My Lion King Forum

As I said, I met Richard Anderson yesterday. I tried to ask him about TLK, but I should have just asked "how did it feel like working on TLK" rather than add "are there notable differences in doing sound editing for movies and for animations" He ignored the first one and just talked about story board, sketches, comic sounds, blah blah blah. I never got another chance to ask questions.

However, all my boredom paid up when I finally heard him talk about TLK! I was asking him to autograph on my notebook, when he started to talk! Unfortunately it happened so fast, I didn’t have time to record his words. So here’s the closest thing I can recover, based on the notes I frantically scrambled down as he spoke.
“Hi, I’m the Lion King guy.”
“Oh, hi! The Lion King was a great movie, and I really like it. You know, in the movie there was a scene when Simba looked into a pool.”
“Yes! *in Rafiki’s voice and slowly sweeping out my arm* ‘Look har…der…’”
“The director wanted to add water sound to the scene, but it can’t be! The water was not moving!”
“Well, I remembered that the water rippled.”
“So the director said, ‘Just add the sound of “still water”!’ *both laugh* It’s so hard!”
“So what did you do?”
“Well in the end we just added the music.”

Lol, that's quite funny. I wonder what still water sounds like, hmm...

It is quite funny how some decisions in movies are made, and what comes out of them. I never had an idea that Sound of water + Still water = Music. But because of The Lion Kin,g I now know that it is true!

Perhaps I'm overthinking this, but I don't get it.

Wasn't the water moving?

It was, but the ripples were very small, around a centimeter in height at most. With those ripples, the wind that made them will be much louder than any noise the ripples would make, which is what you hear in the movie.

Is there a sound of the water rippling? Great, now I need to watch TLK again.

[quote="Regulus"]Is there a sound of the water rippling? Great, now I need to watch TLK again. [/quote]

There is. Right before Rafiki says, "You see...he lives in you", and there's a closeup shot of Simba's face, there's a few seconds of some water sound effects. I suggest putting your volume a little loud, and putting your ears close enough to the television set in order to hear it.

Wow. I dont know about you guys but i learned something, 5 somethings actually