Tensions run high between parent , nipper , and siblings throughout the Disney canon , butThe Lion King(1994 ) may pose the studio apartment ’s most extreme exemplar of a dysfunctional family . The patch is the same in the new live natural process remaking coming out July 18 , 2019 as it is in the original : Determined to rule the lions of Pride Rock , Scar mercilessly kill Mufasa by flinging him into a stampede and then leave Simba , Mufasa ’s inheritor , for dead . The fact that Mufasa and Scar are salute as chum makes the murder all the more gut - wrenching , and it mirrors the murder of Hamlet ’s father by his uncle Claudius inHamlet , upon whichThe Lion Kingwas based .
But in 2017 , the Almighty of the animize film revealed that this dynamic is n’t as straightforward as it seems . Speaking withHelloGiggles , The Lion Kingdirector Rob Minkoff and manufacturer Don Hahn revealed that Mufasa and Scar in all probability would n’t have been relate by parentage . In the real world , male person lionsrarely surviveto adulthood . When the only male person in a pride of lions gets onetime , he ’s unremarkably taken out by a young varlet male person , who then assumes his place as point of the pack . The Modern male person in charge nearly always kills all the cubs in the pridefulness , thus wipe out the factor pocket billiards of his successor . If males are n’t killed as young carnivore , they ’re kicked out of prides when they achieve adolescence and force to divagate the savannah looking for a new grouping to take over . Most of them will die or be killed before finding a new abode .
It turns out the political science inThe Lion Kingaren’t too far off from the brutal world existent lions face in the state of nature . While lions dispatch each other to gain big businessman may be genuine to life , Mufasa and Scar ’s status as sibling is less exact . post like we see with those character — a superbia with two adult males — do live , but they ’re rarified . In pridefulness with two to three males , the males are usuallyunrelatedand were deliver in separate ring . ( Not to mention the fact that in real life , Simba ’s momwould be the one in charge — lion prides are matriarchal society . )
" We were attempt to use those animate being truths to underpin the story so we sort of figured Scar and Mufasa could n’t really be from the same factor pool , " Hahn told HelloGiggles . " In fact , that ’s what [ Scar ] say . There ’s a transmission line , he goes , ' I ’m from the shallow end of the factor pool . ' "
An early version of the script head off this problem all together . Scar was in the beginning meant to be arogue lionwith no relation to Simba or Mufasa , and he was in charge of a pack of baboons instead of hyenas . The version they get going with may make the relationship between Scar and Mufasa slightly more confusing , but it does make for one of the more perverted family dynamics in animated pic history .
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