The Lyin King
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 1:17 am
I don't know what I was doing - but I end up in all of the dark alleys of the Internet at one time or another. Today, I discovered that Lion King was really a rip-off of a classic Japanese cartoon called Kimba The White Lion. Take a look at these video frames. Look familiar? Yeah, I was kinda shocked by this. More than once, a company has tried to release the Japanese film in America or groups have tried to show it at film events, but somehow something always got in the way. In fact, the movie The Lion King was delayed during litigation surrounding one of these home video releases in America (that never ended up happening). Want to see more? Go to this web site and read the whole rant.
The only other problem with The Disney version of Lion King is that someone else can claim that they copied too: Shakespeare. The story is a complete knock off of SHakespeare's "Hamlet", from start to finish. Even if Disney can honestly say that they didnt copy the Japanese White Lion series, they cant escape that they copied Hamlet to the bone. ... except having sex with his mother... but in a Lion pride, the dominant male has sex with all the females, so it is implied in its own way, so it STILL copies Hamlet either way.
Jer Bear
Jan. 28, 2005 at 6:19 am