Movie Trivia - Lion King

 Yes you have guessed it, its time for a new series on this blog and as you can see by the title its movie trivia. To start off this new series i have decided to write it about one of my favourite Disney films, and as this October it will be the 20th anniversary this post is on the Lion King.

So i guess the best piece of trivia to start with is that it still holds the record for being the highest grossing traditionally animated film in history, still 20 years on it has beaten some of the greats like A bugs life and Pocahontas. It was also the highest grossing movie in 1994 and second in the United States behind Forrest Gump.

The next really interesting fact is that the scene of the wildebeest stampede took Disney's CG department 3 years to animate in total, and i dont know about you guys but i think all the time spent on the scene was well spent. The production team that worked on the Lion King was known as Disney's team B and were given the job to be kept busy while their team A was working on Pocahontas as the production had much higher hopes of doing well, i bet they are regretting that decision now, i think the thing to say here is well done team B you did an amazing job.

many of the song from the Lion King have become very famous and well known Disney songs of all time, and whilst we are on the subject of the songs did you know that during 'Be Prepared' the hyenas marching past Scar on the elevated rock was originally inspired by footage of Nazis marching by Adolf Hitler on a podium during world war 2.

Another cool fact i would like to throw your way is that the Lion King was the first Disney film to be dubbed into Zulu.

The last fact i would like to share with you lovely people is that the story was loosely based on Shakespeare's story of Hamlet. As the story was of a young prince whose uncle takes over the kingdom and marries the queen after killing the prince's father. After being taken away from home for a period of time, these events lead to the prince's plans for revenge. The prince receives some advice from his father's ghost. Also one last little fun fact, when Zazu is singing 'ive got a lovely bunch of coconuts' scar has a skull in his hand (an iconic image of Shakespeare's Hamlet).

Thank you for reading this blog post and hope you all enjoyed the new series. Please feel free to comment below fore suggestions and fell free to share and social network sites. Enjoy the weather ... Au Revior.