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: I must admit that there are scenes in the Lion
: King that are simply wonderful to watch: the
: way the lions move can be breathtaking. The
: only thing that can match that for me is the
: opening sequence of Tezuka Productions'
: later effort, the Jungle Emperor Leo movie:
: Watching Leo (Kimba) jump from peak to peak
: gives me chills.
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: I think that the reason people got so up in
: arms about the Lion King/ Kimba issue is
: that the Disney Corporation adopted the
: stance "nobody in our company ever
: heard of Kimba before we released the
: movie", which is patently a lie, which
: is easily provable to be a lie, and which
: sends whatever relationship there was
: between the two productions into the
: category of a ripoff by Disney.
:
: I talked to one of the animators who worked
: on Lion King. He is a BIG fan of Kimba, and
: has drawn some absolutely gorgeous Kimba
: pictures for his own pleasure. I don't think
: the creative people at the Disney company
: wanted to rip off anyone, much less a work
: that they admired and enjoyed themselves. I
: can easily believe that the corporate
: bigwigs and legal department include peole
: who had never heard of Kimba, and they have
: the money and power to make whatever stand
: they want to take, stick. And it's a
: position that hurts the fans; it's like
: re-writing history. I notice that you
: started your message by saying you weren't
: even sure you really ever saw Kimba. I have
: heard from a large number of people who
: believed that they were the only ones who
: remembered the show. Just think how
: different that would be if Disney could have
: admitted the source and inspiration for the
: Lion King.
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: Even with so many clear references and
: strikingly similar images as I've noticed
: on a variety of thumbnail pics, The Lion
: King holds up on its own as an extremely
: cohesive film. Disney may have had to
: acknowledge and pay out certain rights,
: and that makes sense, but the result isn't
: so easily simplified as a "rip
: off." Unique, or stylistically
: individual, treatments upon an earlier
: subject or theme have been characteristic
: of art for millennia, and only recently
: has "originality" even been
: considered an aesthetic quality--it is
: arguable whether something truly original
: (something never appearing before)can be
: created... everything has "come
: down" in some way or other. The Lion
: King and Kimba each deserve their place.
now,i think the lion king is like a better version of kimba!!!it has a very very very cute song!!!i will post the lyrics...
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