#Live-Action Simba

[thefinalbracket]

WE'RE NOW BEGINNING THE THIRD PHASE OF THE GROUP STAGE! In this phase, we have FIVE NEWCOMERS and ELEVEN VETERANS!

Speaking of VETERANS, one of our matches tonight is NONE OTHER than a GRUDGE MATCH between TWO QUARTER-FINALISTS from LAST SEASON!

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S THE RETURN OF POPUKO VS EASY-BAKE OVEN! POPUKO went all the way to the SEMI FINALS and suffered EMBARRASSING LOSSES to BUGS BUNNY and MIKU HATSUNE. Will she AVENGE HERSELF? Or will EASY-BAKE, THE PEOPLE'S CHAMPION, DO WHAT IT PREVIOUSLY COULD NOT?!

IT'S ANYONE'S GAME TONIGHT!

NOW LET'S SEE THOSE MATCHES!

ONE MILLION LIONS vs BETTY BOOP

EASY-BAKE OVEN vs POPUKO

COUNT D vs JESSE PINKMAN

QUEEN TITANIA vs ICHIGO KUROSAKI

AUDREY II vs LIVE-ACTION SIMBA

THE CALIFORNIA RAISINS vs KIRBY

XENOMORPH QUEEN vs DOROTHY-ANN HUDSON

SAYAKA KANAMORI vs SWIPER THE FOX

THIS IS TRUE LOVE WE'RE MAKING! FIGHT!!!

[thepaststillhurts]

Out of all the animals you usually hunt with your pride, which are the most difficult ones?

"Hmm. The buffalo. Zebras are easier I can say because they usually just panic and run. Buffalos... well that's another question entirely. They do come back for their lost herd member if we catch one to fight for their life, not to mention they are way more heavier than zebras and they have horns too... Elephants would be even more difficult to hunt, but we don't hunt elephants, although I have heard of prides who do."

[yen-sids-tournament]

The Lion King: Animated (1994) v Live Action (2019)

You do not have to see both to vote, but it might have been helpful.

Feel free to share opinions or explanations with comments/tags/rbs

[artist-issues]

Will you be watching the Mufasa movie when it comes out? I personally don’t think I can handle it. They already demolished Lion King in their Live Action version so I don’t trust them to do right with this one.

I think I might just for one reason: they added more facial expression to the animation.

If I had to expand on that and say “I’ll go for two reasons,” it would be “this is a new story, not a remake.” There are different dangers to adding-on-to an established story, and I prefer those kinds of dangers to the ones that come when you’re trying to re-tell something that’s already been perfectly told.

I’ve said in other posts before, they changed The Lion King’s Main Point from: “Remember who you are: a King takes responsibility for the care of others.” to:

“I have self-worth.”

Which, you may notice, is pretty contradictory. It’s another one of those “let’s capitalize on a franchise everybody already buys into by re-telling it—and while we’re there, retelling it, let’s completely take back the message that the original had, and give it a completely new message based on whatever the current culture thinks is ‘correct.’”

So, selflessness out. Self-obsession in. Responsibility out. Self-validation in. Self, self, self.

Anyway.

That’s the danger of remakes. They use a “retelling” opportunity to “remake” everything that made the original good. And by remake, I mean, erase and make-worse. I digress.

This new movie won’t have those same sets of dangers. They can’t exactly ruin the original origins of Mufasa, the character, in the same way the ruined Simba—because there’s never been a really canon story about Mufasa and his brother.

(What I mean by that is, the original The Lion King film did not spell out Mufasa and Scar’s relationship or backstory in great detail within that film. The printed media and fan theories and even The Lion Guard versions of events, which came later, I don’t count, when it comes to evaluating this new movie.)

But, I will say this. It looks like, from the trailers, Mufasa and Taka aren’t blood-related. That raises my eyebrows. Why are they doing that? The fact that Scar is Mufasa’s brother in the original makes his betrayal and motivation for killing him and trying to kill Simba much more impactful. Why take that away? Also, it makes it look like Taka was supposed to inherit some sort of leadership role, and maybe choosing to adopt Mufasa winds up putting events in motion that rob him of what was otherwise his rightful rule. So that sort of further justifies Scar’s bitterness later on.

All of that is dumb. You should not make a prequel that weakens every story that comes after it. See Star Wars.

I’ve also said: Mufasa, as a character is the ideal Strong, Selfless Father/King. And he specifically states that he got his ideals from his Father, and clings to them because of a heritage, something Outside of Himself. He’s not special. He’s not the Chosen One. He’s one in a long line of good, strong men (Lion, whatever) who pass down valuing others as more important than themselves. He submits and obeys those ideals. He is the opposite of “getting my way all the time.”

Do you see why it’s important that Mufasa did not come up with those values himself? He has to get them from an authority figure who came before him. He has to be submitting to someone—even though he’s a King.

They have a high chance of ruining that.

Because it’s not very popular right now for the Western Culture to say “give your life up for others! Sacrifice your interests for the big picture! Submit yourself to someone else’s authority and wise advice, whether you feel like it or not!” But the powerful truth is, that is what Mufasa is, as a character.

I already outlined how in this post.

So this new movie has new dangers. I might go to see how it handles them. Because if they could listen to people enough to make the lions’ faces move more animatedly, maybe they have stopped and thought about how to make a good story that fits in with the original Lion King’s values. Maybe it’ll be a fix-it for the 2019 movie.

Not likely. But I’m going in with an open mind, even if I watch the trailers with skepticism. So we’ll see!

[disneytva]

New "Mufasa: The Lion King" Trailer Brings Kiara To The Lion King (2019) Universe

First look to Kiara on MUFASA: THE LION KING voiced by Blue Ivy Carter.

Kiara was a character created at Disney Television Animation as "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride" was produced at the studio, technically this counts as a gift from Walt Disney Studios for #DisneyTVA40

[writebackatya]

Whenever I see people compare the “live-action” Lion King to the original, I always see Simba’s reaction to the stampeding wildebeests

Which is a great example but I think they should also compare it to the Kingdom Hearts 2 cutscene because yeah it looks goofy as hell compared to the original, but it’s still showing more emotion than the remake’s scene

[kaythefloppa]

Tired to death of seeing people say that the new Lion King film is "Fixing the awkward family tree" by making Mufasa and Scar not adopted (i.e. Scar being Nala or Kovu's father in a scenario would be "okay")

We've had this conversation before; Adoption is no less valid a familial connection than blood. Implying that Mufasa and Scar aren't "real brothers" because they were adopted and that their relatives can get together as consequence of this is incredibly tone-deaf to imply that adoption is a "lesser" form of family and therefore can commit incest. And in a movie where the main characters sing a musical numer called "I Always Wanted a Brother," this is just... a really weird takeaway, to put it gently.

And oh-yeah, there's no awkward family tree to begin with, no matter what slop Buzzfeed or Screenrant regurgitates every 2 years: Nala isn't Scar's daughter, (both based on just... basic context in and out of the movie), Kovu isn't Scar's son (based on it having to be said twice in the film).

And also, Mufasa: The Lion King takes place in an alternate universe. Word of mouth from the creators, "It's its own thing." So it would not over-write any of the family trees of the 2D animated movies anyways (that won't stop people from applying headcanons in accordance to the film, but there's the objective fact).

I'm excited for the new movie as well, and I too really like the idea of Mufasa being an orphaned cub, and him and Scar becoming brothers, but if we're going to praise the film/have high hopes for it, can we express them in ways that do not involve bashing the original with baseless critiques and half-truths that have been disproven time and time again? Especially when the topic involves something as sensitive as incest conflated with something as misunderstood and stigmatized as adoption?

[blackrose91]

[elijones94]

🦁 Young Mufasa 🐾

[retropakko]

These two movies are equally artistically bankrupt, but one got a pass due to 25 year gap nostalgia

Just saying...

[malerfique]

🤡🤡🤡 disney live action remake🤡🤡🤡🤡 miss the joke

gray, brown, faded, a bit realistic, lack of emotion. make people like the original more, what does it matter you give money this film is ugly , that's a joke

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Peter Pan & Wendy

The Little Mermaid

Snow White

Mufasa: The Lion King

Untitled Aladdin sequel

Untitled The Jungle Book sequel

Hunchback

Untitled Cruella sequel

Tink

Untitled Prince Anders film

Bambi

The Aristocats

Lilo & Stitch

Moana

[thefinalbracket]

TIME FOR GROUP TWO

Group One’s bracket is what I call an astounding success!!! SO LET’S MOVE ON TO GROUP TWO!!!

In case you can’t read that shitty-ass small text, LET ME CLARIFY WHAT THESE MATCHES ARE:

REIGEN ARATAKA vs XENOMORPH QUEEN

KOOL-AID MAN vs CARLTON BANKS

KIRBY vs WINNIE THE POOH

SHINJI IKARI vs LIVE-ACTION SIMBA

NAGITO KOMAEDA vs KARAMATSU MATSUNO

HELLO KITTY vs COUNT CHOCULA

NORVILLE “SHAGGY” ROGERS vs RMS TITANIC

BASTION vs ROBBIE ROTTEN

SIXTEEN MORE OF THE MOST POWERFUL FIGHTERS WE COULD GET ON SHORT NOTICE!!! If you’re waiting for fighters such as

Pepsiman

Barbie

“I Like Trains” Kid

THEN WORRY NOT!!! THEY’LL BE SHOWING UP AS SOON AS THE BRACKET PROGRESSES!!! GOGOGOGOGO VOTEVOTEVOTEVOTE

[thepaststillhurts]

~ Telling Kiara her grandfather, Mufasa's story. 😊 My father was one of the great kings of the Pridelands, if not the greatest. Thanks to him this kingdom can flourish and I can only be grateful for such a precious legacy. Also, my task is to protect what I got from him, and one day this will be Kiara's task. ~

[yen-sids-tournament]

Sequel Movies Grand Finale: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest v The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

[hannahmelissa]

It just looks like they're in a parade or something.

Look at the incredible, heartbreaking emotion on simba’s face when he’s running from the wildebeests in the lion king remake. Truly an extraordinary achievement thanks to the magic of modern, state-of-the-art CG.

[cepheusgalaxy]

In my crazy anime era