky
If you don’t like it, don’t let your kids watch. Wait until they are old enough to make they’re own decision. Don’t ruin it for others. Either you like it as it is, or you don’t like it at all and don’t watch!
Todd E. Van Dell
Thank you, Becky. Very well said. I think it’s a polite way of saying parents need to be parents and, yunno, actually parent their kids? I don’t understand anyone’s desire to abdicate their parental responsibilities. I am a parent, and while I was still married, I never abdicated my own parental responsibilities. Too many parents these days don’t want to be their child’s or children’s parents. I’ll take your statement a step further: If anyone doesn’t want to parent their children? Maybe they shouldn’t have children. Maybe get a pet. Something moderately uncomplicated like a fish or whatever. Yunno? Nothing wrong with being sensitive to a child’s feelings. But maybe it’s not a movie to be seen by the very young with still not fully developed sensitivities. Wait until the child has a bit more maturity before they get to see it. Would also be my recommendation. Don’t mess the movie up for the rest of us.
Richard Barnett
The liberals montra is the woosification of our society. Disney has bought into it. Walt Disney Would be appalled at what they have done to his legacy.
Gwuen
Oh, please! I’m liberal and I think they should leave well enough alone. The film stands on its own without any changes that need to be made. Did I cry as a child when Bambi’s mother was poached? You bet I did! But it didn’t scar me for life. Plus, it helped me understand death and how good friends, and a strong parental figure can help you overcome grief.
Now, to your “woosification” comment: I know PLENTY of conservatives who have raised their children in a bubble to the point they’re scared of their own shadow and go crying to their parents when anything remotely upsetting happens. It’s not just a liberal / conservative thing, it’s a generational issue.
Louise Bumpus
I totally agree with you. It also doesn’t help when children who have lost their parents at a young age, especially to diseases, they are losing that one medium of “I’m not alone”. I know it’s only a cartoon… But sometimes in that instant it seems real . Come on, who hasn’t cried as a child at certain Disney or DreamWorks movies?
Louise Bumpus
When children who have lost their parents at a young age, especially to diseases, they are losing that one medium of “I’m not alone”. I know it’s only a cartoon… But sometimes in that instant it seems real . Come on, who hasn’t cried as a child at certain Disney or DreamWorks movies.
I posted this as a reply, but I honestly didn’t want it to get “lost”… Lol.
Disney, don’t change it. Parents who have seen this ought to know now what their children can “handle” . My boys weren’t scarred by it, but some children CAN be. That’s where common sense comes in.
Add the “sensitive content” in the beginning. Not much difference between “buyer beware”.
Deb
My Dad died when I was barely 10 years old… This MOVIE helped me to be able to cry for him and mourn him when I was just a child… Anytime a parent or grandparents die?? They need to cry.. They might not be sure exactly why they are crying?? This movie was so very helpful for me?? I don’t know why it can’t help others???
This censorship has gone overboard.. It is all because of STUPID POLITICIANS who want to control your mind and your actions…
This is a wonderful movie… Perhaps some of those people who are taking away our FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION, should mind the job that they were elected to do and butt out of movies like this??? Sounds like we are basically paying them to watch Disney movies…SO TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS?????
GET A LIFE AND A JOB!!
Bluejay65791
When children lose anyone from diseases or auto accidents, Bambi helps them to deal with it. I lost my þwin sister at the age of 10 and since I had seen Bambi on The Wonderful World of Disney, I understood what had happened to her and that life would go on.
Disney needs to keep Bambi the way it is.
Anonymis
They should make a Snowflake warning label to put on movie posters when they censor films like this.
Lawrence King
I agree with everyone who says leave alone. Death is apart of life and so are the emotions that go along with it. Children understand more than we give them credit for. Bambi is classic and the scene with the mother was vital to the movie. Parents should explain certain aspects of life to their children so they won’t be in a whirlwind of unexpected emotions when the occur. #JustMyOpinion
TinkLady
Leave the Classics alone.
They are classics for a reason.
What’s the matter??
Can’t come out with anything new that would become a classic?
Violet
Disney needs to stop catering to the whiney butts. The mother gets shot in the Fox and the hound. Then he gets left alone in the forrest !! There is evil or death in every single Disney movie. Thats life. Stop trying to make everything a perfect world. That’s why kids grow up with no clue to the real world
EW
Here, here. As this is my favorite Disney movie I am SEVERELY disappointed already.
Teeth
Welcome to the club
Chris
Disney is weak, giving in to the ignorant majority instead of the intelligent minority. Hopefully Disney fails and learns to grow a set
William J
Ask the share holders who have lost retirement because of the woke culture !!!!
Elizabeth Lodato
Disney should just stop! This is real! I lost 3 members of my family by 16 Bambi is great just the way it is! Was 3 when I first saw it and by the way, I am very empathetic! Other person was right! Disney-grow a pair before you truly destroy Walt’s dream!
MsZac
I don’t agree that the ignorant are the majority by far. It just seems like it because they make so much noise about it & dramatization.
Wade
They love losing fans and money. The woke nut jobs.
Sonia
We all grew up on these movies! Bambi?!?! Come on couldn’t you leave that one alone?? If they mess with Fox and the hound I’m seriously gonna be pissed 😠
Leigh Anne
Actually they’re giving in to the minority. Vocational Minority is the name given to the extreme left and for some reason businesses cave. The majority of the left roll our eyes and laugh at the business that are afraid of them
Ĵan
I don’t think it’s the majority. I think it’s people with money trying to cause MORE trouble. It seems like thats all everyone wants to do is argue or be offended. If I don’t like something, I don’t watch it !!!!!
Tina
Hello frozen both parents died get over yourself people it’s life n at least Disney approach n tells a good strength through adversity story each x
CC
The U.S. needs to stop being so sensitive and controlling. Don’t like it, don’t watch it. Parents need to focus on their actions and parenting that causes more harm to children then a classic movie.
Tamalyn
I think Walt is rolling over in his grave right now. The magic he created and the moral to all of his stories was to teach us something positive. If your little Jack or Jill is too sensative for real life, I feel sorry for the adults you raise. If you don’t teach them, life will. Pathetic that “Disney” is allowing the cancel culture to kill Walt’s lessons.
Staci jstaci
Couldn’t of said. It better. My three watched the original. When they. Were. Under the age. Of 5. . And as they are adults now they love it
Leah
Very well said!!! I totally agree with you
Tiffany
My 10 year old has adored Mickey Mouse since he was a was a baby. The other day he said to me, “Disney may lose the right to Mickey Mouse because he is going to the public domain. Is that sad?” Maybe this was a bit harsh, but I bluntly told him, “No, because Disney Corp has already ruined Walt’s vision and dreams. Maybe they deserve to lose Mickey.”
Karen
Leave the disney movies as they were made and let the parents answer any questions thrse are the same parents who watched them as kids. Kids need to know sometimes bad things happen and how to deal with it.
Kiki
Fact of life kiddies; where do you think meat comes from?
My Father went deer hunting, and if he shot one we knew we’d have a freezer full of meat for the winter.
Get over it.
Karen
Parents are the ones raising overly sensitive babies who have permanent “ear muffs” and blinders on. That’s why the world is having to change to appease them, bot them adapting to the real world and this thing called “life”. We have stopped allowing kids to be exposed to “real” life, consequences of actions, and that shit happens. Life doesn’t always goes as planned and you have to roll with the punches. F’ all of these pansie a$$ kids and their soft parents. They have created a new crappy world.
Pam
I agree
Shawna
Bambi is a wonderful story full of life’s lessons, these things happen in real life, you can’t hide the world from your kids instead Disney has given us ways to understand and learn what are not so easy life lessons as as real life happenings, People these days don’t seem to want there kids to feel anything like Zombies walking the earth. Kids learn by experience and great well done movies like Disney giving kids a chance to experience sadness, empathy, heart break and Happiness through these beautiful movies!
Cleopatra
I agree with you 100% and I also think the Disney movies should be left the way they originally were.
Louise Bumpus
Well said!!!
Ann
I agree, you can’t keep children locked up in a box. They see worse on TV and on video.
Wade
Exactly
Wendy
Very well put! Thank you for pointing out parents wanting zombies for kids. Parents should embrace these stories because it gives them an advantage, a cruch, if you will, in explaining to their children about how life truly goes.
Please parents put down the A.D.D. meds, your kids don’t need them and learn to talk to your child. You’re the ones who are “sensitive” not them. This wimpy way of thinking is destroying the backbone of America!
Roberta
These are life lessons that children need to learn. Life isn’t perfect and children need to know that. It’s a great opportunity for conversations about life to take place. I wasn’t traumatized as a child and neither were my childre.
Big mama
I was thinking the same thing William! Have to totally agree with you. It seems as if everyone has their morals backwards these days. Instead of teaching kids about real life where all animals are here to eat. It’s a fact of life. Lets just give our kids everything they want when they want it so there are a bunch of intitled people walking around because they were handed everything & didnt have to work for it. Seriously it’s a bunch of crap! Just like everyone is a winner! NO NOT everyone is a winner, There is 1 winner always, GET OVER IT & GROW UP PEOPLE, ITS LIFE & LIFE IS NOT FAIR! SOONER KIDS LEARN THAT THE BETTER & EVERYTHING DOESNT GO THEIR WAY. Everyone has turned into a bunch of babies.
SET DeC
I was just talking to someone the other day about how students are so different today than they were when I was in school (yes I know every generation says this, but this is different somehow). I am a teacher and I have seen changes over the years I have worked in a school. It seems like parents want to protect their kids from everything. I understand, I am a parent too, but and this is a big but, kids need to be exposed to things. These movies we all grew up on helped expose us to some life lessons that were difficult to understand as a child. My parents were not great at talking to us about stuff, but they did let us watch these movies. If we had questions we would ask and my parents would fumble over answering them, but they at least had a platform to help them. I remember crying my eyes out as a child when I watched Bambi, but it also helped me to understand a little better when my friend lost their mom. Protecting our kids will always be top priority, but sheltering them from reality is not protecting them, it is doing them a disservice. If they don’t learn these life lessons from their parents (in a more controlled environment), they will definitely learn them elsewhere and it could impact them in a much worse way. I hope Disney changed their mind and keeps this piece of the movie. It has so many lessons beyond a child losing a parent.
SET DeC
Sorry for some typos in there!
Nia
Omg
Ellen
Half of these kids have shot their own deer 🦌 by the age of 10 or 12!!! You really think they are going to be scarred for life after seeing this beautifully crafted film???
Richard Bill
83% of the population live in cities. WE DON’T HUNT DEER.
Why? There ain’t any here. But our kids can figure out how to get around a city of 8 million people safely. They know how to think. Orange grifters don’t make them believe they care about them. They KNOW they are poor because of people like him and those who support him.
Michael Patrick Franklin
This “remake” of Bambi will be rubbish. The actual unabridged paperback is far more violent and emotional than what Disney dared portray in 1942. This desensitization of elevating animals into gods and making human death totally acceptable has got to stop. This pattern goes against Christianity to start with. Putting children in a fantasy bubble from the real world is non productive. If today’s children lack the fiber to read the book, they shouldn’t be exposed to a false account. I loved Gobo, and it didn’t ruin me.
J
Bro, don’t preach about fantasy and reality if you’re a Christian lmao you gotta be kidding me
PinkPiper72
That was EXACTLY what I was going to say!!
Ronald
The people and animals thing makes sense on their part though. Have you met people before? People suck. We really do. At least animals know what love and loyalty actually mean
Mike's Conscious
Sorry you seem to be contradicting yourself. Don’t want children living in a fantasy bubble, but you think they need Christianity? How do I make the crying laughing emoji here?
Kye
First, you have to be smart enough to figure that out. So I guess we will never see you posting one. Secondly , you need to stop… touching children…then you can get the go ahead from this site to post one if you want.
Tamalyn
I think Walt is rolling over in his grave right now. The magic he created and the moral to all of his stories was to teach us something positive. If your little Jack or Jill is too sensative for real life, I feel sorry for the adults you raise. If you don’t teach them, life will. Pathetic that “Disney” is allowing the cancel culture to kill Walt’s lessons.
Carolyn Lien
People need to get over it an stop screwing up every thing just because they don’t like it..kids have to learn how the world is.. hunters do this. And are going to keep doing this they need to learn. Don’t want your kids to see it don’t let them watch it..I watched it when I was a kid an im just fine. Our kids watched it an there fine..leave the movies alone an just deal with it.
Ace
Actually its the opposite, Disney keeps caving to the ignorant MINORITY, instead of focusing on paying attention to the intelligent MAJORITY, and are doing so to the detriment of their own company! If they keep pandering to the loud mouthed, but wrong minority they will eventually collapse their own company!😑
Ronnie
“reportedly” going too?… I’ll wait till they do it before getting my panties in a bunch.
Denise
Disney will continue to lose more and more fans, many lifelong fans, by continuing down this misguided path of rewriting the classics we all love dearly. Life is not a never ending cumbaya moment. Tragedy happens in real life and these movies allow parents to explain these things in easily understandable terms for even our younger children. If Disney wants a different movie than the original, make a new movie, don’t destroy what has been the backbone of Disney for generations of fans. Shame on Disney for abandoning all of us who have supported and helped to make Disney the powerhouse it is today, in favor of a few very loud, “overly sensitive” people who spit in the face of it’s history and actual foundation. Walt, I’m sure, is rolling over in his grave.
Ronald
Disney has always watered down these stories. Have you read the little mermaids, the original story? Or snow white? They are far more violent and disturbing than what Disney had remade them to be decades ago.
Cissy
So we let our kids play video games that kill people, yet a deer being killed by a Hunter is bad. I see where priorities are.
JOHN
Aww sensitive parents etc. Why why can’t you people just leave the classics alone and let others enjoy it. Start your own damn crap. Stop shoving your feelings down everyone else’s throats. Simple solution here. JUST DONT WATCHT IT DUH…
Tee
My thoughts exactly. I’m so sick n tired to Disney changing the classics to suit a minority. Let’s see, hows that going for them so far. Failures! If you want to cave into the minority, create NEW stories AND leave the classics alone
S. S.
On the money!
You don’t like something, don’t watch/read it. Your “being offended” as a minority is offending the majority. Why should the majority have to cater to the minority?
Gennie
I agree with you 💯
Beth W.
Thank you John! Those are my sentiments exactly. I hate it when a story has to be “adapted” to accommodate those more sensitive viewers. It totally ruins the story. If you know there is something in the story that you think is too sad, then don’t take your kids to see it. I remember seeing “Old Yeller” as a child, and being so upset because they had to shoot the Yeller. I understood why, but I never watched it again. Nor did I get it for my son to watch (mostly because I just didn’t want to see it again). But there ya go…I had a choice, and I took it.
Ryan
It seems to me everyone commenting here, as well as the author would do well to take your advice.
Don’t agree with how it’s remade?
“Simple solution here.
JUST DONT WATCHT IT DUH.. “
Borris
Snowflakes make me want to hurl! If reality is that unpleasant to you, move on to the next plain of existence. We need the oxygen!
Richard Bill
Sorry but your pickup truck got rid of the oxygen.
Timothy Holter
Totally agree !!
Kevin Miller
I love the way you put that! The things we grew up with don’t need to be changed or canceled because these newer generations are a bunch of oversensitive cry babies. The Woke and Cancel cultures really DO need to get their crap and leave our Classic Icons alone! And it’s not just movies but EVERYTHING. Thank you for your comment.
Katie Osborn
I was one of those wussies that cried a lot when Bambi’s mom died. It must have been bad, because she never let me see it again. She didn’t write letters to the editor claiming that movie should be censored. Simple. It’s called taking care of your own children and not controlling everyone else.
Douglas Doane
Whoever is making these changes I wish they would stop if you’d like to create a different theme park ride do it but don’t change the old ones because you think they’re politically incorrect all thank you very much
Karen
Disney has gone to nothing more than a greedy money making bunch of Fools. Poor Walt Disney is flipping around in his grave! They have put the cost of the parks out of reach for most people. They are rewriting the beloved classics to kiss up to a minority of people. Listen up people, everyone and everything dies.And some in a not so nice way. STOP catering to the people who think the world is all roses and sunshine! You’re not helping your children, you’re making them emotional zombies. They don’t learn the harsh reality of life. What do these do when a loved one dies or a family pet dies? Hide it from their children?
Stuart Pidasso
There’s a small group of people that want to change things for another small group of people and they don’t care about the rest of us . Disney needs a purge of arrogant stupidity . It’s what the general public wants . Not what a few whiney simpletons at Disney want . The. It’s you disrespect the artistry and lessons of the past , the more the contemporary average populous will push back .
Cj
Please leave the classics alone if some ppl don’t like the old Disney and other classic movies. DON’T watch them
Princess Leximus
I would watch this movie every single day as a child, it was literally my absolute favorite next to Disney’s adaptation of Heidi. Being exposed to the topic of death at such a young age made me WANT to spend time with grandparents and get extra excited when aunts and uncles and cousins would visit. I actually cherished people as a child. Disney can’t teach kids about death? We have to wait until the family dog or grandma crooks instead now? I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Age 28.
Sandra
Geez, even Mr Rodgers tackled death!
Your take is right on the mark
Angie
This never damaged children I loved the movie as a child it never traumatized us as children. People are making all the excuses they can to change all the great classics . Parents need to stop putting their children in bubbles its important for children to learn yes parents pass away everyone does at some point it’s called life, sad but true . These movies never damaged us as children so to parents grow up and stop trying to change great classics movies just cause of your foolish excuses nonsense.
Davy C
To the contrary this was very traumatizing to kids in the fifties. It should never have been a part of the movie then and it is way past time to correct that mistake. Disney forever rah rah rah. I am old enough to remember the first day the park opened
Deric
It was not traumatizing you Snowflake and it doesn’t need to be changed if you don’t like it don’t watch it
Dusty
I had nightmares about my mom dying for weeks after watching that movie. Don’t assume your experience is everyone’s.
Alana
Shelter your children until it’s too late. Don’t teach girls about periods at 8 so when they’re 9 and it happens, welp, guess your little plan to wait until they were 12 didn’t work out. Don’t wanna teach your children about death? Try explaining why their parent won’t be home anymore in a way that doesn’t make them seem like a jerk. Don’t wanna admit there’s evils in this world and that child are very much susceptible to them, and are even the main focus majority of the time? Guess they’ll be a statistic. Children need to be given the information to protect themselves, and before it’s too late. Doing so through media that can bring the stories to light in a child friendly way, such as Disney and DreamWorks, gives your child the ability to stop the story when they’re too uncomfortable and continue later, for you to tell them it was just a movie, even though it may happen irl, and it can make them learn a lesson and feel stronger for making it through. Children are not a speck of dust that’ll blow away if you just look at them. But they can be easily manipulated if you don’t teach them that the world is NOT rainbows and butterflies from a young age. They can take much more than you think.
Alice
I agree with everything you said. Video games they are playing where they are killing people, The music they listen to that promotes death, violence and sex and drugs and most parents know their children are listing and watching and playing these things…but this is all ok right? This is a twisted world we live in…where wrong is right and right is wrong 😕
Linda
I agree with everything you said
Kiki
And why don’t you bring back the original scene in E.T. with the guns?
James
Disney is becoming a total disaster! We have one more trip scheduled and after that I’m selling my DVC points and won’t darken their door. Will make sure my disney streaming subscriptions are canceled. Go woke go broke.
Karen
Disney has gone to nothing more than a greedy money making bunch of Fools. Poor Walt Disney is flipping around in his grave! They have put the cost of the parks out of reach for most people. They are rewriting the beloved classics to kiss up to a minority of people. Listen up people, everyone and everything dies.And some in a not so nice way. STOP catering to the people who think the world is all roses and sunshine! You’re not helping your children, you’re making them emotional zombies. They don’t learn the harsh reality of life. What do these do when a loved one dies or a family pet dies? Hide it from their children?
Becky
Oh no james is gonna cancel his subscriptions what is disney gonna do now
Mike
Trust me, Disney won’t shutter their doors because you like to spat the “woke” bullcrap. That being said, yes Disney should revisit their Business model.
Pete
I’m planning on the same thing. Getting rid of my DVC points while I still can.
GmA
I’m so disgusted with all this crap. These dumb people are making it very difficult for us to raise our kids with compassion and a caring heart. That’s what Bambi teaches our children. I’m sick of all the WOKE. These people have no compassion
Patty C
I am sick of the vocal MINORITY ruling. Just because they shout the loudest they decide what we want to see and do. Leave Bambi alone. If you are so offended by the original plot don’t go see it.
Amy Ess
Do the people who want a “kinder and gentler” movie realize Bambi is a male deer?
Richard Bill
You mean the House Republikkkans? I agree VOTE THEM OUT
TMay
Parents should explain to their kids where their food comes from. It does not just show up in a grocery store.
Big Daddy
Lol. The far left lives in Fantasyland
John olsen
The death of Bambi’s mother is essential to the plot. If disney wants to bring the story current then replace her being shot by the evil hunter with either run over by an illegal alien or dying from a fentenil overdose .both changes achieve the same result Bambi is forced to grow up fast and relies on the help from her forest friends the other change could elimate the forest friends and replace them with government programs food stamps and wic grant money
Tex
You know World War 2 was happening in 1942. I am pretty sure those kids were going through alot.
Mingion
Amen!
Wanda Goyette
How many children in this country live in a household who’s father brother,grandfather hunt every year for deer. Every child and grandchild in my family has seen this movie. Yes it is sad but that is life , when you need to eat you hunt. That’s the problem with kids, some people think kids need to be sheltered from everything g now days, maybe they should sit down and explain,talk about it. Kids are smarter than people give them credit
Jerry
the snow flakes can just have a melt down and grow up
Kathy
I was more traumatized by the Wizard of Oz than I have been by any Disney film. I learned about the real world. My real life was more traumatizing than any Disney classic.
Cris
I grew up on Disney movies. Some of my best childhood memories involve watching a Disney movie. The people running Disney now have taken the magic out of Disney movies. I’m a woman and yet I hate all these “I don’t need a man” stances they are taking with Disney princesses. I haven’t even watched most of the live action remake because they don’t follow the originals and are too political in nature which destroys the whole point of a Disney movie.
Disney movies gave children a world of magic and dreams come true feelings. This world has gotten so dark and ugly and politically charged. Watching a Disney movie is supposed to give children a place to escape to. Now all this BS is happening. It’s so depressing it makes me want to avoid Disney all together. And don’t even get me started with pirates of the Caribbean. If there’s no captain jack (Johnny Depp) then let the series end. If you do this with Bambi, then congratulations to the Disney board for officially killing Disney magic. Walt is rolling over in his grave.
Marie
Children are shooting up schools, shooting teachers, beating people up and commiting vandalism, and we’re going to worry about their sensitivities? Maybe some honest emotion is what’s needed here.
Mike C
Disney tries to satisfy the VOCAL MINORITY of SENSITIVITY ISSUES. DEATH is as much as a PART OF LIFE as LIVING.
Hasn’t DISNEY LOST almost a BILLION DOLLARS. trying to satisfy the few, who think they’re entitled to ONLY THEIR VIEWS????
Disney better start worrying about the MAJORITY who understand life, death and choices.
Matt
How on earth can you have Bambi without Bambi’s mom being killed? Some things can be moved or changed, this isn’t one of them. It changes the entire movie.
GWally
My thoughts exactly!
Cynthia
We Baby Boomers took the hit & survived, stop
mollycoddling the kids, life isn’t always joyous, get real, no need to adjust the Disney Classic movies !
Pamela Leggett
What about Looney Tunes, and all the super hero cartoons.. no violence there? I think not. Nothing against those. But come on! Bambi, violent! It’s sad. Yes. But they barely even show that part but for a second. There is far worse scenes out there. Violent fighting games , etc. If it is going to bother you or your child just don’t watch it! Let others enjoy or learn the lessons to be learned and the magic that is still Disney!
Claude
Old Yeller is probably next.
Keith Spray
Make two movies, Regular Bambi, and Woke Bambi…release them both at the same time and see which one makes money. Seems to me Regular Bambi teaches real life lessons, and Woke Bambi gives everyone participation trophies.
Jill
Another nail in the coffin for Disney. They never learn from their mistakes. Disney is on a path of self destruction. It’s not about the death of Bambi’s mother but the death of Disney itself.
Art G
Sure hope so because they definitely deserve it
Dan
Bambi was the first film I watched and actually paid close attention to. It was the first time I learned about death and I think that it really shaped my entire outlook on life. It made me never want to be a hunter and I never have. I suppose certain groups could call the movie “woke” because of that, but I think it’s a shame to do this. Yes parents, it can make your kid cry, but sometimes crying is creating growth.
Shalako
Yet another very sad case of the tail wagging the dog, brought to us by the overly sensitive, every kid should get a trophy, minority! If these people ever take over this country will be doomed! Our founding fathers would NOT approve!
Deb Korutz
I’ve only seen BAMBI once …when I was a kid…and the thing I remember most… was Bambi’s mom getting shot! I don’t care who or how they remake it…it scarred me for life 🥹
Matt S.
You must have a really hard trouble navigating life nowadays?!
Violence is prevalent n tv, movies, video games and even the news!
Shawn hill
Wow so what do you watch today ? Do you have children ? If so what kind of video games do u let them play or even TV shows or movies way worse than any Disney movie
J
Is there a single actual human being who feels this way or is Disney just blaming the whole thing on ~~~~people~~~~ who don’t even really exist?
Joshua
GO WOKE GO BROKE
Richard Bill
Ain’t slogans fun. No need for thinking. So much easier.
It has nothing to do with woke. If Bambi cries he must be gay and DeSantis will ban the movie.
Nick
When a small minority that have no life get offended the majority have to change our ways to cater to them? How does that make sense? Just because they have nothing better to do than look for things to get offended by means the rest of us have to suffer? I say add the scene of his mom being field dressed and drug to the back of the pick-up and hauled to the butcher. Give them something to be offended by. Some people must have never lost a childhood Friend or parent or Brother as child or teen. If so they would understand how Bambi helped us learn to cope with such a loss in a wholesome, caring way. LEAVE THE DANG MOVIE ALONE. Your being offended all the time is offending me! I’m tired of hearing you complain about everything, all the time. Get a better hobby.
Richard Bill
You do realize it seems that you are complaining about everything all the time.
Thumper
Well, I guess Disney is setting themselves up for another bomb of a remake! All my brothers and sisters grew up watching Bambi and all the other classics. It never harmed us! Great life realities and lessons learned!
Robert
Liberals are weak, soft, contemptible little Marxists.
Richard Bill
And I bet you think gay people have no rights and women’s wombs belong to the stae. Whose the fascist?
Connie
How about you just come up.with an original movie Disney???? Stop messing with the classics. Being an educator for 35 years in a pre-school – primary school setting, the number of children who came in with stories about what they had seen on TV or in video games was far more violent than Bambi. Maybe you should start listening to reasonable people.
Matt S.
Exactly!
He’s marshmallow parents that shield their kids from minor things in movies don’t have any problem with violence and death on TV and video games
Jerome
I am a major Disney fan. This breaks my heart. Listen Disney you have two choices: Either you can retain the original storyline and just rate the movie and the original on your platform to maybe PG-13 and just say in a description, “this deals with a heavy topic” and that would be the disclaimer or don’t change the rating but put a disclaimer before the movie both original and remake so that whoever is watching it’s at their own discretion. You can’t make overly sensitive parents or children influence the greater fandoms childhood that you set up. While I understand that they’re not trying to be offensive it’s a real life situation. You can’t avoid talking about such a important lesson such as losing someone in your family. This will be the single most devastating decision you would have ever made with any live action and you know it. You might want to rethink your decision.
Karen
The best, sensible comment that I have read about this topic. 👍
Linda Camacho
Oh! I’m so sensitive! I’m the Princess sensing the Pea!
John
What’s next a remake of old yeller where everyone lives happily ever after? Disney do me a favor sell all the Star Wars and marvel stuff. I hate myself for giving you money because I enjoy those .
Matt S.
What kind of children are we hoping to raise?
Every blow cushioned. Every bad thing magically erased from their lives…..
No wonder so many kids grow up with mental health issues?! They don’t have to deal with the real world until they get out into it.
Go ahead and cut Bambi’s mother’s death from your latest release so the parents can feel good about that and then let their kids blow each other up on Fortnite and Call of Duty
Headntheclouds
Says the grown man enraged by a change in a children’s movie.
Janet
By this comment I can see you are one of them 🙄’headintheclouds’
Sharon
The reason these movies are classics is because they gave kids a safe place to feel painful emotions, to think mean thoughts, and what can come of both ways of being. If you are good and nice better things come to you, if you are mean and spiteful you pay a terrible price. Leave the classics alone!
NastieJ
Uh oh, looks like Headuptheass, ooopppps sorry, Headnanothersass, is butthurt! Did you remove your mommy’s titty from your mouth long enough to comment? Probably! Seems HeadsHeBeSuckin is probably part of the problem with western society! Cryin, whining, waiting for his life participation trophy. There is always a way out! Drink some bleach! Or slice the wrist, but slice vertical, horizontal is just for attention! You’d probably cut horizontal so ppl felt bad for you! Hahahahahahahahaha weak ass! Go back to suckin off your mommy’s titty, let the real adults have real conversations about how ppl like you SUCK! 🖕
Monica
Nobody knows who you are, so you bully someone and advocate suicide. Nice, you must be a peach. Great personality, something to be proud of.
Matt S.
Ban ALL fairy tales bc you can’t make one without “traumatizing” a child!
Death: bambi, lion king, Frozen, Tangled, Little Red Riding Hood
Domestic Abuse: Beauty and the beast, Cinderella, Snow White
Sarah
Don’t push to the minority, this is part of that whole black list movement thing. Don’t downgrade and ruin a good thing. Every new Disney movie that had come out has failed. I hated all the remakes and it’s hard for me to be excited when a bunch of snowflakes are taking over the industry.
The world is a dark and scary place, Disney gives a little light of hope and shows just because something is dark, doesn’t mean it will be forever and there is a light.
Don’t let the Karen’s and Dave’s ruin it for the rest of us who ACTUALLY like these movies and learned lessons from them.
Start being Dosney again. BE the lead role you were and stop being the lamb you are now. You make the choices, listen to the true fan base and not the prissy pampered poodles who can’t handle truth and real life. If they want to remain in a bubble and shield from the harsh reality of the world. Let them. Our kids are true and strong and will be the rebel Vikings who can survive the apocalypse.. and watch the true Disney along the way!
McKenzie
I think people are too sensitive now days, these films target reality. As much as we hate it, loss is something that happens in everyone’s lives eventually by getting rid of these scenes it creates an unrealistic expectation and creates a lack of sympathy. Yes it’s sad, but these films can teach people how to feel certain emotions.
Jessie
The first time my 4yo watched Bambi I was struggling not to cry during that scene and she asked, “Are the hunters eating his mom now?” I bursted out laughing.
Nicholas
Right, for these people -they should make Bambi’s mom killed in a ‘peaceful protest’ Bambi has to loot other animals house why wondering if she is a buck or a doe
Deitra Pawley
Having worked with kids during the 2000s, through the 2010s kids aren’t as sensitive as adults think they are and if you think your kid is too young to handle bambi’s mom’s death just wait until you think they’re old enough then sit down and explain what will happen before you start the movie. It all happens off screen anyway, I was about seven when I first watched Bambi ,I was eleven and rewatching it when I realized what happened to Bambi’s mom.
Crank
Maybe a bunch of adults shouldn’t feel threatened by a kids movie, it makes you seem sensitive
Eloarei
Where’s the tweet or press release or anything that says they’re taking this scene out? People are interpreting very vague comments to mean whatever they want/fear.
Erica W
The entire premise of the mkvie is based on Bambi’s mother not being “able to be with him anymore”. This totally negates the entire plot and subsequent sequel. Death is inevitable. In my opinion, it is better to come from a children’s movie and have the children ask questions about it than to ignore it or experience it first-hand-which WILL happen eventually. Prepare them for the hard lessons at a young age so they are better equipped for the real world. It os jarsh, and ugly and often damaging. Allow this hard truth now so we as their parents can be the soft landing when life beats them down.
Gennie
Today’s society bubble wrap their kids to the point that when/if something happens to me hem them hey will be completely unprepared to deal with love life
Gennie
Oops that should have said something happens to them….
JJ
Good. That movie traumatized me and broke my heart as a kid. I adored the characters and grew up feeling guilty every time I ate meat sometimes bawling my eyes out because I killed someone’s mother. I developed no respect for hunters which were all over in my family. Let the sadists keep the cartoon to traumatized their children with while pretending it’s teaching them about the food chain in a healthy way. I’d appreciate a different take to show my kid, because if it didn’t traumatize her I’d be concerned she’s a psychopath. I won’t be showing that or Charlotte’s web to my kid, or any of that depressing crap parading as life lessons. There’s enough real world misery they’ll be experiencing all life long. No need to strong arm it into entertainment escapism.
Z
What a snowflake world we live in! Quite sad actually
Z
What a snowflake world we live in! It’s actually quite sad really!
Henry
If memory serves me correctly, there are lots of Disney characters with at least one dead parent and the character must endure the loss as a plot point. These namby pamby parents who are whining need to grow up and be real parents and explain things to their kids about the realities of the darker side of life.
2Sensitive2Live
If your too sensitive that you can’t get through Bambi you should stop wasting everyone else’s oxygen and should be drowned in the toilet. Losers.
Jan K.
My son was more upset with Pinocchio than Bambi! he saw them both at 5. He didn’t like the Puppet master! We talked about it after the movie on the way home! He now understands what could happen when you don’t listen to those that love and care for you! In Bambi he stated, “I thought hunters can only shot Bucks!”
River
Just put kids in bubble wrap with helicopter moms circling around until they’re 40. Make oooey gooey movies for them and see how fast they bomb. Actually we’re seeing them bomb before they even appear in the theater. Looking at you Woke Snow White. Disney will never come close to the innovative and well written stories of the past. Good riddance Disney.
Ellen
Half of these kids have shot their own deer 🦌 by the age of 10 or 12!!! You really think they are going to be scarred for life after seeing this beautifully crafted film???
Richard Bill
Excuse me? 83% of the country live in cities (aka urban areas) We don’t shoot deer in cities. A kid with a gun goes to jail. (Although really his/her parents should be the ones in jail.) Your world is gone. Even the Orange grifter and Lauren “I fondle my date at a children’s musical” Bobert and Matt “I abuse kids” Gaetz and Gym “I don’t report sexual assault” Jordan, can’t stop it.
Mantis
This is yet another reason why I will never support Disney. This woke, politically correct company needs to go bankrupt and shut down. Did they forget about the Lion King? Tired of everything being so offensive and hurting people’s feelings, just a bunch of pansies, you all need to grow the f up and learn how to change channels or ignore what offends your weak feelings.
Ron
It’s almost like Disney hates its own product and is doing everything in their power to destroy it. They are trying to appease people who wish them gone. This never turns out very well. Ignoring the people who love your product, instead of the ones who don’t, is some very bad PR, unless you actually want lose the audience that you had, in exchange for the ones you will never have. Disney had better open it’s eyes, before it is too late.
Wes
Just like other examples, the main point is missed. It’s about conservation and mankind’s responsible (and irresponsible) to wildlife and nature. To erase the hunter’s killing of Bambi’s mother is to neutralize the impact of man’s presence. The fire that destroys the forest is also due to the hunters. Is it not important to reflect on the that? Sanitation of Walt Disney’s stories is absolutely ridiculous. There is a point. If the parent is too not capable of talking to the child about the tough points in the film, maybe the parent is the problem.
Lisa
It’s not that people these days are too sensitive, it’s that they are tired of all the hate and bullying and so on… however, being someone who watched Bambi at the age of 3 with my father telling me that could be my mother, even I say it should stay the same. It helps children who have lost their mother learn they too can thrive and survive in a world so cold.
Shannon
If you don’t like the movies don’t watch them. Can we just stop being so emotional and soft. These movies were made at a different time. I’m sorry you guys can’t handle the realities of life. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes people aren’t sensitive to you because everything is not alllll about you…we are all going though things. Hardships build character and make you stronger. Your feelings will get hurt in life. It’s how you handle it that matters. Disney catering to all this nonsense is totally ridiculous. If people don’t like it they can go away. You have enough to keep doing what you’ve always done.
Shannon
If you don’t like the movies don’t watch them. Can we just stop being so emotional and soft. These movies were made at a different time. I’m sorry you guys can’t handle the realities of life. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes people aren’t sensitive to you because everything is not alllll about you…we are all going though things. Hardships build character and make you stronger. Your feelings will get hurt in life. It’s how you handle it that matters. Disney catering to all this nonsense is totally ridiculous. If people don’t like it they can go away. You have enough to keep doing what you’ve always done.
Al
They’re being foolish once again changing things for the vocal minority. The Mermaid is a redheaded white bit a black person, Snow White is hence the name white not Hispanic. That is why these movies are failing, go woke and go broke. Make new stories for them, in sure they would be up in arms if Shaft was remade with a white person. If the companies would just ignore them they would eventually shutup and go away.
James
Quite honestly, I’m getting tired of remake after remake. During the 1990s they had a few remakes, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book which I believe was a box office bomb, and of course 101 Dalmatians starring Glenn Close as Cruella De-Vil, there was also The Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan, and we had Homeward Bound: An Amazing Adventure. Disney has for decades had death be part of their movies in one way or another, going as far back as Treasure Island which was the first live action movie ever done by Walt Disney. If this is true, they are not only doing a disservice to the story, but it is also a disservice to Walt Disney himself because the death of his mom was very influencing on him. Here’s to hoping that the company stops listening to the whiners and remains more loyal to not only Walt, but to the fans that have fond memories of the Classics. I grew up on Bambi, The Jungle Book, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 101 Dalmatians, among countless others. Without these movies I don’t think kids from my generation would be able to handle death as well as we have.
Hayley
Their are more parents with PTSD, anxiety, and have dealt with trauma. I would say that might be the reason for the over sensitivity now days.
I would hope plenty of brainstorming and hope for no musical. It should be still be a great experience for when the project is complete.
I was opposed for a while to a live action but really this could be really great. So good likely as long as you keep the death in to the story. Because that is what made Bambi Bambi.
Walt Disney/Pixar go for it!
Stacie
People really need to stop whining about everything. Get over it already and leave the classics alone.
Susan
What happened to just not going to the movie if you don’t like something? I hate violent movies and horror movies. I just don’t go!!
River
Just bubble wrap kids while their helicopter mothers circle around until they’re kids are 40. Make some movies for the nervous, triggered moms and leave the rest alone. Disney will never be innovative or write masterpieces again. Bye Disney.
Jme
Simple answer, If you don’t like it, don’t watch it…
red
I would rather kids watch Bambi than Disney’s crater and the ones where they are forcing gay and lesbian action in to KIDS movies and animations.
BOYCOT DISNEY!!!!!
Barbara W
This is getting out of control. I you don’t like the subject matter of Bambi don’t watch it. Disney don’t change this story that is a part of Disney history and a fan favorite for so many. Don’t succumb to the minority who clearly are offended by everything and are intent on changing history on many fronts as if it never happened!!!
T
The overly sensitive have a choice…Don’t watch if it offends. PLEASE stop changing originals…..UGH…
Rukia
let me tell these special snowflakes something. I’m sensitive but I never want movie to change. it teaches lesson, in always put the fire out after hunting.
Harv
I shoot Bambi’s mom every year and she tastes really really good.
Teresa H
It would appear that “new” Disney plans to have it be about young Bambi growing up with his Mom around and they have a perfect life in the forest. I feel everyone is becoming so sensitive and almost unable to have any appreciation for the hard lessons in life we all have to learn. Yes, it’s sad to lose the impact of facing uncomfortable facts of life in this world for the sake of a buck and to pander to the hyper-sensitive populace.
scott
I don’t know what happened to Disney or the total week minded people we have today trying to keep there children in some false world but this is a classic that my whole family has seen from generation to generation and doesn’t need a remake or anything left out of the original story leave a good family movie alone like others have said if you don’t like it don’t watch it
Janet
So so tired of things being changed and/or ommited to appease a whiney soft generation. We have a generation of entitled narcissistic people who are raising helpless children who knows nothing about being uncomfortable or waiting or loosing. Children who cannot effectively feel or communicate with other humans because they are taught this fictional concept that life it fair. It’s poison to our society and makes me sick.
Shanae
As sad as death is, it is a part of life and kids do need exposure to it. And I think cartoons can be a good way to expose it to them. It might be easier with a movie. And it is better story telling fit sure.
Terry
Disney is getting ridiculous and censoring a beloved classic – beloved by many generations – Bambi – is utterly idiotic.
I loved Bambi as did my children and grandchildren who are aged 5 and 8 years.
It is actually a great means to introduce kids gently to death.
Kids have pets and better to see Bambi’s mom died off screen and open a famimy discussion about what death means than wait for a child to lose say, a grandparent, pet dog, hamster, bunny, cat or whatever when it is reall and in their face.
Our society has turned a corner in the road that will shelter our children from the world and ill prepare them for the real world.
We are going to raise children who ate going to end up reliant on therapy for so many problems they were not raised prepared to face our handle.
Disney is going to the dogs.
Robert Baker
Most people don’t even realize what the original book Bambi was really about. It wasn’t an anti hunting work and in fact the author was an avid hunter. It was infact a metaphor for the pogrom treatment of the Jews before WW2. The deer representing the Jewish people and the hunters the ruling class. I doubt Disney could even handle such a subject. The book author wrote three stories two made into films by Disney. Bambi and Pierre a little known one about a squirrel. The third Bambi’s Children was completely overlooked by Disney when they did Bambi 2. Something Walt would certainly not have done. How in depth do you think they will be to the original story their live action will be. I don’t hope for much.
Ashley
I’ve always loved Disney, but now that they’ve decided to become woke to appease the few voices that complain, they truly have changed everything that made it wonderful into something fake and bought. How easily have they lost who and what they stand for….for what??? The majority voice is alot bigger and stronger than the minority one and if they allow themselves to be bullied into something that they never stood for, they’re going to lose a lot of fans!!
Teddy
Don’t change Bambi! I grew up with it.
Jake
Nobody asked for this. Nobody is “too sensitive” for this, Disney execs are just thinking that they need to sand off every rough edge to continue endless growth. It’s a psyop that’ll only serve to make reactionaries and boomers think millennials are too sensitive to handle death.
K.J.
“go woke, go broke?”
…please.
…just admit that you have the mental and emotional depth of a puddle and move on.
Exploring the concept of needless death and the utter dispassion with which we as humans exploit animals (through needless predation and environmental negligence – i.e. the campfire that left the Forrest in ruins) is plenty and doesn’t require politics to be impactful.
Are you going to reference our healthcare system when the children in your circle lose someone close to them? No? Maybe because that’s a bit much? Okay, same for a kids movie where an animal loses it’s parent. It’s sad. It happened.
Forward with the plot.
Shame on you for forcing kids to assume the roles of adults.
Let them be kids. Potential Disney -level emotional experiences and all.
Darcy
This changing everything is RIDICULOUS if they’re too sensitive DON’T TAKE YOUR CHILD TO SEE IT. It’s a reality. Where do you tell your children their hamburger or nuggets came from? Be serious! STOP CHANGING EVERYTHING!
CraigT
Of all the studios to lose their Marbles Disney was the last to fall, the fact is one if the things people loved about Disney is that it stayed true to its history and family values, yes they destroyed a few families in their storylines but it wasn’t with out its life lessons. Reality is something way to many people hide away from in today’s world. The odd dose of reality even for children is much needed. My boy watched Ace Ventura when nature calls, many will recall it’s the one with the very corny adaptation from cliff hanger where a raccoon drops to its death. My boy was shattered and wanted to stop the movie. As good parents we paused for a minute explained the fact that 1 the raccoon didn’t die in real life and 2 in it was important to the story and we began watching the movie again. Afterwards we didn’t feel like the best parents for some of the questionable content that movies of that time contained and then remembered I was about the same age when I first saw it and it didn’t hurt me any.
Reggie C Craven
America needs to step up and tell people from others countrys that this is america.you leave your country for a better life not to bring your country here to change america.itwont be long until Erica is bowing down to china.
Richard Bill
Who is Erica? Why is she bowing to China?
A Nichols
How will our kids and grandchildren ever know all the enjoyment us older adults had if thay keep changing ever thing. For just a few people am heartbroken thankfully I have most of the original movie for My Great grand kids
Richard Bill
When I was a kid, my mother hated the Beatles because they were not Frank the misogynist, Sinatra. Times change grams or granny. Deal with it.
William
Here comes the snowflakes again.
R
No one is making you watch any of this… Leave it alone.
But meanwhile…. Everything I want to watch has an element of LGBTQ in it….. Maybe it’s time people turn it off and find a healthy hobby….I am.
Denise
Bambi is a wonderful Disney classic! These parents who believe that it is too violent for their child should perhaps delay viewing it another year or so. I do not agree with eliminating the scene of the mother dieing. Death is a part of life. Parents have an opportunity to watch with their children and use this as a teaching tool. These children WILL experience death in their lives, a grandparent, friend or parent. It is impossible to shield them from the inevitable. Is it not better to prepare them this way and discuss it with them?Please don’t ruin a good thing. Bambi is perfect the way it is.
E.J.
I’m in favor of this change. A line of dialog can explain the mother’s departure. Hunting is too sick and cruel.
David
Deer don’t have babies in winter. By hunting season fawns have lost their spots an once mating season starts the mother doesn’t want anything to do with them. Bucks don’t have anything to do with raising babies. There is nothing accurate in Bambi.
Carol A
So what! Do you really think the children care? Are you naive enough to not realize that no made-for-entertainment movie is factual? Do you really believe that John Wick survives being beaten by hundreds of people a day and thousands of bullets miss him, or that there is a Superman and he can actually fly?
UseYourBrainPlz
Do none of you, including the writer, understand what a “treatment” is in screenwriting terms?
Are y’all really whipping yourselves up into a frenzy of being offended at the idea that a mega-studio will commission treatments with various styles from various different writers/groups?
Bambi’s mom is still gonna die in the live-action remake, which will probably be bad for other reasons. Come on, use a little critical thinking, please.
Richard
This is yet another reason my kids do not watch any of the new Disney crap. I got all the old movies and they will continue to watch the older versions and Disney can continue to lose money hand over fist.
Cathy Steele
Total stupidity, especially when the outcry continues and the stock value keeps falling.
Goingbythelaw
When is this going to stop? Everything seems to offend sensitive people, are we going to remake/rewrite every film/book? If a movie released over 40 years ago hurts your feelings then do not watch it. We cannot change to accommodate everyone’s feelings.
D whit
This is one of the reasons I gave up my annual passes and Disney+. I’m saving so much money by not going to Disney World that I’m going to be able to go to Europe next year.
ebinrock
I was 5 when I saw the animated Bambi in the theater (re-release, of course, in the 1970’s). I had no problem with hearing the gunshot and then hearing the Great Prince of the Forest tell Bambi simply, “Your mother can’t be with you anymore.” I made it to the end of the film. (Well, I slept through a good portion of it, as I was a sleepy little child 😉
I also didn’t have a problem with Star Wars (aka, “A New Hope”) in its original run a couple of years later, when *Han shot first*. Nor did I get traumatized seeing Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru’s burnt skeletons at the destroyed homestead.
Shielding kids from the reality of death will eventually make them fear death all the more later in life.
I can’t wait to see YouTube’s Critical Drinker rip this one!
Mary
I have always felt that Disney I had made a habit of killing animals and parents to reach their ultimate goal of making $$. People are naive to think they are trying to impart life lessons.
As a child, I was traumatized by Bambi.
David
I feel sorry for you if Bambi traumatized you.
Cathy
Disney needs to grow a spine and quit bowing down to “sensitive people or the woke mob
Ad
Indeed, oh no, we possibly might offend someone, unbelievable BS.
David
They can have children “discover” all the different pronouns people are calling themselves and how it’s “normal” to have two mommies but they worry about a child discovering death. Go figure.
Adam Wolf
If they want to make a new movie with a new character fine
But the majority of Americans want the live action to follow the original
Look what happened to Snow white
Sara Stewart
All these live action remakes are getting ridiculous especially since all disney wants to do is listen to half the audience instead of the whole picture! And on top of that they are getting rid of the amazing story telling!!! Disney keeps wondering why they aren’t making money on the remakes here’s why and listen closely Disney 🙄 If you’re gonna make a remake keep the orginal story just like when u was growing up with Disney my mom always made sure that is she thought it wasn’t appropriate she wouldn’t let me watch it! So take this as a word of advice who cares what the new generation like about the new love actions I am a Disney OG and i absolutely have mixed feeling about these love actions. You have had a few successful live actions but thats because it was very close or was the orginal! If you want make live actions then go ahead but please stay with the orginal story! Sincerely Disney OG
Alia Marie Coleman
I watched Bambi with my children and maybe if more parents actually did so too they would be there to hold their hands through the tough stuff that gives appriciation for the life that continues to grow past the tragedy. You cant capture the story of Bambi without facing the loss. Stop letting a few wackos dictate as if they are the majority. That’s the only thing that’s changing. You cant beat the cycle of life but you can honor it and that is what made Disney great. I dont like this New Disney. Its lost the heart and originality.
Tim
Next a total ban on funerals. Everybody buried at midnight so no young ones see it. Or funeral processions are parades with clowns 🤡 abound for pallbearers. People never die, they just move away and forget to call.
Lisa
I feel that parents are shielding their kids too much! I feel that that is one of the problems that we are facing with the new generations. Kids don’t think bad things happen but they do and when they do they are not emotionally equipped to handle it. Parents are afraid to let their kids be disappointed, feeling that they are bad parents if their child has a negative experience.
That brings huge problems as they start to grow into young adults….i.e. well working at a burger joint makes me feel less of myself so I just won’t work ..or my mom is ill and it makes me feel bad so I will ignore it and it will go away. Life is full of ups and downs and if children aren’t made aware of it they struggle when they get older people want to go back to the old days when one parent stayed home. Well parents back then didn’t shield their kids, life was life and you learned how to cope when bad things happened.
At Least I Get It
I guess not a single person here gets the irony that you are all crying and whining (just like the people you’re complaining about) over a movie made by a corporation just to make money…
Richard Bill
You are right. They do not have a clue. They have no idea how big a snowflake they are.
Audra
I think Disney should leave the classics alone. If they want to remake it then go ahead and change and make it kid friendly. I’m tired of this world being too sensitive and can’t handle anything. Don’t erase what was great. Leave the original alone
Zombiedawg
The pussification of the world we live in today
Cheryl
Stop changing classic movies and history. People need to quit being so dam sensitive these days and suck it up. Learn to deal with shit and be strong thru your life, not a Bunch is sissies.
J.
I don’t think we need to judge how audiences react. I watched Bambi once when I was a child then I never wanted to see it again. It’s just not an enjoyable experience and Disney probably has observed how popular Bambi is or isn’t and are problem solving. I don’t care, I still hate the dang story lol
Mine
Taking out mom’s death is stupid. Kids these days see worse in life and through TV and social media. I will not go see it or this train wreak of snow white. Classics are Classics for a reason. Very dissatisfied with whoever is running Disney. Are they trying to destroy the company?
Cynthia
We Baby Boomers took the hit & survived, stop
mollycoddling the kids, life isn’t always joyous, get real, no need to adjust the Disney Classic movies !
G
5 full paragraphs before the word Bambi is even mentioned. Get to the point already Zach! We all know the backstop already, don’t need a strung of run ons for you to get to the point.
Oh yea, and leave Bambi alone. Exposure to issues is healthy for growth and coping w real life issues when they happen irl.
Robyn
I went to the movies last week and all the trailers were nothing but people killing other people, beating people to pulp. You are worried what Bambi is going to do to your kid, you got bigger fish to fry. Get a grip people and leave Bambi alone. BTW, the new
MICKEY MOUSE and his giant sideways smile has got to go. You had no right touching the mouse.
Nikki
In all honesty as a Disnerd, I’m about to turn my back on Disney. They have literally been destroying what Walt Disney created, the movies and parks alike. If you think the original movies should be different, start your own animation studio, sue Disney for exclusive rights to destroy the stories they have told, and go that way.. far away that way. Has anyone else noticed that almost all of their remakes haven’t been doing that well? Because I have. I have been listening to my kids and their friends, and MOST of them want nothing to do with Disney remakes because they literally DESTROY the story and the iconic imagery. In their words, “Why is Disney changing the story and the characters?” If even the kids can see it, why can’t Disney?
Noah
“It’s for the children!” No it’s not, you are the ones too sensitive to face the truth. Death exists, we mustn’t shy from it. It is the endpoint of us all. We die, our pets die, the Earth itself will die long after the novel of Humanity has been written. Did I cry when Mufasa died? When Bambi became an orphan? Sure as hell did I, but that’s the point. I cannae forget it. So let the kids go free, and you just not watch the movie, alright?
PinkPiper72
Couldn’t agree more!!!
Cidney
I have a lot to say about these ignorant people today but it would not be appropriate to express or say what I really want to say but I will say this , my 12 year old daughter even complains about and doesn’t like how people in this world are so stupid and pathetic these days. She loves the history and wish these idiots would leave it alone and so do I. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE IT THEN DON’T SEE IT!!! STOP TRYING TO CONTROL EVERYTHING!!! Kids are definitely going to see a lot worse these days than what our history had. They just want attention! Stop giving it to them!
Sara
Shame!!! Remaking Disney Classics is not the answer. These parents are not doing there children any favors. Disney Classics have lessons for children. Anyone ever wonder how these sensitive &
protective children going to handle life.
Michael
This is why I sht away from Disney. It’s ok to take a dark women and lighten her up in the little mermaid so whites don’t feel uncomfortable. It’s another to take the main reason for Bambi having to make it on her own. As our country dissolves into another third world country due to idiots like Democrats trying anyway they can to get the vote it is saddening.
Christopher Kabool
Times change! Grow with them or don’t. One can always watch the original. Throwing around the trigger “woke” needs to stop: woke = considerate of others feelings and perspective, should be part of basic human decency. Disney always strives for quality entertainment and usually succeeds AND they don’t ban books!
Ryu
Not this time. They should not be rewriting the past just to suit the needs of the foolish. It’s no wonder why people have begun to hate disney so much.
Scott
1) Bambi is one of Walt Disney’s classic movies infact it’s one of his first (not say it is his first because we all know it’s not but it is in his top ten or so). I say we leave the movies that he created alone because HE’S DEAD and can’t speak for his own masterpieces anymore. How would any one of you who are wanting to change something that was created by someone else feel if something you create is changed after you pass away without your consent?
2) The movie Bambi shouldn’t be touched because like I read by a fellow comment it teaches about life just like one of Disney’s other movies (Lion King) talk about if you plan to change Bambi you might as well just recall all of the Lion King movies and destroy them too and I know that’s not going to happen. Infact even the insinuation of death in a movie has the potential to be disturbing to children. So I guess that means no more Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmatians, and several others. Also if you want to look at it there is death in a lot of children movies and we as people don’t even realize it but except it without knowing it. Like the death of a villain. Death is still death whether it is a evil character or a good character.
3) like it was stated in the past comments these are movies that we as the people buying them and viewing them. If someone is afraid of what is being shown to their children then those people shouldn’t have bought the movie for their children to watch in the first place. It’s not the rights of the minority to change the rights of the majority in what is being viewed. So if someone has a problem with what is being viewed then don’t buy what is viewed.
DPC
More of the minority Cancel Culture from overly sensitive Snowflakes and unimaginative producers and directors in the LaLa Land called Hollywood. Just don’t watch the movie and let Walt Disney’s wonderful dream die. It’s already got one foot in the grave from poor management and terrible movies over the past 20 years.
Ray
If deer have the intelligence of humans, as portrayed in the movie Bambi, then humans shouldn’t be hunting deer in the movie. Deer who saw the hunter first would beg them not too shoot. Know what I’m saying? And if they can’t speak to humans, only other animals, why is that? Deer and rabbits can communicate but not deer and humans? Mom should have been hit by a car or killed some other way. Being intentionally killed by a human shouldn’t be normalized when those deer are portrayed as having human intelligence, emotions, etc… imagine eating a hamburger if you had to kill the cow yourself and it was begging for mercy, saying it had a wife and kids.
Michael
To listen to the sensitive constantly is foolish, in my opinion. It will alienate a part of society. So what, they don’t like your movies anyway. If they don’t want their kids to learn about real life, and death is a part of life considering no one gets out alive, let them raise soon to be victims. The thing about the classic Disney movies is that they deal with real life. There’s plenty of content in them for the adults as well as the kids. What they should do is quit remaking things that are already classics and come up with something new. They’re trying to make a buck on a story that’s already been told. And they’re taking all the meat out of the story. Like it or not life is full of incidents that are less than happy and it’s enduring those things that make us capable adults. Everything isn’t always happy and the old Disney movies didn’t try to eliminate such things.
Giselle
All disney movies have a very weird real horror story behind, they just changed it to be able for kids. If you really pay attention all the princesses get married at a very very young age. They all have subliminal messages. But now all this new crystal generation we can say or do anything because they easily break, it getting ridiculous.
Ashley
You have got to be kidding me??! Sensitive viewers??? When does this end? They do realize it’s a bunch of drawings right??? Like you have more on television about guys and Trans and that’s not sensitive? What is this world coming too? You don’t like it, DONT WATCH!!! SUCK IT UP YOU WHINEY BABIES!!
Cocoa
But, the people watching it are literally babies. They’re kids. Are you telling kids to stop being kids? Lol
Laura
Maybe Disney should stop killing Mothers in their movies.
Problem solved, “Your Welcome”
Laura
Maybe Disney should stop killing Mothers in their movies.
Problem Solved. “Your Welcome”
Daminashun
Leave the movie alone! A world full of betas is a scary weak world
Ryan
If you don’t like it, don’t watch it plain and simple. This type of stuff happens all the time in REAL LIFE!!! stop being helicopter parents and maybe expose your kids to real life situations so they know how to react and what to do. Stop trying to change the world.
Chris
All Disney classics have a tough scene to see as part of the story. We all know that via cultural osmosis.
As I had older siblings, when I saw them for the first time, I was forewarned. I didn’t see a movie until I talked to my Mom and she “counselled” me.
If you don’t want your child exposed to things in life that you as their parent don’t want to take in hand, then your child doesn’t watch it. Let’s see how l8ng that works for you.
Meanwhile, let the filmmaker create the magic, don’t make decisions for the rest of us, and keep on keeping on sharing your concern and taking the wheel of raising you own children.
Rhea
SENSITIVE?? THEN DONT WATCH IT!! …. REST OF US LIKE IT AS IS.
Staci
What’s. Next ? Cutting out Parts. Of another Walt Disney Classic, Like fox and the hound or old yeller. Leave the classics alone. They are a classic for a reason. They teach values. Life lessons ect. I am so glad and grateful. That I was brought up on the. Disney classics. And was able to bring my children up on wholesome traditional classic family movies. Walt shaking his head right now. Down right shame destroying a ionics legend and work.
Harriette
Leave the movie alone! It was my youngest son’s favorite from age 3 and he’s almost 40! Quit destroying the “Magic” that is and was Walt Disney.
Deric
Disney has dropped the ball with everyone of its remakes from Dumbo to all of them I mean especially Dumbo and if they do this with Bambi I hope it’s the downfall of Disney
Bill C
If some parents don’t want their children exposed to it there’s an easy fix, don’t watch it. Just like television, you don’t like what’s on then change the channel. No one is forcing them to watch something they don’t want to.
Janene
Bambi scarred me for life. I can’t watch a movie unless someone who has seen it clears it for me with no Bambi liks scenes. I am 62 and still traumatised
Clarence Nichols
When you start catering to a leftist group a very small minority this is what you get. This perversion that Disney is representing now is going to bring their empire down.
Joshua Johns
I’m really about to be done with Disney now. Honestly my true opinion, Disney is about to lose out on millions. True fact keep it going Disney will bankrupt itself
Ed Dart
In the 60’s, I remember being at the drive-in and my little brother, half way through the movie asking where Bambi’s mother was, and my mother told him, he started crying really bad. Looking back, I am not sure that he needed that for the movie to be enjoyable.
Marybeth Buffington
Walt Disney must be rolling over in his grave daily. The company has ruined so many wonderful stories to appease sensitive people. It’s ridiculous and the legacy of Disney had been destroyed. Eventually this so called company will disappear.
Signed a disappointed mother who grew up loving what Disney represented. Now it’s garbage.
Colleen
My niece was 8 when her mother died due to illness. I think Bambi should NOT get removed. This can open discussion about death or even tragedy later on. There are others (adult and/or child) that have lost parent(s) suddenly in a variety of ways. Dying is a part of life that no person can avoid. How death happens is the unknown.
As is, kids are exposed to mass shootings, violent lyrics in songs, graphic video games, etc. I feel that in many ways there is a societal norm in this but people are getting offended by what isn’t seen in a movie.
Colleen
EDIT: I meant what happens to Bambi’s mom before the NOT comment
James
Dude, my daughter was only 4 and watching things like Bordello of Blood, Interview with the Vampire, Jeepers Creepers and even Hellraiser. She was into those movies like anyone else was into Frozen. People want things hidden from their kids, but I let the kids learn. She asked many questions, but I still answered everything honestly. Disney needs to stop changing things and just do better jobs.
River
Just put kids in bubble wrap with helicopter moms circling around until they’re 40. Make oooey gooey movies for them and see how fast they bomb. Actually we’re seeing them bomb before they even appear in the theater. Looking at you Woke Snow White. Disney will never come close to the innovative and well written stories of the past. Good riddance Disney.
GTX
Not a fan of all the Great classics Movie getting ruined by Changes because to many So called ” people” getting upset about the movie I say get over it it’s life things happen people just need to realize this if they don’t want to see it don’t watch when is it going to be enough the first time I noticed change was watching ET now this so like I said not a FAN of your Changes