It was one of only two movies rated X on its original release (the other wasMidnight Cowboy (1969)) that was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.You""ve idealized that poor dead woman beyond all human recognition." He retorts: "Only I know what I""d lost when she died and what I got in her place."At the gathering, Lavinia monitors Catherine""s every action and tells her to use her fan to keep her hands busy - Catherine waves it nervously.It was 28 year-old Stanley Kubrick""s fourth feature-length film (Kubrick served as its director and co-writer with Calder Willingham (screenwriter forLittle Big Man (1970)) and blacklisted crime novelist Jim Thompson), but it was his first major success, following after his first amateurish featureFear and Desire (1953)(subsequently removed from circulation and screenings by Kubrick himself),Killer""s Kiss (1955), and MGM""s low budgetThe Killing (1956).More subtitles floridly describe the war effort: "The first flag of the Confederacy, baptized in glory at Bull Run," is proudly displayed during the ball.The legendary film, showing off the revolutionary multiplane camera, followed the life of newborn baby fawn Bambi, a "Little Prince" white-tailed deer born to his unnamed loving mother and distant father - the Great Prince of the Forest.