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Post by barkydog2000 on Dec 1, 2005 22:20:21 GMT -5
Hey guys, I thought this was very interesting... recently I have learned that The Lion King was based off Shakespere's Hamlet. And TLK 1/2 was based on Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead. Just some trivia that I thought i'd share.  |
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Post by angiealight on Dec 1, 2005 22:57:35 GMT -5
Aha! I knew about TLK/Hamlet, but I never thought of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with 1 1/2! Very cool. (I love the play, by Tom Stoppard) It certainly fits! Thanks for sharing that.
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Post by barkydog2000 on Dec 1, 2005 23:05:45 GMT -5
 your welcome! yeah i thought it was pretty neat to put it together and see, "oh yeah so it is very similar." |
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Post by Santa's Insane Little Helper on Dec 2, 2005 22:12:28 GMT -5
I had heard about the Hamlet thing, and I saw it too. I had never seen Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, so I never even thought about that, but it does seem to fit.
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Post by Skeleton Grin on Feb 2, 2006 15:56:58 GMT -5
TLK 2 is based on Romeo and Juliet wich is a bit obvious to be honest
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Post by TheNameIsMarc on Feb 2, 2006 16:24:19 GMT -5
Really? How? Nala and Simba don't die...neither do Kovu and Kiara....
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Post by Skeleton Grin on Feb 2, 2006 16:36:38 GMT -5
lol true I mean the way they fall in love and both families despise each other, forbidding them from seeing each other
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Post by TheNameIsMarc on Feb 2, 2006 16:37:05 GMT -5
Well in that way it does  The ending doesn't though |
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Post by barkydog2000 on Feb 2, 2006 19:09:55 GMT -5
Well in that way it does The ending doesn't though that makes sense. Disney takes a lot of stories such as the formly mentioned and "Disney-izes" them, which most of the time means getting rid of all the death and stuff and just all around making it happier. thats what they did with hercules, i mean, that hardly follows the true mythology of the real hercules. i believe Meg was really his 2nd wife and at one point hated him so much she eat or killed all their children. |
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Post by Miss. Ashlee on Feb 5, 2006 1:49:04 GMT -5
I knew when I was watching the special fetaures on TLK that they made the part with Mufasa coming back like when Mosus saw the burning bush. Thought that was kinda cool.
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Post by Tre Cool Fan. on Feb 5, 2006 4:04:02 GMT -5
I heard the lion king also caused a bit of a stir as people in Japan were saying it was based on a program called 'Kimba the White Lion'.
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Post by Vicky on Feb 5, 2006 10:02:22 GMT -5
I saw a book with the title "Kimba, the king of lions" it's about a little lion who's father dies and he has to rule the kingdom, but his evil uncle wants it for himself. sounds familiar, huh?  |
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Post by Miss. Ashlee on Feb 6, 2006 0:49:42 GMT -5
Wow, thats very familar....lol
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