Stereotypes In The Lion King

In the article “All’s Not Well in Land of ‘The Lion King’” the author, Margaret Lazarus, talks about her opinion and her summary of the movie “The Lion King.” Lazarus talks about her experience of “The Lion King and how disappointed she was in the movie. Lazarus and her kids though they were going to see an innocent movie about animals in the wild. But after watching the movie she believed that the movie stereotyped different kinds of people. She believed that it stereotyped against ghettos, African Americans, and gays. Lazarus also believes that Walt Disney and the makers of “The Lion King” are also sexist against females. One example of her thinking the movie was stereotyping was when they portrayed the hyenas and the space they lived in as hostile and she compared it to living in the ghettos. Another example of when she says the makers of the movie are sexist is when Scar takes over and the women lions don’t know what to do so they …show more content…
I do not believe the makers of the movie made it portray that females were too scared to do anything. I see it as the female lions were so used to looking up to their king that when he died they just didn’t know what to do, as did the rest of the animal kingdom. She thinks that just because they didn’t do anything to rebel against Scar taking over that the makers of the movie were being sexist against females. And I see it as them not knowing what to do and waiting until the king’s heir is ready to take back power from Scar. I disagree with Lazarus’ view on the move “The Lion King” almost completely. I had not made any connections with the movie and her views on it. I saw it as the heir to the king has to make up ground for when his father dies and his evil uncle tries to take over power. I saw the movie as a basic movie with a plot and nothing that represents anything to real life. I saw it as a good old fashioned Walt Disney