How Well Do You Know Your Walt Disney Characters?

take Bambi, did you know he was shot?

photograph Disney/Allstar, Bambi’s mother and his cousin Gobo (replaced by Thumper the rabbit in the film) are both shot, dead, while Bambi is shot too, only to be saved by the stag implied to be his father. But this stag then dies, leaving Bambi not surrounded by a happy family, as in Disney’s version, but completely alone, I can hear you now, “Stan has totally lost it” but I am talking about the original Bambi, written about by Felix Salten, an Austro-Hungarian, Bambi: A Life in the Woods first published by Ullstein Verlag is the coming-of-age novel that would go on to be banned by the Nazis before eventually winding up in the hands of Walt Disney and becoming the animated children’s film many know and love, Bambi: A Life in the Woods initially appeared in 1922, as a serialisation in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse, in 1935, both of Salten’s Bambi novels were banned and burned by the Nazis, who viewed them as Jewish propaganda. Because of this, few first editions of Bambi remain, despite it having been a bestseller. Salten and his wife, unsafe in Austria, fled following the German annexation in 1938, moving to Switzerland where the writer remained for the rest of his life,

photograph Virgin Records, just occasionally reference has been made to Bambi such as in ‘Gentle pretty thing’ … the poster for the Sex Pistols’ The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle, for the full story of how Bambi became to be sanitized have a look here, now where is my venison and chips?