I mean before Tod's mother comes into view. I thought it was a bit eerie especially since it begins with no music until we really hear the hounds coming in and even just hearing the barking and those drums was pretty disturbing. It almost gives the sense of being in a vast empty forest and the sense of being alone and wondering how to escape from whatever terrible thing comes.
Did anyone else find that the case?
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Yeah, but I think it kind of sets up the mood of the film. The whole story is kind of melancholic.
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I like creepy stuff. That was of course eerie.
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I'm always so creeped out by it! But about you talking about how there's no music at all, you only hear the barking of the dogs and the drums, and gives you this feeling about being in an empty forest, I think the animators were trying to show it in Tod's mother's point of veiw, or at least that's how I see it.
No music - This isn't really much of a musical, so the fox can't exactly hear any going on so it's just silent
Dogs barking - The sound that the fox is listening to
Drums - Could be like her hearing her own heart beating
Being in an empty forest - She's pretty much alone, there's no other animal near her except her baby and a dog or two chasing after her
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I love this movie's opening scene. Disney has this self-manufactured image of being cute and cuddly, and we do get some cute and cuddly later in the movie. But still, this movie throws a curveball at the audience by starting in such an ominous manner. This opening remains one of the darkest scenes in any Disney animated movie.
That's a great moment when the dogs start barking. Up to then you've been hearing only nature sounds. Then the dogs barking suddenly throws you off kilter: that doesn't sound like a forest animal. :-)
One of my favorite images remains the glistening points of light, dissolving into a spider web, dissolving in the first appearance of Tod's mother.
ong i thought i was the only one creeped out by this my mom used to make fun of me for it.
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I also love the opening scene. I love how just the fog is shown first and then the camera goes by the three's and later on the fog has dissapeared and you only hear the sound of the birds. Then you hear drums and dogs barking (or should I say Chief) and the creepy music. Those scenes gives me chills.
In many ways, the opening of this movie (especially before we're introdused to Tod and his mother) is reminiscent the opening of Jungle Book, cause on that movie too the camera were touring through the jungle during the opening credits (except that movie started with a storybook opening and had background music)
That's not Chief barking during the credits, listen really close. It's not the same bark that's used for him later in the film. He, Copper, and the unseen dog in the opening credits have distinctly different barks so it wasn't him. Besides, when would Amos have had time to go fox hunting when he was busy in town getting baby Copper?
shareI agree that's not Chief barking, but I've wondered if one or both of Copper's parents were one of the hounds involved in the hunt/death of Tod's mother?
I did when I was little... and I think I still do, but I love this movie anyway. ^_^
shareI have always loved the beginning to this :D
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Except that Bambi's opening is whimsical and nostalgic, setting a scene up for a movie that encapsulates life in all its highs and lows. Fox and the Hound is far more concerned with certain aspects of life, like prejudice, fear, friendship, and obsession. Bambi was far more ambitious of a film, and in my opinion, remains to be the greatest film Disney's ever made (though "Lion King' will always be my favourite Disney film).
But on a side note, I find the opening to this film to be extremely effective, setting up a very ominous atmosphere of isolation and incoming fear. Exactly what the mother fox is feeling as she runs through the forest.
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That's a bit of a dark message... I think I'd change "society" to "nature" in that sentence.
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The opening credits of this movie are among my favorite in the history of Disney. So unsettling and atmospheric.
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