Disney movies have created a whole genre of children’s movies that have spanned throughout the decades, they detail social values and personal goals. Evil wreaking society but good overcoming the trials. All Disney movies are remembered for heroes overcoming obstacles to defeat an antagonist. Villains influence Disney movies roles by actually making schemes to build up the plot. In the Lion King, Scar convinces other that he should be the king, while simultaneously endangering the life of Simba and their whole pride. Scar is second son of the previous lion king and only has right to be king if the first son or his heir are incapable to lead. Aladdin, Jafar tries to steal the right to be sultan in the Arabian town, Agrabah. Though Scar effects …show more content…
his hostile takeover through violence rather than Jafar effects his kingdom through the genie, both use deceit to convince the ones who trust them, and die tragically trying to achieve their evil goals; foretelling, that personal evil goals create confliction with good in any society. In these two Disney movies, the style of overthrowing the rulers are vastly different.
Scar is the legitimate second prince of the tribe, therefore he has to follow the rules of the king. After Scar’s brother, Mufassa, inherits the throne, Scar became enraged his father did not choose him. Mufassa soon later produces an heir, Simba, that will eventually inherent the throne. The King’s child therefore makes Scar chance at becoming king extremely low. Scar comes up with a scheme that causes a great uproar after the alleged death Mufassa, the brother that he actually killed thus claiming his right to rule the savanna. For Scar plan to succeed, he sends his henchman to kill Simba. These deaths enabled Scar to rule the savanna thus completing the hostile takeover. The violent actions elaborate on how evil will destroy anyone deem useless in their …show more content…
eyes. On the other hand, Jafar was the royal Vizier, Chief Advisor to the Sultan in the kingdom of Agrabah. At the beginning, Jafar was a just a normal alchemist with power in the use of spells and a hypnotic staff. Jafar uses this magic to hypnotize and influence the sultan, forcing him to arrange the wedding of Jafar and his daughter, Jasmine. After discovering Aladdin is using the genie’s powers, Jafar’s minion steals the lamp so Jafar can us the genie’s wishes. Jafar demands to become the sultan and later an all-powerful genie. Jafar only inquired power by using language and secretly stealing a magical lamp. These two villains produced power by overthrowing the leaders in each community. Scar massacred his brother and planned to kill his nephew in order to gain power; while, Jafar deceived others to finally demand a wish to rule. The difference displays that evil can test the righteous using different style. Deceit is the main fact that both these villains used to create tragic environment.
Jafar deceives the Sultan with hypnotic powers to create his engagement to Princess Jasmine; however, Jasmine despise even the thought of engagement with him. Eventually, Jafar tricks Aladdin to retrieve the magical lamp. Jafar’s minion Lago steals the lamp from Aladdin for Jafar. Jafar calls upon the genie to appear. The genie grants each of his masters’ three wishes, becoming a servant to the wishes. Jafar wishes that he becomes the sultan, which replaces the current ruler’s authority. Scar uses similar deceit to trick his brother and pride of his true intention. Scar sends Simba to a ravine so he could be killed by an oncoming stampede. Scar informs Mufassa that a wildebeest stampede has occurred and Simba is stuck in the center. Scar does not tell anyone that he plotted the hyenas to chase the wildebeests, which then causes the stampede. Mufassa frantically rushes to rescue his son from with the help of Scar. Simba is retrieved by Mufassa, but both are caught in stampede. Dangerously leaping up the walls of the cliffs surrounding them, Mufassa is caught up in the stampede before managing to pull himself to safety. Mufassa climbing up a cliff and frantically asking Scar for assistance to pull him up. Scar deceives Mufassa by pretending he will help save Mufassa, but then throws his brother from the ledge. Mufassa falls to his death from the high cliff into the ravine to be trampled. Scar
heads back to the tribe and twists the story to tell how wildebeest trampled Simba and Mufassa, so the murderous king is left to lead as lion king. Scar and Jafar relate in the way they betray people who trust them. Evil will use all means to push for its goals and constantly betray anyone in their way. Nobody can be safe The ending of both Disney movies are similar in the fact that both antagonist fall to their demise, from their own goals, and from their companions. Scar, who uses the hyenas to take over the pride, gets massacred by them after he betrays them for an unknown. When Simba comes back as a grown lion after exile, to retake his throne back as lion king. Scar denies Simba right to rule of the pride and savannah. Simba accompanied by the whole lion pride rebels against Scar and the hyenas. Simba engages in battle with Scar to see who the strongest lion is. Scar stumbles off the cliff to the pack of allied hyenas. The hyenas turn their back and maul Scar, for before he and Simba had fought, he said that it was the hyenas who forced him to do it. Scar ultimately was led to his ultimately downfall by his desires. Jafar uses the genie wishes to grant himself to become the powerful sorcerer. Jafar attacks Aladdin and other royals in order to become the only powerful man in Agrabah. Aladdin tricks Jafar by convincing the amount of power Jafar has is nothing compared to the Genie. Jafar drastically wishes to become the most powerful genie, then Aladdin traps Jafar inside of a lamp. Jafar’s own wishes and genies wish lead him to his ultimate doom. Both the villains fall to their fate thanks to the strong pursuit of power. The Disney movies present many ethics that the American society values. These villains, Scar and Jafar, present a side of American culture that is constantly straining to gain power. Scar and Jafar differed in the style they became powerful rulers but these two antagonists had familiar amount of deceiving till the very end. By using deceit to bring the usurp of power, the v Then the ultimate downfall of the villains were similar. These antagonists’ goals of power overwhelmed their own view of other what was right and wrong, coincidentally helped the heroes surpass the obstacles put in front of them.
Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist and the Disney film The Lion King directed by Allers and Minkoff,
Scar and Claudius comparably murdered their victims, but their ultimate demise at the end of each story is a backfire of their evil mannerisms throughout the tragedy. Scar’s unremorseful actions toward his brother resembles his death as his final interactions were with Mufasa’s son, Simba, who threw him into the wild pack of hyenas below pride rock.
There is no doubt that today's entertainment has lost most of its touch with the more classical influences of its predecessors. However, in mid-1994, Walt Disney Pictures released what could arguably be the best animated feature of all time in The Lion King. With a moral base unlike most of the movies released at the time, TLK placed a children's facade on a very serious story of responsibility and revenge. However, this theme is one of the oldest in history, and it is not the least apparent in one of the oldest works of literature by The Bard himself, William Shakespeare. The work that Disney's TLK parallels is none other than Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, and the film shadows this work so closely, that parallels between the main characters themselves are wildly apparent. This very close comparison has led critics "to compare the movie to Hamlet in the importance of its themes" (Schwalm 1). But with a closer inspection of the characters themselves do we see just how apparent these similarities are.
The Lion King is a Disney animated movie portraying the life and times of Simba, who later becomes the greatest lion king known in the land. Simba's rise to the throne is a journey fraught with perils and hardships that make it an absolutely trilling story for the whole family! Although The Lion King is an exciting and entertaining movie, the movie is also a good illustration of several psychology concepts.
Hamlet and a popular amount of Disney movies share many parallels. The Lion King was actually based entirely off the play Hamlet. There are many themes in this play that are relevant in many other pieces, such as Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, and Hercules. Beauty and the Beast helps convey betrayal among people who care for each other, while Mulan allows people to see a deeper meaning in Hamlet’s own personal passion. Furthermore, Hercules allows one to connect the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia to a romance that is almost as complicated. While constructing this essay, I was able to discern a deeper meaning from the wise words of Shakespeare by taking the minute details, and linking them back to something similar and familiar.
Simba embraces Scar valiantly, avenging his father's death, and destroying the shadow that destroyed him. The death of Scar brings the rebirth of the kingdom, the rebirth of Pride Rock, and the rebirth of power and justice. Simba roars a vociferous roar, restoring life to the pridelands. It begins to rain, symbolizing the cleansing of power, and the rejuvenation of Simba.
This upsets the Hyenas. They leave Scar to fight Simba by himself. Simba wins the fight and throws Scar off a cliff, into the herd of the Hyenas. The hyenas show no remorse for Scar and they trample over him, killing him. Once Simba takes back the throne, the whole kingdom becomes beautiful again and everyone is happy.
The Lion King is a story based around the betrayal of a king by his brother. The brother’s ambition of becoming the king leads to him killing the true and current king. In The Lion King, Scar betrays his brother by killing him to gain the throne for himself. Through Psychoanalytic Theory, it is clear that Scar feels shame because he is not the king and the next in line for the throne is his nephew. This shame eventually leads to Scar betraying his brother because of his ambition.
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth (The Holy Bible, Matthew 5:5). This quote is the third Beatitude in “The Bible” which means that any person who exhibits self-control and modesty will be rewarded with peace, prosperity and eternal life. There are many stories in the bible, as well as novels, plays, and motion pictures that help display the consequences of not leading a humble life. Macbeth (from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”) and Scar (from Rob Minkoff and Roger Aller’s “The Lion King”) are two characters that fail to portray the virtues of the third Beatitude. In both adaptations, there are many parallels between both characters as they possess selfish qualities and murder for their own benefits. Although Scar and Macbeth both commit regicide out of their own desire for power and create chaos among the land, Macbeth presents moral qualities while Scar is corrupt and dishonest throughout the “Lion King”. The main characters of both adaptations bring attention to the
The pristine 1933 King Kong was constructed as a movie: to convey a story to entertain an audience. Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake took the substructure for King Kong and expanded upon it in virtually every way in order to “make again” the astoundment of the original for a modern-day audience. Audiences received the first King Kong very well. The stop-motion sequences of Kong were astounding for their time and the movie grossed over $90,000 in its beginning weekend. In order to bank upon its prosperity again, sequels were made and thus in 1976 a remake was made to amend upon the original. Paramount updated the movie to color, altered the story, and cast Jeff Bridges, a widely popular actor of the time, as the lead actor. Although the movie received stirred reviews, it did exceptionally well in the box office and tripled Paramount’s initial budget for the motion picture. Even though the movie wasn’t “as good” as the original, audiences still paid money to view it because of that hope that they would feel like they once did when they visually perceived the first King Kong. The remake add...
It is amazing how a seemingly educated woman that has won Oscar awards for her documentaries, could possibly be so far off base in her review of the Disney movie “The Lion King”. Margaret Lazarus has taken a movie made for the entertainment of children and turned it into something that is racist, sexist and stereotypes gender roles. She uses many personal arguments to review the movie but offers few solutions. The author is well organized but she lacks alternate points of view and does not use adequate sources. Lazarus utilizes the statement at the end of her review that “the Disney Magic entranced her children, but they and millions of other children were given hidden messages that could only do them and us harm” (118). She makes her point by saying that “the Disney Magic reinforces and reproduces bigoted and stereotyped views of minorities and women in our society” (Lazarus 117). She makes comparisons such as elephant graveyards are like ghettos (Lazarus 118). Other lines of reasoning Lazarus gives us are about Whoopie Goldberg using inner city dialect, the villain Scar being gay, and only those born to privilege can bring about change (118).
the king of a Pride Land, who is murdered by his brother and then the
The characters in The Lion King closely parallel Hamlet. Simba, the main character in The Lion King, embodies Hamlet, He is the son of the King and rightful heir to the throne. The King of the Pridelands, Mufasa, parallels Hamlet Senior, who is killed by the uncle figure. In The Lion King, the uncle is Scar, and in Hamlet, the uncle figure is Claudius. Laertes, the henchman and right-hand man of Claudius, becomes, in the movie, the Hyenas, Bansai, Shenzi, and Ed. The Hyenas collectively act as hero-worshippers to Scar, loyal subjects, and fellow doers-in-evil. They support Scar completely, just as Laertes supports Claudius. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the comic reliefs of Hamlet, and in The Lion King, this role is fulfilled by Timon and Pumbaa, who are a meercat and warthog, respectively. Both sets compliment each other, complete each other's sentences, act as caretakers to Hamlet/Simba, and are comical to the point of being farcical. The role of Horatio, Hamlet's right-hand man, is fulfilled in The Lion King by Nala. Nala concentrates on the aspect that Simba is the rightful King and that it is his responsibility to ascend to the throne. She is his best friend and someone whom he trusts. Just as Horatio loyally follows Hamlet, Nala is completely loyal to Simba. Not only are there ties of friendship, but there is also an element of respect and reverence in both friendships. Horatio and Nala both know that they are friends and loyal followers of the rightful king.
Mulan tells that the story of brave Mulan. Mulan did not want her elderly father to fight in the war, so she disguised as a man and joined in her father 's army. Finally, Mulan defeated the Huns and Shan Yu (leader of the Huns) with her partners in barracks. This Disney film portrays the conflict perspective, feminism, and symbolic interaction perspective.
Zazu wishes Simba good luck before Nala and Zazu disappear. Mufasa explains to Simba he will not always be there but that if Simba ever feels alone look to the stars and all the past kings of the Pride Lands will be in the sky. Scar is angered by the hyena’s failure to kill Simba and he deploys a plan to kill Mufasa. As Simba waits for his father at the bottom of a dry river bed, a stampede of wildebeest, Mufasa is alerted by Zazu of Simba’s impending danger.