I don´t want to beat the dead horse. This movie was made with sweat blood and tears by the artists who worked on it, I simply didn´t enjoy the way Favreau directed it, it was lazy and not magical. However, I respect and understand people who enjoy it.
Going to quote myself, for I think i clearly explain my toughts in this post:
[quote="Iberian"]
One thing that really bothered me was the disregard for the original background work. The background isn´t simply background it also plays a role in allegory and metaphorical substance, adding important messages to the story.
For example the fall in the CYFTLT was a metaphor for falling in love (cheesy but effective).
The vines symbolizes the feeling of entanglement that is felt by the lovers etc....
Another instance was the discarting of plains/rivers, in the original when Simba leaves after arguing with Nala he looks at the stars and walks across a log, the first time he only reaches to the middle and watches his reflection in the waters bellow but after chasing Rafiki he crosses it completely meaning a passage into the subconscious or the mystical world (he was unable to cross the bridge between the worlds alone).
If you notice these plains are full of stars above meaning that Simba is being looked over by the kings of the past.
Well... In the remake he argues with Nala and runs into a forest. He goes from conflict into resolution without having a soul searching moment, not how the hero´s journey works...
In the end when Simba walks to the edge of pride rock we see a skull being washed away in the cleansing rain, meaning the cleansing of the death and sorrow of the past. In the remake we get none of this.
I get it, Jon Favreau enjoys rendering forests, however a true artist should face its own limits within the act of creation, a true artist can never be at ease working, otherwise he ceases to be an artist (he´s an artisan).
This movie was
directed by people who had no grasp or understanding of the original story. The movie didn´t rock not because of the technique, the medium or the story, it didn´t rock because it had no soul.
I truly think that if the remake had Greg Drolette as the storyboard /background concept artist the movie would have been great.[/quote]
PS: Hans Zimmer didn´t did his best in the score... But Lebo M was rocking it, I enjoyed his part. By the way they went completely bananas when they replaced Busa (simba running through the desert) with Beyonce´s Spirit.....
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