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    The Lion King

    Sep 01, 2019 4 minutes

    1 THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

    Helen O’Hara: A few shots are framed differently and it’s a little more leisurely, but this is the same sequence. It does make you marvel at the technology involved, but would it really have been less The Lion King if they had changed a few details? Have we discovered no interesting new facts about how wildlife on the Serengeti interact since 1994 that they could have added in? Even the detail is similar, with the same colour of bird landing on an elephant’s tusk as they walk through the watering hole.

    2 THE ELEPHANT GRAVEYARD

    The Elephant Graveyard scene, where Simba and Nala, disobeying orders, head out of the confines of Pride Rock to prove their bravery, is one of the more effective uses of

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