The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey মাউস to Hercules by
John Grant
Walt ডিজনি Character বিবরণ of Thumper from "Bambi" (1942)
Thumper, animated দ্বারা Ollie Johnston; Frank Thomas and others, is probably the তারকা of the movie. To a great extent this is because of the unconscoously brilliant voicing of the part দ্বারা young Peter Behn, ব্যক্ত to have been discovered দ্বারা two of the animators when visiting a friend’s house. (David R. Smith has checked with Johnston and Thomas, who say that Behn was instead discovered at an audition. As with so many matters concerning the early ডিজনি movies, memories differ.) The voice is cute, but not in a nauseatingly affected way; it is ingenuous and clearly that of a real child rather than of an adult pretending to be one. Of course, ডিজনি exploited its natural cuteness to the utmost, as in the classic piece of dialogue a few weeks after Bambi’s birth:
Thumper: He doesn’t walk very good, does he?
Mrs. Rabbit: Thumper!
Thumper (shrugging sadly): Yes Mama.
Mrs. Rabbit: What did your father tell আপনি this morning?
Thumper (as দ্বারা rote): If আপনি can’t say something nice ... [thinks hard and fast] ... don’t say anything at all.
Ironically, at one stage early in the production it was almost decided to drop Behn’s voice altogether; fortunately one of the animators recognized how much of Thumper’s characterization could be based on it.
“When it comes to the animation,” Walt had ব্যক্ত in one of the first story conferences, “we can do a lot with the rabbit. He (should have) a certain mannerism that can be drawn. We might get him to twitch his nose.” Even Walt could hardly have realized quite how much they would eventually “do” with the rabbit. The mannerism to which Walt referred proved eventually to be Thumper’s furious drumming of any available hollow log with his right rear foot - a trait inherited দ্বারা his entire family, as we discover during the closing stages of the movie.
Blue-gray with pink-brown tummy and face, with a fluffy cottony “bib” and the most prominent buck teeth one could imagine, Thumper brings the house down. But it is not simply that we laugh at his antics: we like him, too.
John Grant
Walt ডিজনি Character বিবরণ of Thumper from "Bambi" (1942)
Thumper, animated দ্বারা Ollie Johnston; Frank Thomas and others, is probably the তারকা of the movie. To a great extent this is because of the unconscoously brilliant voicing of the part দ্বারা young Peter Behn, ব্যক্ত to have been discovered দ্বারা two of the animators when visiting a friend’s house. (David R. Smith has checked with Johnston and Thomas, who say that Behn was instead discovered at an audition. As with so many matters concerning the early ডিজনি movies, memories differ.) The voice is cute, but not in a nauseatingly affected way; it is ingenuous and clearly that of a real child rather than of an adult pretending to be one. Of course, ডিজনি exploited its natural cuteness to the utmost, as in the classic piece of dialogue a few weeks after Bambi’s birth:
Thumper: He doesn’t walk very good, does he?
Mrs. Rabbit: Thumper!
Thumper (shrugging sadly): Yes Mama.
Mrs. Rabbit: What did your father tell আপনি this morning?
Thumper (as দ্বারা rote): If আপনি can’t say something nice ... [thinks hard and fast] ... don’t say anything at all.
Ironically, at one stage early in the production it was almost decided to drop Behn’s voice altogether; fortunately one of the animators recognized how much of Thumper’s characterization could be based on it.
“When it comes to the animation,” Walt had ব্যক্ত in one of the first story conferences, “we can do a lot with the rabbit. He (should have) a certain mannerism that can be drawn. We might get him to twitch his nose.” Even Walt could hardly have realized quite how much they would eventually “do” with the rabbit. The mannerism to which Walt referred proved eventually to be Thumper’s furious drumming of any available hollow log with his right rear foot - a trait inherited দ্বারা his entire family, as we discover during the closing stages of the movie.
Blue-gray with pink-brown tummy and face, with a fluffy cottony “bib” and the most prominent buck teeth one could imagine, Thumper brings the house down. But it is not simply that we laugh at his antics: we like him, too.