#Funny note but my Blu-ray combo copy of TLK has an error on its DVD disc where they somehow deleted Mufasa's clouds

[raeloganthesonic06fangirl]

I think about that time I went to see the RealD 3D re-release "The Lion King" in theaters back in 2011, after having watched it for decades on VHS tape.

It's my favorite movie of all time, and I'd seen it so much that not only did the tape deteriorate a bit over time, but I also knew the entire dialogue beat-for-beat, word-for-word, flawlessly. You could not beat me at LK trivia because I knew all the dialogue, all the deleted scenes, all the alternate songs not released in the film proper, all the released production art, the storyboards... I was basically the LK Oracle of my friend group.

Or so I thought

As or turns out, I was both very amazed and somewhat shaken to hear Simba in the background at the beginning when he wakes up his parents to start the morning, and you can hear him babble "Dad! Dad! Dad!" during the "Before sunrise, he's your son..." exchange.

I had never heard that before, because I had a VHS tape and an old TV set that was well used in the speaker department, and so I usually used captions by default.

Never once had the captions indicated this was part of the movie. I asked to borrow the use of a more modern TV in the house to hook up my tape player, and found out that this exact line or dialogue definitely existed all this time.

It made me question every single movie I thought I knew by heart.

It's not an important piece of dialogue, but it's really brings up the idea of "What else have I been missing due to poor sound mixing or bad sound transfer??"

I love watching shit with subtitles on and discovering that mumbled background conversations were not only supposed to be fully intelligible but are in fact plot-relevant. Like please, for the love of god, can streaming services start mixing their audio right?