Oh deer 🦌
Disney is to remake another animated classic, Bambi, in live-action format for modern audiences. The writer, Lindsey Anderson Beer, explained how 1942's original treatment could be problematic or offensive to current-day sensibilities. (snowflake)
Beer said the original animation is a "different tempo" to what modern audiences are accustomed to, highlighting the scene where Bambi's mom is shot and killed by a hunter. "There's a treatment of the mom dying that I think some parents these days are more sensitive about than they were in the past and I think that's one of the reasons that they haven't shown it to their children," Beer said.
Sophie Lloyd, Disney's 'Bambi' Remake Will Change a Key Scene To Avoid Traumatizing Kids, Newsweek
In Beer's more sympathetic hands, the young fawn, now named Enbi, is abandoned when zirs mother leaves to join a doe-only
commune. Ze takes a journey of inner discovery to find zirself, before taking zirs place within the forest; not as a nonbinarch—for it would be an act of violence to impose zir, and zirs belief system, non-consensually upon others—but as a friend and mentor to all creatures living within its leafy shade.
The NRA has not commented on this non-venariphobic end to the relationship between mother and offspring. Nor on how much they paid the studio for the product displacement; rehabilitating their image by removing the huntsman from the story.
And, remember kids, you read it all HERE first!
I guess this sensitivity-check also means the venison kebab feast scene—which, according to Brooke-Taylor, Garden & Oddie (The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie, 1978), was left on the cutting room floor—is unlikely to make it in. What a pity. (sad)