Doesn't that kinda make Scar correct in his dismissal of Mufasa and Simba and make him the good guy? And yes I'm aware some societies had adoptable heirs, like the Roman emperors.
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There was a Disney movie made in the early 2000s called "Meet the Robinsons" and it's plot is almost the exact opposite of your description. We see the villain become a bad guy because the actions of the protagonists ruin his life. So at the end they fix the issue and there is no villain.
It's also weird the the movies "Cruella" and "Malificent" attempt to soften the villainy of those villains, but Scar has to be a villain so Mufasa can shine. I suspect them being female has a lot to do with changing their image.
Its almost certainly a female thing there. Both because women make characters like Maleficent their entire personality, and because Scar being so evil is what makes him so hot to women too. So in both cases, its to appeal to them.
In this specific case though, there is this extremely specific character shilling going on. Like, I keep seeing descriptions for this movie as "see how Mufasa became the paragon of good we all know him as."
I don't know about most people, but that's never something I'd call him. Not only that, but it really makes him so more generic than he was even in the original movie which had the excuse of his fucking death to not have the time to give him depth.
It feels like they are really angling for some sort of "Wise African Giga King" symbol to replace the dead guy from Black Panther, and to do that they apparently really need their unquestionably evil counterpart. Its also why they seem to only care about this specific live action movie enough to give it a sequel with its own continuity instead of a one and done.
People in creative fields are obsessed with origin stories. It is their thing and they only focus on it.
they're obsessed origin stories of characters somebody else created so they can subvert it for their agendas
It's what actors and storytellers use to create the characters in their heads.
I love meet the Robinsons. It's full of fantasy and I connect with it as a really smart blond kid with glasses, and then since I adopted a kid at that age.