[quote="TheLionPrince"][quote="SimbaNala+KovuKiara"]I think that they should have kept that in the original plot on #66, about Nala refusing to become Scar's queen, and getting banished because of that. I always think of TLK with that deleted scene actually happening, but that it wasn't shown. It's an interesting plot twist, and they should have kept it. Maybe they might have lost the G rating though? I don't know.[/quote]
Nah, that scene was much too creepy and inappropriate for a family audience. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff were wise to throw it out. Nala is a strong enough character to find other reasons as to why she needed to find help. A few years later, Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise pushed their luck with portraying sexual harassment in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame and got negative feedback from parents and the press about it. Luckily, with some maneuvering, it still got a G rating.
The Lion King already had enough criticism upon initial release for supposed racial stereotyping of the hyenas, portraying the brutal death of Mufasa, and claims of plagiarizing
Kimba the White Lion that I don't think it needed any more.[/quote]
Well I think TLK should have been rated PG anyways, and I think it would have been okay to include the scene, it just would have made it a movie for older audiences, which was actually what Disney originally wanted it to be, until someone thought to try to make it into more of a child-oriented movie. And I actually watched the original version of that scene with the animation still in the drawing stage, and I don't think it was creepy or anything. It can happen when there is a tyrant in power, and actually I really didn't see much that could be considered 'sexual harassment'. Then again, that's just my opinion, and as long as we don't start yelling at each other, it's okay to discuss our reasons for not wanting it in TLK, and wanting it in TLK.