Mufasa: The Lion King
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Mufasa : The Lion Kingdid much to expand on the lore of the original Lion King movie , but perhaps not everything it introduced was worthy of comprehension . As an root report about the first king of the Pridelands in The Lion King , it ’s only raw that it would draw a bead on to bond up a few promiscuous ends from the motion picture it prequels . Viewers ascertain about the origins of Mufasa ’s competition with his brother Scar , as well as how he get along to meet the Pridelands shaman Rafiki , his scout Zazu , and his queen Sarabi . At the same metre , there are several details about The Lion King that Mufasa ’s origin story really did n’t need to explain .
Mufasa : The Lion King ’s explanationsof these detail range from substantial to innane , as the backstories of key fibre from the original 2D - animatedLion Kingappear to have been changed . Jeff Nathanson , the screenwriter of the unexampled picture , has play fast - and - loose with narrative electric arc treasure as church doctrine by Disney fanatics . So , overall , the movie ’s done well to have forfend a major rebound in relation to these change . Still , it ’s deserving examining some of the explanations that the movie really could have done without .
5Mufasa And Scar Weren’t Brothers By Birth
A Controversial Break With The Lion King
Beginning with the big one, inMufasa: The Lion King, we find out thatMufasa and his brother Scar aren’t actually related. This revelation is despite a line from the original 1994Lion Kingheavily implying that theyareactual brothers, when Scar boasts, “Well, as far as brains go, I got the lion’s share.” This particular detail has inevitably caused quite a stir among fans of the franchise.
All things reckon , the plot line of Mufasa being adopted by Scar ’s pride works well , as long as the interview is willing to overlook any continuity errors . But given how memorable this particular line was in The Lion King , it ’s copiously clear that Scar was indeed intended to be Mufasa ’s biologic pal .
4Zazu Worked For Sarabi Before Mufasa
He Was Recently Appointed
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One element ofMufasa : The Lion Kingthat really does n’t work is the coming into court of the loveable hornbillZazu alongside Mufasa ’s future fairy Sarabi . The movie made a notable alteration to his place in the traditional knowledge by establishing that his association with the lions goes back before Musafa ’s reign . obviously , he was with Sarabi first .
There ’s a sense in the movie that this particular was lend to make Zazoo relevant to the patch . But though Zazoo is a belovedLion Kingcharacter , there was no indigence to force him into the fib or cave his connection to Mufasa . After all , it ’s long been interpret that Zazoo has always been loyal to Mufusa .
3How Rafiki Got His Staff
It Was Worth The Effort
In a moment of slapstick funniness that really does n’t compensate off inMufasa , Rafiki , the shamanistic Mandrillus sphinx beloved since the firstLion Kingwas released , pulls a nice stick he ’s plant off a tree . Such is the feat he exert that he falls rearward into a whole once he ’s manage to break the control stick off its arm . He holds it up triumphantly , in an outwardly broad nod to the audience that this is Rafiki ’s famous faculty .
Scar is the villain to practically every character in The Lion King , but he and Rafiki once had a surprisingly genuine friendship .
If the movie had to dedicate a panorama to explain this item , there could at least have been something more sorcerous and mysterious about the substance behind the stick . Perhaps Rafiki could have been handed the stick by an elder of his species who claimed to have chaffer Milele , for example . But , no . Breaking a spliff off a tree was all he had to show for it .
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2How Pride Rock Was Formed
The Furthest Question From People’s Minds
In the climax ofMufasa : The Lion King , a deadly combat scene between Mufasa and the film ’s chief antagonist Kiros chair part of the cave where they ’re fighting to collapse . What ’s bequeath is the rock-and-roll from which the succeeding social lion Billie Jean King and his heritor will follow their domain .
The problem is , no one had ever assumed that Pride Rock was anything other than a lasting fixture in the Pridelands . It did n’t need to be formed during Mufasa ’s descent floor , because logic would dictate that the landslip which created it predate at least several generation of lions before Mufasa . This detail feels as though Disney are trying too gruelling to tie every train of thought .
1Why Scar Lost His Old Name
Because He Got A New One?
Arguably the most tenuous explanation of a item inMufasa : The Lion Kingcomes at the endjust after Scar has acquired the mark down his face that sets him apart as one of Disney ’s greatest villain . realise that his brother has stag him , Mufasa state Scar that he will no longer refer to him by his given name , Taka .
Mufasa : The Lion King may be focus on on a conversant character , but the prequel movie seems to be switching up persona dynamics in an unexpected way .
This explanation handily relegate the name Taka to a bygone era inThe Lion King ’s timeline . It superimpose the answer to an obvious dubiousness – why that name is never mentioned by and by in the story – a little too neatly onto the end of the movie . The fact that Scar simply take Mufasa call for his birth name off from him and rechristens himself as a baddie is bordering on derisory . Then again , Mufasa : The Lion Kinghad made a job for itself that needed to be fixed , by any means necessary .
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Mufasa : The Lion King explores the origins of the beloved character Mufasa , focalise on his youth as a lost cub who encounters Taka , a royal heir . Their meeting initiates an epic journey of self - uncovering and destiny , featuring a chemical group of misfit companions navigating the challenge of their humanity .
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