Well, just a minute after the Great Prince tells Bambi his mother can't be with him anymore and he starts crying, "Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song" starts playing...sunhuntin wrote:with bambi, the scenes following the death, with his father, drive the point home. the silence, the quiet voice, the snow falling and all but obscuring the picture.
with lion king, the immediate scene is scar telling the hyenas to kill him, followed by humorous falls into the thorns. a few minutes later, we are singing hakuna matata, and all is right with the world.
I don't think it's a competition. Both are traumatic. I personally think Mufasa's death is worse because the character feels more real where Bambi's mother is incredibly vague and without personality. Both deaths are the most remembered thing about both films. (Not Disney, but I also thought the death of Little Foot's mother in The Land Before Time was worse than Bambi's mother, partly because of her talking to Little Foot in the dark before she dies and how Little Foot sees her in shadows / clouds throughout the film.)
Yeah, it's pretty similar to "Let It Go" being the most popular song from Frozen. It's sort of the antithesis of the overall message. That's the mentality those characters turn to to begin with before realizing they can't simply run away or close the door.estefan wrote:I've long felt the film was saying that "Hakuna Matata" was a flawed system and that Timon and Pumbaa's philosophy of forgetting your past isn't effective in removing trauma