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I was watching the hyena march during the "Be Prepared" and I couldn't help but notice that the hyena's marching style of marching is similar towards the Nazi's pose. In the marching scene one of the front paws would be in the air in the way the Nazi's would pick up their legs high during their marching. And it seems to me that when their paws would be in the air t seems that they're saying "Hail Scar" that same way the Nazi's would say "Hail Hitler".
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This has nothing to do with Nazi-ism. The animators just made them march like that to give the viewer the impression they are some sort of army, nothing more or less.


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I'm pretty sure it was intentional. There's also the part when Scar rises up on that platform, which reminds me a lot of Hitler's speeches.

This scene is based on Nazi-Germany and Scar is indeed shown as Adolf Hitler.

-The sound footsteps of the hyenas make sound like a marching army. The German Nazi army was famous for it's marching sounds because their boots were specially made to make a loud stepping noise during a march.

-The scene is modeled after the movie ''Triumph of the will'', which is a Nazi propaganda movie. After the death of Mufasa, Scar takes over the Pride Lands. As the veld becomes a police state, all the color is bled out of the film's palette, and the camera angles become severe and exaggerated. As a group of goose-stepping hyenas march by in "Be Prepared" -- easily the most dissonant musical number the studio has ever staged -- the iconography appears to come straight out of "Triumph of the Will."

-The pillars in the scene symbolically stand for the pillars of the Reichstag. Hitler's parliament worked in the Reichstag.

The scene is actually mocking the Germans. Scar is shown as smart and powerful, like Adolf Hitler. The hyena's represent the German people. Dumbly following a leader who will lead them to destruction.

This scene was very intentionally made to look like Hitler and the Nazis.

As others have mentioned, the goose-stepping hyenas are made to look like The Triumph of Will, Hitler's propaganda 'check out how great Nazi Germany is' movie. At the same time some of what Scar said is also taken from that era. "Stick with me, and you'll NEVER GO HUNGRY AGAIN!" - Taken straight out of Hitler's mouth. So not only are the hyenas parading like the Nazis, Scar is directly quoting the dictator.

And Woeler, I think that the pillars are not supposed to represent the Reichstag. This building is famous for housing the short lasting German Republic, and for getting captured by the Red Army at the end of the war. I think that instead of the Reichstag, the pillars of light are a much less symbolic metaphor to the Nazis:

The Cathedral of light. Unlike the Reichstag, the Cathedral of light was also created as the Nazis grew in power, to show off how strong they are. This is exactly what Scar wants to show, and seeing as the pillars next to scar were made of light, I see no reason to think to the contrary that the pillars are made to look like the Cathedral of Light, and not the Reichstag.

^ no, were both right. We're jus talking about different things. The light beams do indeed represent the cathedral of light. I was talking about the pillars Scar stands on.

Oh, the pillars that Scar stands on, yeah, they can indeed represent the Reichstag.

[quote="Nicholas"]This has nothing to do with Nazi-ism. The animators just made them march like that to give the viewer the impression they are some sort of army, nothing more or less.


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The point of this topic is to compare the way the hyena's style of marching is to those of the Nazi army. If you look closely enough the Nazi "tone" can clearly be seen throughout the "Be Prepared" scene.

As interesting as this is, I don`t want to be thinking of WWII when watching my all-time favourite movie..

[quote="PrincessKiara"]As interesting as this is, I don`t want to be thinking of WWII when watching my all-time favourite movie.. [/quote]

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