Anon watches Black Panther
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Firstly, that depends on the kind of predator and it's hunting style. Secondly, I think you are reading far too much into the writer's intent when I haven't seen any such evidence for such a comparison, and instead of seen only explicit denials.
One of the scenes that was left on the 'cutting room floor' because it was too dark was for all predators to have their aggression controlled with shock collars, and that Judy & Nick were to observe a Polar Bear birthday party (that was a coming of age celebration: literally: a bear-mitzfa) where the child polar bear would get a shock collar, and be exposed to the pain of wearing one for the first time in his life. This has no real racial allegory, and is (as the writers explained) more akin to an allegory about how animals are controlled. You really can't make an allegory to Polar Bears as Jews, so that wouldn't make sense outside of the pun alone (which if were honest, was probably 90% of the intent).
The Lion King doesn't make sense to draw an ethnic allegory around when it's relationships are all clan and tribe based.
Well, no, I just meant that the land the hyaenas lived on was THEIR land, always and to begin with. It was made explicit that the Lions' authority and business ended at a certain border (and they tend to mark by scent, not sight.) That's basically what borders are traditionally FOR - your bullshit stops here, and ours starts. :P
I did see that clip, and it was basically an entirely different story at that point. It was almost totally rewritten, as that version focused on Nick, and the test audience didn't click with him. He was also going to be running a sort of behavioural blind pig, where preds could take their collars off in a safe environment.
And no matter what the writers say ... yeah, they would try to say that, because of the "predators are minorities and minorities are any human that ain't white" bullshit, but I'm pointing out the reality of what and who are actually minorities, and how it's read when you do overlay the intended allegory on top of it.
Frankly, there's something called "Beastars" that I'd like to check out (heavy squick warning, it's aimed more at adults and has a certain scene. See Sabrespark on Youtube) that I'd like to find out on the high seas, but so far no luck.