Textual Analysis Of The Lion King

I chose to work with The Lion King for my Trailer Remix Assignment because it encompasses multiple genres throughout the film. Even though it is meant to be an adventure/drama movie it features different facial expressions and scenes that allows one to depict a romantic movie from it. The plot deals with growing up, getting into dangerous situations, making new friends, and finally accepting who you are. Due to the fact that this movie shows these two characters together in the first of the movie and near the end, it was quite easy to pick the scenes out where they are featured. Looking closely through the first of the movie you could see the aspects of a possible early relationship happening with some of the facial expression codes used back and forth to the two main characters, the rest of the character codes just needed to be removed from the film. These codes are used to create a meaning between the different characters, so multiple trailers were researched along this genre and others in order to get the right codes coordinated. …show more content…
The key plots points of the movie were chosen to show what the movie was about, starting out with introducing the two main characters as cubs. As the trailer progresses, the central conflict of the movie is shown as well when the cubs grow into adult lions. Most trailers that are seen, tend to avoid showing the ending, however a lot of romantic movies tend to show the ‘happily ever after,’ in order to show that it is a romantic movie instead of a drama/break-up movie. Text is used in most trailers, it helps the audience understand the different scene jumps and the music overlay during a trailer allows for a smooth (or choppy) tempo to be set for the