Did you cry at Mufasa's death?

[TheIvanMuse]

[quote="Loinsheart154"]but he was just using his own cunning to make up for what he lacked in brawn! how is that bad? it's not his fault a freak heatwave dried up all the crops in the pridelands![/quote]
Well,if killing your own brother is not bad,then I really don't know what is.
It is his fault,because he let the hyenas take over the Lands and with that he caused a disbalance.
It also has symbolic meaning that the lands dried up during his reign.

[BlitzRogue]

[quote="Vitanisdude"]Anyway, the story needed the death. Think, if Mufasa was still king in the second movie 1. It wouldn't be called Simba's Pride, 2. Kovu and Kiara wouldn't have been born, and 3. the lions wouldn't reunite.[/quote]
You're looking at it backwards, methinks. If the story line were set up for Mufasa to remain alive through to the second film, there would have been no need to name it "Simba's Pride". Alternatively, they could very easily have set the start of SP to a later time after Mufasa died of natural causes (age, illness, etc.)

Kovu would still have been born, depending on who you consider to be his parents and where you think to Outsiders were during the first film. And Kiara certainly would have still been born, probably sooner than she was in SP. If Mufasa never died, Simba would never have run away, and he probably would have "fallen in love" with Nala long before the time when he would have come back from the jungle in accordance with the plot where Mufasa dies. But again, the plot would be entirely different if Mufasa wasn't killed off, so there wouldn't necessarily be a need for Kovu and Kiara to be born.

And yet again, no need for the prides to "reunite". Because as far as the first film is concerned, the "Outsiders" don't exist. They were simply added to give the second film a plot. If Mufasa never died, the plot line could have taken a completely different road that effectively eliminated any need for the Outsiders; and no Outsiders, no need for the prides to reunite.

[Suai]

Yes, I cried when Mufasa died. The music is was really set the mood.

[AustralianChaos]

[quote="Suai"]Yes, I cried when Mufasa died. The music is was really set the mood. [/quote]

That music! I could cry from the music alone!
Hans Zimmer did a masterful job in that scene (apparantly he lost his own father when he was young, which helped inspire him...sad, yet strangely touching at the same time)

But yeah, the whole scene, Simba's pleas to his dad...the gut-wrenching music...you can't NOT cry at that scene!

[AdAstrα]

[quote="AustralianChaos"][quote="Suai"]Yes, I cried when Mufasa died. The music is was really set the mood. [/quote]

That music! I could cry from the music alone!
Hans Zimmer did a masterful job in that scene (apparantly he lost his own father when he was young, which helped inspire him...sad, yet strangely touching at the same time)

But yeah, the whole scene, Simba's pleas to his dad...the gut-wrenching music...you can't NOT cry at that scene![/quote]
I so agree with this. The music really takes my breath away. It's so beautiful.

[Cappio]

wow. watching it right at the moment. nothing. tearless! And, what happens to the body of Mufasa?

[TheIvanMuse]

Don't know,it wasn't that relevant to the story anways...
They probably buried him or something... Because,since they have marriage in TLK,and also some weird baptizing performed by Rafiki,it would be very logical that they had held him some sort of a funeral.

[Mike]

I'd imagine they laid it out in the plains or the desert, somewhere far away where nobody would disturb it and let his body return to the circle of life

[TheIvanMuse]

[quote="Mike"]I'd imagine they laid it out in the plains or the desert, somewhere far away where nobody would disturb it and let his body return to the circle of life[/quote]
If they laid him out in the desert,vultures would attack him,silly.

[PrincessKiara]

[quote="TheIvanMuse"]If they laid him out in the desert,vultures would attack him,silly. [/quote]

Thanks for putting that nice image into my head.