small male child loses a parent, begins a journey, has a female companion. old dinosaur mentions the "circle of life." Later, they meet friends. continues on, male sees a cloud in the sky shaped like a parent, then we get a happy ending.
shareI don`t know if it`s written here anywhere.
But it`s got many similarities to "Ice Age" too.
Child must be brought back, one of the group isn't integrated...
A group searching for the great finish is more like part 2.
But i guess these children-road-movies just got a long tradition.
Well, I actually find it very cool that they're similar. I mean, "The Lion King" was always my favorite Disney movie, and "Land Before Time" was always my favorite dinosaur/Don Bluth movie, so I don't really mind it. Plus, their movie titles also begin with "L" (if you don't count "The")! XD
shareLion King is so far removed from Hamlet it's ridiculous. If the archetype is simply that the uncle kills the father, and the son kills the uncle, then fine, but that's as old as time.
What else is there? Ghost dad, annnnnd that's about it. Is Simba's mom nailing his uncle? No. Did Simba's friends turn out to be his enemies? No. Did Simba's love interest throw his love in his face, so then he retaliates and then she kills herself? Did Simba put on a play? Was there any doubt that his uncle was a scumbag? Did Simba contemplate suicide? No no no no.... And if we look at the source of Hamlet, Amleth, it is even more obscure, where Hamlet is close enough to the source material to have similar scenes and characters, yet no one says Shakespeare ripped off Amleth.
The Lion King was basically a child-friendly version of Hamlet.
Simba did not outwardly contemplate suicide, but his whole inner struggle to go back and be king or not is basically his "To Be Or Not To Be" soliloquy.
Timon & Pumbaa = Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Not only were they with Simba when he was far away from home (as R&G were with Hamlet), but Lion King 1/2 was based on the play by Tom Stoppard called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which basically details what R&G were doing in the scenes they weren't originally in.
Was Sarabi (Simba's mother) screwing around with Scar? We don't know that. They didn't mention it because it is a Disney movie, but they never said she wasn't. It severely depends on what literary theory you're looking at.
Zazu = Polonius. He embodies Polonius nearly perfectly. One of the few differences being he is not Nala's father.
One of the major differences I find between Hamlet and TLK is Nala. Nala, as opposed to Ophelia, is a near faultless character. She in no way matches Ophelia's archetype.
To get more back on topic, the only real similarity between TLBT and TLK is that the main character's parent(s) died. That is no where close to a ripoff.
What's Purgatory? Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one.
I thought "The Lion King" was loosely based on Hamlet?
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