There were a lot of unexpected things I encountered whilst reading Bambi. First, the Disney version of the text and the actual text are vastly different. The messages delivered by the Disney version are more to the theme of animal hunting being inhumane, whereas the novel itself is about the weak and powerless being hunted by others. The author himself had a forest under his name, and although he spent a lot of time in it peacefully, he also hunted animals there. The Disney film vastly misinterpreted the main point of the novel. It was shocking that the author only got $1,000 for the movie rights of Bambi, and never really made more off of the book. The Disney movie completely eradicated the characters of the old prince and Gobo, which is possibly why the meanings of the two are so different. As sad as the Disney movie is, I didn’t feel much emotion when reading the book. In retrospect, that’s probably due to the fact that I’m kind of resistant to that after reading 120 Days of Sodom. It was interesting how the author himself, though born jewish, didn’t see himself as a jew but rather an austrian. Despite this, he made the perfect book to represent the unlawful and unjust hunting of minority groups. I can kind of understand why this author wasn’t popular: not only did he argue a scarcely agreed upon subject, he also had little to no variation in his works. Almost all of his works were about animals, and I can understand how one would get tired of it.
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