The Messed Up Origins of Bambi | Disney Explained - Jon Solo 

My dad told me the story where his father, went hunting with my great grandpa when he was a kid, he shot a doe and the fawn came out of the brush calling for its mother. He felt so bad he never went hunting again.

Faleines brother Gobo. His story is the saddest part. My heart shattered when the hunter who helped Gobo ends up killing him. If only the hunter knew the differences between the deers look, i feel like thats a part of it. :'(

"So basically use your *other head* " *I see what you did there... ●_●*

"and they seem to like each other" Bambi: *wrinkles his nose at Faline*

Am I the only one that laughed at the part when he hesitated before saying “booty calls”? 😂

I love the Bambi movie so I decided to get the book. I read it for hours straight. It might be dark but it is really a wonderful book, would recommend. It introduces a character called Gobo who is an absolute sweetheart, however, does end up dying. The thing that disturbed me the most was probably the fact that Faline is Bambi’s cousin. However, this probably doesn’t matter for deer, anyways. There is also a part two called “Bambi’s children.” Haven’t read it yet but I’m ordering it today. Fun fact: Bambi was meant to be a book targeted for adults, but parents saw animals on the cover and went “oOhH, a ChIldrEn’s BoOk!”

Funny thing about the idea of crossover between Bambi and The Fox & The Hound. Many fans has speculated that Amos Slade was the hunter who shot Bambi's mother.

The part of the book that messed me up the most was when Hare's wife dies. The descriptions of the blood melting the snow, how calm and almost confused she was, and then she just rolls over dead... I read the book years ago, and that's the part I remember most vividly.

Ayyye Jon solo my favorite childhood destroyer 😂

I'm pretty sure the Hunters in the movie should get fined for destroying forest, assuming that there were laws for that when the book/movie was written in Germany. Seriously, they could have killed someone or at the very least damaged a lot of wild habitat. It's not like they had planes full of water or flame retarding chemicals in those days.

loves him dearly? don't you mean... loves him DEERly?

"Under his wing..." Don't you mean ANTLER? "Loved him dearly," Don't you mean DEERLY?

I think this makes me like Bambi a little better

This is one of my favorite Disney movies and one of my favorite childhood books also. I originally read the book when I was around 9 or so. It was the first time I'd read a book that was Disney's source material and the first time I ran into the idea of Disney "Disney-fying their movies. Even with the darker tone I loved the book. One correction I want to add. Gobo was not taken by a hunter but by the game warden. He was raised by him and then released when he was older and stronger. After so much time in Man's care, he had forgotten how to be a deer. He wandered carelessly through the forest, he stayed awake during the day instead of bedding down, and walked freely out on the meadow without a thought for his safety. When the other deer tell Gobo he shouldn't go out on the meadow because "He" is there Gobo scoffs at them telling them that man is his friend and he's not afraid. The deer seem to see Man as all inclusive...one being the same as the other. For Gobo then, if one was kind to him then all of them would be and that was his downfall. The hunter that was killed was shot by the game warden also because he was poaching. Bambi's Father might not have seem overly caring but he always watched out for his son. I may have to go and re-watch this movie now. This was great.

I love how you ruined my childhood

If they were shooting birds while deer hunting that would mean they have shot guns to shoot deer. They also had a fire go out of control. They most likely have never hunted before

Recently saw the lead female of a herd of deer who live in my neighborhood (suburbs) walking with 2 tiny fawns (spots and all)! She recently had twins! I love the deer in our neighborhood ^_^

That bird is a soccer mom

Tells him he loves him dearly... loves him dearly... dearly... deerly

A hippie deer😂

11:25 And tells him he loves him deer-ly I know where the exit is thank you

bambi 2 also used the method of making the hunters sound like bambi's mom,ronno did to at the beginning just to show it of I guess,so bambi 2 also references a few things from the book that you spoke of

"Presumably make sweet deer love" lol I died

I didn't find the book that depressing, I loved it, and it made a conscious effort to make us learn and it also has interesting facts about the beautiful animal life. This should be mentioned and I recommend this book to anybody that cares about nature and needs a little story

"No stags were their booty call" I'm weak😂😂😂

I have this weird memory of watching Bambi as a very young child (4-6 y/o) at my next-door neighbor's house, and I spontaneously started laughing when Bambi's mother was shot. It was sort of a reaction formation because I didn't want to cry in front of her, but she just got pissed at me for being so inconsiderate or whatever. So much for machismo, huh?

Idk why but i LOVE your intro❤❤oml I'm dying right THE JON SOLO LIKED MY COMMENT!!!!

My childhood is ruined, I watched this when I was younger and I always thought Bambi was a girl!!! Omg

Honestly this book sounds like a great story to read! It's something I would expect from a story about nature and animals while having no personable human characters.

Love that circle of life thing where bambi turned into the one getting scolded for crying to scolding his kids for crying XD

I guess Bambi's father loved him deerly

I lost a few friends when I laughed at his Mum's death. I know it was messed up, but you know when you don't know how to react to something so you awkwardly laugh?

Huh, they actually went back to the origional source material for parts of the sequel. Well what do you know?

The hunters aren't evil, they're just another force of nature. Predators, like wolves, but stronger. Bambi did more than just go on until the end of the book. He also showed up in "Fifteen Rabbits" and had a sequel with "Bambi's Children". Much of the books were commentaries on human foibles and political conditions of the day and got his work banned in Germany in 1936.

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"In other words, to think with your other head every once in a while" *Oh no*

Yayy another story to tell my little cousins the next time they break my stuff

I love both of those stories. The book is realistic and something I would read myself, like maybe I'll bring it to school to read. (if it has the weird old English or whatever, that wouldn't be an issue, I'm reading the old Sherlock stories, and trust me...The English is *weird* .) while the movie is more light-hearted and fun to watch. It's also my childhood though, so I'm pretty biased to it. (The only movie in my childhood that wasn't Disney was a Carebear Movie.)

The book Bambi was actually originally written in German. The author, Felix Salten, was German Jew, and fled to Switzerland to escape persecution from the Nazis. He was a wonderful author, and all his books are worth reading. By the way, I've read that first print editions of Bambi in the original German language are extremely rare and valuable, since most copies were burned by the Nazis.

I thought bambi was a Disney original-

The hunters were hunting out of season

I didn't know Bambi was based off a book.

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I would like to point out that The Emphasis On Bambi’s relationship with his Father was more present during the second Film, where not only did It help Bambi Get over his Fear of the hunters but also confirmed the Rival Buck he fought in the first Film was actually Ronno. The second film, despite being a VHS Film, certainly had a lot of thought put into it.

I'm the second like wow i jumped literally to see this

SPOILER ALERT: I thought it was very sad in the book when the two leaves died. I mean, gradually feeling yourself growing weaker, knowing you'll die any second, no real hope of proper burial or afterlife or anything...and all this fun stuff after they see the other leaves either get eaten by herbivores or gradually plummet to their demise. What a life: You stay in the same spot for months, and then you fall off and die. I also heard a rumor that the author was Jewish, so sadly, he had to flee his native land to avoid the Holocaust, i.e. he sort of became hunted like his own characters. :( But I could be wrong here.

I feel like out of all the messed up origins, this one isn't that bad. And is closer to the movie.

Bambi 2 used the plot point from the book (albeit while Bambi was still a fawn) about the hunter imitating the call of Faline (in the movie Bambi thinks it's his mother).

I miss those days too Jon mate thats just made my day depressing, THANK YOU 😂😂

I loved this book, but the part with the hound killing the fox really messed me up for a while. I didint like hunting before but thats when i really started hating hunting except for food. At first i wasint a fan of the "man is evil" trope but it was handled ok enough but the twist at the end where one was shot was a welcome turn to show that is only some that are problems and are delt with. Its been a while but during my read, it came off that it was only one or two men that were being reckless in the forest and the rest of the hunting community had enough of there antics and took out the one we read about. I came across another really good book that i have yet to see adapted to film which fits with this kind of book called The Running foxes by Joyce Stranger. Really good read. if you like foxes, the books Bambi, Watership down, The Pleauge dogs, im sure you will like it.

I love you.... Deerly

If Disney is going to make a live action "re-make" of Bambi, I want it the messed up way. Show kids how real it is in these streets! 🤣

I think I have a tiny crush on Jon Solo ... I need me a man who can get his goddamn Disney facts straight

Whether the Great Prince is Bambi's father depends on what translation you get a hold of. In the version I read, the Great Prince is merely the oldest deer in the forest, and the term Prince is simply used in reference to male fallow deer while the term King goes to male elk. I think this was partially retconned (or maybe corrected as a translation error) in later translations after the sequel Bambi's Children, since Bambi takes a semi-active parental role in this book, and there's added emphasis on the importance of his and Faline's children over Gobo's and Marena's children.

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If the book said that bambi was introduced to his aunt and her fawns, does that mean that faline and bambi are cousins?

I would want to see this version.

In the second movie, Bambi's father says he met his mother around the same young age that Bambi was. So that means Bambi's mother was the same age that his father was. So why isn't she as greatly respected as he was? They don't call her the great princess.

11:25 you missed the no-pun-intended joke

I read the book last year. Almost every time an animal dies in the book, the moments before death are described in detail (e.g. a squirrel is talking nonsense in some kind of delirium). Also, we see the "humane" side of the hunters, caring about Gobo but shooting him in the end. Considering the time when this was written, I think it is actually a book about the war. There are more details that can be linked to the war, like the hunters burning down the territory, children without parents, starving in winter...

Do messed up Origins on the jungle book or big hero 6

Maybe I'm dumb, but if Bambi was a boy ... then why is Bambi a name (or nickname) for a girl/young woman?

Are u gonna do a reaction on Star Wars the clone wars coming back

4:00 I yelled “Yes!” My friends call it the SUV soccer mom cut. Those women are terrifying.

i knew it was bambi but that was so sad i cant believe h3 yelled at his babies then left them.

"He calls Bambi his son for the first time" *Flashbacks from Ginga Nagareboshi Gin* ; - ;

Can you please do the messed up origin of The Jungle Book. I'd appreciate that

I just discovered your videos yesterday and binge watched them all. As a book nerd, this gives me lots of book recommendations for the future. Thanks for the great content!!

The Bambi movie and book what kind of the same I read it

11:12 ... Who was the more powerful presence he talking about?

I learned this from my dad after watching Bambi as a kid that it's actually illegal to shoot a doe with a fawn. My dad likes hunting too so he knows all the rules. Also, you're limited (depending on the state I think) to how many stags you can take down too. I could be wrong with that one. Of course you can only hunt during a certain season.

Father dears tells his son he 'loves him DEARly' 😂😂😂😂😂

Jon Solo who’s that? I only know a JonGasm.

I love how he hesitated before saying ,"booty call." Lol I love this channel so much This explanation much more than the original I like gore

The Deer Call happened in the sequel movie too. In the book, it was Faline saying 'come' and she and Bambi were young adults. In Bambi II, it was Bambi's mother saying 'I'm here' and Bambi was a child.

It's a good video but Bambi's father "The Great Prince" is not in the books, the father figure is called "old stag" but it's not related to Bambi. Otherwise great to see a video about the book!

"Calls his son "Bambi" For the first time, tells him he loves him DEARLY-" Me: HA!!!

The dad loves him deer-ly

Friend hare's wife's death is so much more traumatizing when you actually read it.

Ok. Here's an angle i haven't seen in the 'Comments' column, but I think is essential in understanding Felix Salten's, 'Bambi, a Life in the Woods' . Felix Salten was Jewish. The book was published in the interwar years of WWI & WWII. The book was burnt by Hilter/The Nazis; it was considered a Jewish sympathetic allegory. The 'Jewish' reading is far from obvious for a non-German reader, but when I read it, there one passage that stands out as an description of an air/bombing raid. The key word that changes the reading from a 'storm' to an air-raid, is '"shelter" (I can find my copy of the book at the moment, so I can give a page reference). The Stormtroopers of the Nazis were originally called the Sturmabteilung. Why it works as a Jewish sympathetic story? Hunter vs hunted. The hunted hide in the thickets of the forest, and are in danger when they come into the open plains (= open sights). Anti-Semitism didn't' start with Hilter: it was rife during the rise of his political writing and activity. This is why I love the Bambi story. The Jewish sympathetic 'reading' is far from obvious to people not of that period of German history; but (perhaps) not so covert to those in the midst of it! Thus, it illustrates the kind of leap of imagination needed to get a perspective of any type, regarding the levels saturation of propaganda, both social and political, that the Nazis inflicted upon Germany; and the complexity of situation faced by all the people so dramatically affected.

Omg the hair cut reference. 😂😂. I love your origins videos.

Fun fact: the ‘hunter’ in Bambi is a poacher. The white tailed deer being a favorite of hunters is actually what brought them back into the large populations they have now. They used to get over populated, eat all their resources and die off from starvation. Hunters curbing the population (during times of year where they do not have fawns) is actually good for them as a whole. My dad is a hunter and loves his family of deer in the neighborhood and will feed them now and again. Be careful of feeding deer, in some states it is illegal for very good reasons. Just not in GA

"Loving him deerly"

iALWAYS THOUGHT BAMBI WAS A GiRLLskjskahkz

I Think that the novel That Bambi is Based on it's a little cutesy compare to Fox and The Hound's novel

No I actually remember how Disney had the idea if Bambi it was based on a real life story that I randomly found in RU-vid when I was seeing the most dangerous rollercoasters if i aint wrong ( and so basically in the video I saw The person said that it was a tropical roller coaster and people were taking picks but at the moment the roller coaster was about to drop down go down at full speed ' a mother deer actually froze at middle of tracks ( like the train you know what I mean ) and so when it went full speed and she was kill and the baby deer was left alone) and the people were covered in blood screaming cause it got on there mouth and face and her organs corpse . and all traumatized "just like me I was shocked" when I knew what happen to the real Bambi's mom in real life .

“Tells his son he loves him deerly” I love puns

There’s no good comments to read. As usual, Disney fanbase is the worst.

"loves him DEERLY" I see what you did there.

Actually, Bambi was one of the few books I got a hold of and read so I already knew about most of this. It really is fascinating how similar it was to the movie.

"Loves him dearly" Me: "Heh deer"

This is an odd one for me. It’s one of the few I didn’t get to see while growing up. I’ve also had a bit of work experience with wildlife rehab and a pretty wide menagerie. My experiences with adult deer haven’t always been pleasant. There was actually a doe who thoroughly kicked my @ss, and she got me on the ground. Luckily I got rescued and escaped with some bruises but no broken bones or anything too serious. It kinda annoys me that the general public tends to characterize all deer as relatively helpless and delicate because people don’t understand that they’re here because their ancestors could go toe to toe (paw to hoof?) with wolves. It’s annoying to me that they aren’t really respected as solid muscle and sharp hooves. Edit: I have no grudge against deer. My experiences taught me to appreciate them more fully. That’s what bothers me about people’s misperception. Also, I really wish people knew that if they see a fawn, don’t automatically assume it’s abandoned and try to take it out of the wild. Yes, it’ll be freaking adorable, but just being by itself does not mean that immediate human intervention is a good thing. Please, please, please!! It’s not Bambi!! Mothers will hide them in long grass or wherever to go off for a few hours to graze and do their thing. They are not by mom’s side 24/7, so please don’t watch them for five minutes, conclude that the mother isn’t coming back, and take the fawn. This happens way more than people realize. Stop snatching fawns all the time! If the fawn is wounded or dehydrated, then yes. Otherwise, check back a few hours later. If the fawn is still there, not in distress, then leave it alone and check on it a few hours after that. If it’s still alone several hours later, call your local wildlife rehab, and they will tell you what to do. Sorry if I seemed kinda rude explaining this, but when people do more harm than good with wild animals, it absolutely breaks my heart because it can have poor outcomes. In cases like this, one of those outcomes can be that they aren’t frightened of humans when they grow up. Please take the Gobo story seriously.

Lol "loves him DEERLY"

Wasn’t there a scene where Bambi is talking to a bird that just got shot and is dying while speaking to him?

Hey Jon can you do the messed up origins of The Jungle Book next please

11:11 so who is the other power that put the hole in the hunter?

5:59 Rip that one stag

Bambi is my favorite Disney movie, hands down. I grew up around deer, and I have always been in awe and appreciated the hard work that went into the undoubtedly beautiful film when they didn’t have all the technology we have today. I read the book by Felix, and I was AMAZED by how incredible it was. It’s definitely one of my favorite books. I, however, was shocked about how dark the book was compared to the movie. I recommend the book to someone who hasn’t read it. It’s definitely an experience.

Do Dumbo Next

11:25 The deerly part was not in the German text. The English translators were just dumb.