"To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

"To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby Nitrol » October 4th, 2011, 8:25 pm

Originaly posted here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19794#p575281
But I think that this song deserves for separate topic :D
[quote]Mufasa was originally scripted to sing a song titled "To Be King" during the film's early production, but it didn't suit James Earl Jones' singing voice. [/quote]

So what do you think about this song?
For me this song is better than "Morning Report" or any song from TLK2 (hmm... maybe "He Lives In You" is better but primitively it was song for TLK1) and James Earl Jones sounds pretty good ^^
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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby Woeler » October 4th, 2011, 8:32 pm

wow I never heard that before! great song, but you can tell that it's not mufasa's voice that's singing though
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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby Nitrol » October 4th, 2011, 8:39 pm

[quote]wow I never heard that before![/quote]
Because it was not published before BluRay! ^^

[quote]you can tell that it's not mufasa's voice that's singing though[/quote]
It's really possible, I'm not English so I'm not the best in distinguish voices from english dubbing ;)
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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby KingKovu44 » October 4th, 2011, 8:39 pm

I think they should have left it.
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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby Awali » October 4th, 2011, 8:41 pm

I didn't really like it. :(

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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby WildSimba » October 4th, 2011, 8:46 pm

I liked it a lot, think they should of kept it.
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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby KopsTheTerminator » October 4th, 2011, 8:53 pm

I dunno, it's okay... but it doesn't really fit the mood and magic of the original scene with Mufasa and Simba talking, IMO. The song is just plain goofy to me, while the talk between Simba and Mufasa was a serious life lesson, and I absolutely love that scene. (Until The Morning Report song ruined it.)
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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby SweetNala » October 4th, 2011, 9:58 pm

Mufasa singing? Odd. Its cool but I prefer it the other way
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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby KentuckyWildcat » October 5th, 2011, 4:40 am

It didn't do much for me. I guess it's slightly better than Morning Report which I find to be really obnoxious, but I still prefer the first release version of this scene that doesn't have a song at all.
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Re: "To be king" - deleted Mufasa's & Zazu's song

Postby DGFone » October 5th, 2011, 4:59 am

Becasue The Morning Report is an included scene that you can remove at will, I am very glad that they left this thing out. I agree with teh producers: James Earl Jones + Singing =Bad Idea.
Not that he is necessarily a bad singer, but his voice is very bad in this case.
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