The Lion King

Disney's Lion King is one of the most famous and controversial animated movies of all time. The movie contains some very important aspects of 20th century American culture such as capitalism, racism and sexism. The hidden messages of these delicate aspects for the society make the movie very controversial and criticized in different ways. Antelopes eat the grass and lions eat the antelopes. When lions die, they become the grass. It’s the circle of life, the beautiful simplicity of nature.…

While in The Lion King this was shown when Mufasa was king. Level 2 was shown When Neo was given a choice to make, take the blue pill and remain ignorance of the truth and awake back at home unharmed or take the red pill and see the painful truth of reality and escape the Matrix. This also was shown in the Lion King when Nala follows Simba to the dark side. Level 3 was shown in the Matrix when Trinity pulled Neo down the wall and followed Morpheus’s order to leave. In the Lion King Simba’s uncle…

My opinion of the lion king hasn't changed, although after reading this text it has opened my mind to other possible meanings. Before I assumed it was just a typical kids movie with not much meaning behind it. After reading this text I can see all the other perspectives people have that shows racism, dominate attitudes and dominant social values of America. My opinion of the Lion King remains to be a kids movie that is simply a fictional movie created to how the American producer wanted. I don't…

form of being disloyal, betrayal. or treason. For example, If someone wants to have something so bad that they will hurt the people around them just so that they can have it. Lion King shows a tremendous amount of greed. In the story Lion King there was two brothers named Mufasa and Scar. Scar hated that his brother was the king of the Jungle. He was willing to do anything in his power to take that power away from his brother, so scar…

The Lion King has What? In Margaret Lazarus essay “All’s Not Well in Land of “The Lion King”” she points out all of the all the stereotypes she sees in the movie The Lion King. The stereotypes she talks about are racism, sexual orientation, and feminism. This essay is a summary and response over her essay and all of the stereotypes she points out, using the movie as our evidence. One of the stereotypes Margaret Lazarus states in her essay about the The Lion King is racist. She states in her…

Sundiata and The Lion King are very similar is ways but different is ways also. Something that shows that both of the epics are very similar is that both Simba and Sundiata are exiled but return to reclaim their kingdom. Just as the movie and the epic have similarities they also have differences such as in the two characters Simba is more of the active and curious lion cub while Sundiata lags behind the others. Another thing that makes these two tales different is SImba cant wait to be king and…

- 15 The Lion King An archetype is a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature (http://literarydevices.net/archetype/). Swiss Psychologist, Carl Jung says that archetypes are symbols of character that every human understands because they are passed on from generation to generation. Many movies and books have archetypes but one that really stood out was one of Walt Disney’s Animated Classics, The Lion King. The Lion King is the…

unwinding in the circle, the circle of life” (The Lion King). In the popular Disney movie, The Lion King, the main character, or lion named Simba, is involved in an adventurous journey to find his place in life. The young lion is born into royalty after his powerful father King Mufasa. Filled with envy, Simba’s uncle Scar conspires to kill both Mufasa and Scar in order to reign over the kingdom. Scar becomes triumphant after eliminating the king, therefore; Simba departs from the pride in shame…

The lion king shows us what it means to have courage and doing the right thing. In the scene where Mufasa dies it begins with Simba going to see something scar told him. While he is waiting he hears a rumbling train like sound and feels the floor start to shake. He notices a stamped of antelope coming straight at him. Mufasa catches wind that his son is in danger and without hesitation he runs towards his song. Once Mufasa sees Simba hanging from a tree he goes directly to him. Mufasa goes…

Over the years, Disney has made many attempts of telling the stories of the otherwise unknown culture. However, in both The Lion King (1994) and Pocahontas (1995), for example, Disney poorly represented the African and Native American cultures for entertainment and monetary profit. The Lion King is the western interpretation of African culture represented by jungle animals fighting against each other for power, mirroring the apartheid becoming an anarchy. Pocahontas is the story of the British…