Thread:Marvelfan94/@comment-25692211-20161222160944/@comment-26687285-20170312164424

Rodangizzardcrusher3 wrote: Oh, and back on the old subject of stuff that scares me, there's Man from Bambi. You know a villain's scary when he doesn't even need to appear on screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKWHu1lwNBA

My mom and I are currently going through my Disney DVD collection. We're watching one or two films every week, and we did Bambi about two weeks ago. It is indeed a very menacing portrayl. It's often done this way in childrens entertainment that is told from an animals perspective, where humans are shown in a very mysterious and undefined manner. They sort of view us the way we would view aliens. This anonymous party whom we never see but whose threat seems ever present.

I do have a bit of an issue with the film's death scene though. As the NC expressed in his | Saddest Nostalgic Moments video, the tonal shift from that scene to the one with the spring birds is WAY! too drastic. It should have been much slower and more subtle. Like have the scene show the sun creeping through the forest leaves showing the transition from the cold, solitary winter to the colourful, lively, and uplifting springtime. Then have the song start up slowly as one or two birds fly into frame, and building from there to this merry and joyful tune, symbolizing the transformation that has occured for both the environment and the characters between those two periods.

P.S. I few months ago I was re-watching a few scenes from A Bug's Life, and I noticed two things I'd never picked up on before. One being really cool, and the other rather morbid.

1: During | the scene where Dot tries to convince Flik to come back there is a moment where you can hear (what sounds like) a sped up version of the notes to | Little April Shower. I'm sure this is just a coincidence and not something Randy Newman conscisously put into the soundtrack, but it's a fun detail nonetheless.

2: Towards the end of the diner scene where Flik meets the circus group, after the can gets knocked loose and rolls around, it appears like they're standing on a whole group of dead insects (Yeesh!). This is highlighted in | the EWW video for the film. I really don't understand why they decided to put something as rather disturbing as this in the movie (let alone in that light-hearted scene). Between this, the kind of creepy implications in Toy Story, and the messed up stuff in Nemo, maybe Pixar isn't so kid friendly after all?.