Bambi meets Godzilla

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Movie
Original title Bambi meets Godzilla
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1969
length 1.20 minutes
Rod
Director Marv Newland
script Marv Newland
production Marv Newland

Bambi Meets Godzilla is a 1969 Canadian short animated film directed by Marv Newland .

action

Bambi is grazing in a meadow. Suddenly Godzilla steps on the deer and crushes it. The claws fold in after a short time.

production

Bambi Meets Godzilla was written, produced and drawn by Canadian Marv Newland, who also directed. Newland was a student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena , Los Angeles County when the film was made . The production cost of the independent film , which was drawn in black and white, was around $ 500. In total, only around 15 drawings were used for the short film; Bambi’s processes while grazing are repeated, for example. Bambi's scenes are musically underlaid by the piece Ranz des vaches from Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell , while from Godzilla's appearance the final chord of A Day in the Life by the Beatles fades away.

Large parts of the film consist of opening and closing credits with credits . In the opening credits, Marv Newland lists himself exclusively in the various credit information, some of which have a humorous character ("Bambi's wardrobe by Marv Newland", "Marv Newland produced by Mr. & Mrs. Newland"). In the end credits, Newland thanks the City of Tokyo for providing Godzilla for the film.

Bambi Meets Godzilla was shown in cinemas in the 1970s together with the short animation film Thank You Mask Man as an accompanying program to Philippe de Broca's King of Hearts , the overall program being called The King and His Loyal Short Subjects . Overall, the film is expected to generate more than $ 100,000 in revenue.

reception

Bambi Meets Godzilla achieved cult status over the years and was copied a lot , especially in the Internet age . Eric Fernandes released an indirect sequel in 1999 called Son of Bambi Meets Godzilla , in which Bambi's son takes revenge.

Bill Plympton called the film "incredibly funny" and the deep throat of animation. He himself wanted his own film that would be more successful than Bambi Meets Godzilla , but knew that this goal was unrealistic. The film is "rightly one of the classics of the animated film, because it gets to the heart of the anarchic core of the cartoon genre in just one and a half minutes," says filmstarts.de .

Occasionally the film has been interpreted as a metaphor for how the West sees Chinese cultural policy. In addition, it was rated as a criticism of the Disney empire, which is transported via the parodist Godzilla character.

Awards

Bambi Meets Godzilla was voted one of the 50 best North American cartoons of all time in a 1994 poll of 1,000 animation filmmakers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bill Plympton: Make Toons that Sell: Without Selling Out! Taylor & Francis, 2012, p. 42.
  2. ↑ a b c Christoph Petersen: Bambi Meets Godzilla . filmstarts.de.
  3. ↑ See e.g. advertisement in The Milwaukee Journal , January 27, 1975, p. 3.
  4. ↑ Bill Plympton: Make Toons that Sell: Without Selling Out! Taylor & Francis, 2012, p. 43.
  5. ↑ Bill Plympton: Make Toons that Sell: Without Selling Out! Taylor & Francis, 2012, pp. 42-43.
  6. ^ Richard Curt Kraus: The Party and the Arty in China: The New Politics of Culture . Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, p. 1.
  7. ↑ Jessica Reyman: The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property . Routledge 2010, p. 87.
  8. ↑ Jerry Beck (Ed.): The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals . Turner, Atlanta 1994.