xmas wishlist 2011

Well, hello, hello, hello! And a pinch and a punch to you all for the 1st of December! But the start of the silly/festive season also brings the publication of something super-important: my Christmas wish list! XD
Even from a young age, I’d put together a list of things I wanted each year for Christmas. Back when I was still in primary school, they were small things, like a small torch for my room, or a bag of marbles to play with, etc. but me being almost 2.5 decades old now, my list has grown fancier, too. XD anyways, here’s what I want for Christmas this year, Santa! (and I reckon I’ve been fairly well behaved this year, so I’m at least expecting some of the items I’m requesting! :P)
(1) A Kngdom Besieged by Raymond E Feist – this guy’s my favouritest fantasy author of all time, so when I received the Borders online catalogue advertising his newest book, it was the first to go on my wish list! XD
(2) My Blue Nose Friends keyring – there’s just something adorable about this teddy who got left out in the snow and got so cold his fur turned grey and his nose turned blue!
(3) Darren Lockeyer’s autobiography – I think my Australian godmother said she’d get me this for Christmas!
(4) Kelly Clarkson CD and Linkin Park CD – yup, Westlife is, undoubtedly, my favouritest band ever (hence why I’m devastated that they’re calling it quits *wails* ><) but I’ve always enjoyed the music by Kelly Clarkson and Linkin Park, too. Hey, allow me to be angsty every so often! XD
(5) Heaven’s Net Is Wide by Lian Hearn – I own the first three books all combined as one massive hardcover, and I love how she’s combined Japanese historical fiction and magic all into one enthralling series.
(6) Scattergories board game – actually, I don’t even know if this comes as a board game! XD but I played it for the first time at the WAUFAKAP social, and fell in love with it! It’s available online too, but with only a three minute time limit.
(7) Walking stick – sorry, this one will feature in all my wish lists to come. See, the problem is that when I walk, I don’t really trust my own two legs, and desperately need to hold onto sth that touches the ground, whether that be a walking stick, or somebody else’s hand. See, if I’m holding onto someone’s hand, they touch the ground when they walk, and I therefore touch the ground through them. Sadly, my mother has decided that I’m not to hold onto anyone while I w alk, nor am I allowed to use a walking stick, hence my desperate craving for one. Besides, the physios have taught me that if I’m to walk well, my right leg must pass my left leg. I can manage that just fine when I’m holding onto something that touches the ground, but, when denied that, am simply too fearful to take a big right step over my left foot, for fear I will go hurtling to the ground. It’s happened before.><
(8) X-men: First Class DVD – mother and I went to see this movie together, and it’s simply an awesome movie!
(9) Shatner Rules (William Shatner’s autobiography) this man played James T. Kirk in Star Trek! Of course I want his autobiography; I’m a diehard Trekkie! XD
(10) Kobo touch e-reader – okay, this is something I saw from the Borders e-catalogue that looks vaguely interesting … I’ve always just bought the book itself to read, I’ve never tried using an e-reader before! But it sounds interesting (and I’m sure it’d be tons lighter, too! XD)
(11) Farts: A Spotter’s Guide – okay, this book borders on the … well, insane! XD but it sounds intriguing; worth a good read, surely! XD
(12) Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell – this one’s prolly just some random book I found while reading the Border’s e-catalogue! XD
(13) Teddy bear – another thing I always have on my wish lists. I wuv teddies. ^^
(14) Two more goldfish – this is to replace poor Silver and Bronze, who passed away in the Winter of 2008.
(15) A new computer mouse and mouse pad. See, we’ve been using the current optical mouse and mouse pad for at least three years, and I think it’s starting to age. I play speed-related games, and it’s awfully annoying when you’re trying to move the mouse in a certain direction, but it’s not responding! >< (A/N: uncle yuk tai was awesome and brought me over a new mouse! the only thing is, the button you click is very small, not like the standard half-half size shared by the left and right mouse buttons. now, god's left poor ela more or less useless, but he's left my right hand pretty shoddy with fine motor skills; the mouse responds totally accurately now, but after i move the pointer to where i want it, it takes time for me to find the clicky part to click it! ><


(16) electric toothbrush – I remember the Chow sisters gave me one for last Christmas/the Christmas before, but sorry, it passed away recently. Well, technically, it didn’t pass away, but it’d just automatically turn itself on during the middle of the night, and refuse to turn itself back off! In the end, mother ripped the battery from it, and it finally shut up. XD but I’d like a new one, please!
(17) a box of frosties – yup, I know, it’s unhealthy cereal, but it’s my favourite! The last box I ate was tipped out coz it was invaded by ants … >< if I get a new box this Christmas, must come up with a better way of keeping it ant proof!
(18) one of those plastic cups with my name on it – I used to have a yellow one that read ‘Emily’, and my dad had a blue one that read ‘Michael’. I used it to brush my teeth every night, until the mug grew so old, it’s handle fell off! XD I’d like a new one, please! Think you can get them from Granny Mays.
(19) Me To You At Christmas CD - I wuv Me To You teddies! Bet his CD's worth getting! XD
(20) A new manual wheelchair - see, my current one I got back in 2007, when God first ruined my life, but it's getting old and worn. Besides, it's not very light weight, and I'm certain that every carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they're called now :P has heard mother gripe on and on about how heavy it is for her to get from the boot and put back in. And, seeing that we're returning to Hong Kong early next year, I'll like a lightweight one so that mother won't put out her back putting the manual wheelchair in the taxi boot, like she somehow did when we returned to Hong Kong last year.
Righteo, that’s the last from me, Santa. Cheers to you. ~
Cheerws,
Em. ^^

literacy

I’ve always been a dunce at maths. Well, not really a dunce. I graduated high school maths B with a high credit, and can still recite pi to five decimal places. But maths isn’t my forte.
Rather, the English language is. I’m fine with reading and writing, have a fairly extensive vocab, etc.
Back in 2007, when God destroyed my life, I was hoping/thinking that he’d only left me with a physical disability. More than one carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they’re called now :P has told me the same thing. “I see you as a young woman with only a physical disability.”
So I was considerably upset to discover that my English skills have deteriorated considerably post-brain injury.
I’m a writer and reader of fanfiction. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, fanfiction is when you write your own story borrowing characters from someone else’s book. Say, if you were reading Harry Potter, but decided that Harry shouldn’t have gone out with Ginny, but rather Hermione and you wrote out a story along those lines. That’d be fanfiction. I used to write several stories too. You can find them at www.fanfiction.net. My username is ‘pactumserva’.
But I was re-reading some stories I’d written before my brain injury, and I was very distressed to discover that I didn’t understand some of the words that I’d written myself.
I mean, I know that God has left me very physically disabled, but I truly thought that at the very least, my grasp of the English language hadn’t deteriorated!
I honestly was shattered that I had to look up two of the words I’d written up in the dictionary. Like, I often do have to look up words I come across when reading Lillian’s blog (but you’re just awesome, Lillian, so it’s really no surprise, see? :P) but I honestly hadn’t expected that I wouldn’t be able to comprehend MY OWN WRITING! ><
That brought me back to this Bible passage we’d recently studied during bible study at SHINE fellowship. Coming from first Corinthians 1:9, it reads, “God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Now, either I have found a mistake in the Bible, or else I’m just a very immature Christian who has gotten everything all muddled up. Probably the latter.
The dictionary defines ‘faithful’ as “true to one’s words, promises, vows, etc.”
Now, if god really was faithful, would he really have wantonly destroyed my life like he has done?
Every night, in bed, I ask myself what did I do/didn’t do that made God hate me so much that he totally destroyed my life almost five years ago. I mean, was it that I didn’t pray enough? Read the Bible enough? Give enough offering? Sing songs of praises to him loud enough? God’s never given me an answer. I remember back in 2007 and 2008, lying in my hospital bed, crying out to God, asking him how long he would hate me for? Would five years be enough? I asked him. After five years, will you turn your hatred onto someone else and let me try to recover the shattered shards of my life? I mean, there are at least 6 840 507 000 other people in the world. Surely, surely, one of them must be more hateful than I am to God!
But come February, 2011, five years will have passed since God looked down from heaven, decided that I really pissed him off and so destroyed my life. It’s looking increasingly unlikely that after five years, God will leave me alone to recover the shattered shards of my life and turn his hatred onto one of the numerous number of people on the world. That’s okay. I’ll keep struggling, I’ll keep persevering. Maybe after ten years, he’ll finally have decided to hate someone more than me. I just pray that it’ll be soon. I mean, I’m 24.5 years old. These should be the best days of my life! I should be getting a job, earning money, looking for a boyfriend and thinking of starting a family. Instead, God’s just left me discarded by the roadside, too disabled to be of any use to society. 
*sigh* life sucks, I know that. I’m used to it.
Next post here … well, I still haven’t posted about WAUFAKAP, nor the movie review of the movie mother and I went to see awhile back! Lol, I’m falling behind. XD anyways, cya when I cya!
Cheers,
Em. ^^

meaningful forward

Heylo! This is a very meangingful forward Aunty Shirley sent to me recently; I thought I'd share it with everyone. :) Enjoy!
Cheers,
Em. ^^

A Christian

Several years ago, a preacher from out-of-state accepted a call to a church in Houston , Texas . Some weeks after he arrived, he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area. When he sat down, he discovered that the driver had accidentally given him a quarter too much change.. As he considered what to do, he thought to himself, 'You'd better give the quarter back. It would be wrong to keep it.' Then he thought, 'Oh, forget it, it's only a quarter. Who would worry about this little amount? Anyway, the bus company gets too much fare; they will never miss it. Accept it as a 'gift from God' and keep quiet.'

When his stop came, he paused momentarily at the door, and then he handed the quarter to the driver and said, 'Here, you gave me too much change ...'

The driver, with a smile, replied, 'Aren't you the new preacher in town?'
'Yes' he replied.

'Well, I have been thinking a lot lately about going somewhere to worship. I just wanted to see what you would do if I gave you too much change. I'll see you at church on Sunday.'

When the preacher stepped off of the bus, he literally grabbed the nearest light pole, held on, and said, 'Oh God, I almost sold your Son for a quarter.'

Our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. This is a really scary example of how much people watch us as Christians, and will put us to the test! Always be on guard -- and remember -- You carry the name of Christ on your shoulders when you call yourself 'Christian.'

Watch your thoughts ; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits..
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

the lion king (3D)

My absolute, most favouritest movie of all time has to be the lion king. I LOVE that movie, have seen it dozens of times. Lol, at first, mother laughed at me coz I sang along to all the songs in the movie, but soon, she was saying stuff like, “for goodness sakes, em, it’s one thing for you to be singing along to all the songs, but it’s an entirely different matter when you’re even SPEAKING along with them!” XD anyways, when I saw in the junk mail that the movie was coming out in 3D, I HAD to see it!
So mother takes me along to the hoyts cinema at sunnybank about one month ago come a Monday morning to watch what is, without a doubt, the bestest movie ever. XD
At first, when she goes to buy the tickets, she’s not keen on buying us a popcorn to share, but after she comes back with the tickets in hand, I try pleading my case again, explaining to her how the lion king’s my favouritest movie ever, and I really believe it’s popcorn worthy. In the end, I only persuade mother to buy us a small popcorn to share after I promise her I won’t ask her for popcorn come the next movie we see together.
Thankfully, our cinema room isn’t too far from the entrance, because as expected, mother gleefully forces me to hike up two steps to sit in the second row. But that was okay; I was just excited to be seeing my favouritest movie of all time!
Anyways, here are all the quotes, trivia and bloopers I liked, courtesy of imdb:
First of all, I didn’t know it came out in 1994! The 25th august, if you wanna be exact. And it’s only eighty-odd minutes long; just short of 1.5 hours.
Also, Jeremy irons and whoopi golberg all play a part in the movie!
Righteo, trivia first:
-The original opening to the film was supposed to have been a quiet dialogue-heavy sequence. When composer Hans Zimmer prepared his interpretation of Circle of Life, he made an extended version so he would have some flexibility as to what to cut for the film. The animators were so impressed with the work that they decided to change the beginning into the currently seen sequence so they could use the entire work that Zimmer prepared.
-One of the bugs that Timon pulls out of a knothole during Hakuna Matata is wearing Mickey Mouse ears. A/N: hey, I didn’t know that! Must watch out for it next time I watch the movie!
-here have been rumors that when Simba collapses on the cliff after talking with Timon and Pumbaa about stars, the dust that flies off the cliff forms the letters SEX. In fact it forms the letters SFX, the abbreviation of the special-effects team that worked on that portion of the film. This scene was deleted in the 2011 release.
-Originally titled "King of the Jungle", it was supposed to be about African lions living in the jungle until the production team realized that lions don't live in the jungle. Interestingly enough, the phrase "King of the Jungle" is still used on certain T-shirts sold at the Disney Store.
-Several Disney animators went to Africa to study animal behavior and interaction in the wild. A grown lion and a cub were also brought into the animation studio as models for anatomy and musculature.
-The wildebeest stampede took Disney's CG department approximately three years to animate.
-Elton John and Tim Rice were a little shocked when they saw that the producers originally intended to have their (eventual) Oscar-winning love ballad "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" as a duet between Timon and Pumbaa.
-The first Disney cartoon to be dubbed into Zulu for its African release. (A/N: hey, wonder what ‘simba’ and ‘scar’ would’ve been called in zulu? XD)
-When writer Irene Mecchi came on board, she was told that the story pitch was "Bambi in Africa meets Hamlet", or "Bamlet", as she termed it.
-A new computer program had to be written for the CG wildebeest stampede that allowed hundreds of computer generated animals to run but without colliding into each other.
-German-born Hans Zimmer called in the services of his South African friend, Lebo M., to help provide some authenticity to the film's musical soundtrack. The two had previously collaborated on John G. Avildsen's The Power of One. It is Lebo M.'s call that you hear on the opening bars of "Circle of Life". He also wrote the African chant that underpins this stirring version of the song. (A/N: I love hans zimmer, because he’s the guy that wrote the soundtrack for the lion king, which is my favourite non-animated television program!)
-Disney's 32nd animated feature.
-The best selling home video of all time, with more than 55 million copies sold to date.
-The plot-line is loosely based upon William Shakespeare's Hamlet; a story of a young prince whose uncle takes over the kingdom and marries the queen after killing the king/prince's father. After being 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, during the scene where Zazu sings I've got a lovely bunch of Coconuts, Scar Has a skull in his hand.
-Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella were originally cast as the hyenas Banzai and Shenzi (played by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin in the film). The crew loved their performance and thought the duo would be even better as Timon and Pumbaa.
-Mufasa was to sing a song titled To Be King, but it didn't suit James Earl Jones' singing voice. (A/N: too bad; I would’ve loved to hear mufasa sing!
-Pumbaa the Warthog was the first character in Disney films to exhibit flatulence. (A/N: you mean there’s been more? XD)
-When Mufasa tells Simba about the Great Kings of the Past if you look at the stars in the wide shot you can see Mickey Mouse. (A/N: that’s sth I’m gonna haveta watch out for next time!)
-An alternate version of Can You Feel the Love Tonight, a comic version to be sung by Timon and Pumbaa was storyboarded and even recorded but never used.
-If you look closely at Zazu as Simba comes down to greet his subjects after the defeat of Scar, you can see his beak move, but no sound comes out. Originally he says "Your Majesty".
-Originally, the hyenas Banzai and Shenzi were supposed to be voiced by Tommy Chong andCheech Marin. But the directors couldn't get hold of Chong, so they cast Whoopi Goldbergas Shenzi instead.
In the end of the scene where Mufasa explains to Simba that the stars are old kings, we can see the constellation of Leo (the lion) in the sky.
Unlike the other lions, Scar's claws are always displayed throughout the movie.
Several character names are based on Swahili words:
• Shenzi: Barbarous/Uncouth/Uncivilized/Savage
• Pumbaa: Ignorant/Lazy/Careless
• Sarabi: Mirage
• Rafiki: Comrade/Friend
• Simba: Lion/Courageous Warrior
• Mufasa: reportedly the name of the last king of the Bagada people, who were dispersed during the English colonization of Kenya.
• Nala: gift

-One of the original villain groups being considered was a pack of jackals.
-The groundhog that pops up after Simba's pouncing lesson (the song "Morning Report" in the special edition) was originally going to be a naked mole rat, but the animators couldn't get him to look right. One of the directors said, "We would've lost our G rating!" (A/N: I thought the lyrics for zazu’s morning report was very clever, BTW!)
-In the dubbed Dutch version of the film, Timon and Pumbaa's voices are spoken in Flemish, a dialect of Dutch spoken in Belgium. The accent given to Rafiki and Simba's mother comes from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. The rest of the characters speak with standard Dutch dialects found in the Netherlands.
-Besides inspirations from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the story also has elements of the Osirian family myths of Ancient Egyptian mythology. In the Osirian myths, the king (Mufasa/Osiris) is killed by his jealous brother (Scar/Seth) and the rightful heir (Simba/Horus) is sent into exile as a boy. The murdered king visits and mentors his son in ghostly visits and when the heir comes of age, he returns to exact revenge on his father's murderer.
-The song that Rafiki sings, 'Asante sana Squash banana, Wewe nugu mimi hapana' is Swahili for "Thank you very much, Squash banana, You're a baboon and I'm not." Simba asks, "What does that mean?" and Rafiki says, "It means you're a baboon and I'm not." This is a popular children's song similar to "Cinderella, dressed in yella" for example.
-The last Disney movie to be supervised by Jeffrey Katzenberg before he left to form DreamWorks.
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A few weeks before the film opened, Elton John was given a special screening. Noticing that the film's love song had been left out, he successfully lobbied to have the song put back in. Later, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won him an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
-The scenes of the hyenas chasing Simba out of the Pridelands and into the desert originally went screen right to screen left. The filmmakers flipped all the shots so that the chase now went screen left to screen right, so as to match the shot of Simba running back home to face Scar (he runs from screen right to screen left).
-oted number 6 in channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films" (A/N: it should’ve been number one! XD)
-The music of the little song Timon performs for the hyenas ("LUAU!") is a fast-paced parody of the Aloha Chant, which can be heard in Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room in Disneyland.
-The lyric for the opening chant of "The Circle of Life" is: "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba / Sithi uhm ingonyama / Nants ingonyama bagithi baba / Sithi uhhmm ingonyama / Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba / Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw enamabala". This translates as: "Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion / Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion / A lion We're going to conquer / A lion A lion and a leopard come to this open place". (A/N: what leopard? XD)
-John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Patrick Stewart were all considered for the role of Zazu. The role was finally given to Rowan Atkinson after the animators watched some episodes of Mr. Bean. They even modeled Zazu's appearance after Atkinson. According to producer Don Hahn, every English comedian (as well as Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow, both of whom are classically trained Shakespearean actors) who performed from 1960-1991 and were still active in acting were either seriously considered, turned down or auditioned for the role.
-Tim Curry and Malcolm McDowell were both considered for the role of Scar. (A/N: well, I’ve never noticed that Jeremy irons is super-ugly … what about you? XD)
-Originally, Scar was going to send adult Nala away from Pride Rock because she ignored his romantic approaches, after which she finds Simba alive and well with Timon and Pumbaa. This idea was ultimately abandoned, as sexual harassment was considered improper in a family movie. However, the stage musical adaptation includes this plot development as part of director Julie Taymor's efforts to expand the female characters' presence in the story. (A/N: I’ve always wanted to see the musical production! Anyone gonna gimme a ticket as a Christmas present this year? XD)
-The first Disney animation movie to be dubbed into Portuguese in Portugal rather than Brazil.
-The Italian pop version of the song "The Circle of Life", sung in Italian by Ivana Spagna, was a major hit in Italy in 1994/95, alongside the original version by Elton John.
-June 2008 Ranked #4 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Animation". (A/N: I wondered who the top three were?)
-Nearly twenty minutes of the film were animated at the Disney-MGM Studios. Ultimately, more than 600 artists, animators and technicians contributed to The Lion King over its lengthy production schedule. More than one million drawings were created for the film, including 1,197 hand-painted backgrounds and 119,058 individually colored frames of film.
-The main locations for the film, including Pride Rock and the Gorge, are modeled after Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya.
-The Lion King opened on Broadway in 1997. The musical garnered 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and is produced by Disney Theatrical.
The highest grossing movie of 1994 worldwide and the second highest in the US behindForrest Gump.
To date this movie still holds the record for being the highest grossing traditionally animated film in history. (A/N: yeah, the lion king 4EVA!! XD)
-One of three Disney movies to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture. The other two areBeauty and the Beast and Toy Story 2 (all three were in the category "Comedy or Musical").
-The Broadway production of "The Lion King" opened at the New Amsterdam Theater on October 15, 1997, has run for 5240 performances and is currently the ninth longest-running show on Broadway (as of July 2010). "The Lion King" won the 1998 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical and received nominations for Best Score and Best Book.
-Jim Cummings had to fill in for Jeremy Irons during the song "Be Prepared". Jeremy threw out his voice after singing, "You won't get a sniff without me!".
-Although all of the animals are obviously anthropomorphic in the film, hyenas (as the villainous characters) were most given the short end of the stick from the reality. In fact, Spotted Hyenas are considered the equal of lions in terms of intelligence and ferocity. They have an equally intricate social structure and are less likely to kill their own kind than lions (hyena clan matriarchs allow very little intra-species aggression). Also, while portrayed as nearly full scavengers, in reality lions scavenge the kills of hyenas as much as (if not more so) than hyenas scavenge lion kills.
-There is a lost verse of "Hakuna Matata" that was storyboarded which explained Timon's situation. It was later used in The Lion King 1½. (A/N: I wanna watch that, then! :D)
-Premiered at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Despite repeated allegations of plagiarism of the Tezuka Productions' TV series Janguru taitei, first shown in the 1960s, Disney maintain that all the similarities are coincidental.

When Simba calls the hyenas 'stupid', a very nervous Zazu mutters 'Ixnay on the Upid-stay'. This is Pig Latin, roughly translated it means 'Don't say stupid'.
-Nala's mother is named Sarafina. The name is never used in the film, however it does appear in the credits and on pieces of merchandise based on the film, including the trading cards issued at Burger King for a Lion King-based promotion. (A/N: I wonder if all the lionesses had names starting with ‘sa’? coz simba’s mum’s name was sarabi!)
-'The Lion King' is very similar to a story almost unknown to Western culture but one of the most beloved historical stories of the Niger Congo language family (western Africa). It is a story about one of their greatest kings - 'Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali'. The main character Sundiata (which, directly translated, means "the lion king") is a young prince banished from his homeland by his family after his father dies. The story tracks his overcoming of emotional and physical ailments to later return to his kingdom and battle the evil sorcerer king who has overtaken it in his absence. This is a true story (with some magical elements added) and is still told by griots (history keepers for upper-class families, aka Rafiki in the film).
-At the end of the movie when Simba looks up to the stars and hears "remember", you can make out a lion standing from the stars, representing Mufasa's star-sign.
- is the second movie in which James Earl Jones (Mufasa) and Madge Sinclair (Serabi) perform together as an African King and Queen. Jones and Sinclair were also King and Queen of a fictional African nation in Coming to America.
-Originally the Hula dance with Timon was going to be a Saturday Night Fever like disco dance.
-Originally the film was going to be about a conflict between lions and baboons, and Scar was going to be the baboon leader. Rafiki, the only baboon in the film, was instead going to be a cheetah. (A/N: lol, I can’t imagine scar as a silly baboon! XD)
-When he signed onto the film, 'Mathew Broderick (I)' (Adult Simba) thought this was an American version of the anime/manga "Kimba the White Lion" (1965) which followed a similar plot line.
-Script writers envisioned Sean Connery as the voice of Mufasa.
-In the special edition release, crew had to hire a new actor to voice Young Simba singing for the "Morning Report" since the original singing voice is now an adult. They hired Evan Saucedo, making him the 4th actor to voice young Simba.
-- The original script included several characters which were cut. There was another lion cub named Mee-Too, a bat-eared fox, and a rhino with a tickbird on his back. In fact the tickbird was kept and evolved into Zazu.
- In early drafts, Scar was a rogue lion with no relation to Mufasa. Eventually, however, the story writers thought relating him to Mufasa would be more interesting; a threat within. This is why Scar and Mufasa differ so much; They weren't originally designed to be related.
- Mufasa was to never appear after his death, but producers felt Simba needed a reason to go back to pride rock so the spirit scene was made.
Righteo, goofs next!
- Before assuming the throne Simba walks down Pride Rock. Zazu bows to Simba and although his mouth is moving no words are spoken. This is because Zazu was supposed to say "your majesty".
- You hear Banzai's voice say "Here kitty kitty kitty" but nobody's mouth moves.
- When Simba and Mufasa view the sunrise, they refer to the "shadowy place" as being on their right. As they were facing the sunrise (east) that would mean that anything on the right side would be south. And yet, Scar refers to it later as the place "beyond the northern border."
When the young Simba and Nala are walking towards the "water hole" with Zazu flying above his shadow does not flap its wings as often as Zazu does. Share this
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- The number of stripes on Timon's back alternate between shot from five to six.
- We see Simba scratch Shenzi's cheek, leaving visible cuts, but shortly after, Shenzi is healed.
- As Simba climbs a dead tree to escape the wildebeest stampede, he leaves scratches on the bark. In all later shots the tree is intact.
- When Simba finds Mufasa's dead body, his tears leave stains running down both cheeks. When Scar appears, Simba's face alternates between having tear stains on both cheeks in medium shots and only on his right cheek in close-ups. Once Scar tells Simba to run away, the stains disappear altogether.
Near the end of the film when Scar has Simba hanging on the edge of Pride Rock, the camera moves out and the lightning crashes, and we can see Simba is holding on to the rock up to his elbows, yet in the next scene we can see he is only holding on by his paws.
- n one of the final scenes where Simba walks up Pride Rock to roar, it is raining. When we see Timon and Pumbaa briefly, they are dry while the other characters all have signs of being wet.
The number of Simba's whiskers on each side of his cheek changes from 4 to 5 and back again in some scenes. S
- When Banzai the hyena says, "Man, that lousy Mufasa - I won't be able tosit for a week," he has visible cuts near his behind, but in the shot when he wrestles with Ed, they are gone.
- The hyenas are seen throughout the entire film with three toes on all their paws. But when the hyenas are chasing Simba, Banzai claws at him after he squeezes through a rock, and his paw has four toes. (A/N: yeah? Well, I’ve got FIVE toes on each foot! XD)
- Thorns that are all over Banzai's body disappear completely between shots with no time for him to remove them all.
- When Nala is crouched in the grass right before she pounces at Pumba her eyes are green. When she's fighting with Simba her eyes are blue.
- Grown-up Simba's eyes switch from white to yellow during the movie.
- When Rafiki smells the dust on the wind and realizes Simba is alive, he dips the tips of his fingers into the red paint in order to adapt his picture. In the next shot, his thumb is red too
- When Simba and Nala are trying to escape the hyenas and fall through the rotten piece of wood, there is debris on the ground. In the next shot when Simba 'roars', the ground is clean.
- When Mufasa and Simba are talking at the top of Pride Rock, facing the sun, their shadows stream out behind them, which is correct. However, as Simba says "Everything the light touches", his shadow is in front of him, which is wrong. It should be cast on his right. Also, in the next shot, when Simba and Mufasa are facing south towards the 'shadowy place', their right sides are in shadow, with the light shining from the left. But it is sunrise, the sun, and therefore the light, should be on their right.
- In the scene where Pumbaa is grovelling before Simba, Timon walks up to him and places his hands on the center of Pumbaa's nose, between his nostrils. In the next shot, his hands are more towards the top.
The number of whiskers each male lion has changes from scene to scene, and sometimes the whiskers disappear altogether. None of the lionesses in the film have whiskers, though obviously in reality females do have whiskers.
- In her first appearance, Nala's mother Sarafina's toes are the same color as the rest of her body. However, when Scar is informing the Pride of the accident, her toes are lighter. A second later, during Nala's close-up, Sarafina's toes are once again the same as her body. (A/N: woah, that’s really attention to detail gone overboard. I mean, toe colour?! XD)
- When Scar first begins his speech after Mufasa's death, nine adult lionesses can be made out. However, when the hyenas begin to appear, there are suddenly only eight. The same thing happens when Simba returns to Pride Rock. At first there are six lionesses, then seven, then six again, then only five, then six.
- - When Timon starts his Hula dance, when is back is to the camera, he is not wearing his lei (flower necklace). It suddenly appears a few frames later.
- When Nala is chasing Pumbaa and he is trapped under the root, he begins digging frantically as Timon runs up. However, by the time Timon has jumped onto his head, the ground is smooth again.
- - Part of the lyrics song in "The Circle of Life" are "there's a lion and a tiger", yet no tigers live in Africa.
During the "sunrise" scene the river is seen on the "south" side of Pride Rock. Later during Simba's "circle of life" lesson the river is on the "north" side of Pride Rock.
- The elephant skeletons would have to come from freakishly large elephants. Hyenas could not pass through the trunk socket of an elephant's skull.
- Rafiki the monkey appears to be some sort of bizarre mandrill-baboon hybrid. He has the colorful face of a mandrill, but the long, kinked tail of a baboon (mandrills have very short tails).
Scar is younger than Mufasa, yet Scar has a darker mane. As a lion's mane darkens as it ages, Mufasa's mane would have to be darker than Scar's.
- At the end of the elephant graveyard scene, Scar's shadow on the wall does not match his pose.
If you look close, when Simba is sitting on the rock during the "Hakuna-Matata" song, the pads on his right paw are bigger then the paw itself.
- Rafiki's Swahili message "Asante sana, squash banana, We we nugu mi mi apana" Does not mean "You are a baboon, and I'm not." It really mean "Thank you very much, Squash Banana, You are a Dog, and I'm not!"
And finally, here are all my favourite quotes!
- Young Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar, guess what?
Scar: I despise guessing games.
Young Simba: I'm gonna be King of Pride Rock.
Scar: Oh, goody.
Young Simba: My dad just showed me the whole kingdom. And I'm gonna rule it all. Heheh.
Scar: Yes. Well, forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know.
[flops on his side]
Young Simba: Hey Uncle Scar, when I'm King, what'll that make you?
Scar: A monkey's uncle.
Young Simba: [laughs] You're so weird.
Scar: You have no idea.
- Zazu: [singing] Nooooobody knows the trouble I've seen. / Nooooobody knows my sorrow.
Scar: Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little *bounce* in it.
Zazu: [singing] It's a small world after all...
Scar: NO! No. *Anything* but that!
Zazu: [singing] I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. / There they are just standing in a row.
Zazu, Scar: [Scar joins in] Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head...
Zazu: [whispering] Oh, I never had to do this with Mufasa.
- - Pumbaa: [about "Hakuna Matata"] It's our motto.
Young Simba: What's a motto?
Timon: Nothing. What's a motto with you?
[laughs]
- - Timon: Let me get this straight. You know her. She knows you. But she wants to eat him. And everybody's okay with this?
[jumps up suddenly]
Timon: [yells] Did I miss something?
- Zazu: [caged while the battle rages around him] Let me out! Let me out!
Timon: [fleeing the hyenas] Lemme in! Lemme in!
- Nala: Have you guys seen Simba?
Timon: I thought he was with you.
Nala: He was but now I can't find him. Where is he?
Rafiki: [chuckles] You won't find him here. The King has returned.
Nala: I don't believe it. He's gone back.
Timon: What?
[looks up and sees Rafiki has disappeared]
Timon: Hey, what's going on here? Who's the monkey?
Nala: Simba's gone back to challenge Scar.
Timon: Who?
Nala: Scar.
Pumbaa: Who's got a scar?
Nala: No, no, no. It's his uncle.
Timon: The monkey's his uncle?
Nala: *No!* Simba's gone back to challenge his uncle to take his place as king.
Timon, Pumbaa: Ohhh.
- [Timon and Zazu are cornered by hyenas]
Timon: Please don't eat me.
Pumbaa: Drop 'em!
Banzai: Hey! Who's the pig?
Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me?
Timon: Uh-oh, they called him a pig.
Pumbaa: Are you talking to *me*?
Timon: Ya shouldn't have done that.
Pumbaa: ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?
Timon: Now they're in for it.
Pumbaa: THEY CALL ME MR. PIG! AHHHH!
- Timon: [of the decimated Pride Rock] We're gonna fight your uncle... for this?
Adult Simba: Yes, Timon. This is my home.
Timon: Whoa. Talk about your fixer-upper.
- Rafiki: [after guiding Simba to a spot where he says will show him Mufasa] Look down there.
Adult Simba: [looks into a pool of water] That's not my father. That's just my reflection.
Rafiki: No, look harder.
[touches the water, as it ripples Simba's reflection changes to that of his father]
Rafiki: You see? He lives in you.
Mufasa's ghost: [from above] Simba.
Adult Simba: Father?
Mufasa's ghost: [apears among the stars] Simba, you have forgotten me.
Adult Simba: No. How could I?
Mufasa's ghost: You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.
Adult Simba: How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be.
Mufasa's ghost: Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true king. Remember...
- Adult Simba: [in a huff] She's wrong. I can't go back. What would it prove, anyhow? It won't change a thing. You can't change the past.
[calling to the sky]
Adult Simba: You said you'd always be there for me! But you're not. It's because of me. It's my fault.
- Scar: Ahh, so you haven't told them your little secret. Well, Simba, now's your chance to tell them. Tell them who is responsible for Mufasa's death.
Adult Simba: [pause] I am.
Sarabi: [whispering] It's not true. Tell me it's not true.
Adult Simba: It's true.
Scar: You see? He admits it. Murderer!
Adult Simba: No! It was an accident!
Scar: If it weren't for you Mufasa would still be alive. It's your fault he's dead. Do you deny it?
Adult Simba: No.
Scar: Then you're *guilty*.
Adult Simba: No, I'm *not* a murderer!
- Scar: No, Simba, you're in trouble again. But this time, Daddy isn't here to save you. And now everyone knows *why*!
- Adult Simba: Tell them the truth!
Scar: But Simba truth is in the eye of the behold...
Scar: [Simba chokes him, he whispers] All right. All right. I did it.
Adult Simba: So they can hear you!
Scar: I killed Mufasa!
- - singing]
Timon: And if he falls in love tonight / It can be assumed...
Pumbaa: His carefree days with us are history.
Timon, Pumbaa: In short, our pal is doomed!
- Young Simba: Dad?
Mufasa: Hmm?
Young Simba: We're pals, right?
Mufasa: Right.
Young Simba: And we'll always be together, right?
Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
Young Simba: Really?
Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.
- Sarabi: Your son's awake.
Mufasa: Before sunrise, he's *your* son. (A/N:I like this quote! XD)
- Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
Timon: Pumbaa, I don't wonder; I know.
Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that, uh... got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing.
Pumbaa: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
Timon: Pumbaa, with you, everything's gas.
- Timon : Gee. He looks blue. Pumbaa : I'd say brownish-gold. HELM : No, no, no. I mean he's depressed. Pumbaa : Oh. (A/N: glad to know they’re not colour-blind! XD)
- Zazu: Checking in with the morning report.
Mufasa: Fire away.
Zazu: Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot. And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all... The tick birds are pecking on the elephants. I told the elephants to forget it, but they can't. The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say, cheetahs never prosper... (A/N: lol, zazu’s so clever! XD)
Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Young Simba: Wow.
Mufasa: A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king.
Young Simba: And this'll all be mine?
Mufasa: Everything.
Young Simba: Everything the light touches...
- Nala: What's happened to you? You're not the Simba I remember.
Adult Simba: You're right, I'm not. Now are you satisfied?
Nala: No, just disappointed.
Adult Simba: You know you're starting to sound like my father.
Nala: Good. At least one of us does.
- Zazu: [leading Simba and Nala to the waterhole] Step lively. The sooner we get to the waterhole, the sooner we can leave.
Young Nala: [whispering to Simba] So where are we really going?
Young Simba: An elephant graveyard.
Young Nala: Wow!
Young Simba: Shhhh! Zazu.
Young Nala: Right. So how are we going to ditch the dodo?
[Simba starts whispering to her]
Zazu: So just look at you two. Little seeds of romance blossoming in the savannah. Your parents will be *thrilled*, what with your being betrothed and all.
Young Simba: Be-what?
Zazu: Betrothed. Intended. Affianced.
Young Nala: Meaning...?
Zazu: One day, you two are going to be married.
Young Simba: Yuck.
Young Nala: Ewww.
Young Simba: I can't marry her. She's my friend.
Young Nala: Yeah. It'd be so weird.
Zazu: Well, sorry to bust the old bubble, but you two turtledoves have no choice. It's a tradition that goes back generations.
Young Simba: Well, when I'm king, that'll be the first thing to go.
Zazu: Not so long as I'm around.
Young Simba: Well, in that case, you're fired.
Zazu: Hmmm... Nice try, but only the king can do that.
Young Nala: Well, he's the future king.
Young Simba: Yeah. So you have to do what I tell you.
Zazu: Not yet I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed.
Young Simba: Hmph. Not the way I see it.
- Pumbaa: Your Majesty. I gravel at your feet.
[starts kissing Simba's feet]
Adult Simba: Stop that.
Timon: It's not gravel, it's grovel.
- Adult Simba: I know what I have to do. But going back will mean facing my past. I've been running from it for so long.
[Rafiki hits Simba on the head with his stick]
Adult Simba: Ow! Jeez, what was that for?
Rafiki: It doesn't matter. It's in the past.
[laughs]
Adult Simba: Yeah, but it still hurts.
Rafiki: Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the from way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it.
[swings his stick at Simba again who ducks out of the way]
Rafiki: Ha. You see? So what are you going to do?
Adult Simba: First, I'm gonna take your stick.
[Simba snatches Rafiki's stick and throws it and Rafiki runs to grab it]
Rafiki: No,no, not the stick! Hey, where you going?
Adult Simba: I'm going back!
Rafiki: Good! Go on! Get out of here!
[Rafiki begins laughing and screeching loudly]
- Adult Simba: You knew my father?
Rafiki: Correction: I *know* your father.
Zazu: I'm here to announce that King Mufasa is on his way. So you'd better have a good excuse for missing the ceremony this morning.
Scar: [sees the mouse scampering off] Oh, now look, Zazu, yu made me lose my lunch.
Zazu: Ha! You'll lose more than that when the King gets through with you. He's as mad as a hippo with a hernia...
Scar: [approaches him menacingly] Oooh... I quiver with *fear*...
- Mufasa: Don't turn your back on me, Scar!
Scar: Oh, no, Mufasa. Perhaps *you* shouldn't turn your back on *me*.
Mufasa: [roars, runs to stand before him] Is that a challenge?
Scar: Temper, temper. I wouldn't *dream* of challenging you.
Zazu: Pity! Why not?
Scar: Well, as far as brains go, I got the lion's share. But, when it comes to brute strength... I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool.
- Zazu: [about Scar] There's one in every family sire. Two in mine, actually. And they always manage to ruin special occasions.
Mufasa: What am I going to do with him?
Zazu: He'd make a very handsome throw rug.
Mufasa: [Surprised] Zazu!
Zazu: And just think, Whenever he gets dirty you can take him out and beat him. (A/N: lol, zazu’s got a mean streak about him! XD)
- Zazu: What's going on?
Mufasa: A pouncing lesson.
Zazu: Oh, very good. Pouncing. *Pouncing*? Oh, no, Sire, you can't be serious...
[Mufasa signs for "turn around"]
Zazu: This is so humiliating. (A/N: lol, the poor birdbrain. XD)
- Scar: So, your father showed you the whole kingdom, did he?
Young Simba: Everything.
Scar: He didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border?
Young Simba: Well, no. He says I can't go there.
Scar: And he's absolutely right! It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there.
Young Simba: Well, I'm brave. What's out there?
Scar: No, I'm sorry, Simba, I just *can't* tell you.
Young Simba: Why not?
Scar: Simba, Simba, I'm only looking out for the well-being of my favorite nephew.
Young Simba: Yeah, right. I'm your only nephew.
Scar: All the more reason for me to be protective.
- Young Simba: Hey, look, Banana Beak is scared.
Zazu: That's *Mr.* Banana Beak to you, Fuzzy! And right now, we are all in very real danger.
Young Simba: Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha!
- Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
Young Simba: Puh. You can't do anything to me.
Zazu: Uhh... technically, they can. We are on their land.
Young Simba: But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers.
Zazu: Ix-nay on the oopid-stay...
Banzai: Who're you callin' "oopid-stay?"
Zazu: Oh, my, my, my. Look at the sun. It's time to go! (A/N: I’ve never learnt how to speak pig latin; can anyone tell me what zazu’s saying?
- Young Simba: Hey! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?
Shenzi: Like... you?
Young Simba: Oops.
- Mufasa: Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
Young Simba: I know.
Mufasa: You could have been killed! You deliberately disobeyed me! And what's worse: you put Nala in danger!
Young Simba: I was just trying to be brave like you.
Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba, being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.
Young Simba: But you're not scared of anything.
Mufasa: I was today.
Young Simba: You were?
Mufasa: Yes. I thought I might lose you.
Young Simba: Yeah. I guess even kings get scared, huh?
Mufasa: Mmm-hmm.
Young Simba: But you know what?
Mufasa: What?
Young Simba: I think those hyenas were even scareder.
Mufasa: [laughs] 'Cause nobody messes with your dad!
- Banzai: Oh, Scar, it's just you.
Shenzi: We were afraid it was somebody important.
Banzai: Yeah, you know, like Mufasa.
Scar: I see.
Banzai: Now that's power.
Shenzi: Tell me about it. I just hear that name and I shudder.
Banzai: Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh! Do it again!
Banzai: Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh!
Banzai: Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh!
[breaks into laughter]
Shenzi: And it tingles me!
Scar: I'm *surrounded* by idiots.
- Banzai: Yeah, be prepared! We'll be prepared... for what?
Scar: For the death of the king!
Banzai: Why? Is he sick?
Scar: No, fool, we're going to kill him. And Simba, too.
Shenzi: Hey, big deal! Who needs a king?
Banzai, Shenzi: [singing and dancing around Ed] No king, no king, la la la la la la...
Scar: Idiots! There will *be* a king!
Banzai: Yeah, but you said...
Scar: *I* will be king. Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry again!
- Scar: Now you wait here. Your father has a *marvelous* surprise for you.
Young Simba: Oooh. What is it?
Scar: If I told you, it wouldn't *be* a surprise, now would it?
Young Simba: If you tell me, I'll still *act* surprised.
Scar: Ho ho ho. You are such a naughty boy!
Young Simba: Come on, Uncle Scar.
Scar: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is just for you and your daddy. You know, a sort of... father-son... thing. Well! I'd better go get him.
Young Simba: I'll go with you.
Scar: No!
[regaining composure]
Scar: Heh heh heh. No. Just stay on this rock. You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas.
Young Simba: You know about that?
Scar: Simba, everybody knows about that.
Young Simba: Really?
Scar: Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy was there to save you, eh? Oh, and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours. Hmm?
Young Simba: Oh, okay. Hey, Uncle Scar, will I like this surprise?
Scar: Simba, it's to *die* for!
- Banzai: But we gotta finish the job.
Shenzi: Well, he's as good as dead out there anyway. And *if* he comes back, we'll kill him.
Banzai: [calling out to Simba] Yeah! You hear that? If you ever come back, we'll kill ya!
- Scar: Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy; but to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live... For me it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era... in which lion and hyena come together, in a great and glorious future!
- Timon: Geez! It's a lion! Run, Pumbaa! Move it!
Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, it's just a *little* lion. Look at him. He's so cute and all alone! Can we keep him?
Timon: Pumbaa, are you nuts? We're talking about a lion; Lions eat guys like us!
Pumbaa: But he's so little.
Timon: He's gonna get bigger.
Pumbaa: Maybe he'll be on our side.
Timon: A - huh! That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Maybe he'll b-... Hey, I got it! What if he's on our side? You know, having a lion around might not be such a bad idea.
- Timon: Who's the brains in this outfit?
Pumbaa: Uh...
Timon: My point exactly.


Timon: I saved you.
[Pumbaa snorts]
Timon: Pumbaa helped... a little.


Timon: So where you from?
- Young Simba: Who cares? I can't go back.
Timon: Ah, you're an outcast! That's great. So are we.
- Timon: I'm telling you, kid: this is the great life. No rules, no responsibilities...
[he reaches into a hole in a log and various insects skitter out, with him holding a blue bug; he points to the rest of the insects]
Timon: Ooh! The little cream-filled kind!
- Banzai: Hey, Boss!
Scar: Oh, what is it this time?
Banzai: We've got a bone to pick with you!
Shenzi: I'll handle this. Scar, there's no food, no water...
Banzai: Yeah, it's dinner time, and we ain't got no stinkin' entrees.
Scar: It's the lionesses' job to do the hunting.
Banzai: Yeah, but they won't go hunt.
Scar: Oh... eat Zazu.
Zazu: Oh, you wouldn't want me. I'd be so tough and gamey and... eeww...
Scar: Oh, Zazu, don't be ridiculous. All you need is a little garnish.
- Adult Simba: Well, somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us.
Pumbaa: Really?
Timon: You mean a bunch of royal dead guys are watching us?
- Young Simba: [Nala's mother, Sarafina is giving Nala a bath] Hey, Nala.
Young Nala: Hi, Simba.
Young Simba: Come on, I just heard about this great place.
Young Nala: Simba, I'm kinda in the middle of a bath.
Sarabi: And it's time for yours.
[grabs Simba and starts licking him]
Young Simba: Mom! Mom, you're messing up my mane!
[Sarabi smiles]
Young Simba: Ok, ok. I'm clean. Can we go now?
Young Nala: So where are we going? It better not be anyplace dumb.
Young Simba: No, it's really cool.
Sarabi: So where is this really cool place?
Young Simba: Oh... around the waterhole.
Young Nala: The waterhole? What's so great about the waterhole?
Young Simba: [muttering] I'll *show* you when we *get* there.
Young Nala: Oh... Mom, can I go with Simba?
Sarafina - Nala's Mother: Hmm, what do you think Sarabi?
Sarabi: Well...
Young Simba, Young Nala: [with forced grins] Please!
Sarabi: It's alright with me.
Young Simba: Yeah!
Young Nala: All right!
Sarabi: As long as Zazu goes with you.
- Adult Simba: Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through!
Nala: I would if you just tell me!
Adult Simba: Forget it!
Nala: Fine!
- Rafiki: What was *that*?
[laughs]
Rafiki: The weather - Pbbbah! Very peculiar. Don't you think?
Adult Simba: Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing.
Rafiki: Ahhh. Change is good.
- Nala: What made you come back?
Adult Simba: I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it.
- Scar: Simba, Simba, please. Please have mercy, I beg you.
Adult Simba: You don't deserve to live.
Scar: But, Simba, I... am... family. It's the hyenas who are the real enemy. It was their fault. It was their idea!
Adult Simba: Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie.
Scar: What are you going to do? You wouldn't kill your *old* uncle...?
Adult Simba: No, Scar. I'm not like you.
Scar: Oh, Simba, thank you. You are truly noble. I'll make it up to you, I promise. How can I, ah, prove myself to you? Tell me. I mean, anything.
Adult Simba: Run. Run away, Scar. And never return.
- Young Simba: What am I gonna do?
Scar: Run. Run, Simba. Run away, and never return.
[Simba leaves and hyenas come out of the mist]
Scar: Kill him.
- Timon: This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub.
Young Simba: What's that?
Timon: A grub. What's it look like?
[Timon eats the grub]
Young Simba: Ewwwww, gross.
Timon: Tastes like chicken.
- Adult Simba: Man, I'm stuffed.
Pumbaa: Me, too. I ate like a pig.
Adult Simba: Pumbaa, you *are* a pig.
- Pumbaa: It's like my buddy Timon always says: you got to put your behind in your past.
Timon: No, no, no. Amateur. Sit down before you hurt yourself. It's "You got to put your past behind you."
- Pumbaa: [singing] And I got down-hearted.
Timon: How did you feel?
Pumbaa: Everytime that I...
Timon: [clapping his hand over Pumbaa's mouth] Pumbaa, not in front of the kids.
[Faces the camera]
Pumbaa: Oh. Sorry.
- Shenzi: What's the hurry? We'd love you to stick around for dinner.
Banzai: Yeah. We could have whatever's "lion" around.
Shenzi: Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a "cub" sandwich. Whatcha think?
[all laugh]
Shenzi: [Ed points]
Shenzi: What, Ed?
Banzai: Hey, did we order this dinner to go?
Shenzi: No, why?
Banzai: 'Cause THERE IT GOES! (A/N: those stupid hyenas think they’re so smart! :P)
- Zazu: Well, as slippery as your mind is, as the King's brother *you* should've been first in line.
[Scar threatens to bite, he retreats toward Mufasa]
Scar: I was first in line, until the little hair ball was born.
Mufasa: That hair ball is my son. And *your* future king.
Scar: Oh, I shall have to practice my curtsy.
- Pumbaa: What'd ya do, kid?
Young Simba: Something terrible. But I don't wanna talk about it.
Timon: Good. We don't wanna hear about it.
- [first lines]
[Scar catches a mouse]
Scar: Life's not fair, is it? You see, I... well, I shall never be king. And you... shall never see the light of another day. Adieu.
Zazu: Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?
- Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Young Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.
- Timon: Look, kid. Bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it. Right?
Young Simba: Right.
Timon: Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world. (A/N: if only ‘twas that easy … *sigh*)
- Young Simba: Everything the light touches... But what about that shadowy place?
Mufasa: That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.
Young Simba: But I thought a king can do whatever he wants.
Mufasa: There's more to being a king than getting your way all the time.
Young Simba: There's more?
Mufasa: [laughing] Simba.
- Young Simba: I'm so hungry I could eat a whole zebra.
Timon: Ah-ha, we're fresh out of zebra.
Young Simba: Any antelope?
Timon: Nah-ah.
Young Simba: Hippo?
Timon: Nope. Listen kid: if you live with us, you'll have to eat like us.
- Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana.
Adult Simba: Come on, will you cut it out?
Rafiki: Can't cut it out. It will grow right back. Hehehe.
Adult Simba: Creepy little monkey. Would you stop following me! Who are you?
Rafiki: The question is, who... are you?
Adult Simba: [sighs] I thought I knew, but now I'm not so sure.
Rafiki: Well, I know who you are! Shh. Come here, it's a secret.
[Whispers, then grows louder]
Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana!
Adult Simba: Enough already! What's that supposed to mean, anyway?
Rafiki: It means you're a baboon... and I'm not.
Adult Simba: I think you're a little confused.
Rafiki: Wrong! I'm not the one who's confused. You don't even know who you are!
Adult Simba: Oh, and I suppose you know?
Rafiki: Sure do. You're Mufasa's boy!
[Simba turns around to look at him, shocked]
Rafiki: Bye!
- [Watching Simba and Nala]
Timon: I tell ya, Pumbaa, this stinks!
Pumbaa: Oh, sorry.
Timon: Not you, THEM! Him... Her... alone.
- Pumbaa: Kid, what's eatin' ya?
Timon: Nothing, he's at the top of the food chain!
[laughs]
Timon: The food chain!
[chuckles nervously]
- [above the stampeding wildebeasts]
Mufasa: Scar! Brother, help me!
[Scar puts his claws into Mufasa's paws]
Scar: Long live the King.
[throws him into the stampede]
- Adult Simba: Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rip you apart.
Scar: Oh, Simba, you must understand. The pressures of ruling a kingdom...
Adult Simba: Are no longer yours. Step down, Scar.
- Scar: I'm surrounded by idiots.
-Scar: [singing] I know that your powers of retention, are as wet as a warthog's backside / But thick as you are, pay attention! / My words are a matter of pride / It's clear from vacant expressions / The lights are not all on upstairs / But we're talking kings and successions / Even *you* can't be caught unawares!
- Timon: [singing] I can see what's happening.
Pumbaa: What?
Timon: [singing] And they don't have a clue.
Pumbaa: Who?
Timon: [singing] They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line: Our trio's down to two.
Pumbaa: Oh.
Timon: [singing]
[sarcastic, with French accent]
Timon: The sweet caress of twilight.
[normal voice, but still sarcastic]
Timon: There's magic everywhere. And with all this romantic atmosphere, disaster's in the aiiiiiiir!
- Timon: Hyenas. I hate hyenas. So what's the plan for getting past those guys?
Adult Simba: Live bait.
Timon: Good idea.
[realizes what he means]
Timon: HEY!
- Scar: [singing] Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected / To take certain duties on board / The future is littered with prizes / And though I'm the main addressee / The point that I must emphasize is...
[Leaps in front of a hyena]
Scar: [shouting] You won't get a sniff without me!
[hyena falls into a volcano]
- Banzai: [In the hyenas' lair, Banzai slouches with claw marks on his rear] Man, that lousy Mufasa... I won't be able to sit for a *week!*
Ed the Hyena: [laughs, but also tries his best to conceal it from time to time] Eh-hee-hee-hee. Heh-heheheheheheheheheh...
Banzai: [Glares at Ed and bares his teeth with impatience] It's not funny, Ed.
Ed the Hyena: [Cups his paws over his mouth then bursts into hysterical laughter, spitting as his tongue lofts out of his mouth] BA-HA-HA-HAAAA! HA-AH-AH-AH-AH!
[Inhales deeply]
Banzai: Hey, shut up!
Ed the Hyena: AH-HA-HO! HO-HO-HO-HO!
Banzai: [Bares his teeth] Grrrrrr...
[as Ed continues to laugh, Banzai barks and pounces on Ed, abruptly ending his laughing. The two commence a brief fight]
Shenzi: [Rolls her eyes and turns to the two yelping and rolling atop each other aggressively] Will you knock it off?
Banzai: [ed appears to be chewing on Banzai's leg; Banzai sits up] Well, he started it!
[It is now obvious that Ed is chewing his own leg repeatedly]
Shenzi: Look at you guys! No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain!
Banzai: [a string of drool dangles from his chin] Man, I hate dangling...
Shenzi: [Scoffs] Yeah? You know, if it weren't for those lions, we'd be *runnin'* the joint.
[Ed nods idiotically]
Banzai: Man, I *hate* lions!
Shenzi: [Grumbles] So pushy...
Banzai: And hairy...
Shenzi: [Smiles] Stinky...
Banzai: [Grins] And man are they...
Banzai, Shenzi: [Elongated use of the 'u'] U-GLY!
[both laugh hysterically]
- Scar: [bellowing] Sarabiiiii!
[echoes and reechoes; we soon see Sarabi walking through the pack of hyenas, trying to snap at her; Simba looks on as Sarabi approaches]
Sarabi: Yes, Scar?
Scar: Where's your hunting party? They're not doing their job.
Sarabi: Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on.
Scar: No! You're just not looking hard enough.
Sarabi: It's over. There is nothing left. We have only one choice. We *must* leave Pride Rock.
Scar: We're not going anywhere!
Sarabi: Then you have sentenced us to death!
Scar: Then so be it!
Sarabi: You can't do that!
Scar: I'm the king! I can do whatever I want!
Sarabi: If you were half the king Mufasa was...
Scar: [knocks Sarabi unconscious] I'm *ten* times the king Mufasa was!
[Simba jumps in and roars at Scar]
Scar: Mufasa! No! You're dead!
Sarabi: Mufasa?
Adult Simba: No. It's me.
Sarabi: Simba? But how...?
Adult Simba: It doesn't matter. I'm home.
Scar: Simba? Simba! Well, it sure is a surprise to see you...
[turns to the hyenas]
Scar: ... *alive*!
[the hyenas gulp and back away]
- Shenzi: Well, well, well, Banzai, what have we got here?
Banzai: Hmm, I don't know Shenzi uh, what do you think Ed?
Ed the Hyena: Oo ehehe, oh hahahaha
Banzai: Yaa, just what I was thinking, a trio of trespassers.
Zazu: And quite by accident let me assure you...
Shenzi: Woah, wait wait. I know you, you're Mufasa's little stooge.
Zazu: I madame, am the king's major dobo.
Banzai: And that would make you...?
Young Simba: Future King.
Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
Young Simba: Puh, you can't do anything to me.
Zazu: Uhh, technically they can, we are on their land.
Young Simba: But Zazu, you told me they are nothing but slobbery, mangery stupid vulchers.
Zazu: X-nay on the upidstay...
Banzai: Who you callin upidstay?
Scar: Why! If it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners.
Mufasa: Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of Simba.
Scar: That was today? Oh, I feel simply awful.
- Timon: [seeing a red beetle] These are rare delicacies.
[takes it and eats it]
Timon: He comes with a very pleasant crunch.
like I said earlier, the lion king’s without a doubt, my favouritest movie ever!! At the beginning, I’d mentioned that my mum had told me off for not only singing along to the songs, but even reciting along with the words! XD before the movie had started, I’d leaned over and asked her, “mother, are you really serious that I can’t sing along with any of the songs/speak along with the lyrics? Coz I’m not sure I’ll be able to control myself from doing that!” mother considered for awhile, then said, ‘hmm, okay. But only softly. I’ll tell you if you get too loud/excited.” And she only caught me out twice! The first time was for scar’s song ‘be prepared’ and the second was the classic ‘can you feel the love tonight’. for those, I received a quick jab in the ribs and a ‘shh!’ XD
it’s hard to believe, but this movie’s been around for near twenty years! And still, the final scene where simba is finally ascending pride rock to roar out his position as king never fails to send a shiver up my back. XD
like I said, personally, I believe the lion king is the bestest. Movie. Ever!!
Next post here … well, I never got around to posting up my thoughts from that bible passage from first Corinthians … but book club is next Thursday! And we’re all going out for dinner afterwards! :D
Well, whichever one comes first, until then …
Cheers,
Em. ^^
P.S. sorry, just reading through it, i realise how long it turned out to be! XD