When the one guy talked about giving Mufasa exaggerates shoulders to make him look like the alpha, I so desperately wanted him to say “as opposed to Scar, who looks like foreign, weak and with very female moves”😂😂
@@Guitar-Dog So remember the law professor who wrote a chapter in her book about Kimba (and included it in her TED talk)? Some of the "sources" she had for that chapter were old YT videos unprofessionally made with WMM that was basically "THESE TWO HAVE SIMILAR THINGS! DISNEY RIPPED OFF KIMBA!". In one of the videos, a still of Scar at the beginning of the movie is shown, and he's analyzed to be "looks foreign, weak and with very female moves", basically calling him a effeminate beta or gay male, in comparison to Claw or something. It was fucking ridiculous, and I think that video is one of the ones that was removed by their channel owners after Adum released the Kimba video.
I have a theory that the writers wanted it to be similar to Hamlet but none of that stuff worked so they scaled back more and more to the original idea.
His reactions were the same as mine when I first saw that deleted scene. "DID SIMBA DIE?!" "IS SCAR CONSUMED BY THE FIRE?!!" If they kept that scene in (and they had the balls to kill Simba), kid me would have been traumatized a lot more than Mufasa's death scene.
@@michaelstrong5383 I'm glad it's changed because this ending where Simba falls is unsatisfying. He comes back only to lose to Scar and I'd feel ripped off.
The team did a great job trimming the fat. Most deleted scenes in movies look like they were just cut for time, but the unused storyboards in the Lion King were clearly cut because the movie is better without them.
Especially all those characters that were originally going to be in the movie. If they were in it, there would have been so much stuff happening, it would have been hard to pay attention.
I always found these scenes to be quite interesting. For example, the Warthog Rapsodhy was mentioned way back in the script outline of "King of the Jungle", but it was replaced when the staff learned about the term "Hakuna Matata" and decided to put it into the story. Basically, it's as if we're seeing bits of the staff's ideas while they were brainstorming, and it's so cool.
Idk man I think the movie would be better if they added a random new song for no fucking reason. Perhaps a song about something completely meaningless, like oh idk, the Morning Report? I think that would really complete the movie.
@@HOTD108_ The thing is that song was actually in the Broadway musical, and personally, I didn't like it there either. I've seen the musical three times, and in the recent show, they skipped that song and no one cared about it.
Aww the clip where they were pitching with the story boards were so wholesome, you can literally see that they care and they have a vision of the story
Right? That's one reason why the end result was so good, imo, the people that worked on the movie really cared, even though they were working on the "b-movie" at the time. Meanwhile, the 2019 version is basically: "People will get their butts into the seats because of nostalgia anyway, so who cares? Just do whatever, it'll be fine."
@@michaelstrong5383 And that's probably why The Lion King ended up being so much better than they expected. It was a secondary project, they probably had way more freedom in how the story could go
Where's the deleted scene where Scar is about to throw Simba off the cliff, and then Sora from Kingdom Hearts runs over and stabs Scar in the face with a keyblade? And then Simba and Sora have a big boss fight with Scar on top of Pride Rock. Where's the live action remake of THAT, Jon!?
Animating a film is very expensive, so the creative tema needs to pick the right scenes and the right approach of the whole project before starting production. I always loved watching these behind the scenes stuff on animated films, in particular the delated scenes of The Incredibles that I had on DVD.
Our job is to make our work look like nobody "made" it. A character has to be believable as really existing without the audience being aware of the person behind it for the movie to work on an emotional level. Sadly that also means outside of the movie/show we don't get much recognition for the work either.
I bought a LaserDisc player specifically for the mountains of extras that came on those huge Disney box sets, because so much of it has never shown up elsewhere. For whatever reason, something as simple as the trailers were NEVER ported over for ANY subsequent home release of The Lion King. One of the biggest films of all time with one of the most memorable marketing campaigns ever and you can only watch the trailers on a friggin' LaserDisc.
Is their some way you could rip the special features and post them to you tube or internet archives? This shit needs to be persevered and I'm sure Disney fans would love it
@@notchuckproductions5029 Disney fans love anything Disney do. Disney could charge them money to watch a movie on a streaming service that they're already paying for and they'll do it like lemmings... Oh wait.
@@notchuckproductions5029 Well many of them are on TH-cam; but sure. We need a DefinitiveFan Edition with all the extras known to mankind and the original cut without those weird changes.
@@HOTD108_ Y'see Disney FANS will call out the company on their BS. Stifling creativity with these remakes and with Marvel, greedy cutbacks in the parks, not porting over extras like this, so on. Disney SHILLS will eat up every lousy thing the company does without complaint. Big difference.
"Good night, sweet prince" is a quote from Hamlet. They said they drew a lot of inspiration from Hamlet (dead father in clouds etc.) so this is probably a nod to that. Same with "the cat is out of the bag" (origin of the idiom) the main characters ALL dying in the end, and others. It would be cool if Adam included parallels between Hamlet and 1994 and how they hold up in the 2019 version.
There was also a removed quote at the part Scar is talking with Zazu and has a skull in his paw. It was "Alas, poor wildebeest! I knew him well". So yeah; the Shakespeare influence was all over. Jeremy Irons himself compared Scar with Shakespeare villains like Iago back in the day.
The thing with Shakespeare is, the lines are WAY too melodramatic and it requires a hell of a good actor to pull the line with the right delivery (hence the term Shakespearian actor). The line delivery on this was so poor it was hilarious, probably Jeremy Irons could've made it work but I'm glad it was cut.
About that crocodile scene: The birds in the crocodiles' mouths is a real thing: there are little birds that pick the food from between crocs' teeth, in exchange for not being eaten.
The "exchange" is that the crocs' teeth are cleaned and the bird gets to eat. If the bird didn't want to get eaten then it could just not go near any crocodiles.
Adam talking about it was a miracle that everything came together the way it did, is interesting because I've always thought of Lion King as one of those "fluke" movies. Where it was made at the right time with the right people and everything went perfectly, and trying to recreate that success is impossible so it baffles me that they tried in the first place (although they recreated the financial success).
Lion King was pretty much the underdog movie at the studio back then. Jeffery Katzenberg and half of the most qualified artists were pushing hard for Pocahontas as another Best Picture-nominated picture and saw Lion King as "the B picture" or "kind of an experiment." It was overtime where the elements started to come together where the artists working on Lion King, initially uncertain, were convinced they were working on something special. Then the remake's motive is "well this other remake project didn't go through or isn't going thru at all, we kinda have to make this anyway cause we have a schedule to meet."
@@1xoACEox1 I know it’s so frustrating. I don’t understand what people are getting out of all these Disney remakes. Like what are you expecting to get out the remake that you wouldn’t get out of the original, y’know? Okay rant over lol.
The history of the Lion King as the ultimate underdog success pretty much can apply to the life of Walt Disney himself. Sound in cartoons? Steamboat Willie! Animated feature? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! Television? The Disneyland anthology series! Theme parks? Disneyland! Snow White especially was something that nobody except Walt and his faithful animators believed in. The media of the time called the endeavor Disney's folly because they were honestly expecting it to bomb hard. Walt's own wife even tried to dissuade him saying that nobody would pay a dime to see a dwarf picture. Walt even funded the film from his own bank account and risked bankruptcy. Much like The Lion King, Snow White is a film that was made at the right time with the right people with the right circumstance. If anything, Snow White is an even bigger miracle than the Lion King because the entire future of animation hinged on its success or failure. Every animated feature afterwards, including Lion King, owes its existence to Snow White one way or another. Even though it is NOT the first animated feature in history, it is the first animated feature to truly show animation's potential to the wider audience. Walt Disney was always about innovating and finding new ways to entertain and enchant audiences. He was not always the first to invent something, but he was one to find potential in something that very few people saw and then created something grand out of it.
@@MNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMN Why would he need to watch the rest of these videos to make a joke about college kids too dumb to know what live-action means?
@@proudtobeme1ashkente I assumed this dude's referring to the blandly sarcastic comment that he made in the video, where he reaffirms the dumbasses saying it's live action
God literally just him going over the scene of Mufasa’s death was making me cry. The music, the expressiveness of the animation, the voice acting. That scene alone is a cinematic masterpiece, for all of film not just animation.
I want to know how I went from not caring about the lion king at all 2 months ago, to watching hours and hours of lion king related content and eagerly awaiting the release of more
your friendly neighborhood gamer Bruh Lion King was my favorite Disney movie growing up (although I watched the one with Morning Report in it), I’ve always had an appreciation for this movie! But, my god did the remake fuck it up
I wouldn’t say they don’t do it anymore, just less. The remake stuff is absolutely soulless, that’s for damn sure. But watching the BTS stuff on some of their modern animated movies (excluding tlk 2019) can be interesting to watch.
Yeah, especially in the animation department, Disney still gives a crap. Most people just don’t see that way because they’re blinded by nostalgia and think everyone that came out when they were a kid is better than the stuff coming out now
when the original first came out, one of the biggest selling points was the stampede scene. if you were into animation, you knew it was ground-breaking, and it looked amazing on the big screen!
"Why would you have a feature on one format but not the others?! Why would you not just carry that over?!" I feel you so hard on this one. I started buying Disney DVDs entirely for the special features. I LOVE making-of stuff! The best is spending a whole day on a movie: Watch it, watch the features, watch it again with Director Commentary. I love doing that. So when the Disney Blu-Rays came out I gladly re-bought them...only to find out they had LESS features than the old DVD releases?! ...and NOW you tell me there are Laser Disc exclusive features?! Dammit Disney...
What is REALLY shitty is that the first Blu-Ray release on Lion King (The Diamond Edition/3D release) actually had all of the features from the Platinum Edition DVD. The problem is, Disney locked them in the BD-Live features. And most studios had stopped using/shut down their BD-Live servers at some point around 2013-2015., because the studios never really utilized BD-Live that well and most people didn't care about the feature.
The animator credits for each of the individual shots corresponding with the storyboards are super informative and I don't see them recorded most everywhere else, even in online animation circles I follow. Sakugabooru has some of the shots of the stampede or Circle of Life sampled but unknown work of individual artists on specific shots of say Mufasa for example are simply labeled "presumed" with his supervising animator's credit (Tony Fucile, as seen interviewed on 4:09) It just goes to show one format has all this information and material that can be preserved, while years later a format that can hold it all together without stuttering too badly just doesn't. The Laserdisc storyboard/credit gallery isn't on TH-cam apart from Adam's stream. Some of the EPK footage of the behind the scenes (of the studio production itself, not the individual interviews) of the 1994 Lion King are accurate but obviously filmed. Rob Minkoff admitted that a lot of the EPK and PR inside the studio at that time was staged mostly around Jeffery Katzenberg to make him look like the man in charge.
The stampede scene is one of the most incredible scenes in animation, i still remember being a kid watching this and i FELT terror, it made me unconfortable because i felt the danger simba was in. The music is incredible too, it perfectly represents whats happening on the screen and the emotions the characters are experiencing, its just a jewel of animation.
Adum brakes everything, honestly watching this was so informative..... it was so beautiful seeing their enthusiasm when they performed the hand-drawn scene shot by shot
32:24 I actually believe that the scar change was a changed for a good reason. Simba keeps moving to the left so it would make sense for scar to move his head in that direction rather than just be static. It also makes him look more lifelike rather than a still image
Whether it's better or not, it's still a change. Adam, and many others like myself believe that if you're going to edit a film, to at least include the option of the theatrical release. The crocodiles in this, added CGI in Star Wars and THX1138, and many others are now permanent changes to these films.
I agree and think that most of the changes they made are for the better and make for a better viewing experience ultimately, but I definitely see the value in preserving the original and allowing people to watch it on newer copies if they want. I do think comparing any of the Lion King changes to the added CGI in Star Wars is something of an "apples and oranges" thing as the Lion King ones are essentially just little fixes that would've been entirely possible to do with animation at the time and are unobtrusive while the vast majority of the Star Wars edits look awful and do weird shit like completely messing up the blocking of a scene.
I'm probably going to regret wasting my time on this but terrible cliche creepypasta's are my jam. I found a copy of The Lion King at a yard sale but the title was actually SQUASH_B4NANA.EXE and it was written in BLOOD. When I played it Circle of Life played at HALF SPEED and all of the animals were CRYING. Then Rafiki showed up and I was so scared because he was LAUGHING. This was terrible! But I couldn't look away! Rafiki went up to a crying Sarabi, but when she revealed baby Simba he had HYPER-REALISTIC HUMAN eyes and the screen cut to a still frame of Mufasa after the stampede and he was bleeding real blood with the message "through despair and hope" on the bottom for exactly 10 seconds. When it cut back, Rafiki was carrying baby Simba to the edge of Pride Rock, only now the animals weren't crying, they were SCREAMING IN ANGUISH, almost like they wanted blood. It got louder and louder until I had to cover my ears. Then, to my horror, Rafiki's laugh turned deeper, more sinister and he THREW SIMBA into the crowd. When the scene zoomed away from Pride Rock, the music had suddenly stopped, replaced by the distant sounds of animals trampling Simba to death. I couldn't stop crying. Then the final drumbeat of the song played OUT OF NOWHERE and cgi Rafiki's face stayed on my TV forever. I'm now in a psychiatric ward.
a creepypasta has infected his lazerdisc, so in order to stop this curse, this highlight video was made to transfer it to anyone who watches it first. Just a theory I have.
22:05 I liked this bit of the video where Adam can't help but talk about how emotional the scene makes him, and shows how much genuine love and connection he has with the movie
@@thekolonel5551 probably a vestiage of a more hamlet-driven story board. P sure everyone dies at the end of hamlet (hamlet kills claudius before dying himself)
here's the thing: Jon can be a good director and a creative guy....with stuff he actually cares about. He'll be the perfect corporate puppet and do these god awful CGI remakes of Disney classics and, in exchange, they allow him to go nuts with things like The Mandalorian, which actually looks like something he put some effort and passion into.
I've seen some of his films like Elf and Iron Man where you could tell he's having fun with those movies and he cares so much about them. But then you have Cowboys & Aliens and Lion King where he's just the studio's yes-man.
Well, kind of.... But even though Mando is the best Star Wars we got in many, many years it has alot of issues. It is still alot better than the new 3 movies, don't get me wrong... But it has issues...
@@michaelstrong5383 yeah, I think he and Taika Waititi are very alike in the sense of "one movie for them, one for me". Of course, Jon has the tendency of doing "30 for them and one for me" because MONEY, while Taika manages to make a statement and use his own voice and style in pretty much all of his movies. Yes, I'm including Thor Ragnarok here.
Like has been said, the laserdisc was actually the better product. The reason we got VHS instead of laserdisc is porn. The VHS was cheaper and the porn industry was welcome to use it to distribute films on.
Watch the Laserdisc videos from Technology Connections to find out why Laserdisc exists and why it failed. Had much better quality than VHS, but was in development way too long and didn't had the same all-round usuability like VHS did
Essentially, leaning more into story than look. Not to say the original looked bad, more of the animation had its characters movements alone have meaning to the story as well
@@tylerpehringer5272 I would argue that The Lion King is virtually nothing like Hamlet and very similar to the Osiris Myth, and that's why that ending doesn't work, it's all Hamlet and no Osiris.
I watched the movie just to have a more solid opinion on it and aside from the shitty, "realistic" style that makes everyone look colorless, lifeless and with no expression, all they did was cut or change important scenes and lines and replace them with unnecessary padding bullshit that obviously didn't need to be there
@@SparklyZee pretty sure I left a little after Hakuna Matata, but before Nala shows up. It was like watching someone take a shit all over something you love. It was utterly disrespectful to a movie that has done so much for Disney and to all the people who worked on the original film. I didn't think it was gonna be great but I thought they'd at least be respectful about it. But nope, it was the worst it possibly could have been. Not a single redeeming quality, not even the "realistic" animation. Everything was boring and ugly, characters included.
Hearing and watching Adum break down the Mufasa death scene only made it more potent for me. It’s the only scene in any film that can get me to cry every single time.
The Lion King is a masterpiece. When I was 6, my daddy took me to see this in theaters 5 times. We both love it so much. It is in my top favorite films of all time. People can try to remake The Lion King, but it can never be replaced. The stampede scene is incredibly emotional AND breath-taking. I have seen probably thousands of animated shows & film since then & there is nothing else like those wildebeests running. All of it is both terrifying and amazing.
i like the redone crocodiles, they match the aesthetic of the whole musical number better. i think that's why they redid the scene in the first place, to better match the rest of the song. i dunno about the other changes though
Looks at DVD bonus features: "Why aren't any of these on the Blu-ray??" Looks at LaserDisc bonus features: "Why aren't any of these on the DVD?!" lol My thought's exactly! Disney just adds less and less behind the scenes material for their films on home media as time goes on for some reason. Hunchback of Notre Dame is the best example of this, don't even get me started on that (seriously, the dvd and blu ray of Hunchback has basically NOTHING on there as far as behind the scenes material....)
while i definitely disagree on the blanket statement of no animated film living up emotionally to the lion king, i DO see where he's coming from. the lion king has *something* to it that makes it intensely emotional every time i see it. i like that he picked on the expressions especially; always always what makes me sob during the stampede sequence is when, afterwards, simba has just found mufasa and is calling out desperately for help. the face he makes, at his last, quiet 'help', looking so lost and scared and overwhelmed fucking gets me man.
Adam is right about how even after so many times of seeing Mufasa's death and his ghost later on, it still holds the same emotional value as when first watching it. Even as he's editing it, I feel my emotions stirring even at 2x the speed. Such an incredible movie.
I used to hide underneath the coffee table when mufasas death scene happened. The emotions were too private and I didn't want my family to see me. I was like 5 or 6 years old.
Apart from the heartstring-jerking score, I think one of the reasons the stampede scene is so heart-wrenching is the extreme way it depicts Mufasa, who we've never before seen as terrified and desperate and even weakened. In another film it could have been Mufasa stoically 'taking a bullet' for Simba in a 'carry on, my son' way. It would have been sentimental and sad but not tragic. TLK doesn't do the cliché thing. Instead, Mufasa is shown doing everything he can to not take the bullet. He absolutely does not want to die, and is not sacrificing his life to save Simba, but acting desperately to ensure they both survive. Which makes his loss of life that much more tragic.
I remember thinking I was going insane when we bought the DVD of TLK and the crocodiles were different, and only I seemed to notice out of my family. Luckily, we actually own the Laserdisc of TLK, so I could go back and compare to show that yeah. They changed them. Glad you covered that!
I think I remember commenting before when Adam was making the video about how the Kimba conspiracy always used Mheetu uncolored art as the "white lion cub" claim.
The silver lining to the terrible remake? The appreciation for the Real Lion King has grown so much... I'm looking to buy it on Blu ray now, something I hadn't really thought of since I still have the vhs from my childhood. But now I kind of want to.....LEGALLY acquire the laserdisc version........👁️👄👁️
Right? I was all "I've seen the Lion King a thousand time. I've seen it in theaters in 3D, I've seen it on Imax, I've seen it on VHS and DVD and Blu Ray. It's a shame I think I've watched it way too many times that it's kinda become overplayed for me" and now I'm watching these and I'm like "man I should watch this movie again"
@@c-puff I have the French Canadian version in vhs, which is what I grew up with so next time I'm thrift shopping I'm gonna be looking for it in English !
Apparently it wasn't properly finished due to time. I think that the new crocodiles are a bit too "wavy" but I appreciate that they aren't so bland and unsettling.
They changed Mufasa's face during the Circle Of Life sequence too. In the very original, when Mufasa smiled at Rafiki coming towards him, Mufasa's tooth is showing and his face looks slightly goofier - they changed it to make it more subtle, and while it's not an issue really, I miss the old face - it was friendlier looking. Still can't get over them removing Mufasa's ghost cloud when he retreated back to the Heavens, he just vanishes now. The rolling cloud looked fine, what was the problem?
Super High Doug Judy My bad, you right, but imagine watching that as a child for the first time and for a good minute, you think Simba is dead and Scar died laughing
My first Disney VHS was snow white and the seven dwarves and this was back in 93 or 94. It was a big deal since this was the first time snow white was made available on vhs. They put this documentary about the movie on at the end of the tape that showed the production of the film, concept art, people working on the frames, actors playing out the scenes and footage from the premiere of the film and when Walt received the Oscar for the film. There was even a deleted scene where the dwarves sing about soup. As a little 4-5 year old girl, I adored this documentary as much as the movie itself and would never skip it. I'm pretty sure there was an ad for the lion king on that tape too. "Coming to theatres". Still remember my first impressions of the lion king based on that trailer.
I think it's also very telling and impressive that they make sure that all of the main cast members look very distinct, and have subtle differences to give them different facial structures, proportions, and subtle color differences.
As we see from the extras, the whole process of making the movie was one of incremental improvements. The new croc shot was just another one of those. I agree the new shot is better: the animation is slicker, and the crocs look less flat, and less wall-eyed.
Thread Bomb Well yes, but changing something after its release, especially by the company that owns it kinda ruins the original experience and erases the historical value. Thats why there are efforts to recreate the original Star Wars. Can you imagine saying that the effects look bad in classical movies like Alien and recreating the whole thing? Or Mozart’s some grandson saying that a note is wrong and changes it?
@@Tago976 STAR WARS IS WAY DIFFERENT. The effects in Star Wars that were added later messed up scenes by shoving in a bunch of visuals that just distract the audience. While I think that copies of the original theatrical version of The Lion King should exist for public viewing, I appreciate when animators go back and fix up things -- because that's what the crocodiles were. They literally ran out of time so they used a more basic version. Your argument is a weird slippery slope.
@@mastermarkus5307 Wdym? You said the exact same thing. I didnt say that no work of art should be reworked EVER. What im tryina say is that the original should be preserved in all cases, even if the reworking is better in every way.
This is full-on tin foil hat, but what if, what if- hear me out- what if Disney, the evil megacorp, really really wants you to accept their new crap as just as good as or better than the old stuff, so when they release new blu-rays they don't include featurettes that show how much more passion and skill and creativity went into the older movies? What if they don't particularly want to show you the faces and voices of the earnest, enthusiastic, highly-trained people that they're no longer giving work to? Just what if? Just a thought
32:25 Another difference about that shot is Scar's shadow. In the original, his shadow is posed completely differently. They changed it to have the shadow more closely match him as well as animated the shadow a little when he moves his head.
30:43 this one makes some sense to me. in the original, the crocodiles are always visible in the shot, whereas in the new version they're not recognizable once the birds pop out. that way you get all the viewers' attention on the birds, and not on the crocodiles
My aunt worked on the little mermaid and told me she knew the illustrator of the cover, apparently the guy was a huge pervert which I guess is redundant to say
I agree with Adam at 22:04 absolutely. Even to this day I can usually compose myself throughout the wildebeest scenes until Simba says "Dad!" there. It's when you feel the despair kick in, right at the swell of the music and seeing the terrified look on Simba's face. It's an absolute gut punch.
The scene where Scar "wins" is a lot darker than they intended, not helped by it being a storyboard and having placeholder voice acting. Makes it all the more unsettling.
When the one guy talked about giving Mufasa exaggerates shoulders to make him look like the alpha, I so desperately wanted him to say “as opposed to Scar, who looks like foreign, weak and with very female moves”😂😂
The beta male
Mufasa himself looked like native, strong and with very male moves
Guitar Dog oh it’s from his Kimba review lol. It’s literally a direct quote from a poorly made Kimba conspiracy video
I literally could not stop laughing at this
@@Guitar-Dog So remember the law professor who wrote a chapter in her book about Kimba (and included it in her TED talk)? Some of the "sources" she had for that chapter were old YT videos unprofessionally made with WMM that was basically "THESE TWO HAVE SIMILAR THINGS! DISNEY RIPPED OFF KIMBA!".
In one of the videos, a still of Scar at the beginning of the movie is shown, and he's analyzed to be "looks foreign, weak and with very female moves", basically calling him a effeminate beta or gay male, in comparison to Claw or something. It was fucking ridiculous, and I think that video is one of the ones that was removed by their channel owners after Adum released the Kimba video.
"Good night, sweet prince"
-Horatio, _Hamlet,_ Act 5, Scene 2
Hmm, suspicious
DID THE LION KING RIP OFF THIS ONE POOR WRITER FROM THE 16TH CENTURY? (THE ANSWER WILL HOIST YOU BY YOUR OWN PETARD!)
I have a theory that the writers wanted it to be similar to Hamlet but none of that stuff worked so they scaled back more and more to the original idea.
@@pentelegomenon1175 I get that feeling too. Everyone dying and straight up quoting Hamlet isn't very subtle.
@@rodrigomarcondes5857 The Lebowski Crowd.
“Puzzles The Will”
- Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1!
If there ever was a Lion King scholar it’s this guy.
Don't forget he has high regards scholar on Kimba too.
The only man that could compete with Adum in his knowledge of animated lions is Alex from IHE.
@@caiosoares2834, I want to see a Death Battle now.
Almost the same hours of Lion King analysis as a Jordan B. Peterson course.
The Lion Scholar
20:17 wow this is the unfinished cg stampede scene
Me: cg? Dont you mean live action
I'm happy that Adum saw the deleted scene where Scar "wins." His reaction is everything I've hoped it'd be.
His reactions were the same as mine when I first saw that deleted scene. "DID SIMBA DIE?!" "IS SCAR CONSUMED BY THE FIRE?!!" If they kept that scene in (and they had the balls to kill Simba), kid me would have been traumatized a lot more than Mufasa's death scene.
@@michaelstrong5383 I'm glad it's changed because this ending where Simba falls is unsatisfying. He comes back only to lose to Scar and I'd feel ripped off.
What's the time stamp?
@@GabrielGarciaRamos 15:54
@@michaelstrong5383 Thanks
Scar is clearly not the alpha. He's foreign and with very female moves.
The team did a great job trimming the fat. Most deleted scenes in movies look like they were just cut for time, but the unused storyboards in the Lion King were clearly cut because the movie is better without them.
Especially all those characters that were originally going to be in the movie. If they were in it, there would have been so much stuff happening, it would have been hard to pay attention.
I always found these scenes to be quite interesting. For example, the Warthog Rapsodhy was mentioned way back in the script outline of "King of the Jungle", but it was replaced when the staff learned about the term "Hakuna Matata" and decided to put it into the story.
Basically, it's as if we're seeing bits of the staff's ideas while they were brainstorming, and it's so cool.
Idk man I think the movie would be better if they added a random new song for no fucking reason. Perhaps a song about something completely meaningless, like oh idk, the Morning Report? I think that would really complete the movie.
@@HOTD108_ MORNING REPOOORRRRRRTTTTTTT D8
@@HOTD108_ The thing is that song was actually in the Broadway musical, and personally, I didn't like it there either. I've seen the musical three times, and in the recent show, they skipped that song and no one cared about it.
Aww the clip where they were pitching with the story boards were so wholesome, you can literally see that they care and they have a vision of the story
Right? That's one reason why the end result was so good, imo, the people that worked on the movie really cared, even though they were working on the "b-movie" at the time.
Meanwhile, the 2019 version is basically: "People will get their butts into the seats because of nostalgia anyway, so who cares? Just do whatever, it'll be fine."
Kind of reminded me of kids playing with toys, in a good way
And this was during the time where Disney cared more about Pocahontas than they did with Lion King during production of both films.
@@michaelstrong5383 And that's probably why The Lion King ended up being so much better than they expected. It was a secondary project, they probably had way more freedom in how the story could go
@@BlueGuyTube so true!
The laser disc turned into a TH-cam poop of itself.
Turned into a creepypasta of itself
Turn that poop into wine!
@@CinematicDependency ok jesus
Turned into analogue horror
Where's the deleted scene where Scar is about to throw Simba off the cliff, and then Sora from Kingdom Hearts runs over and stabs Scar in the face with a keyblade? And then Simba and Sora have a big boss fight with Scar on top of Pride Rock.
Where's the live action remake of THAT, Jon!?
I'm still waiting on my Kingdom Hearts movie, thank you very much! ;p
@@DJKennedy90 I think that's happening
Well... it didn’t happen that way in KH2, but it would be hilarious :D
@@DJKennedy90 I think I would actually melt if I had to sit through an hour of sora speaking
@3g0st I mean, I don't think age should be a factor. Also the fact they already announced a series coming to disney plu, so...
I love how every deleted scene has a clear reason for being deleted.
Animating a film is very expensive, so the creative tema needs to pick the right scenes and the right approach of the whole project before starting production.
I always loved watching these behind the scenes stuff on animated films, in particular the delated scenes of The Incredibles that I had on DVD.
Animators don't get the respect they deserve
Our job is to make our work look like nobody "made" it. A character has to be believable as really existing without the audience being aware of the person behind it for the movie to work on an emotional level.
Sadly that also means outside of the movie/show we don't get much recognition for the work either.
@@c-puff Thank you for this comment. Couldn’t agree more. Animation as a whole doesn’t get the respect it deserves, too!
People who do this for a living deserve more credit and respect!
- Lord Hater
I bought a LaserDisc player specifically for the mountains of extras that came on those huge Disney box sets, because so much of it has never shown up elsewhere. For whatever reason, something as simple as the trailers were NEVER ported over for ANY subsequent home release of The Lion King. One of the biggest films of all time with one of the most memorable marketing campaigns ever and you can only watch the trailers on a friggin' LaserDisc.
Is their some way you could rip the special features and post them to you tube or internet archives?
This shit needs to be persevered and I'm sure Disney fans would love it
@@notchuckproductions5029 Disney fans love anything Disney do. Disney could charge them money to watch a movie on a streaming service that they're already paying for and they'll do it like lemmings... Oh wait.
I wonder if there has been good preservation efforts that have digitized the entire disk in better quality than the version he has in the video.
@@notchuckproductions5029 Well many of them are on TH-cam; but sure. We need a DefinitiveFan Edition with all the extras known to mankind and the original cut without those weird changes.
@@HOTD108_ Y'see Disney FANS will call out the company on their BS. Stifling creativity with these remakes and with Marvel, greedy cutbacks in the parks, not porting over extras like this, so on. Disney SHILLS will eat up every lousy thing the company does without complaint. Big difference.
"Good night, sweet prince" is a quote from Hamlet. They said they drew a lot of inspiration from Hamlet (dead father in clouds etc.) so this is probably a nod to that. Same with "the cat is out of the bag" (origin of the idiom) the main characters ALL dying in the end, and others. It would be cool if Adam included parallels between Hamlet and 1994 and how they hold up in the 2019 version.
There was also a removed quote at the part Scar is talking with Zazu and has a skull in his paw. It was "Alas, poor wildebeest! I knew him well". So yeah; the Shakespeare influence was all over. Jeremy Irons himself compared Scar with Shakespeare villains like Iago back in the day.
So Shakespeare also ripped off Kimba, then.
The thing with Shakespeare is, the lines are WAY too melodramatic and it requires a hell of a good actor to pull the line with the right delivery (hence the term Shakespearian actor). The line delivery on this was so poor it was hilarious, probably Jeremy Irons could've made it work but I'm glad it was cut.
About that crocodile scene: The birds in the crocodiles' mouths is a real thing: there are little birds that pick the food from between crocs' teeth, in exchange for not being eaten.
The "exchange" is that the crocs' teeth are cleaned and the bird gets to eat. If the bird didn't want to get eaten then it could just not go near any crocodiles.
Its a mutual benefit croc needs clean teeth bird needs to eat none are going to hurt each other because they are helping each other out.
@@FortoFight yep, I didn't word my first post very clearly
@@FortoFight
It's a doggy dog world, until one of the dogs shares his food with the pack.
@@markmark8464 *dog-eat-dog
Adam talking about it was a miracle that everything came together the way it did, is interesting because I've always thought of Lion King as one of those "fluke" movies. Where it was made at the right time with the right people and everything went perfectly, and trying to recreate that success is impossible so it baffles me that they tried in the first place (although they recreated the financial success).
And sadly that financial success will make the high ups think it was good and convince them to do it again and again.
Lion King was pretty much the underdog movie at the studio back then. Jeffery Katzenberg and half of the most qualified artists were pushing hard for Pocahontas as another Best Picture-nominated picture and saw Lion King as "the B picture" or "kind of an experiment." It was overtime where the elements started to come together where the artists working on Lion King, initially uncertain, were convinced they were working on something special.
Then the remake's motive is "well this other remake project didn't go through or isn't going thru at all, we kinda have to make this anyway cause we have a schedule to meet."
@@1xoACEox1 I know it’s so frustrating. I don’t understand what people are getting out of all these Disney remakes. Like what are you expecting to get out the remake that you wouldn’t get out of the original, y’know? Okay rant over lol.
The history of the Lion King as the ultimate underdog success pretty much can apply to the life of Walt Disney himself. Sound in cartoons? Steamboat Willie! Animated feature? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! Television? The Disneyland anthology series! Theme parks? Disneyland! Snow White especially was something that nobody except Walt and his faithful animators believed in. The media of the time called the endeavor Disney's folly because they were honestly expecting it to bomb hard. Walt's own wife even tried to dissuade him saying that nobody would pay a dime to see a dwarf picture. Walt even funded the film from his own bank account and risked bankruptcy. Much like The Lion King, Snow White is a film that was made at the right time with the right people with the right circumstance. If anything, Snow White is an even bigger miracle than the Lion King because the entire future of animation hinged on its success or failure. Every animated feature afterwards, including Lion King, owes its existence to Snow White one way or another. Even though it is NOT the first animated feature in history, it is the first animated feature to truly show animation's potential to the wider audience. Walt Disney was always about innovating and finding new ways to entertain and enchant audiences. He was not always the first to invent something, but he was one to find potential in something that very few people saw and then created something grand out of it.
They recreated the financial success ‘cause people are FUCKING IDIOTS
So your're saying the original Lion King had 3D-animated stuff in it and was therefore life action?
And therefore was screwed out of the Best Picture Oscar for that year.
Gonna assume you haven't seen the rest of these videos
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Why would he need to watch the rest of these videos to make a joke about college kids too dumb to know what live-action means?
@@proudtobeme1ashkente I assumed this dude's referring to the blandly sarcastic comment that he made in the video, where he reaffirms the dumbasses saying it's live action
God literally just him going over the scene of Mufasa’s death was making me cry. The music, the expressiveness of the animation, the voice acting. That scene alone is a cinematic masterpiece, for all of film not just animation.
Thanks, Disney, for ruining that powerful scene in your stupid remake.
_The Lion King_ should’ve been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar instead of _Four Weddings & a Funeral._
@@Wired4Life2 That would have been great to see Lion King go up against Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, and Forrest Gump for Best Picture.
Same! I was tearing up ;-;
I want to know how I went from not caring about the lion king at all 2 months ago, to watching hours and hours of lion king related content and eagerly awaiting the release of more
passion is contagious
Same, watching these highlights have given me a deeper appreciation for the film
your friendly neighborhood gamer Bruh Lion King was my favorite Disney movie growing up (although I watched the one with Morning Report in it), I’ve always had an appreciation for this movie! But, my god did the remake fuck it up
The voice acting over the deleted scene storyboards is like the Kimba dub
XD usually the animators have to do the scratch tracks themselves to get the timing right. So yeah.
LEMMEGO LEMMEGO LEMMEGO LEMMEGO LEMMEGO LEMMEGO LEMMEGO LEMMEGO
@@bw-xv2rz *don’t be afraid, I just wanna play with you*
Watching these behind-the-scenes stuff reminded me of a time when Disney used to actually gave a crap about the movies they make.
I wouldn’t say they don’t do it anymore, just less. The remake stuff is absolutely soulless, that’s for damn sure. But watching the BTS stuff on some of their modern animated movies (excluding tlk 2019) can be interesting to watch.
Yeah, especially in the animation department, Disney still gives a crap. Most people just don’t see that way because they’re blinded by nostalgia and think everyone that came out when they were a kid is better than the stuff coming out now
I wonder how the Kimba crowd feels knowing that their leader Fred Ladd threw them under the bus
Like this 😾
Like Scar throwing Mufasa into the wildebeest stampede
Scar: Fred Ladd
Mufasa: the Kimba crowd
Wildebeests: Adam’s video
Simba: ???
@@catendway4754 Simba would be Kimba obviously. After all, they somehow have the same name.
Michael Strong _hmmm suspicious_
when the original first came out, one of the biggest selling points was the stampede scene. if you were into animation, you knew it was ground-breaking, and it looked amazing on the big screen!
"Why would you have a feature on one format but not the others?! Why would you not just carry that over?!"
I feel you so hard on this one. I started buying Disney DVDs entirely for the special features. I LOVE making-of stuff! The best is spending a whole day on a movie: Watch it, watch the features, watch it again with Director Commentary. I love doing that. So when the Disney Blu-Rays came out I gladly re-bought them...only to find out they had LESS features than the old DVD releases?! ...and NOW you tell me there are Laser Disc exclusive features?! Dammit Disney...
What is REALLY shitty is that the first Blu-Ray release on Lion King (The Diamond Edition/3D release) actually had all of the features from the Platinum Edition DVD.
The problem is, Disney locked them in the BD-Live features. And most studios had stopped using/shut down their BD-Live servers at some point around 2013-2015., because the studios never really utilized BD-Live that well and most people didn't care about the feature.
Those laserdisc credits are gonna be a new vaporwave hit
The animator credits for each of the individual shots corresponding with the storyboards are super informative and I don't see them recorded most everywhere else, even in online animation circles I follow. Sakugabooru has some of the shots of the stampede or Circle of Life sampled but unknown work of individual artists on specific shots of say Mufasa for example are simply labeled "presumed" with his supervising animator's credit (Tony Fucile, as seen interviewed on 4:09) It just goes to show one format has all this information and material that can be preserved, while years later a format that can hold it all together without stuttering too badly just doesn't. The Laserdisc storyboard/credit gallery isn't on TH-cam apart from Adam's stream.
Some of the EPK footage of the behind the scenes (of the studio production itself, not the individual interviews) of the 1994 Lion King are accurate but obviously filmed. Rob Minkoff admitted that a lot of the EPK and PR inside the studio at that time was staged mostly around Jeffery Katzenberg to make him look like the man in charge.
The stampede scene is one of the most incredible scenes in animation, i still remember being a kid watching this and i FELT terror, it made me unconfortable because i felt the danger simba was in.
The music is incredible too, it perfectly represents whats happening on the screen and the emotions the characters are experiencing, its just a jewel of animation.
Adum brakes everything, honestly watching this was so informative..... it was so beautiful seeing their enthusiasm when they performed the hand-drawn scene shot by shot
He must emit waves of some kind.
32:24 I actually believe that the scar change was a changed for a good reason. Simba keeps moving to the left so it would make sense for scar to move his head in that direction rather than just be static. It also makes him look more lifelike rather than a still image
Whether it's better or not, it's still a change. Adam, and many others like myself believe that if you're going to edit a film, to at least include the option of the theatrical release. The crocodiles in this, added CGI in Star Wars and THX1138, and many others are now permanent changes to these films.
@@EnbyLite True
I agree and think that most of the changes they made are for the better and make for a better viewing experience ultimately, but I definitely see the value in preserving the original and allowing people to watch it on newer copies if they want.
I do think comparing any of the Lion King changes to the added CGI in Star Wars is something of an "apples and oranges" thing as the Lion King ones are essentially just little fixes that would've been entirely possible to do with animation at the time and are unobtrusive while the vast majority of the Star Wars edits look awful and do weird shit like completely messing up the blocking of a scene.
But it was a unnecessary change and not important for the story nonetheless
That laser disc glitching felt like I was watching a creepy pasta
"And then Simba showed up with *HYPER-REALISTIC* eyes, and then I died, despite me finding the time to write this story."
thelionking.exe BLACK EDITION
“I found it in a car boot sale.”
WhoAreYou.exe :U
Or alternatively: LOOKCLOSER.exe
I'm probably going to regret wasting my time on this but terrible cliche creepypasta's are my jam.
I found a copy of The Lion King at a yard sale but the title was actually SQUASH_B4NANA.EXE and it was written in BLOOD. When I played it Circle of Life played at HALF SPEED and all of the animals were CRYING. Then Rafiki showed up and I was so scared because he was LAUGHING. This was terrible! But I couldn't look away!
Rafiki went up to a crying Sarabi, but when she revealed baby Simba he had HYPER-REALISTIC HUMAN eyes and the screen cut to a still frame of Mufasa after the stampede and he was bleeding real blood with the message "through despair and hope" on the bottom for exactly 10 seconds.
When it cut back, Rafiki was carrying baby Simba to the edge of Pride Rock, only now the animals weren't crying, they were SCREAMING IN ANGUISH, almost like they wanted blood. It got louder and louder until I had to cover my ears. Then, to my horror, Rafiki's laugh turned deeper, more sinister and he THREW SIMBA into the crowd. When the scene zoomed away from Pride Rock, the music had suddenly stopped, replaced by the distant sounds of animals trampling Simba to death. I couldn't stop crying.
Then the final drumbeat of the song played OUT OF NOWHERE and cgi Rafiki's face stayed on my TV forever. I'm now in a psychiatric ward.
Ally Gator Animator Epilogue: The doctor says “He killed himself, and it was funny.”
His "totally legit" LaserDisc copy is secretly a WIP TH-cam Poop!
a creepypasta has infected his lazerdisc, so in order to stop this curse, this highlight video was made to transfer it to anyone who watches it first. Just a theory I have.
Disney is hacking his mainframe
That would explain why it opens with "Circle of Dinner"...
Hey! I actually made that capture! The opposite side of the disc was cracked!
@@wright96d where can I acquire it
I'm more than convinced now that Favreau had never actually seen The Lion King and only had a quick glimpse through these old storyboards.
All the content that is on the Lion King laser disc looks good, now I'm wondering what else is on other disney film's that are only on laser disc.
Especially since most early DVD extras were just Laserdisc extras ported over, why are those things not there?
As someone that watches laserdiscs constantly, I’m glad Adam is finally realizing how much content laserdiscs have
22:05 I liked this bit of the video where Adam can't help but talk about how emotional the scene makes him, and shows how much genuine love and connection he has with the movie
wholesome..
Lol, the Nala and Simba kissing scene would have looked so weird. I think her on her back giving him that look was the right move.
They sort of keep the kissing scene too. Nala licks Simba's cheek, making him go O.O in shock, surprised she kissed him
Please someone tell Adum to put his legally acquired Laserdisc footage somewhere we can watch it 😭
That lion king bad ending was brutal
Whoa, the stampede scene was live action? Crazy what you can do with 3d animation lol
Imagine if the actual 94 Lion king ended with Simba actually dying and Scar getting engulfed in flames.
I'd love it.
What a strange ending. Wonder what the thought process was on that.
@@thekolonel5551 probably a vestiage of a more hamlet-driven story board. P sure everyone dies at the end of hamlet (hamlet kills claudius before dying himself)
That would basically be Hamlet.
here's the thing: Jon can be a good director and a creative guy....with stuff he actually cares about. He'll be the perfect corporate puppet and do these god awful CGI remakes of Disney classics and, in exchange, they allow him to go nuts with things like The Mandalorian, which actually looks like something he put some effort and passion into.
Yeah, pretty much.
I've seen some of his films like Elf and Iron Man where you could tell he's having fun with those movies and he cares so much about them. But then you have Cowboys & Aliens and Lion King where he's just the studio's yes-man.
Well, kind of.... But even though Mando is the best Star Wars we got in many, many years it has alot of issues. It is still alot better than the new 3 movies, don't get me wrong... But it has issues...
@@michaelstrong5383 yeah, I think he and Taika Waititi are very alike in the sense of "one movie for them, one for me". Of course, Jon has the tendency of doing "30 for them and one for me" because MONEY, while Taika manages to make a statement and use his own voice and style in pretty much all of his movies. Yes, I'm including Thor Ragnarok here.
Wait has he actually made anything that wasn't a fanfic of an existing property?
Laserdisc is just a giant DVD with the quality of a VHS tape.
Hey! I'll have you know that I own a LaserDisc player and it is SLIGHTLY better than a VHS tape.
Not really. Laserdisc is way better quality than VHS, which is why it was the preferred format for cinephiles back in the day
Laserdisc be like "I'm bringing back Vaporwave baby."
Like has been said, the laserdisc was actually the better product.
The reason we got VHS instead of laserdisc is porn. The VHS was cheaper and the porn industry was welcome to use it to distribute films on.
Watch the Laserdisc videos from Technology Connections to find out why Laserdisc exists and why it failed.
Had much better quality than VHS, but was in development way too long and didn't had the same all-round usuability like VHS did
“THE LASER DISC IS BETTER QUALITY THAN YHE BLU-RAY!!!”
Yeah that happens more frequently than it should.
Particularly Sword in the Stone. All that cropping and altered colour grading.
Seandeclanpatrick Star Wars and Indiana Jones come to mind as well.
Let’s bring back Laserdisc!
Animated Cinderella comes to mind, how they completely ruined the lineart in the newer releases.
Scar getting killed by the flames is my favorite deleted scene.
Oops. The cat’s out of the bag.
My jaw is on the floor at that alternate ending? It's basically the 'Game Over' sequence for the actual film
"Why didn't they convert this? I don't mind a lower resolution."
two minutes later
"WTF THIS IS BETTER QUALITY THAN THE BLU-RAY!"
You just gotta upload this when my class is about to start FeelsBadMan
Good on you for paying attention in class FeelsGoodMan
wholesome exchange in the comments section
FeelsGoodMan
Ok I watched it, good video
I guess they were leaning more into hamlet that day...
Essentially, leaning more into story than look. Not to say the original looked bad, more of the animation had its characters movements alone have meaning to the story as well
@@tylerpehringer5272 I would argue that The Lion King is virtually nothing like Hamlet and very similar to the Osiris Myth, and that's why that ending doesn't work, it's all Hamlet and no Osiris.
@@pentelegomenon1175 that's fair, I see that
I never saw Lion King 2019, I don't plan on it, yet for some reason I'm really looking forward to the YMS review
I watched the movie just to have a more solid opinion on it and aside from the shitty, "realistic" style that makes everyone look colorless, lifeless and with no expression, all they did was cut or change important scenes and lines and replace them with unnecessary padding bullshit that obviously didn't need to be there
literally don't do it, I was genuinely offended by it lmfao. It was the first time I've ever walked out of the theater in my life.
@@katec708 how far in the movie did you make it to? lmao
You're not really missing anything. It's just the same film but with emotionless robots.
@@SparklyZee pretty sure I left a little after Hakuna Matata, but before Nala shows up. It was like watching someone take a shit all over something you love. It was utterly disrespectful to a movie that has done so much for Disney and to all the people who worked on the original film. I didn't think it was gonna be great but I thought they'd at least be respectful about it. But nope, it was the worst it possibly could have been. Not a single redeeming quality, not even the "realistic" animation. Everything was boring and ugly, characters included.
Hearing and watching Adum break down the Mufasa death scene only made it more potent for me. It’s the only scene in any film that can get me to cry every single time.
29:54 The crocodile shot in the previous version looked waaaay creepier. Those eyes
I want a streaming service that includes special features from the content, like behind the scenes stuff, or director commentaries.
DVD: CGI artists created a 3D model of the cliff--
me: Wow! Dude, Pride Rock!
The Lion King is a masterpiece. When I was 6, my daddy took me to see this in theaters 5 times. We both love it so much. It is in my top favorite films of all time. People can try to remake The Lion King, but it can never be replaced.
The stampede scene is incredibly emotional AND breath-taking. I have seen probably thousands of animated shows & film since then & there is nothing else like those wildebeests running. All of it is both terrifying and amazing.
i like the redone crocodiles, they match the aesthetic of the whole musical number better. i think that's why they redid the scene in the first place, to better match the rest of the song. i dunno about the other changes though
Looks at DVD bonus features: "Why aren't any of these on the Blu-ray??"
Looks at LaserDisc bonus features: "Why aren't any of these on the DVD?!"
lol My thought's exactly! Disney just adds less and less behind the scenes material for their films on home media as time goes on for some reason. Hunchback of Notre Dame is the best example of this, don't even get me started on that (seriously, the dvd and blu ray of Hunchback has basically NOTHING on there as far as behind the scenes material....)
while i definitely disagree on the blanket statement of no animated film living up emotionally to the lion king, i DO see where he's coming from. the lion king has *something* to it that makes it intensely emotional every time i see it. i like that he picked on the expressions especially; always always what makes me sob during the stampede sequence is when, afterwards, simba has just found mufasa and is calling out desperately for help. the face he makes, at his last, quiet 'help', looking so lost and scared and overwhelmed fucking gets me man.
Adam is right about how even after so many times of seeing Mufasa's death and his ghost later on, it still holds the same emotional value as when first watching it.
Even as he's editing it, I feel my emotions stirring even at 2x the speed. Such an incredible movie.
I used to hide underneath the coffee table when mufasas death scene happened. The emotions were too private and I didn't want my family to see me. I was like 5 or 6 years old.
Apart from the heartstring-jerking score, I think one of the reasons the stampede scene is so heart-wrenching is the extreme way it depicts Mufasa, who we've never before seen as terrified and desperate and even weakened. In another film it could have been Mufasa stoically 'taking a bullet' for Simba in a 'carry on, my son' way. It would have been sentimental and sad but not tragic. TLK doesn't do the cliché thing. Instead, Mufasa is shown doing everything he can to not take the bullet. He absolutely does not want to die, and is not sacrificing his life to save Simba, but acting desperately to ensure they both survive. Which makes his loss of life that much more tragic.
Adams doin somethin with a laser disc
Everything’s better with laser disc
Whatever happened to laser disc
Laser disc
A shame he wasn't wearing the Teen Girl Squad shirt this time around.
Simba dying and Scar being engulfed by the flames after his victory with that music and laugh would have made for an absolutely amazing ending tbh
That scene gets me emotionally every time too Jesus Christ
18:19
It’s so perfect! XD
The sound, his face, the timing. It’s so good!
I will forever cry every time I see or hear any part of Mufasa's death scene. This goddamn movie man.
Coming back to the stampede scene as an adult just blows me away. As a child I didn't realise how absolutely stunning every frame was!
I remember thinking I was going insane when we bought the DVD of TLK and the crocodiles were different, and only I seemed to notice out of my family. Luckily, we actually own the Laserdisc of TLK, so I could go back and compare to show that yeah. They changed them. Glad you covered that!
I think I remember commenting before when Adam was making the video about how the Kimba conspiracy always used Mheetu uncolored art as the "white lion cub" claim.
Yes, i can see it on your recent comment on this channel
When he says the Kimba video would have been "slightly longer" if he'd had this footage, I feel like he means an entire hour longer
The silver lining to the terrible remake? The appreciation for the Real Lion King has grown so much... I'm looking to buy it on Blu ray now, something I hadn't really thought of since I still have the vhs from my childhood. But now I kind of want to.....LEGALLY acquire the laserdisc version........👁️👄👁️
Right? I was all "I've seen the Lion King a thousand time. I've seen it in theaters in 3D, I've seen it on Imax, I've seen it on VHS and DVD and Blu Ray. It's a shame I think I've watched it way too many times that it's kinda become overplayed for me"
and now I'm watching these and I'm like "man I should watch this movie again"
I have this in most formats.
VHS, DVD, and Recent Blu Ray.
@@MarkyMatey I mean that's cool and all but it's not the laserdisc version...u know?😒 (joking it's awesome you're such a big fan)
@@c-puff I have the French Canadian version in vhs, which is what I grew up with so next time I'm thrift shopping I'm gonna be looking for it in English !
@@terrih7165
Yeah Lion King is special to me.
29:54 I can understand why they wanted to reanimate the crocodile shot, but those birds look so out of place compared to the original.
Personally I think the crocodiles' eyes in the original are a liiiittle bit creepy.
Apparently it wasn't properly finished due to time. I think that the new crocodiles are a bit too "wavy" but I appreciate that they aren't so bland and unsettling.
2:57 how I feel when I buy a digital version of something that had badass features on the DVD but no features on digital. I'm looking at you, VUDU.
"The initial ideas they had were so terrible, it's a miracle it came out the way it did..."
Yep, 90s Disney.
People seem to forget that a lot of bad ideas are left behind during the creative process.
Yeah, that's nearly every movie tbh. Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove for a very long time was a totally different movie.
The scratch audio for the deleted Scar victory's hilarious 😆
Not surprised they went with "Good night sweet prince" since The Lion King is practically an adaptation of Hamlet.
Hamlet ripped off Kimba.
I'm glad to know someone gets those kind of emotions during films/movies ❤️
The more we watch the 94 behind the scenes, the more we appreciate that version.
The more we watch of the 19 behind the scenes, the worse it becomes.
Yo that disc makes some sick breakcore
Well this video just makes me want to collect laserdisc and possibly other format's for behind the scenes
They changed Mufasa's face during the Circle Of Life sequence too. In the very original, when Mufasa smiled at Rafiki coming towards him, Mufasa's tooth is showing and his face looks slightly goofier - they changed it to make it more subtle, and while it's not an issue really, I miss the old face - it was friendlier looking.
Still can't get over them removing Mufasa's ghost cloud when he retreated back to the Heavens, he just vanishes now. The rolling cloud looked fine, what was the problem?
It's just the 90s look guys
5:52
Nevermind
17:28 Holy shit this version is dark! Simba dies in the end and Scar laughs while burning alive! WTF!
@VenomZ YEAH DUDE LIKE WHAT THE ACTUAL SHIT?! WHAT?!?
"Scar thought Simba has dies, but no simba is still alive" yeah that ending was unstastified
Super High Doug Judy My bad, you right, but imagine watching that as a child for the first time and for a good minute, you think Simba is dead and Scar died laughing
My first Disney VHS was snow white and the seven dwarves and this was back in 93 or 94. It was a big deal since this was the first time snow white was made available on vhs. They put this documentary about the movie on at the end of the tape that showed the production of the film, concept art, people working on the frames, actors playing out the scenes and footage from the premiere of the film and when Walt received the Oscar for the film. There was even a deleted scene where the dwarves sing about soup. As a little 4-5 year old girl, I adored this documentary as much as the movie itself and would never skip it. I'm pretty sure there was an ad for the lion king on that tape too. "Coming to theatres". Still remember my first impressions of the lion king based on that trailer.
Mark Henn was the animator who appeared in the Disney World episode of Full House, so I always think of him in that way.
The skipping on that laserdisc looks and sounds like the editing of a TH-cam poop.
Adam is the biggest lion king fan boi, I swear he gets so worked up because scar moved. It’s now my favorite YMS rant ever!
The behind the scenes stuff from this compared to the "live action" one really shows how the OG guys actually care about the movie they were making.
I love the "oops cats out of the bag" one
I think it's also very telling and impressive that they make sure that all of the main cast members look very distinct, and have subtle differences to give them different facial structures, proportions, and subtle color differences.
I think new the crocodile shot looks better. But was it necessary? Nope.
As we see from the extras, the whole process of making the movie was one of incremental improvements. The new croc shot was just another one of those. I agree the new shot is better: the animation is slicker, and the crocs look less flat, and less wall-eyed.
Thread Bomb Well yes, but changing something after its release, especially by the company that owns it kinda ruins the original experience and erases the historical value. Thats why there are efforts to recreate the original Star Wars. Can you imagine saying that the effects look bad in classical movies like Alien and recreating the whole thing? Or Mozart’s some grandson saying that a note is wrong and changes it?
@@Tago976 STAR WARS IS WAY DIFFERENT. The effects in Star Wars that were added later messed up scenes by shoving in a bunch of visuals that just distract the audience. While I think that copies of the original theatrical version of The Lion King should exist for public viewing, I appreciate when animators go back and fix up things -- because that's what the crocodiles were. They literally ran out of time so they used a more basic version.
Your argument is a weird slippery slope.
@@mastermarkus5307 Wdym? You said the exact same thing. I didnt say that no work of art should be reworked EVER. What im tryina say is that the original should be preserved in all cases, even if the reworking is better in every way.
This is full-on tin foil hat, but what if, what if- hear me out- what if Disney, the evil megacorp, really really wants you to accept their new crap as just as good as or better than the old stuff, so when they release new blu-rays they don't include featurettes that show how much more passion and skill and creativity went into the older movies? What if they don't particularly want to show you the faces and voices of the earnest, enthusiastic, highly-trained people that they're no longer giving work to? Just what if? Just a thought
By george I think you're on to something.
...naaaaaahhhh.
Scar: "OOOOPS! The cat's out of the bag."
I wouldn't say it's tin foil hat, it's pretty dam obvious
*laserdisc.exe has stopped working*
34 minutes, you know what I want.
Hell yeah
*An hour ain't bad either.* 😏
32:25 Another difference about that shot is Scar's shadow. In the original, his shadow is posed completely differently. They changed it to have the shadow more closely match him as well as animated the shadow a little when he moves his head.
30:43
this one makes some sense to me.
in the original, the crocodiles are always visible in the shot, whereas in the new version they're not recognizable once the birds pop out. that way you get all the viewers' attention on the birds, and not on the crocodiles
I absolutely agree.
The death of Mufasa is probably one of the most emotionally powerful scenes ever.
The way they pitch their scenes is the way my colleague pitches new ideas at work ❤
My aunt worked on the little mermaid and told me she knew the illustrator of the cover, apparently the guy was a huge pervert which I guess is redundant to say
I agree with Adam at 22:04 absolutely. Even to this day I can usually compose myself throughout the wildebeest scenes until Simba says "Dad!" there. It's when you feel the despair kick in, right at the swell of the music and seeing the terrified look on Simba's face. It's an absolute gut punch.
The scene where Scar "wins" is a lot darker than they intended, not helped by it being a storyboard and having placeholder voice acting. Makes it all the more unsettling.