Walt disney Coloring Pages - Kristoff Bjorgman, Princess Anna, queen Elsa & Olaf

The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey rato to Hercules by
John Grant

Although she is the central character of the movie, the part of Princess Aurora/Briar Rose is in fact a very small one - smaller, for example, than that of Prince Phillip (in marked contrast with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs whose Prince hardly made an appearance, but whose heroine occupied a fair deal of screen-time). In fact, her functions in the movie are three: (a) to be cursed; (b) to meet and fall in amor with Phillip; and (c) to prick her finger and fall into a death-like sleep. Over (a)...

The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey rato to Hercules by
John Grant

Bambi is not a tightly plotted movie in the way that Dumbo, for example, is: it depends much mais for its effect on the superb animation and the exquisitely executed backdrop of the forest. As with the story, most of the characterization is not profound - one does not find oneself rooting for Bambi in the same way that one does for, say, Dumbo (again) or Snow White. The only really strong characterizations are those of Friend Owl and Thumper. But this lack of depth in the characterization is not...