17 Disney Mistakes FIXED In THE LION KING (2019)

Disney's animated Lion King will always hold a special place in people's hearts. But the

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version takes the opportunity to fix some of the crazy plot holes, goofs, and errors that fans have spotted over the years in the original. Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan and in this video I explain how the remake of The Lion King solves many of those problems of the '90s classic. Some spoilers ahead, so be warned if you haven't seen it yet . Don't forget, my Lion King giveaway is still active, so be sure to subscribe and leave a review about the movie for your chance to win.

The Lion King's animated opening scene and the song 'Circle of Life' are iconic moments that the remake mostly reproduces shot for shot; However, it also corrects some crucial errors from the 1994 film. Just before Simba's introduction, Rafiki anoints him, opening a fruit to release a red liquid that paints the young cub's forehead, before dusting his face to dry the brand. The fruit Rafiki brings with him appears to come from the ancient baobab tree he lives in, and the problem with the original scene is that the baobab fruit does not contain a red liquid and is actually dry on the inside with white pulp and large seeds. .

In the new movie, the filmmakers solved this problem by having Rafiki use some red roots that release a red powder when he breaks them. It's also this red dust that makes little Simba sneeze instead of Rafiki dousing the poor pup with a handful of dust like he did in the animation. The

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film also changes the hand Rafiki uses to anoint Simba from his left hand to his right. This is consistent with Rafiki being right-handed when he fights hyenas with his staff later in both films. Rafiki himself was misrepresented in the original film as, although he is modeled after a baboon, in the film and script he is referred to as a baboon.

Some Disney animators even thought of him as a "mutated" ape and gave him physical characteristics such as a long tail, which was incorrect for a baboon. "It means you're a baboon and I'm not." "I think you're a little confused." "Mistaken!" That baboon reference has been removed from the new film and Rafiki's design has also been corrected, replacing the long tail he had in the animation with a short length that is biologically accurate for his species. Another bug

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in the new Lion King is the color of Simba's eyes. In reality, newborn

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cubs begin life with blue-gray eyes.

Then, after two or three months, the puppy's eyes turn an orange-brown color. The remake reflects this, as you can see that young Simba has dark blue eyes at the time of his introduction. And once he has grown a little, they are a darker yellow-orange color. In the animation, as a newborn cub, Simba simply has dark eyes and when he is older, his eyes are brown. And to connect us even more with the characters and their feelings, the original animators gave the

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s eyes that looked a lot like humans, so they have a pupil, an iris, and the whites of their eyes that are sometimes colored. yellow.

Although real life lions don't have whites in their eyes. Scar's glowing green eyes have also been changed to give him a better sense of realism in the reboot. The original film was also guilty of featuring numerous wild animals that are not native to the film's African setting. For example, when Simba sings "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", several animals build a crazy tower and at the top is a group of giant anteaters. Giant anteaters are only native to Central and South America, so they would not be seen in the wild in Africa. So this time, the filmmakers made sure there were no giant anteaters in the movie.

Other non-African animals that were also removed from the final film include the tailed monkeys that also appear during "I Just Can't Wait to be King." And the gopher that appears during Zazu's "morning report" also fell on the cutting room floor in the remake for the same reason. "Zazu." "Yeah?!" "Sir, news from the subway." One mistake that has been left in the new version is the inclusion of leafcutter ants. These appear in the opening sequence of both films even though they are only native to America. I think they kept these ants out of place in the movie for two reasons.

First, the filmmakers wanted to keep the Circle of Life sequence more or less shot by shot. And secondly, the ants play a special role when Rafiki discovers that Simba is still alive. The animated film often emphasizes how dumb the hyenas are: "Zazu, you told me they're nothing more than drooling, mangy, stupid poachers." "Lx-not in the upid-stay." "Who are you calling upid-stay?" But this does not reflect the fact that in real life hyenas are intelligent, skillful and dangerous predators. That's why Shenzi, voiced by Black Panther's Florence Kasumba, is much more menacing in the remake. "You are no match for us, Sarabi!

You will die with your

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Nala!" And while the hyenas remain antagonists in the remake, the Nazi goose-stepping scene has been cut to fit the new film's more realistic and grounded approach. Hardcore Lion King fans may have noticed a small change in the new movie when Simba and Nala meet again. "Where have you been?!" In the original film, while they are rubbing their heads, they can also be heard purring, like a cat does. However, Simba and Nala's purring was removed in the remake, probably because animal experts believe that lions either do not purr at all or the noises they make are technically different from the purring of a house cat.

Following Simba and Nala's reunion is "Can You Feel The Love Tonight?" which the original filmmakers described as "perhaps the most passionate love scene of any Disney film." During the song, Nala gives Simba what the filmmakers called a "Come here" look. In the new film, that moment is replaced with Nala giving Simba an affectionate lick, which fits with the remake's much more realistic depiction of animal behavior. In the 1994 film, Rafiki discovers that Simba is still alive after the lion drops on some plants and the scattered dirt and leaves are magically carried by the wind to the Wise Monkey Tree, where he reads the leaves. in an empty turtle. shell.

The new movie has a rather ingenious and perhaps more feasible method for Rafiki to discover the truth about Simba. This time, a lock of Simba's hair falls off and goes on a complex journey, floating on the wind, then down a river before being eaten with some leaves by a giraffe and ending up in a ball of dung that a beetle rolls through. That ball falls down the hill and breaks, releasing the lock of hair, which is then picked up by a leafcutter ant and climbs the Tree of Life, where Rafiki sees it and recognizes it as Simba's fur.

It's a nice little updated sequence that also fits with the "circle of life" theme of the film. In the first film, there is a curious error in the scene where Simba and Nala visit the elephant graveyard. "I wonder if his brains are still there." "There's only one way to know. Come on, let's check it out." The lion cubs are ambushed by hyenas that emerge from the skull of a dead elephant. However, fans have commented that when you look closer at the proportions of the skull, it is grotesquely large and oversized compared to real-life elephant skulls. That's why the 2019 film skips the hyenas coming out of skulls and instead encounters Simba and Nala inside a cave.

Another issue

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in the Circle of Life animated sequence is Rafiki's seemingly impossible ascent of Pride Rock from the front. If you look at the shape of Pride Rock and how it sticks out, it would be extremely difficult for Rafiki to climb underneath it and also very foolish given that he could access the rock via a much easier route. The new film gets around this by showing Rafiki wal

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to the top across a rock face with a much gentler slope. As you can see, the new Lion King tends to tone down some of the animation's more over-the-top cartoonish moments to better fit the photorealism of the new CG version. "What is it?" "That's not a lion, he's a furry bird!" "He looks like a lion." "H...he's not a lion.

Let me take a closer look." So the remake changes this moment where Timon lifts Simba's paw above his head into an incredible feat of strength for a small meerkat. Instead, in the new film, Timon identifies Simba as a lion by looking at his teeth. "He's a lion! Run for your life, Pumbaa!" "Hey Timon, wait, wait, wait, Timon! Wait, he's a little lion!" "He Gets Bigger!" Another scene that was made more realistic this time is when Nala chases Pumbaa. In the original film, the boar foolishly tries to escape her by passing through a gap under the root of a tree that is too small for him. "How bleak is that?" That's why it doesn't happen like that in the new story, but rather Pumbaa is cornered by Nala when she slips and falls trying to run down a mossy rock.

Another small but important change, which die-hard Lion King fans may have noticed, is that after Scar is defeated and Simba walks towards Pride Rock, in the new version Zazu says "your majesty of him." It's a nice solution to the 1994 ending where Zazu says these words to Simba, but the actual audio ended up cut from the final film. If you look closely at the animated scene, you'll see Zazu speak the words as Simba walks by, but the dialogue cannot be heard. That error was introduced because the filmmakers thought a moment of silence would add more seriousness to the scene.

However, they did not redo the animation to stop Zazu's mouth moving. Speaking of adding things to the movie, the new movie also adds some new meta moments and Disney Easter eggs in the Timon and Pumbaa scenes, and I talk about all of that in my Lion King comparison video. Tap the screen to watch or click the link in the video description. Now, did you notice any new plot holes or errors in The Lion King remake? Let me know in the comments below and sign up to enter the giveaway! Congratulations to the winner of my Spider-Man giveaway.

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