#BAMBI 2 RABBIT THUMPER MOVIE#

Their meeting ends when the deer are all forced to run due to man's presence being sensed.Īfterward, Faline does not appear again until the second half of the film, shortly after the 'Twitterpated' sequence. However, he soon catches sight of her and gives chase himself, pursuing her into the meadow where the bucks are gathering for the season.

In a playful gesture, she teases him by popping her head in and out of the reeds to lick him on the cheek several times, much to his annoyance. She immediately takes a liking to Bambi and, in her efforts to befriend him, chases him into a small pool with reeds. She says hello to Bambi, who, after some encouragement from his mother, says hello too. Faline says to her mother Ena that Bambi is bashful, to which Ena replies that he might not be if she said hello. She has light brown fur to contrast Bambi's dark brown fur and the wheat stripe on her neck and underbelly now stops under her head and continues above her chestįaline first appears when she and Bambi are introduced to each other through their mothers' meetings. She had a large head with fuzz on it, and large ears with black tips.Īs a teenager, Faline retains her appearance as a fawn but her light orange fur coat has been faded.Īs an adult, Faline is now similar to Bambi but as a female deer. She has blue eyes as a contrast to Bambi's red eyes and had black slippers with tiny eyelashes. Her stripe on each side under the top row of her spots are white. Admittedly, the fact that she has just given birth to twins may also play a part.Īs a fawn, Faline is nearly identical to Bambi who had a fur coat of safety orange and wheat spots and underbelly with a brown stripe that ran from his head down to his tail. It has been postulated that this was because, as she was now a mother, Walt and the animators decided it was only suitable that she be shown in the traditional image (for that time period) of one. The only time she is truly calm as a young adult in the film is when she is seen at the end of Bambi with her and Bambi's twin fawns. Notably, she is the one who always makes the first move in their relationship, whether in mere play (as a fawn) or in romantic pursuits (as a young adult).Īlthough Faline appears dependent on Bambi, with him rescuing her from both unwanted suitor Ronno and hunting dogs, she does have a degree of resourcefulness, as shown by her rock climbing to escape the dogs and the fact that she made her way to a safe place after the fire. When she appears again shortly after she meets with Bambi, she is a beautiful and very attractive young doe and has progressed to the point where she makes her moves with what comes across as a thoroughly deliberated strategy, with the possible implication that she had been watching Bambi for some time, waiting for the perfect moment to make her approach. In the midquel, where she is still a fawn, she is considerably calmer, serving as a transition between her hyperactive early personality and her maturity as a young adult. As a fawn, she gives the impression of a cute, wild, giggly little girl, an image which puts Bambi on the run when they first meet, until he finally manages to get a lock on her location after she steals a few kisses from him. Similarly, with the other characters, Faline is not very strongly characterized as part of the film's environmental message since she is like any other forest deer. Her children also interact with cousins, Lana and Boso, twin fawns of their Aunt Rolla, in the second book.įaline was voiced by Cammie King (Fawn) and Ann Gillis (Young Adult) and animated by Ward Kimball. In the second book, Bambi's Children by Felix Salten, when she's taking care of her family, she later becomes an adoptive mother to two orphaned bucks, Mambo and Nello. In certain books, their familial relationship is mentioned, which can confuse the matter.

#BAMBI 2 RABBIT THUMPER MOVIE#

Walt Disney did not mention this in the movie because it would have been incest when Faline gave birth to her and Bambi's twins. In the novel, she is the niece of Bambi's mother, making Bambi her cousin. Additionally, Faline's initial relationship to Bambi is omitted. For example, in the novel, Faline is the twin sister of Gobo, a character left out of the film. Several details about Faline were changed or left out in the film. Faline is based on the character of the same name from Felix Salten's Bambi: A Life in the Woods.

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