Based on what I'm seeing from this topic, It's good to see that more people say that the characters themselves are the most important aspect from the LK films. And I truly believe that is how it genuinely should be
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[quote="TheLionPrince"]The characters evolve around the storyline. If the storyline lacks depth and not emotional, the characters most likely will have no depth and have no emotional connection with the audience.[/quote]
While you do make a compelling statement about the storyline itself, I don't see that a character him/her self (especially the main one) has to be bound to the story in order to have purpose, meaning, attraction, influence or connection to us, at least from animation or fiction. I mean, good or interesting characters can be created just by the imagination itself and not necessarily needing to be labeled with a story on them as soon as they are created or vice versa, or even a story at all.
When it comes to the character actually being
alive, the creator also
has to care for the creation of that individual and give them plenty of inner thought of who they really want them to be and/or their alignment (good or bad person).
Like I wrote on this topic, they're people like you and me. When we were born on this earth, we didn't have a story of our own, but we already had an identity. So I can see this being much like how it is when a character is created because many of them are also created
without a story already given to them.
People even get interested in a character, simply by looking at their appearance alone, because at least some things can be conveyed to us simply by that. Such as their alignment and also whether they may have a comical or serious nature for another example. When I first saw Timon for the first time in my life, it didn't take me long at all to see that he has, what I know now in life, a comical nature.
Then again, look at LK 1 1/2. When you look at the story and the plot here, it's not a strong one and I'm pretty sure that you'll agree with me on this. But, there are at least a few single moments on this film (
like this one) between the characters themselves that just like when you see two actual people expressing love to each other (regardless of the type of relationship) in a moment for example, the feeling/connection with that is no different than how it is in actual life.
These are reasons why I can see that the characters can definitely breathe out to us without being confined to a story. A person may not even know what the story is about because they've never watched the film, for example, but have already seen at least one of the characters, but such single moments or images (even plainly described in text) of or coming from a character(s) like I mentioned in the last paragraph above can definitely still have inner effects alone on us.
The very main idea here is what I have in mind is that a fictional character can definitely touch us outside of a story as well.
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Concerning film itself, I do also understand that storyline, along with the visuals and music all have their own importance like
Haraka mentioned. So hopefully, you won't "attack" me on any of what I've said above outside of this spoiler. Especially concerning a character alone, that is...
"I found a place that was beyond my wildest dreams. But..., it still wasn't home." - Timon; Lion King 1 1/2 (3)
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