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That's just straight up beautiful by the way 🥺
Please Charlie don't hurt him with your sharp critter fingers 🥺
The boyssss
Rest in Peace Robert Guillaume you will be missedÂ
The circle of life is sad today. Rest in the stars Robert Guillaume (November 30, 1927 – October 24, 2017), the eternal voice of Rafiki ♥ Thank you Robert!
The Lion King, again.
First off. It's not "live action". There's no live animals. It's photo realistic computer animation. Or something similar.
Second. Are they going to give CG Nala whiskers? She doesn't have whiskers in the original because ... Basically she "looked wierd" with them? More sexy with no whiskers? Because sexy lionesses were totally important to godsdamned eight-year olds? I mean?
The males had whiskers. They female didn't.
Thirdly. What about Rafiki? Are they actually going to identify him as a Mandrill this time around? Because 95% of the memorabilia I had called him a Baboon. Disney Adventures was all "this is Rafiki!"
"He's a baboon!!"
And I'd be like. Now. Sure. I was in middle school. I wasn't a zoologist. But when they show you a picture of a primate with a blue face, and then tell you it's a primate that does NOT have a blue face, meanwhile there's THIS guy:
Red nose? Blue cheeks? Tufty beard? That's a Mandrill.
I guess if you want to argue semantics, Wikipedia states "The mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is a primate of the Old World monkey (Cercopithecidae) family. It is one of two species assigned to the genus Mandrillus, along with the drill. Both the mandrill and the drill were once classified as baboons in the genus Papio, but they now have their own genus, Mandrillus."
It just always felt like if they'da put a litttttlle more effort into an Encarta search they could have found a picture of the animal the character actually WAS.
I guess my big question now is: The trailer showed a lot of shot for shot beats from the original film, so is it literally going to be a CG Do-Over? Or are they going to try new plot elements? Work in stuff from Lion King 1/2? They kind of milked Hamlet dry the first time around. And if they're just going to do a direct copy paste, why even recast it. The voice files are still all on record. If it's all the same shots but with different voices will it just come across as disjointed?
While I appreciate that Disney is casting much more culturally appropriate this time around, it also jars me that they're doing it on the ONE movie where you don't actually see any of that talent on screen representation. They're trying to get brownie points for a diverse black cast behind a microphone, but then they go and cast ... The Pink Ranger as Jasmine? Wiki says she's got an Indian mother and a British father but just... Why not go full out? Let the little Middle Eastern girls have their own hero! There's so few movies they can reboot that will let them have that chance and I just feel Disney could have gone a little further. Farther? Ugh. Black Panther, Shuri and Okoye did so much good for so many young black girls, I guess 'The Breadwinner' is Middle Eastern but it would be nice to show them something that isn't based on the terrible bullshit wars. Or maybe I'm just being offended on behalf of people who aren't offended. That's also very possible. Like all those people going off on Scarlett Johansson being cast as the Major when the Japanese consensus seemed to be "So? It's Hollywood." Maybe the fact they're making a live action Aladdin at all is 'good enough'.
My friend wrote this on his chemistry exam
#19 Timon and Pumba from Disney's The Lion King
(Because they should always come as a set.) This comically paired duo are the ones who decide to take a chance and rescue a young Simba and raise a King of the Pride Lands.
New video about my opinions on the Disney Trailers. Spoilers I wasn't too excited
there’s a lady in front of me at the merch table that had the Karen hair cut, glasses, and the pink outfit ðŸ˜
Today was Disney day at school.
I decided to be human!Scar.
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The Circle of Slice….
Shen Ju, designed and played by me on WildLand PBF. Drawn on TLKFAA's Sketcher.
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