Reynard the Fox feature film "Le Roman de Renard" (The Tale of the Fox) featured the Reynard character as the protagonist. The documentary film "" (1962) parallels Hitler's rise to power with the Reynard fable. Initially, Walt Disney Animation Studios considered a movie about Reynard. However, due to Walt Disney's concern that Reynard was an unsuitable choice for a hero, the studio decided to make Reynard the antagonist of a single narrative feature film named "Chanticleer and Reynard" (based on Edmond Rostand's "Chanticleer") but the production was scrapped in the mid-1960s, in favor of "The Sword in the Stone" (1963). Ken Anderson used
The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) the "absurdity" of "The Fox". Bård called the song "a stupid thing" and that "even though people find it interesting, it's still a stupid fox song, and when people start to get over this, it gets even worse, because it is so stupid". In response to the negative feedback of the song, Vegard has made the following remark: Speaking of the meaning of the song, Vegard characterizes it as coming from "a genuine wonder of what the fox says, because we didn't know". Although interpreted by some commentators as a reference to the furry fandom, the brothers have stated they