The Lion King is very similar to an almost unknown story to Western culture but one of the Niger Congo language family’s (in western Africa) most beloved historical stories about one of their greatest kings- Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali. The main character Sundiata (which directly translated means “the lion king”) is a young prince banished from his homeland by family after his father dies. The story tracks his overcoming of emotional and physical ailments to later return to his kingdom and battle the evil sorcerer king who has overtaken it in his absence. This is a true story (with some magical elements added) and is still told by griots (history keepers for upper class families-aka Rafiki in the film).
When Gaston is falling at the very end, there is close-up of his eyes. For a few frames a tiny skull flashes in each of his eyes. In the theatrical release, as Gaston plunged to his implied death and his face filled the screen, two frames showed skulls in his eyes. For the VHS and laserdisc release, these frames were altered to remove the skulls from his eyes. However, no such alteration was made for the DVD release. The Disney Company claims that the skulls determined Gaston’s fate as fans were unsure whether he died or not at the end.
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Paperman by Disney is a wordless tale of romance between two strangers in mid-century New York City, the movie is a simple construct, supremely well-rendered, and in black-and-white, except for a few crucial blotches of red lipstick. It may, in its modest way, point towards a new frontier in animation, where computer-generated visuals are brought face to face with old-style hand-drawing, because it uses both at once. (Source: The Telegraph)
If Disney movie titles were literal.
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So cool!
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Saw this and loved it! So good!
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Such a cute short. Probably one of my favorites of Pixar’s…
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