by cleargreenwater » July 21st, 2013, 3:59 pm
It is all really powerful stuff, or it would not be the continuing force it is. Now at this time I don't think I'm able to decide.
At the time though, when it first came out & I was just seeing it for the first time, it was the unexpected rush of the whole thing developing & coming along and then Wow! The Hyenas checked Scar. And I went, Ohhh s**t 8D
....that was the moment I realized I had just watched something multi-layered and multi-textured that was a lot more than anything I expected from a Disney flick.
The next time I saw it in theaters, I gave the Hyenas a little more thought, and when the scene switched from Under the Stars to the part preceding Be Prepared when they're waiting for Scar to meet them (well, when Shenzi was at least, LOL,) it dawned on me all in an instant like a lightbulb illuminating a huge room--These critters have their own thing going on, their own little lives & space & time-killers, their own society & home turf, OUTSIDE of just the parts they play & the things they do in the movie.
It was an epiphany. A hundred games with my 2 best friends over that year was born in that moment. TWO lifelong obsessions were born in that moment.
FANDOM was born in that moment.
So even though there are much more soaring, much more mythic and profound, meaningful and powerful parts in the movie, those two, to me, will always be my favorites.