Talk:Bambi Meets Godzilla

A Day in the Life

The chord is played at double speed, not half-speed. Which is easy enough to verify by comparing the film with The Beatles' song on youtube. You can even double the speed to test it out. --Rex Diablo (talk) 18:30, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Lose the VHS cover

It's in color, unlike the cartoon, is a spoiler, and really has nothing to do with the topic. Looks more like an advertisement, actually. I'm not editing anymore, just suggesting.

Spoiler?

[[Image:Filmnacht5.jpg|thumb|This unavoidable picture is the biggest spoiler!--[[User:Greasysteve13|Greasysteve13]] 14:47, 25 September 2006 (UTC)]]

Shouldn't this article have a spoiler warning? It gives away the entire plot in the second paragraph!  :-) Stephen Kosciesza 140.147.160.78 15:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

• Read the article history. Wahkeenah 19:53, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Seems to me that there was no discussion, just a minor edit war on 19-Apr-2006, and the spoiler warning ended up out. My opinion, FWIW, is that the spoiler warning should stay in. It does no harm. Wikipedia shouldn't judge what is or isn't an "important" spoiler. A spoiler is a spoiler. Rocksong 07:11, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

• Done. Since posting that comment on the 4th I've observed that 70-year-old movies have spoiler warnings, on the off-chance no one has seen it, so there's no reason this one shouldn't have it. Wahkeenah 07:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Picture

If you have already seen the cartoon, yes, the cover defines the cartoon. But if you have not seen or heard of it, then you might at least wonder if Bambi has a surprise for Godzilla, like maybe quickly stepping aside revealing a red-hot metal spike right where Godzilla stomps. Notice, though, that it probably took longer to type this comment than the running time of the cartoon. :) Wahkeenah 15:08, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

sequel?

I recall seeing another short that begins where this one leaves off. Bambi sticks explosives into big G's toes and blows his foot off.

Tv land

I'm watching a tvland special Tv myths and ledgends about hollywood myths and they're talking about Disney. They start to get funny by having an animated sketch of bambi running and a godzilla picture apears and is chashing him.

Clean up

I have just added a sequel section with an infobox and plot for Son of Bambi meets Godzilla. I have also put any pieces of writing that can be considered trivia in a new trivia section and renamed the Pop Culture section References in Popular Culture. --82.39.136.208 20:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)Indie.Bones

Trivia

I have redistributed the material formerly contained in the "Trivia" section. I believe it is all relevant to the article, and should not be listed as Trivia. See Wikipedia Guideline. --RichardVeryard 01:19, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Controversy

In my opinion despite being one of the greatest cartoons Bambi meets Godzilla was banned by the Walt Disney Company and the BBC. This was due to copyright issues. Can anyone confirm this please. Rolotomrolo (talk) 21:41, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

• Lack of citation Espngeek (talk) 23:07, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Error removed

The article mentioned that Caselotti received a screen credit in this film. I've seen the film a million times and don't recall ever seeing such a credit. I just viewed it again and the only non-Newland credits are for Mr and Mrs Newland and the City of Tokyo, so I removed the erroneous information. On an unrelated matter, I recall this cartoon was broadcast on a Canadian children's show in the 1970s - possibly CTV's Kidstuff but I can't recall well enough to add the information here; maybe someone else can remember this. 70.72.211.35 (talk) 14:59, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Importance

Article doesn't explain why this was such an important animation. I watched the restoration on Youtube and it's mildly funny but a one-note joke - why is it famous? --Gwern (contribs) 16:33 17 February 2013 (GMT)

Having just watched it, I'd have to say the same. It's hard to see why it was apparently considered one of the greatest pieces of animation - it barely contains any animation! Robofish (talk) 23:41, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Throughout the 1990s, it was used quite a bit as a metaphor to describe the common relationship between Silicon Valley start-ups and Microsoft/Bill Gates, and it still gets used[1]. It was used famously by Marc Andreessen and Scott Cook of Netscape and Intuit respectively to describe Microsoft in their internal memos and interviews. Andreessen switches between Bambi Meets Godzilla and The Godfather, and other CEOs are known for using Moby Dick and Star Wars. Bambi Meets Godzilla was the more popular metaphor because of its short, abrupt ending. In 1998 when United States v. Microsoft Corp. was initiated, Larry Ellison took all 7,300 employees in Oracle's HQ to go see Godzilla in theaters. I'm not familiar with how important it was during the 1970s and 1980s. Tuxide (talk) 07:33, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Another reference for your list [2]

On June 18, 2003, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein ordered that four million dollars of the criminal fines imposed as a result of the Bellingham tragedy be awarded as an endowment to fund the Pipeline Safety Trust. Judge Rothstein noted that the Trust, with only 4 million dollars, was like “Bambi taking on Godzilla,” but she chided the pipeline industry to listen to and work with the Pipeline Safety Trust so tragedies like Bellingham do not happen again.

DeadElvis (talk) 02:52, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

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"Restored and released"

I believe the following text was wildly inaccurate and had nothing to do with the "Screenings and distribution" section it is in: "The film was restored and released in 1080p on YouTube by an animator named Coda Gardner." First, it's a terrible sentence. Second, Gardner's video isn't a restoration, it's effectively a frame by frame copy of the animation, so the description is false. Further, it's not a perfect recreation because the credit scrolling doesn't precisely match the original, As such, I believe this should be classified as a "remake" rather than as "restoration", and likely doesn't belong in the "Screenings and distribution" section.

I checked the linked REFs and the animator herself refers to it as a "re-creation" and " I decided to try my hand at re-doing this classic animation via computer.", ergo. I am correcting the article to be in line with these sources. MrNeutronSF (talk) 05:57, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

The Biggest Troll in Animation

'nuff said. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:444:380:3A90:5D29:1EE6:E042:C0B3 (talk) 17:49, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Help with Reference

Can anyone fix my reference to Bambi's Revenge (1978) so people can look it up? Thanks!Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 22:58, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Hey, I'm serious. I could really use some help here.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 04:00, 29 December 2020 (UTC)