I believe this just came out a couple of days ago. Much though I’m not a fan of Disney, or indeed the “live action” (in this case, that’s a lol in itself) remakes, at least this is an original story, even if it completely retcons the entire Lion King plot, lol…
I won’t spoil it, but, umm, I would say it is to The (original) Lion King what Wicked is to The Wizard of Oz. Very much the same concept. And doesn’t really make sense, if we’re taking the story from the original as being the (fictional) truth.
Anyway, it also features tribes of lions differentiated by fur colour (lol), quite a lot of the biblical story of Moses, and lions climbing snowy mountains (in Southern Africa??), so… Yeah.
Looks relatively okay though, all things considered. But I would be interested in hearing the thoughts of others on it.
There are snowy mountains in Africa at certain times of the year. Obviously a lion isn't going to go with there, but eh.
It depends on how the fur color is distinguished. Children actually need pretty aggressive signaling to tell the difference between characters. You'll notice in Lion King 2, the bad female lionesses are given a gray hue to make it clear which ones are on which side, along with dysgenic features making them the bad guys.
Running the story of Exodus might make some kinda sense, but most of it is Moses absolutely bitching out the rest of his jews for being petty retards. Generally, I don't think that's a good precursor to a story that is based off of Hamlet. Frankly, I think it would make more sense for it to run like Othello or something.
Kilimanjaro does rise like Olympus above the Serengeti.
I'm frightened of this thing that you've become
Allow me to introduce you to the greatest version of that song.
You're welcome.
It's awful close...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ301QEoo9Y&t=35
The Lion King (og) also strongly resembles the Ramayana, the story of Rama from Hindu lore.
Rama is a prince whose jealous uncle murders his dad, the King, and takes over, banishing Rama (though in this story, the girlfriend opts to be exiled with him, which becomes a plot point); after some filler adventure, the girlfriend is kidnapped by the Demon King, and Rama stumbles onto the og Monkey King, Hanuman and his people (Timon and Pumbaa). The monkeys agree to help Rama get his girlfriend back, and then they all go reclaim Rama's kingdom.
And because Rama was an avatar of Vishnu, Hanuman was rewarded by being Ascended into godhood.
But hey, backstabbing royalty/"elites" have been pretty much the norm throughout human history. It's only recently they started backstabbing the commoners more than each other, it seems ...
MacBeth has less magic as a retelling?!
Well, the version of the Ramayana I read was a "down to earth" retelling of it that replaced the monkeys with a bunch of hermits, but the gist of it was there ...
Read a similar version of Gilgamesh, in which Innana was simply a spiteful priestess, and the bull belonged to the temple, etc.
I think one or the other of them was written by one of the "cyberpunk" guys.
Library books, 30 or 40 years ago.
Never actually took Hamlet, or MacBeth. Wound up getting "Romeo and Juliet" three fucking times, though.
The interesting part about Hamlet and MacBeth is that it's the same story from a different perspective. They both have otherworldly experiences and seem to be led by fate. By the end they both die, and a new king found. The crux is over who killed the king.
It's been so long since I've played the original games I don't remember the story, but at least the movie Prince of Persia is also this same story, in many ways. Except the Prince is an adopted orphan, with no actual royal blood.
Honestly, while it's not a perfect movie, I do enjoy it, and it's probably one of my favorite video game movies. I should watch it again, and think Lion King/Rama/MacBeth/etc. as I watch, and see how it fits.
I think the weird trend is to hate your own subjects more than any enemy. I don't feel like that's normal in history.
Oh, I know there’s snow in some mountains down there - specifically the Drakenburg, which I used as a convo starter with a Saff’s girl once, lol. And I guess Lesotho might get snow, too.
But as I recall that’s fairly irregular, vs this trailer which looked like the ducking avalanche scene from Mulan, or something, lol…
I don’t think anywhere in Africa ever gets that much snow, even Morocco or Kili.
But then again this is a movie about talking lions, so… Yeah.
I think Scar also has an American accent in this, so they clearly don’t give a shit about continuity or logic at this point…
I don't actually know what accent Jeremy Iorns has besides 'sophisticated'.
I think he’s English, but yeah, it’s usually like… Washed-up posh guy who’s barely even trying, lol.
Then again, I haven’t seen him in anything much since Eragon, if you remember that abomination…
I loved that book, and have even met the author, so going into it I was like, “Wait what? What is this?”
He really phoned that one in, lol.
I actually liked Eragon. Luckily, I never read the book, so I couldn't be disappointed in that difference. I was just like: "huh, dragons" went to go see the movie.